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STEREO TALKING MACHINE
Vocal Formant Filter
Congratulations on your purchase of the Electro-Harmonix Stereo Talking Machine, a
highly customizable envelope-controlled digital vowel filter. The Stereo Talking
Machine (STM) utilizes multiple moving filters to turn your guitar in a growling,
gurgling, snarling monster.
- Special Features of the Stereo Talking Machine -
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Nine selectable voices: Seven human vowel filter combinations, a classic wah-wah filter,
and the legendary dual band filter of the EHX Bassballs
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Ability to reverse the sweep of each voice, doubling your sound options
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Attack/Decay knobs to separately control the rise and fall speeds of the filter sweep
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Sensitivity control to adapt the effect’s response to your playing
style
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Stereo Outputs for true stereo imaging and panning
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Expression Pedal option to manually control filter sweep
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Programmable distortion to make your guitar really growl
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Programmable internal LFO for automatic filter modulation
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Effects Loop side-chain
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9 fully programmable presets
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VOICE DESCRIPTIONS
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Each voice option in the STM sweeps between two distinct filter settings, mimicking
the way a human mouth moves to form particular vowel sounds. The direction of the
filter sweep can be reversed using the SENSITIVITY knob.
Sensi
Sensitivity -
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The WAH and BB voice options simulate a classic wah-wah pedal filter and the EHX
Bassballs filter respectively.
WARNING:
Your Stereo Talking Machine comes equipped with an Electro-
Harmonix 9.6DC-200 power supply (same as used by Boss
®
& Ibanez
®
: 9.6 Volts
DC 200mA / Center Negative). The Stereo Talking Machine requires 185mA at
9VDC with a center negative plug. The STM does not take batteries. Using the
wrong adapter may damage your unit and void the warranty.
