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The Outward is a digital sampling device that records audio and plays it back in different ways, depending on the mode.
The Moment Machine at its core, is one of the most advanced pitch shifters available in hardware form. Featuring two independent polyphonic pitch shifting engines, a powerful sixteen step sequencer, and over two hundred user adjustable parameters, there is plenty of room to get lost in the pedal, however it’s easy to use due to a simple and intuitive graphical user interface.

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Controls:

Reverb — Adjusts the size of the virtual reverb chamber.

Delay — Controls the pre-delay of the reverb. Controls the delay time in Echo mode.

Mix — Controls the blend between fully dry (clean) and fully wet (reverb only) echo sound. 12 o’clock is an equal mix of clean and reverb.

Tweak — Tweaks a different parameter in each mode. See the mode descriptions for full details.

Mode Toggle:

Mod — Large chamber reverb with adjustable modulation. Turn the Tweak knob clockwise for slow chorus, counter-clockwise for fast vibrato.

Shimmer — A classic ambient effect that adds an octave to the reverb trails. Turn the Tweak control clockwise to add an octave up, or counter-clockwise to add an octave down.

Echo — A dedicated echo unit where the reverb is fed by the delay repeats for interesting rhythmic effects or longer echo washes. The Delay knob controls 400ms of delay time. Tweak knob adjusts the repeats and the delay tone – counter-clockwise for analog flavored dark repeats, clockwise for bright digital repeats.

Bypass Switching:

The Golden Summer features a buffered bypass with optional “trails.” In Trails mode the reverb and delay will continue to repeat when the pedal is bypassed. To switch between standard bypass and trails, hold the bypass switch while powering on. The LED will blink once for standard bypass or five times for trails. The pedal remembers the last setting. The Golden Summer features an analog dry signal path.

Power Supply:

The Golden Summer requires a 9V DC power supply with a 2.1mm pin, center negative. The Golden Summer is not designed to be powered on supplies higher than 9V and does not use a battery. The Golden Summer should work fine on a multi-pedal “daisy chain” connector, but if you encounter excessive noise or hum try a separate power supply. The Golden Summer requires approx. 60mA.
This is the sound of a never-ending summer. Those nights when it was light out until 10 and your mom called you home from the back door. Skinned knees, fireflies in a jar and the smell of magnolia trees. Just let the nostalgia wash over you.

Controls:

Rate: Controls the rate of the low-frequency oscillator (LFO) for the phase shifter. In Envelope mode, the rate control sets the maximum speed.

Intensity: Controls the maximum LFO sweep and the intensity of the phase shifter.

Mix: Controls the blend between the dry and phased signal. Equal mix is at 12 o’clock. Hint: Vibrato effects are available with 100% wet mix.

Tweak: This controls different parameters depending on the mode the pedal is in. See below for details.

Mode Toggle:

Suave: Smooth sounding ten-stage studio phaser, the Suave mode is wet and deep. The Tweak knob controls the amount of regeneration in the phase signal. This mode has a unique twist – when the Depth control gets high enough the oscillator waveform “folds back” into itself for a super-deep sweep.

Dynámica: This mode puts the control in your hands, literally. The Tweak knob controls the sensitivity of the phaser to your guitar input volume, and the Rate knob sets the maximum phaser speed. Set the Rate below noon to increase speed with higher volumes, set above noon to decrease speed with louder signals.

*Hint: Try Envelope mode mixed fully wet, with low Intensity for a volume sensing vibrato.

Loco: This one is pretty crazy. The Tweak knob controls the feedback of the phase signal, and is linked to a ring modulator for some intense modulation effects. Might sound pretty gnarly, might sound pretty sweet.

Power Supply:

La Calavera requires a 9V DC power supply with a 2.1mm pin, center negative. La Calavera is not designed to be powered on supplies higher than 9V and does not use a battery. La Calavera should work fine on a multi-pedal “daisy chain” connector, but if you encounter excessive noise or hum try a separate power supply
A full-fledged festival of phasing, La Calavera combines an offering to the more traditional effects of days gone by with the essence of rebirth and revolution. Wake the dead with a colorful celebration of vibrant vibes and multiple modes of modulation.

