Electro-Harmonix says that The Ripped Speaker is a contemporary fuzz with old-fashioned roots that pays homage to one of many ways in which early, distorted guitar and bass sounds had been made.

Spokesperson advised us, “At low fuzz settings the pedal emulates the lo-fi distortion sounds of yesteryear, the sorts of sounds created by a razor blade utilized to a speaker cone, a free tube or a defective channel on a recording console. While you crank the fuzz up the sound is remodeled. It is fashionable and monumental with a searing, totally saturated, fuzz tone!”

Here is extra particulars direct from EHX…

The Ripped Speaker’s RIP knob is a bias management which units the quantity of clipping on the high and backside of the sign wave type. It provides a whole lot of versatility and allows you to tailor the character of the fuzz. Midday is impartial, a place the place the fuzz is completely biased… fats, with an excellent low finish and high finish chew with out being harsh. As you flip the knob clockwise the pedal produces a tough gating impact and the sign sputters and chokes. It is nice for making a dying battery impact. Turning the knob CCW produces but a special fashion of fuzz with a smoother gating impact the place the sign fades out rapidly.

The Ripped Speaker’s TONE management is lively and delivers a tilt-shift kind EQ. Meaning at midday the EQ is flat. As you flip the knob counter-clockwise the frequency response will get darker with extra pronounced lows and fewer highs. Going clockwise yields a brighter tone with extra highs and rolled again lows.

The Ripped Speaker options true bypass switching, comes outfitted with a 9 Volt battery and accepts a typical EHX 9 Volt energy provide.

Pricing and Availability:

$99

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