British Audio Engineering – Royaltone pedal
BAE Royaltone © 2018
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Using and Understanding the BAE Royaltone pedal
A NOTE ABOUT THE BATTERY AND JACKS:
Your Royaltone Pedal sports two True Bypass footswitches. To further maintain
sonic purity, the input and output jacks are not involved in the grounding of the
power circuit for the battery or remote power supply in any way. The input jack
has an additional, completely isolated set of contacts which switches either the
battery or remote supply ON when the plug is inserted. The power remains on as
long as the input jack is plugged in, whether the unit’s circuits and LEDs are on or
off. This eliminates any pops or pulses when activating the stomp switches.
To
conserve battery power, remove the input (guitar) cable from the unit when not in
use!
NOW LET’S GET ON WITH IT:
Guitarists each have their own way to use and experiment with a new pedal. That
being said, for those seeking to understand what the controls actually do, there
lies an expansive multitude of tone colorations that are possible.
The ROYALTONE contains two completely independent circuits. Each can be used
separately to shape your tone and distortion, but they can also both be used
simultaneously to introduce a whole additional level of tone shaping…
Tone Stack:
The Tone Stack section of the Royaltone is a full, three range tone stack that takes
its roots from a combination of vintage Fender, Marshall, and Vox amplifiers. It
takes no shortcuts, using carefully selected low noise resistors, film capacitors,
and Alpha pots just like you find in fine amplifiers. Guitar tone is highly
preserved. The Tone Stack circuitry can provide up to 20 db of gain, depending on
frequencies and settings selected.
Turn on the Left stomp switch, and the green LED will come on, activating the
Tone Stack. To match the BYPASS setting, set the BASS to minimum, and the MID
and TREBLE controls to 9:00 0’clock. From there you can sculpt your tone. You
can achieve super warm tone with the BASS control, pop-out presence with the
