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Notes: The highly coveted Octave Clang has made a triumphant return to Death By Audio's Queens workshop. Long presumed extinct, the OC was never really gone, merely in a state of hibernation-evolving, refining, and enhancing its already extraordinary sound.

In the decade since it disappeared, Death by Audio have revisited the original Clang circuit, sculpting it into something better-a more ferocious, menacing, and thunderous force that is as usable as possible for today's musicians.

Embraced by professionals and punks alike, the vintage Octave Clang was created to unleash distinctly unconventional tones that captivated the senses. In this, it succeeded, but many users found it difficult to tame. Today, Death By Audio have refined and extended the range of the original controls, added a foot-switchable octave, and did some under-the-hood supercharging.

The resulting circuit is an insane yet versatile beast, empowering you to easily sculpt discordant ringing drones, visceral octave scrapes, and ground-shaking distortion. The revitalized Octave Clang is primed and ready to destroy!

Controls

Bypass (Left Footswitch): Turns the Octave Clang on and off (red LED).
Octave (Right Footswitch): Toggles the Octave Up mode (yellow LED). The yellow LED stays on/off when the pedal is bypassed to indicate if the Octave Up is engaged.
Volume: Controls the output level. Goes from totally silent to extremely loud. When set above your normal volume, it propels your chain into overdrive
Gain: Sets the gain of the Octave Clang. This can (and will) drive the rest of the circuit into overdrive and fuzz. Can provide up to +39dB of gain.

Tone: A powerful pre-gain tilt EQ, this control adjusts the amount of highs and lows going into the rest of the circuit. This can make the octave and fuzz react very differently. Overloading the lows yields a larger, more blown-out sound while overloading the highs gives a more cutting and clear sound.

Bias (Internal): Allows misbiasing the distortion circuitry. Leave this control in the middle (5-6) for standard functionality, or turn it left or right to skew the character of the distortion to a rougher sound.
Access this control by removing the back plate of the Octave Clang.

Specifications

Dimensions: 4.8" x 3.7" x 2.1" (including hardware).
Weight: 11.5 oz.
Power: The Octave Clang is powered by a standard 2.1mm 9V DC adapter with a centre-negative polarity. Isolated power supplies are recommended. It is also possible to use the Octave Clang with a 9V battery (not provided). When not using a battery, the internal battery snap should be attached to the corresponding battery snap holes on the board. This will prevent the contacts from shorting out against the circuitry. Do NOT leave the battery snap floating inside the pedal when not using a battery.
Current Draw: 10 mA

Notes: Lush analogue EQ switchable between tilt and Baxandall high-shelf configurations.

Perform a variety of mixing and sound design duties ranging from subtle brightness and clarity adjustments to low-end rumble removal, boosted low-pass filtering and sweep EQ.

In the default tilt mode, turning the control knob clockwise simultaneously boosts treble and cuts bass. Turning anti-clockwise boosts bass and cuts treble. These boosts and cuts are pivoted around the mid-range. With the control knob at 12 o'clock the frequency response is neutral.

With Baxandall high-shelf mode enabled, turning the control knob clockwise past 12 o'clock introduces and gentle high-shelf EQ weighted around the upper mid-range. Turning the control knob anti-clockwise results in a wide high-shelf cut with subtle bass and mid-range adjustments.

Patching the channels in series allows for radical sound shaping and band-pass responses. Each channel provides up to +/- 8db of low and high-frequency gain control, summing into a low noise output stage. Hot input signals over 15vpp are saturated by active Zener diode clipping.

Features

Precise voltage control of EQ tilt and shelf
Seamless switching between EQ modes
High-quality components used throughout

Specifications

Intellijel 1U format
Width: 18HP
Depth: 32mm
Power requirements: ~60mA +12V/~58mA -12V
Control voltage range: 0-8V
Impedance Input: 100K / Output 1K

Notes: Zeus Guitar Pedal Power Supply

NU-X have built an enviable reputation as guitar pedal experts and great guitar sound starts with the power source. Using standard 9Vdc power adaptors usually releases unwanted noise into the signal chain and unstable power can adversely affect the operation and even life expectancy of some boutique pedals. Zeus is an extremely low noise, high current power supply designed specifically for audio effect circuits with 6 fully isolated 9V outlets, 3 switchable 9/12/18V outlets and a fully variable 6-12V outlet. This lightweight and efficient power supply has the flexibility and reliability to run a full pedal board, even with multi-effect units added, with problem-free operation.

Extremely low noise circuitry
Fully isolated outputs
Multiple voltage options
High current capacity
Supplied with various DC link cables to havndle most pedal input types
Supplied with a 2-outlet combiner lead with 2.5mm DC plug for higher power units.

Power supply: 100-240Vac, 50/60Hz (IEC)
Outputs: 6 x 9VDC, 3 x 9/12/18vDC, 1 x 6-12Vdc variable (all DC5521 jack)
USB output current: 1.5A (Type-A outlet)
Dimensions: 195 x 101 x 42mm
Weight: 658g

In the box

The box for this item contains :

Zeus guitar pedal power supply
5 x DC jack link cables (5.5x2.1mm) straight to angle 0.5m
5 x DC jack link cables (5.5x2.1mm) straight to angle 0.3m
1 x DC jack reverse polarity cable (5.5x2.1mm) straight to angle 0.5m
1 x DC jack (5.5x2.1mm) to 3.5mm plug cable 0.5m
1 x twin DC jack (5.5x2.1mm) socket to single DC plug (5.5x2.5mm)
1 x IEC power lead