User Guide

Hey buddy! Welcome to your new Avalanche Run
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Stereo Reverb
and Delay with Tap Tempo! The Avalanche Run was developed
with one goal in mind: to take the oating ambient tones of our
Dispatch Master to the next level while still keeping it user
friendly and rened. Taking you into the aural exploratorium
without having to break open the user manual every time you
want to open up your inner eye and get free is no easy task.
We are using a high powered proprietary DSP platform to
recreate all the characteristics of all our old favorite delay
and reverb machines while still retaining a simple, yet exible
workspace. It has been a long time coming but well worth the
wait! Enough bullshit, let’s talk about the damn pedal!
The Avalanche Run is a dreamy sonic discovery device with
up to 2 seconds of delay time and a lush stereo reverb. It
features complete control over delay time, repeats, mix and
voice (with the tone control), as well as control over the reverb
length and mix. It can run in one of 3 different modes: Normal,
Reverse and Swell. In “Normal” mode, the Avalanche Run
functions as a straightforward delay and reverb. In “Reverse”
mode, the delay line is in reverse and the reverb remains in
normal mode. In “Swell” mode, the Avalanche Run reacts to
your picking dynamics and adds a volume swell to the entire
signal path much like manually raising and lowering the volume
of your guitar.
The Avalanche Run features an expression jack that can
be assigned to one of six different controls using the “EXP”
selector switch. It also features Tap Tempo with six different
ratios accessed via the “Ratio” selector switch. The Avalanche
Run can also be run in “True Bypass” mode or “Buffered
Bypass” mode for trails and features 5 different tail lengths
including “Innite” for lo- and continuously degrading
pseudo-looping.
The Activate switch features our Flexi-Switch
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Technology!
This relay-based, true bypass switching style allows you to
simultaneously use momentary and latching style switching.
• For standard latching operation, tap the footswitch once to
activate the effect and then tap again to bypass.
• For momentary operation, hold the footswitch down for as long
as you’d like to use the effect. Once you release the switch the
effect will be bypassed.
The Tap switch also has a few other cool secondary functions.
While in Normal and Swell mode, you can send the Avalanche
Run into self-oscillation by holding down the “Tap” foot switch.
In Reverse, mode holding down the Tap switch will ip the
delay back into Normal mode and return to Reverse mode
once released!
Controls
Top Row
Time- This controls the delay time and goes from 0ms to just under
2000ms.
Repeats- Controls the regeneration of the delay, from zero repeats to
near innite.
Tone- Controls the tone for the delay line only. Roll off highs to the left,
roll off lows to the right and get a at response in the middle.
Mix- The is the volume control for the delay line. This blends in the wet
with dry until 1 o’clock, 1 o’clock to 3 o’clock boosts the wet signal over
the dry and 3 o’clock up brings down dry until it is fully wet when all the
way up.
Bottom Row
Expression Jack Assign Switch- Use this switch to map the expression
jack to one of the assigned controls.
• Decay- Controls the reverb decay length
• R Mix- Controls the reverb mix
• Time- This takes over for the delay time control and is
DRASTICALLY different than the interface control. Using
the expression pedal to control the time will give you all
kinds of wild effects that can not be achieved by turning the knob.
• Repeats- Controls the delay repeats
• D Mix- Controls the delay mix
• Toggle- This takes over for the toggle switch and will cross
fade from forward delay in heel down position to reverse
delay in toe down position.
Decay- Controls the decay length of the reverb, short decay
counterclockwise, long cavernous decay clockwise.
Mix- This is the volume control for the reverb. Blends in the wet with
dry until 1 O’clock, 1 O’clock to 3 O’clock boosts the wet signal over
the dry and 3 O’clock up brings down dry until it is fully wet when all
the way up.
Ratio Selector Switch- Selects delay subdivisions when time is set by
the “Tap” switch.
• 1/1- Quarter Note
• 3/4- Dotted 8th
• 2/3- Quarter Note Triplet
• 1/2- 8th Note
• 1/3- 8th Note Triplet
• 1/4- 16th Note
Toggle Switch (Mode Selector)
Both- This is the “standard” delay and reverb mode
Reverse- This is reverse delay mode with “standard” reverb
Swell- This is the volume swell mode
Effect Mode Features
Both
• Both delay and reverb in standard forward mode
• Reverb is fully stereo and follows delay in the signal path
• All controls work as displayed
• When using tap tempo to set the delay time, the repeats are cleared
once new time is tapped in.
• Hold Tap switch down to send delay into innite repeats. On shorter
Time settings, they will quickly go into oscillation and on longer Time
settings, they will slowly build.
Avalanche Run
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