Hey Gang,
So I recently received my Elements. Ryan included some detailed instructions on how the pedal operates, but I thought I'd trim it down a bit for a quick reference.
The image below shows what settings are available on the knobs and toggles, and is color-coded to show which controls interact with others.
Enjoy!
Elements Cheat Sheet
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Re: Elements Cheat Sheet
Wow this is great!
Clean and easy to read.
One question, and this has bothered me for a while: Can someone explain what clipping is?
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One question, and this has bothered me for a while: Can someone explain what clipping is?
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Re: Elements Cheat Sheet
Nice one, Scott, great idea! That really says it all nicely!
Clipping is basically the squaring off of round waveforms. When the signal goes through a diode it's 'clipped' off at the forward voltage of the diode, .6V for silicon, 2V for red LEDs, 3V for blue LEDs, .3V for Germanium... all those different 'clipping' voltages sound different and you see them used in different arrangements in different pedals through the years. The lower the voltage, the more clipped, or the more saturation.
Clipping also happens when you try to make a signal bigger than the power supply can accomplish. As you enlarge the signal it hits the limits of the device it's going through or the limits of the power supply of the system and a nice clean round signal will start squaring off and becoming a noisy square signal. You call this clipping also even though there's no diodes involved.
With the Elements you can clip both ways, you can have lots of distortion with no clipping diodes or you can clip things further with them. The middle position of the switch has no clipping diodes for both gain stages, the bottom position uses a diode on one side of the signal and then nothing on the other for both gain stages (asymmetrical), and the top position uses two red LEDs per gain stage.
Clipping is basically the squaring off of round waveforms. When the signal goes through a diode it's 'clipped' off at the forward voltage of the diode, .6V for silicon, 2V for red LEDs, 3V for blue LEDs, .3V for Germanium... all those different 'clipping' voltages sound different and you see them used in different arrangements in different pedals through the years. The lower the voltage, the more clipped, or the more saturation.
Clipping also happens when you try to make a signal bigger than the power supply can accomplish. As you enlarge the signal it hits the limits of the device it's going through or the limits of the power supply of the system and a nice clean round signal will start squaring off and becoming a noisy square signal. You call this clipping also even though there's no diodes involved.
With the Elements you can clip both ways, you can have lots of distortion with no clipping diodes or you can clip things further with them. The middle position of the switch has no clipping diodes for both gain stages, the bottom position uses a diode on one side of the signal and then nothing on the other for both gain stages (asymmetrical), and the top position uses two red LEDs per gain stage.
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Re: Elements Cheat Sheet
Wow, that's excellent leastwise, thanks! Should come in handy real soon.
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Re: Elements Cheat Sheet
Ryan wrote:Nice one, Scott, great idea! That really says it all nicely!
Clipping is basically the squaring off of round waveforms. When the signal goes through a diode it's 'clipped' off at the forward voltage of the diode, .6V for silicon, 2V for red LEDs, 3V for blue LEDs, .3V for Germanium... all those different 'clipping' voltages sound different and you see them used in different arrangements in different pedals through the years. The lower the voltage, the more clipped, or the more saturation.
Clipping also happens when you try to make a signal bigger than the power supply can accomplish. As you enlarge the signal it hits the limits of the device it's going through or the limits of the power supply of the system and a nice clean round signal will start squaring off and becoming a noisy square signal. You call this clipping also even though there's no diodes involved.
With the Elements you can clip both ways, you can have lots of distortion with no clipping diodes or you can clip things further with them. The middle position of the switch has no clipping diodes for both gain stages, the bottom position uses a diode on one side of the signal and then nothing on the other for both gain stages (asymmetrical), and the top position uses two red LEDs per gain stage.
Wow! Thanks for the info.