Internal Controls - Gain trimpot
This trimpot sets the Echorec’s preamp gain. It is factory set at unity gain. But you can dial it up for quite a substantial boost if you want.
The Echorec’s preamp is designed to have a lot of clean headroom at unity to moderate boost levels. BUT!, there is a secret mode available!
This is the easter egg we hinted at earlier in this guide! If you turn the Gain trimmer all the way up (full CCW), you’ll get an explosively loud
and glorious fuzz boost sound! No, your pedal is not broken! But if you stumbled upon this accidentally we’ll bet you probably wet your pants!
In this Super Secret Fuzz Boost Mode (SSFBM), your Echorec will overdrive your amp or another overdrive pedal with an amazing, huge sound-
ing fuzz boost! Please try this mode out either into another overdrive pedal (such as our RAH) or into an overdriven amp. If your amp is set to
a clean high headroom sound, you may think it sounds splatty and ugly and LOUD (which is cool too), but if you hit something already a bit
overdriven, be prepared for the rock gods to descend upon you and shower you with glory. So if you set the internal slider switch to “true-
bypass” and then crank the Gain trimmer, your Echorec will become the most badass echo fuzz booster you’ve ever experienced (provided there
are no buffered pedals between your guitar and the Echorec). Depending on your guitar, you may notice that in SSFBM, you get radio when the
guitar volume is turned down, things are noisy and unruly, and generally not polite. But it will rock with authority and attitude! If you want the
best response with your guitar’s volume knob and still get maximum boost, set the gain trimpot *just* shy of full-on meltdown mode. As you
turn it towards maximum, you’ll feel that point where the amplification factor suddenly goes WAY up. Dial back to just before that threshold
and you’ll get the best of both worlds - maximum boost and maximum touch sensitivity and the best guitar volume knob response (check our
YouTube feed for demos that illustrate this!)
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