HEISENBERG
INTRODUCTION
It was only a matter of time before
PINKMAN
and
MR. WHITE
combined their talents to
create HEISENBERG. Mr. White's pure and clean power co-‐mingles with Pinkman's rougher
and dirtier boost. They run in parallel to keep their individual qualities while providing a wide
range of experiences. You can dial in as much or as little of each as you need, and you can
further tweak the Pinkman's effect with dedicated Drive and Tone controls.
OPERATION
This pedal is designed to be a versatile signal boosting and distortion effect that allows you to
either blend your clean signal back into a distorted signal or add a touch of distortion
alongside your clean sound. This can be particularly useful for rhythm parts where you want
to maintain pick attack or lead parts where you want the notes to cut through the mix while
having rich harmonic content. The circuit contains two independent effects, the
PINKMAN
dirty boost and the
MR. WHITE
clean boost, that are arranged in parallel. That means you can
dial in any amount of either, from off to significantly loud, using the two volume controls.
The footswitch turns the effect on and off, and the blue LED lights up when the effect is active.
The HEISENBERG is 100% true bypass.
The
PINKMAN
side of HEISENBERB is a mild to medium/high drive circuit that is warm and
balanced as it retains the bite of your attack while adding some distortion and compression to
the mid frequencies. The output can go far beyond unity gain to really push your amp into
further saturation. The Tone, Drive, and Dist Vol controls are dedicated to this portion of the
circuit, while the Cln Vol is a separate transparent clean signal that can be added in as needed.
DRIVE –
This control starts with a slightly dirty sound that adds some growl and subtle
compression in the mids. As you increase the drive, the sound becomes more compressed
and sustained until it loosens up and takes on some classic fuzz characteristics. This control is
purposely designed to provide subtle increases in distortion over the first 75% of its travel,
letting you really dial in the perfect amount of saturation. Note that when set to 100% drive,
there is so much saturation that a little bit of the distorted signal will bleed through when the
Dist Vol control is at 0%.
TONE –
This control goes from muted to biting as you roll clockwise.
DIST VOL – This control determines the amount of distorted signal sent to the output.
CLN VOL – This control determines the amount of clean signal sent to the output.
