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SILICON SWAMP Vintage sounding Silicon fuzz with modern twists.
Even though similar in its core to the Fuzz Face, the Silicon Swamp is something totally different as it introduces new possibilities like a completely new gated element, tone compression, voltage control and tonal adjustments.
Silicon Swamp is all about expressing the unique characteristics of the silicon transistor.
In other words, it is probably the most silicon sounding swamp monster you will ever have on your board...
Three silicon transistor stages in combination and a relative simple analog circuitry make this fuzz easy to handle yet versatile.
This unique fuzz device can handle soft overdrive all the way to murder heavy gain fuzz.
With the help of the drain knob some serious ruin is at hand.
Flip the swamp switch and hold single notes up or down the neck to hear 8-bit glitches or how notes fall down full octaves.
Controls:
Input jack: to the right.
Output jack: to the left.
Tone knob: an added tone knob! A must in every modern device, so why not.
Range is big. Ranging from a deep low-end to treble boost.
Compression knob: helps cutting through the mix while playing live with a band. Right for solo dominance or left for more backing rhythm.
What happens? It adds compression, attack and more volume. With the Drain knob turned or the Swamp switch on, it does miracles!
Volume: lots of volume. Perfect design allows enough volume in every possible setting.
Gain knob: Turn left for maximum gain and right for less.
Drain knob: all the way from a dying battery effect to spluttered & compressed gate, crumbled ruins and many other fucked up tones.
Swamp Switch: Turns the unit into heavily gated Velcro fuzz machine! Sustained notes will fall down octaves in random manner.
In the end, the Silicon Swamp is a great sounding yet relative basic silicon fuzz unit that can work miraculously as a subtle overdrive or a full on heavy gain machine.
It has a very solid feel to it and a relative low floor noise so it keeps quiet between notes even when overloaded with gain.
When the guitar is fully muted with maximum gain it is a great white-noise maker if you are into that...
It uses true bypass switching and eats 9V with standard negative center.
Even though similar in its core to the Fuzz Face, the Silicon Swamp is something totally different as it introduces new possibilities like a completely new gated element, tone compression, voltage control and tonal adjustments.
Silicon Swamp is all about expressing the unique characteristics of the silicon transistor.
In other words, it is probably the most silicon sounding swamp monster you will ever have on your board...
Three silicon transistor stages in combination and a relative simple analog circuitry make this fuzz easy to handle yet versatile.
This unique fuzz device can handle soft overdrive all the way to murder heavy gain fuzz.
With the help of the drain knob some serious ruin is at hand.
Flip the swamp switch and hold single notes up or down the neck to hear 8-bit glitches or how notes fall down full octaves.
Controls:
Input jack: to the right.
Output jack: to the left.
Tone knob: an added tone knob! A must in every modern device, so why not.
Range is big. Ranging from a deep low-end to treble boost.
Compression knob: helps cutting through the mix while playing live with a band. Right for solo dominance or left for more backing rhythm.
What happens? It adds compression, attack and more volume. With the Drain knob turned or the Swamp switch on, it does miracles!
Volume: lots of volume. Perfect design allows enough volume in every possible setting.
Gain knob: Turn left for maximum gain and right for less.
Drain knob: all the way from a dying battery effect to spluttered & compressed gate, crumbled ruins and many other fucked up tones.
Swamp Switch: Turns the unit into heavily gated Velcro fuzz machine! Sustained notes will fall down octaves in random manner.
In the end, the Silicon Swamp is a great sounding yet relative basic silicon fuzz unit that can work miraculously as a subtle overdrive or a full on heavy gain machine.
It has a very solid feel to it and a relative low floor noise so it keeps quiet between notes even when overloaded with gain.
When the guitar is fully muted with maximum gain it is a great white-noise maker if you are into that...
It uses true bypass switching and eats 9V with standard negative center.
