Product Overview
The Ripped Speaker is a modern fuzz with old school roots and pays homage to one of the ways that early, distorted guitar and bass sounds were made. At low fuzz settings the pedal emulates the lo-fi distortion sounds of yesteryear, the kinds of sounds created by a razor blade applied to a speaker cone, a loose tube or a faulty channel on a recording console. When you crank the fuzz up the sound is transformed. It’s modern and monumental with a searing, fully saturated, fuzz tone.
The Ripped Speaker’s RIP knob is a bias control which sets the amount of clipping at the top and bottom of the signal wave form. It adds a lot of versatility and lets you tailor the character of the fuzz. Noon is neutral, a position where the fuzz is perfectly biased… fat, with a great low end and top end bite without being harsh. As you turn the knob clockwise the pedal produces a hard gating effect and the signal sputters and chokes. It’s great for creating a dying battery effect. Turning the knob CCW produces yet a different style of fuzz with a smoother gating effect where the signal fades out quickly.
The Ripped Speaker’s TONE control is active and delivers a tilt-shift type EQ. That means at noon the EQ is flat. As you turn the knob counter-clockwise the frequency response gets darker with more pronounced lows and less highs. Going clockwise yields a brighter tone with more highs and rolled back lows.
The Ripped Speaker features true bypass switching, comes equipped with a 9 Volt battery and accepts a standard EHX 9 Volt power supply (sold separately).
About Electro-Harmonix:
Electro-Harmonix was founded in 1968 by a young New Yorker fresh out of Cornell University who combined his passions for music and business to create a niche in the nascent world of rock-n-roll. With a first product dubbed the LPB-1, short for Linear Power Booster, Mike Matthews helped usher in the age of overdrive. EHX's most iconic pedal, the Big Muff Pi distortion/sustainer, was introduced in 1969. Its sound and appeal are so powerful that it's been imitated and copied by almost every pedal company on the planet. Currently, Electro-Harmonix has a product line of well over 150 pedals ranging from the essential to the exotic. Along the way there have been many firsts. These include the Electric Mistress, the first low cost flanger; the Memory Man, the first analog delay; the 16 Second Delay, the first looper pedal; and the Instant Replay, the first low cost sampler. More recently products like the POG Polyphonic Octave Generator, the Freeze Sound Retainer and the "9" Series, i.e. B9, C9, Key9, Mel9 and Synth9 keyboard emulators, demonstrate that EHX's legacy of sonic innovation is unique. Electro-Harmonix brings players imaginative products that fan the flames of creativity at prices a working musician can afford.
Features:
- EHX Ripped Speaker Fuzz Effects Pedal
- Versatile pedal delivers fuzz that goes from old school to modern
- RIP knob controls bias
- Active tone control
- True bypass switching
- Pedalboard-friendly size
- 9V battery included
- UPC: 683274012353
- MPN: RIPPED SPEAKER