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Alien mojo meets military tech, circa 1958. The F.13 Neo is our take on space junk stolen from Area 51 and put into the service of rock ‘n’ roll. Equal parts science, art, weapon and instrument, the F.13 Neo generates interplanetary flange never heard in this galaxy or any other.

We decided to give our fantastic F.13 Flanger the full Neo treatment, and that means new features! The F.13 Neo adds additional controls in all modes, more patterns in Step mode, and the all-new Echo Flanger effect. Top it off with presets, expression, ramp morph and you’ve got a mean green flanging machine.

Neo Series:

The sonic scientists at Alexander Pedals have been working overtime to cram the most pedal into the smallest box, and we now present the Neo Series! Each Neo Series pedal incorporates an advanced 32-bit microcontroller adding presets, expression, and MIDI capability.

The Neo Series pedals are small but mighty! Imagine having a single pedal on your board that can access up to 4 separate preset tones with a touch of your toe. Connect an expression pedal to “morph” between two distinct settings for each preset for dynamic real-time effects. Or hook up a simple footswitch to trigger a timed “ramp” between those expression settings. Expressive performance technology, right at your feet.

Presets:

All Neo Series pedals feature a simple yet powerful preset functionality. Hold the bypass footswitch to move the pedal to the next available preset, and the pedal will reconfigure itself on the fly. All knob values and the effect mode settings are recalled, allowing you to set up to four unique tones. Want more presets? Simply connect a MIDI controller to the EXP port on the side of the Neo Series pedal and access up to 16 presets total.

To load a preset, hold the bypass footswitch down or send a MIDI program change from 0-15.

To save a preset, hold the Select button down and then hold the bypass footswitch. The pedal will save the current settings to the current preset.

Any changes you make to the pedal settings will be lost when switching to a new preset unless you save the current preset first, so be careful!

Expression and MIDI:

The EXP port on the left side of the pedal can function as an expression pedal, foot switch input, or a MIDI input.

Expression Pedal: Set the expression pedal to the heel down position, then adjust the knobs to your preferred setting. Sweep the pedal to the toe position and set the knobs to a different setting. Now the F.13 Neo will allow you to seamlessly morph between the two settings!

Foot Switch: Connect a momentary foot switch to the port with a standard patch cable. Set the knobs like you want, then tap the foot switch and set them again. Every time you tap the knob the F.13 Neo will sweep between your two knob settings at the speed you set in the configuration mode.

MIDI: The Neo Series pedals can connect to a compatible MIDI controller to control all of the pedal functions plus access 12 extra presets, for a total of 16. The USB port may also be used as a MIDI interface to your computer or mobile device.

Controls:

Controls in parentheses () are accessed by holding down the Select button and turning the indicated knob.

Rate: Controls the rate of the low-frequency oscillator (LFO) for the flanger, from glacial to space invaders. Controls the input sensitivity in Dyna mode.

(ALT1): Controls the sweep offset (manual) in Auto mode, the pattern select in Step mode, the envelope speed in Dyna mode, or the delay time in Echo mode.

Depth: Controls the maximum LFO sweep in Auto, Step, and Echo modes. In Dynamic mode, this controls whether the flanger sweeps down (less than noon) or up (greater than noon) based on the input signal.

(ALT2): Controls the delay repeats in Echo mode

Mix: Controls the blend between the dry and flanged signal. Equal mix is at 12 o’clock.

(Level): Controls the overall output level of the pedal, from -20dB to +10dB. Unity gain is near 1 o’clock.

Regen: Adjusts the amount of flanged signal fed back into the modulation. Zero feedback is at noon, clockwise increases the positive feedback for a standard flanger sound. Twist this knob counter-clockwise for negative feedback and a unique “inside out” flange.

