Vulture
Distortionspedal med dubbla boostfunktioner.
Denna distortionspedal är resultatet av en tanke och idé som kläcktes för
många år sedan. Man vill skapa en pedal med tät fin distortion och massor av
botten. resultatet blir att din lilla kombo låter som en 4 x 12 låda och dina
0.09 strängar låter som 0.11 set.
The Vulture started its life, when Michael plugged in one of the very first
pedals we made. That pedal had a certain sound to it that we really liked, but
it was a bit grungy in the low-end. We wanted to make a pedal with that sound,
but with a tighter, less fuzzy low end and with more gain.
We opened up the
pedal and painstakingly measured everything in it, to find out why it sounded so
good, and found a couple of resistors that would be better with other
values.
Was it modified earlier in life or was this just a very good sounding
mistake from when it was made in Lars´ basement way back in the 90´s?
All we
know is that the basic sound was cool and we left it at that, and went on to
focus on getting the low-end tight - but BIG!
The fruit of our labor is a pedal that has a great, throaty distortion
with a nice bite to it but the low end and low midrange can be shaped in many
ways, thanks to the low- and fat-boost knobs. This allows the player to dial in
almost stupid amounts of lows, but the distortion stays tight, not muddy.
LOW-BOOST AND FAT-BOOST? ISN´T THAT OVERKILL?
Well, we could have left it at a “bass”-knob, but that will only get
you so far. The low-boost will add a lot of what we all love about those heavy
4x12 cabs, but that is not necessarily what you need if you are looking for more
“body” in the sound, although it can turn that small combo you play at
jam-nights into something bigger.
The fat-boost is designed to add weight and punch to the sound, giving
the top strings a lot of thickness – almost like you went up two steps in string
gauge, and the punch is more of a “punch in the chest” than a “kick in the
#€%”.
The secret to the Vulture is to adjust the boost and tone knobs for
optimal sound when the gain is adjusted, just like on an amp. It is tempting to
turn everything up, but we still remember what happened when we turned the boost
knobs off and set the gain above 3 o´clock…”uhm, maybe I don´t need a
two-channel amp afterall”.