User Guide

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BUILT IN USA
I’m guessing you’ve seen the prices of some of the vintage eect pedals
on eBay these days? Certain pedals are literally going for several thousand
dollars - why? Well, because they sound AMAZING and they have a myth
and a legend attached to them - which of course it helped all the more by
a healthy amount of PCB goop and them not being made like that
anymore...
There have been many clones of the most popular, many that claim to
bring you the original parts used in the original way, recreating some-
thing magical, even going so far as recreating outer paint color to distin-
guish models. Here’s the thing, we ALL know that each of these pedals
were dierent, it had nothing to do with the paint or any myseterious
secret part change, it had everything to do with what the designer felt
worked best at that moment in time, for that pedal. We decided that
enough was enough, we got frustrated with people charging hundreds of
dollars for a copy that claimed to contain the magic fairy unicorn dust
NOS parts, and decided it was time to put this to rest!
Brian took several of the original and designed the Tumnus to sound like
the best bits of all of them, make the ultimate tribute to that circuit - and
make it with modern high quality parts so each sounds as amazing as the
nextt! With the original Tumnus appearing only in a mini format, people
were shouting for a full sized version - So, Brian being brian, decided he
wouldn’t just put it in a bigger box, he wanted more gain, he wanted the
option of true bypass or buered and, of course, a full 3 band EQ. The
Tumnus Deluxe was born...
Whether you want to use this pedal as an OD or a boost, you can be sure that all of the low end is present, and beauti-
fully warm, the mid hump is placed perfectly and the gain itself is to on point you will nally understand what all the
hype has been all about. With that as your foundation, you can now have THAT tone, but with total control... sounds
like heaven in a box!
In order to get the best out of your new pedal, we recommend you spend some time getting to know the controls as
well as understand how they all work together. This kind of circuit is the most responsive around, and you can get so
many tones from it... it’s really worth spending lots of time playing with it and see what it does. Try it as a boost with
the gain down or as a OD pedal with the gain up, it just makes everything sound better!
TUMNUS