Select Button – tap to choose a new effect mode:

Auto: Traditional flanging is found here. The LFO of the F.13 Neo is actually a “hypertriangular” waveform, so that the flanger spends more time in the interesting portions of the sweep. The ALT1 knob controls the sweep offset, sometimes referred to as “manual.”

Hint: Set the Rate control at zero for “filter matrix” style manual flanging. The Depth knob controls the flange position.

Step: The flanger LFO is forced to “step” to distinct values for transforming robot sounds. The F.13 Neo has eight patterns, selected by the ALT1 control: Up, Down, Up+Down, Square, Whip, Two+Three, UpUpDnDn, and Random.

Dyna: This one is kind of unusual, even for us! The flanger delay time is set by the volume of the input signal. The Rate knob adjusts the sensitivity, to allow for different pickups or effects before the F.13 Neo. The Depth knob controls which direction the flanger will sweep when it hears the input signal. The F.13 Neo now features an envelope speed control on the ALT1 knob. Set this to the fastest speed for a more excentrifugal experienz. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

Echo: This one is for all you radio friendly unit shifters out there looking to become the genius of love. We couple a fierce flanger with an exceptional echo for a very interesting take on time delay effects. The ALT1 and ALT2 knobs control the delay time and feedback of the echo, while the Rate, Depth, and Regen knobs control the flanger side. You can set either side to a very short delay for maximum comb filtering, or you can create spiraling soundscapes. 

Bypass Switching:

The F.13 Neo features a buffered bypass using a soft-touch footswitch. The dry signal path is digital, to maintain the precise time and phase alignment necessary for ultimate flanging. The bypass signal is 100% analog.

Configuration:

To configure, power on while holding the center Select button and release when the program LEDs start to flash.

Tap the Select button to choose Expression (upper LED green,) Foot Switch (upper LED orange,) or MIDI (upper LED red.)

Turn the Mix knob to select the Foot Switch Ramp speed – Lower LED green slow, lower LED orange medium, lower LED red fast.

Turn the Tweak knob to set the main LED brightness.

If you wish to assign the F.13 Neo’s MIDI channel, simply send a program change message from your controller on the correct channel while the pedal is in configuration mode. Hold the Select button to save the pedal settings.

The F.13 Neo MIDI port requires the use of either a MIDI converter box such as the Disaster Area / Chase Bliss MIDIBox or a MIDI controller that supports 1/4″ devices such as the Disaster Area Gen3 series. The F.13 Neo defaults to using MIDI Channel 1.

Power Supply:

The F.13 Neo requires a 9V DC power supply with a 2.1mm pin, center negative, 80mA. The F.13 Neo is not designed to be powered on supplies higher than 9V and does not use a battery. The F.13 Neo should work fine on a multi-pedal “daisy chain” connector, but if you encounter excessive noise or hum try a separate power supply.Accordion Content

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Journey with us into the Quadrant – four unique effects hailing from a distant delay dimension. We hold a mirror up to your music, and reflect the echoes from a parallel universe.

Magnetic, analog, digital, and lo-fi delays await within, coupled with the power of our Neo Series platform to provide a unique but familiar echo experience.
Neo Series:

The sonic scientists at Alexander Pedals have been working overtime to cram the most pedal into the smallest box, and we now present the Neo Series! Each Neo Series pedal incorporates an advanced 32-bit microcontroller adding presets, expression, and MIDI capability.

The Neo Series pedals are small but mighty! Imagine having a single pedal on your board that can access up to 4 separate preset tones with a touch of your toe. Connect an expression pedal to “morph” between two distinct settings for each preset for dynamic real-time effects. Or connect the Neo Footswitch to enable your choice of preset select, tap tempo, or an automatic ramp “morph!”

