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| User's Guide Footswitchable Modes: • Mode One: Slightly dirty octave up with ring mod tones and artifacts, with Intensity control and high filter. (Tip: Use your neck pickup for the best tone! Octave up is especially pronounced above the 12th fret! Rougher and even dying tones achievable with the Intensity control.) • Mode Two: Octave down, a more intense ring mod, glitch tones, and fuzz tones, with Level and Voice mod to activate octave/glitch. (Tip: You'll find the strongest octaves and glitches with both pickups activated, middle, and neck pickups. All pickups will react differently to the octave down and ring mod tones in this mode. Make sure try it with your guitar's Tone knob turned completely up to hear the strongest effect...then you can blend the amount of octave/glitch by rolling back the Tone control. This mode requires passive pickups, and a full signal...you'll even hear the difference between bad/good cables.) • Mode Three (both switches on): Octave up fuzz! Blistering octave up, nasty fuzz, and high gain. Set Intensity of Mode One to taste. (Tip: You'll likely want both the Filter and Voice Toggles activated when in mode three. That'll dampen a lot of the high frequencies, providing a more manageable tone. Turning on Mode One automatically turns off the octave effects of mode two to provide the full fuzz octave up!) Mode One Controls: • Intensity: Blends in amount of octave up in Mode One. As it's turned to the right, the octave effect decreases and it takes on a rougher tone. You may find some gated tones in there as well, depending on pickup strength. (Tip: Far left means more octave up, far right means less effect and some gated pop-in tones.) • Filter Toggle: Down is standard. Flipping this toggle up activates a highs filter, dampening / decreasing highs. Ideal for bright guitars and bass guitar. Also, when it dual-mode, you'll probably want the Filter Toggle on (up). Mode Two Controls: • Level: Controls the Level for Mode Two. Set this level at unity with Mode One and your amp. • Voice Toggle: Down is standard. With the toggle down, you'll find all of the extreme ring mods and octave downs • Your guitar's Tone control: In octave down / ring mod mode (Voice Toggle down), you can use your • Best placed first (or at least early) in your effects chain, with no buffered bypass in front of it or active pickups. (Mode Two functions on impedance, so the better your signal, the more dramatic the tones!) |
Modifications!
The Phantom Ring's stock features and specs are highly recommended...filter strength
and control parameters are set to be ideal--for the best tone and for most uses. The
grass is not always greener, but if you're sure you want to alter the
intensitry/parameter of some of the controls, details are below.
Please don't attempt these if you're not comfortable with pedal wiring. Mod at your own risk! Simply
clipping the resistor or capacitor as described in the notes below will not void your warranty...(but
repairing, soldering, replacing parts, modding anything else, will void "free parts/labor" part of your
warranty). If you have any questions, email me at info@fuzzhugger.com.
Mode One's Intensity Knob - With the Intensity Knob to the right, the Phantom Ring has some slightly
gated tones. If you want that gate to be stronger/weirder toward the right, and make a few more of
those cleanish gated tones more extreme: Open the pedal up and clip the resistor on the Intensity Pot
inside. This is only if you want a stronger gate...especially if you do this unnecessarily, it may end up
totally muting your signal when turned all the way right.
Mode One's Filter Toggle - The Filter Toggle is intended for use in dual mode (Mode Three), in order
to reduce the highs in that mode. If you want to reduce the strength of the highs-reducing filter, open
the pedal up and clip/remove one of the two capacitors attached to the Toggle. This will cut the filter's
strength in half.
(Skilled modders / solderers only--if you want to increase strength of the highs filter, you can add a
.022uf capacitor to the the two already there, increasing the filter by 50%.)
Mode Two's Voice Toggle - The Voice Toggle is set to activate/deactivate Mode Two's octave down
and ring mod effects...flipping the toggle up removes the effect and leaves you with fuzz. However, you
can modify this toggle for two octave/ring voicings by clipping/removing one of the two capacitors on
the Voice Toggle to cut its effect in half...(if you want to know what this'll sound like, set your guitar's
Tone control at about 50% with Mode Two on and the Voice Toggle in the down position. That'll be the
blend of octave.)
The Phantom Ring's stock features and specs are highly recommended...filter strength
and control parameters are set to be ideal--for the best tone and for most uses. The
grass is not always greener, but if you're sure you want to alter the
intensitry/parameter of some of the controls, details are below.
Please don't attempt these if you're not comfortable with pedal wiring. Mod at your own risk! Simply
clipping the resistor or capacitor as described in the notes below will not void your warranty...(but
repairing, soldering, replacing parts, modding anything else, will void "free parts/labor" part of your
warranty). If you have any questions, email me at info@fuzzhugger.com.
Mode One's Intensity Knob - With the Intensity Knob to the right, the Phantom Ring has some slightly
gated tones. If you want that gate to be stronger/weirder toward the right, and make a few more of
those cleanish gated tones more extreme: Open the pedal up and clip the resistor on the Intensity Pot
inside. This is only if you want a stronger gate...especially if you do this unnecessarily, it may end up
totally muting your signal when turned all the way right.
Mode One's Filter Toggle - The Filter Toggle is intended for use in dual mode (Mode Three), in order
to reduce the highs in that mode. If you want to reduce the strength of the highs-reducing filter, open
the pedal up and clip/remove one of the two capacitors attached to the Toggle. This will cut the filter's
strength in half.
(Skilled modders / solderers only--if you want to increase strength of the highs filter, you can add a
.022uf capacitor to the the two already there, increasing the filter by 50%.)
Mode Two's Voice Toggle - The Voice Toggle is set to activate/deactivate Mode Two's octave down
and ring mod effects...flipping the toggle up removes the effect and leaves you with fuzz. However, you
can modify this toggle for two octave/ring voicings by clipping/removing one of the two capacitors on
the Voice Toggle to cut its effect in half...(if you want to know what this'll sound like, set your guitar's
Tone control at about 50% with Mode Two on and the Voice Toggle in the down position. That'll be the
blend of octave.)
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