Zorglonde
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Please read carefully this manual as it contains important infos. It’ll help you to use the Zorglonde
at it’s best.
Please feed the love philter with a 9v center negative power supply. Consumption is 31mA max.
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The Zorglonde is a vintage tremolo which seeks to color nicely your sound. It allows to use to types
of tremolo waves shapes, square and sine, and allow to sweep a very large rate span (from 1Hz to
16Hz, or 60bpm to 960bpm).
The sine wave shape is based on vintage tube bias tremolo. It produce a sweet and colorful
tremolo.
The square tremolo is harsher and more of an optical tremolo with less color.
In both cases, with an instrument with high output level, the pedal may saturate a bit. If you wish
to adapt the pedal to your input level and remove or add saturation, a pair of small switches are
available under the pedal. (See next chapter)
And last, the rate of your tremolo can be swept with an expression pedal, allowing psyche or dub
effects.
Tpada ruoy ednolgroZ ot eht tupni level.*
(*Adapt your Zorglonde to the input level)
Under the pedal lies two mini switches which allows to trim the distortion of the Zorglonde
according to your input level. Please note that a change of this switches will change your output
volume. (That’s also why there’s a volume knob…)
The “OFF-OFF” position allows the Zorglonde to generate almost no distortion. Even with high
instrument levels (Ex: a guitar with modern humbuckers). But in this position the signal/noise ratio
is not the best, if the pedal is before a high gain distortion, it’s likely you’ll ear a tiny bit of the LFO.
The “ON-ON” position, on the contrary has the best signal to noise ratio. But it’s the position which
will give the most distortion. It’s the best position if the pedal is before a high gain distortion, or if
your instrument output is low. Note that if you have very low output instrument (ex: a guitar with
vintage single coils) you may never achieve to saturate the Zorglonde.
The positions “ON-OFF” and “OFF-ON” positions offers intermediate possibilities between the two
upper cases. They may be interesting if you have a medium output instrument (like a P90 pickups
guitar or vintage humbuckers) or if you want to have a tiny bit of grit.