Presets:

All Neo Series pedals feature a simple yet powerful preset functionality. Hold the bypass footswitch to move the pedal to the next available preset, and the pedal will reconfigure itself on the fly. All knob values and the effect mode settings are recalled, allowing you to set up to four unique tones. Want more presets? Simply connect a MIDI controller to the EXP port on the side of the Neo Series pedal and access up to 16 presets total.

To load a preset, hold the bypass footswitch down or send a MIDI program change from 0-15.

To save a preset, hold the Select button down and then hold the bypass footswitch. The pedal will save the current settings to the current preset.

Any changes you make to the pedal settings will be lost when switching to a new preset unless you save the current preset first, so be careful!

Expression and MIDI:

The EXP port on the left side of the pedal can function as an expression pedal, foot switch input, or a MIDI input.

Expression Pedal: Set the expression pedal to the heel down position, then adjust the knobs to your preferred setting. Sweep the pedal to the toe position and set the knobs to a different setting. Now the Quadrant will allow you to seamlessly morph between the two settings!

Foot Switch: The Neo Footswitch (sold separately) allows for preset select, tap tempo, or ramp morph control – all with LED indication. The Quadrant will also work with a standard tap tempo footswitch.

MIDI: The Neo Series pedals can connect to a compatible MIDI controller to control all of the pedal functions plus access 12 extra presets, for a total of 16. The USB port may also be used as a MIDI interface to your computer or mobile device.

Controls:

Controls in parentheses () are accessed by holding down the Select button and turning the indicated knob.

Rate: Controls the delay time from 0-915ms. If Glide is disabled, the time will adjust seamlessly. If Glide is enabled, the time will pitch-shift and get all “rubber-bandy” (technical term.)

(Tone): Controls the tone of the delay engine. Controls the grunge and grit of the LOFI mode.

Feedback: Controls the repeat level of the delay. The BBD and LOFI modes will go into infinite / runaway feedback.

(Glide): Controls the delay time change method. If Glide is set to less than 12 o’clock, the delay time will adjust seamlessly when tapped or adjusted with the Time knob. If Glide is set to greater than 12 o’clock, the delay time will pitch shift when adjusted.

Mix: Controls the blend between the dry and delay signal. Equal mix is at 12 o’clock.

(Level): Controls the overall output level of the pedal, from -20dB to +10dB. Unity gain is near 1 o’clock.

Mod: Adjusts the depth of the delay modulation.

(Rate): Adjusts the rate of the delay modulation.

Select Button – tap to choose a new effect mode:

MAG – Magnetic tape echo, warm and rich. The MAG mode captures the frequency response of the tape heads and preamp of a vintage tape delay. The Mod knob controls the “wow” or “flutter” of the tape. Each delay repeat loses both treble and bass, for a warm and compressed sound. The Tone knob controls the age of the tape, making the echo brighter or darker.

BBD – Analog delay, murky and wet. The BBD mode is based on a classic solid-state analog echo. This mode is capable of infinite repeats for the classic analog delay “spaceship” tone. The Mod knob adds analog chorus or vibrato. The Tone knob controls the analog delay filter.

DIG – Digital delay, bright and present. The DIG mode captures the sheen and clarity of the early digital delays. Each repeat sounds just like what you put in, with the classic digital “clang” you will either love or hate. The Mod knob adds wide-ranging pitch modulation, be careful! The Tone control sweeps the delay between low-pass and high-pass filtering for a wide range of delay tones.

LOFI – How can we put this? This mode sounds terrible. Don’t use it. It’s all dirty and grungy and sounds like you’re playing through a payphone or an AM radio. Roll the Tone control down to clean things up a little, or crank it for minimum fidelity.

Bypass Switching and AutoTrails:

The Quadrant features a buffered bypass using a soft-touch footswitch. The dry signal path is analog, to maintain your tone no matter how much delay you add! The bypass signal is 100% analog.

