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INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the Dirty Little Secret! If you're reading this, you obviously wanna bring the rawk! We're here 

to help you on your quest!

The Dirty Little Secret was designed to be the secret weapon in your tone arsenal. Want to get cranked 

amp tones at bedroom rocker levels? Playing gigs but have to use whatever amp is provided as the back-

line? Like your clean amp sound but don't care for its overdrive channel? Love your fuzz pedal but it needs 

to be plugged into a cranked amp to sound good? Enter the Dirty Little Secret!

The Dirty Little Secret (DLS) is an overdrive pedal designed to bring you the sound and response of a 

classic Marshall amplifier. It, like the other pedals in our Foundation Overdrive range of pedals, is designed 

to be a "foundation" pedal - it is your "always on" pedal that forms the core of your guitar sound which you 

can enhance and embellish by adding boosters, fuzzes, filters, and other overdrives in front of it - just like 

you would in front of a real amp. And the reason you can leave it always-on is that you can get a great 

clean sound just by rolling your guitar's volume knob back! That's the way the old school Marshall players 

did things!

This is the latest evolution of our famous Dirty Little Secret, the most dynamic Marshall-style overdrive out 

there.

The Dirty Little Secret features:

* Two distinct voicings - "Super Lead" and "Super Bass" switchable via an internal slider switch.

* A full three-knob treble-middle-bass tone control complement that reproduces exactly the tone circuits 

of the Super Lead and Super Bass amps.

Содержание Dirty Little Secret

Страница 1: ...he other pedals in our Foundation Overdrive range of pedals is designed to be a foundation pedal it is your always on pedal that forms the core of your guitar sound which you can enhance and embellish by adding boosters fuzzes filters and other overdrives in front of it just like you would in front of a real amp And the reason you can leave it always on is that you can get a great clean sound just...

Страница 2: ...ressive cutting sound Compared to the SL tone circuit the SB tone circuit shifts the bass response lower and gives a somewhat more scooped sound than the SL mode It s actually not really much more scooped but the SL mode adds a lot of upper midrange cut to give that classic Super Lead kerrang response Both SL and SB voices are compelling so we wanted to be able to give you access to both A Marshal...

Страница 3: ...sound is due to the tone control circuit The controls are highly interactive and dependent on where the other tone knobs are set Experimentation is key to finding the tone you are looking for Once you ve honed in on the basic tone settings you are looking for you ll find that you can make precise adjustments by slight turns of one of the knobs Not quite cutting enough Turn the Treble up just a tad...

Страница 4: ...filled out enough And finally by the time you get to the Bass control you may find you don t need to add any Bass at all I find that setting the tone controls this way I end up with them not turned up as high This approach is particularly effective if you re trying to find that elusive clean crunch sound where it is just starting to overdrive and is really touch sensitive Now if you re going for m...

Страница 5: ...uld set the Master volume so that the sound with the DLS engaged is a bit louder than your bypassed sound In fact once you have set your tone and Pre amp controls you should adjust the Master back and forth to find the sweet spot for interfacing with the your amp or rest of your signal chain You will find you need to run the Master control up higher to get the same volume if you re in SB mode than...

Страница 6: ...y adjusts upper midrange frequencies The presence trimpot is a final brightness control and adjusts around the 3khz range Or if you find that you need a bit more brightness to cut through your band and the drummer s cymbals go ahead and adjust the presence trimpot to be a bit brighter The factory setting is exactly halfway on the trimpot POWER SUPPLY You can power your DLS with any quality power s...

Страница 7: ...output The sound is indistinct flubby woofy farty In fact even later Marshall Super Leads had this problem Why is that Well the problem is not that the Fuzz Face has too much bass the problem is that the amp or overdrive pedal can t handle all that bass In later period Super Leads in order to get more gain and kerrang out of the amp as guitar ists started wanting more aggressive sounds the preamp ...

Страница 8: ...en my beloved purple Marshalls didn t sound good with a Fuzz Face After much research and amp modding I figured out the secret And I was able to bring that insight into the design of the SB mode on the DLS Now I and YOU can enjoy great Fuzz Face or any other fuzz tone through almost any amp at any volume And the SL mode Plug a humbucker guitar into the DLS set to SL mode and tell me if that s not ...

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