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15.3S
UPPORT
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NALOGUE
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XPERIENCE
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OISE
Spicetone's 6Appeal™ uses fully analogue signal path. There are no analogue to digital
converters in the device. As you might have experienced before, noise is part of analogue
heritage. Please be easy on our pedal, and us, as we made no compromise to real analogue guitar
sound.
We use a microprocessor and digital potentiometers to control the analogue circuit. As there is
loads of gain available, you may hear slight clicking or other artefacts, especially with
modulation effects like LFO and SEQUENCER. Please keep in mind that modulation effects come
as a bonus and might sound not so smooth to expert ear.
Internally there are six separate channels (one for each string) plus one channel for monophonic
signal, thus the noise that you normally would not notice could be heard when you stop playing.
We used low noise components to avoid excessive noise, so in most settings you should be just
fine.
In the end it all comes down to your sound source. Some hexaphonic pickups might be noisier
than normal magnetic pickups. Some, on the other hand, are much cleaner.
To fight the noise, try to roll off some highs using TONE KNOB or FILTER SECTION. For the
DISTORTION TYPE, the OVERDRIVE setting is the loudest and also the least noisy. Of course
turning down the DRIVE and GAIN helps a lot, too. Rather than turning the pedal up, turn up you
amplifier first. That way you avoid preamp distortion and get more crunch in power section, too.
When using a common monophonic guitar, see that the MONOIN ONLY setting is active and
empty hexaphonic channels are thus muted.
By their nature, piezoelectric pickups have harsh ice-pick qualities to them that might not sound
pleasant when overdriven. Again, rolling off some highs can save the day.
In some cases our ROOT BOOST circuit can cause oscillation in the amplifiers. If you get this, you
probably have sufficient amount of lower harmonics already, so there is no need to use the
ROOT BOOST circuit.
15.5P
HASE
I
SSUES
In certain guitars, the magnetic mono pickups and hexaphonic under saddle piezos are wired in
opposite phases. This means, that turning up the MONO knob on 6 Appeal can cause loss of
highs. To avoid this, experiment with different pickups and lower MONO settings.