The Quadrant features an innovative new feature – AutoTrails. Some delay pedals cut the delay signal off as soon as you hit the footswitch – that sounds odd and unnatural. Some leave the delay signal on all the time – that’s better but you still get the noise from the delay signal even when you’re not playing. We give you the best of all worlds by letting you choose how long the delay trails persist, from instant-off to always-on. When you bypass the Quadrant, the delay signal persists and then fades out smoothly after a time you set. You want no trails? Trails all the time? No problem. Set it any way that fits your playing style.

Configuration:

To configure, power on while holding the center Select button and release when the program LEDs start to flash.

Tap the Select button to choose Expression (upper LED green,) Foot Switch (upper LED orange,) or MIDI (upper LED red.)

Turn the Delay knob to select the function for the Neo Footswitch – Counterclockwise for ramp, center for preset select, clockwise for tap tempo.

Turn the Feedback knob to set AutoTrails – counterclockwise for no trails, clockwise for longer trails settings. Fully clockwise will leave the trails on at all times.

Turn the Mix knob to select the Foot Switch Ramp speed – Lower LED green slow, lower LED orange medium, lower LED red fast.

Turn the Tweak knob to set the main LED brightness.

If you wish to assign the Quadrant MIDI channel, simply send a program change message from your controller on the correct channel while the pedal is in configuration mode. Hold the Select button to save the pedal settings.

The Quadrant MIDI port requires the use of either a MIDI converter box such as the Disaster Area / Chase Bliss MIDIBox or a MIDI controller that supports 1/4″ devices such as the Disaster Area Gen3 series. The Quadrant defaults to using MIDI Channel 1.

HOLD THE SELECT BUTTON TO SAVE CONFIGURATION

Power Supply:

The Quadrant requires a 9V DC power supply with a 2.1mm pin, center negative, 80mA. The Quadrant is not designed to be powered on supplies higher than 9V and does not use a battery. The Quadrant should work fine on a multi-pedal “daisy chain” connector, but if you encounter excessive noise or hum try a separate power supply.

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Alexander Radical DX Pedal

Version I

Repeat — Controls the feedback of the delay.

Tweak — Tweaks a different parameter in each mode. See the mode descriptions for full details.

Mix — Controls the blend between fully dry (clean) and fully wet (repeat only) echo sound. 12 o’clock is an equal mix of clean and echo.

Mode Toggle:

Mod — Super-clean digital delay with adjustable modulation. The Tweak knob adds a luscious modulation to the delay. At 12 o’clock there is no modulation. Clockwise adds a slow chorus and counter-clockwise adds a fast vibrato.

Glitch — Pristine digital delay that you can mangle in unusual and interesting ways. With the Tweak knob fully counter-clockwise, the Radical Delay will echo exactly what you play. Turn the Tweak knob clockwise to add some “ghost in the machine” style glitches and odd pitch modulation. And with the Tweak knob fully clockwise, the Radical Delay sounds more like a synthesizer or video game console.

Bend — Delay with pitch shifting that’s based on the earliest technology and spirals up or down with each repeat. Turn the Tweak knob counter clockwise to shift the pitch down or clockwise to shift up.

*Hint: Turn the delay time all the way down and the Radical Delay will take on a whole new vibe. In Mod mode, you’ll find analog-flavored chorus. Glitch mode turns into a “bleep bloop” robot machine. And in Bend mode, try blending the dry signal in for glitchy pitch-shifted harmony lines.

Bypass Switching:

The Radical Delay features true bypass switching using a latching relay and a soft-touch bypass footswitch. The Radical Delay will power on in either bypass mode or effect mode (useful if you are using the pedal with a remote bypass switching system.) Hold the footswitch at boot to toggle between bypass and effect startup modes. The pedal remembers your settings when the power is removed.

Note: certain early Radical Delay pedals have a mechanical 3PDT bypass switch rather than the relay switching. Relay equipped pedals blink the LED twice rapidly at power-on.

