Tefi Vintage Lab is pleased to welcome you to our family. We hope
you enjoy using our new tube ovedrive Cornucopia. Feel free to get in
touch for any suggestions or clarifications as to how you might best
use the effect. Play music and enjoy using our products!
Cornucopia - Tube overdrive
Color, presence, musicality: these are the most important features of
the renewed Cornucopia tube overdrive. Transferring the real tube
sound inside a stompbox is not at all easy; overall sound performan-
ce is due to the synergy between each section of the circuit. Noise,
background hum and performance degradation can quickly surface
when even a small part of the design process is not carefully checked.
The Cornucopia tube overdrive is the result of years spent improving
the design and engineering of our products. It is through this rigorous
approach that the 12AX7 tube can provide the best sound performan-
ce, symbolized by the Cornucopia in the hands of the God Tiberinus.
The strong personality of the 12AX7, controlled and regulated by
original J-FET circuits, provides a “tube colored” tone even through
transistor amplifiers, making Cornucopia into a clean boost. For this
reason, we think of Cornucopia more as a miniature preamplifier, to
be positioned in front of amplifiers that need a warmer sound, rather
than as a simple overdrive pedal. The “BIAS” command improves the
12AX7 tube’s versatility, moving from a sweet and creamy overdrive
to a more dirty and asymmetrical distortion, but maintaining musi-
cality, in accordance with the most important rule of all TEFI Vintage
Lab designs.
CORNUCOPIA Operating Manual
www.tefivintagelab.it
Dimensions
Max Gain available
Output impedance
Power adapter
12Vac/1A, supplied with
Cornucopia pedal
Chassis
Weight
Input impedance
120x127x52 mm
+55dB
Tube type
12AX7/ECC83
Signal switching
Power connection
Power supply/
Power consumption
12Vac/6W (I-assorbed: 0.5A rated,
1A surge)
True bypass
5.5mm socket, 2.5mm tip
470 Ohm
Die-cast aluminum
470gr. (without battery)
700 kOhm
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