Power Supply:

The Radical Delay requires a 9V DC power supply with a 2.1mm pin, center negative. The Radical Delay is not designed to be powered on supplies higher than 9V and does not use a battery. The Radical Delay should work fine on a multi-pedal “daisy chain” connector, but if you encounter excessive noise or hum try a separate power supply.
The Radical Delay is a re-imagining of the crystal-clear digital delay sounds of the 1980’s — with some modern twists. So grab your hover board and pump up your Reeboks, because we’re about to turn back the clock.

Version II

We stuck our classic ‘80s flavored delay in the Betamax and fast-forwarded to the good part. But instead of an eyeful of Phoebe Cates, we discovered the Radical Delay II+.

The sound you love with more reasons to love it, like updated cosmetics and built-in tap tempo.
Controls:

Time (8 D. Q) — Changes the delay time from 0-920ms. In Tap mode, this knob sets the tap tempo subdivision. Left for 8th notes, center for dotted 8ths or right for quarters.

Repeat — Controls the feedback of the delay. The Radical Delay II+does not self-oscillate, because that does not compute.

Tweak — Adjusts a different parameter in each mode. See the mode descriptions for full details.

Mix — Controls the blend between fully dry (clean) to fully wet (repeat only).

Mode Toggle:

Mod — Super-clean digital delay with adjustable modulation. The Tweak knob adds a luscious modulation to the delay. At 12 o’clock there is no modulation. Clockwise adds a slow chorus and counter-clockwise adds a fast vibrato.

Glitch — Pristine digital delay that you can mangle in unusual and interesting ways. With the Tweak knob fully counter-clockwise, the Radical Delay will echo exactly what you play. Turn the Tweak knob clockwise to add some “ghost in the machine” style glitches and odd pitch modulation. And with the Tweak knob fully clockwise, the Radical Delay sounds more like a synthesizer or video game console.

Bend — Delay with pitch shifting that’s based on the earliest technology and spirals up or down with each repeat. Turn the Tweak knob counter clockwise to shift the pitch down or clockwise to shift up.

*Hint: Turn the delay time all the way down and the Radical Delay will take on a whole new vibe. In Mod mode, you’ll find analog-flavored chorus. Glitch mode turns into a “bleep bloop” robot machine. And in Bend mode, try blending the dry signal in for glitchy pitch-shifted harmony lines.

Tap Tempo:

Hold the bypass footswitch to enter tap tempo mode. The bypass LED will flash at the current tempo, tap the footswitch two or more times to set a new tempo. Hold the bypass footswitch again to exit tap tempo mode or wait 4 seconds and the pedal will exit on its own. Turn the Time control while in tap tempo mode to change the delay subdivisions – each division is marked by a dot. The available divisions are eighth-note (2x tap speed,) dotted-eighth (1.5x tap speed) and quarter-note (1x tap speed.) The pedal will remember the last tap tempo setting used.

The green jack on the side of the pedal allows you to connect a tap tempo footswitch. The Radical Delay II+ requires the use of a normally-open footswitch, and is compatible with automated tap tempo controllers such as the Disaster Area SMARTClock or Gen3 MultiJack interface. Tapping the remote footswitch will cause the Radical Delay II+ to enter tap tempo mode. We recommend the Alexander Tap II footswitch to control the Radical Delay II+.

If you prefer to get crazy, you can assign the green jack to act as an expression pedal input. Hold the footswitch down at power-on to select between tap tempo (two blinks) or expression (five blinks.) Connect a standard expression pedal (tip 0-3.3V, ring 3.3V, sleeve GND) to the green jack and you’re good to go. To set the expression pedal range, move the expression pedal to the heel-down setting and turn the Time knob. Then move the pedal to the toe-down setting and turn the Time knob again. The Radical Delay II+ will sweep the delay time between these two settings as you move the expression pedal, and the LED will indicate the current expression pedal position.

Bypass Switching:

The Radical Delay II+ features a buffered bypass with “trails.” The delay will continue to repeat when the pedal is bypassed. The Radical Delay II+ features an analog dry signal path.

Power Supply:

The Radical Delay II+ requires a 9V DC / 70mA power supply with a 2.1mm pin, center negative. The Radical Delay II+ is not designed to be powered on supplies higher than 9V and does not use a battery. The Radical Delay II+ should work fine on a multi-pedal “daisy chain” connector, but if you encounter excessive noise or hum try a separate power supply.

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Reverb. Delay. Repeat.

The Sky Fi bathes your signal in a excess of echoes, a deluge of delay, and a surfeit of shimmer. All of the ambience you desire is a footstep away.
Building a great delay pedal was foremost in our minds when we designed the Sky Fi. Development began with a crystal-clear digital delay engine combined with a tone filter to allow tailoring of the response to your liking. We then added a reverb engine that draws inspiration from certain digital rack units of the ’80s and ’90s. These units were designed to be as affordable as possible, and had some unique hardware quirks that caused their reverb effects to build in intensity over time. This “slow-building” artifact is one of the things that made these units so special. We’ve done our best to capture some of the magic of these units with the Sky Fi, while also incorporating some tricks of our own like the ability to freeze or oscillate by holding the bypass switch.

Controls:

Reverb — Adjusts the mix and decay of the reverb engine. Turn this knob while holding the bypass footswitch to change the delay signal mix. The Sky Fi remembers your delay mix setting when powered off.

Delay — Controls the delay time for the delay engine.

Mix — Controls the blend between fully dry (clean) and fully wet (reverb + delay only) sound. 12 o’clock is an equal mix of clean and reverb + delay.

Repeat — Controls the feedback and repeats of the delay engine. Rotate counter-clockwise for dark, filtered repeats. Rotate clockwise for bright repeats.

Mode Toggle:

Wash — Combines an 800ms delay with our slow-building reverb engine. Holding the footswitch initiates reverb sustain.

Gleam — Adds an upper octave partial to the reverb effect, holding the footswitch swells in a pronounced shimmer. Maximum delay time in this mode is approximately 640ms.

Echo — Slow-build reverb plus delay, holding the footswitch reduces the reverb slightly and forces the delay into oscillation. Warning – extremely loud oscillation and / or total collapse of your signal may occur!

HOLD Function:

The Sky Fi has a unique feature – the bypass footswitch integrates with the reverb and delay engines. Hold the footswitch to shift the reverb or delay engine into a feedback mode. In Wash and Gleam modes, the Hold function increases the Reverb time and mix to an infinite setting. In Echo mode, the Hold function increases the Delay feedback to maximum levels.

The Hold function has two options: Infinite allows new notes to be added to the held signal. Freeze routes the dry signal around the held notes so that you can play over the frozen notes without changing their harmonic content. To switch between the two modes, hold the bypass switch while powering on. The LED will blink once for Freeze or five times for Infinite. The pedal remembers the last setting.

Bypass Switching:

The Sky Fi features a buffered bypass with “trails,” so that the reverb and delay will continue to repeat when the pedal is bypassed. The Sky Fi features an analog dry signal path. If the Sky Fi is set to Infinite mode, you can engage the pedal and the Hold function by holding the footswitch even while in bypass. Release the footswitch to return to bypass mode.

Wet / Dry Output:

The Sky Fi allows the player to separate the wet and dry signals at the output jack. Insert a standard mono patch cable into the jack to use as a traditional guitar pedal – the output will contain both wet and dry signals as determined by the Mix knob. If a stereo / TRS cable is connected, the Sky Fi will place a buffered dry signal on the “ring” of the jack and a mix of wet and dry on the “tip.” Set the Mix control fully clockwise to have complete wet / dry separation. The Sky Fi will send the dry signal to both outputs when bypassed.

Power Supply:

The Sky Fi requires a 9V DC power supply with a 2.1mm pin, center negative. The Sky Fi is not designed to be powered on supplies higher than 9V and does not use a battery. The Sky Fi should work fine on a multi-pedal “daisy chain” connector, but if you encounter excessive noise or hum try a separate power supply. The Sky Fi requires approx. 60mA.