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Mandorla

User's Manual

INTRO

You are now the lucky owner of a Mandorla pedal from Dusky Electronics. That's awesome!

We're happy to have our original design and unique sound on your pedal board.

The Mandorla is a boost pedal, so it makes your signal louder, obviously. It also adds a fair

amount of even-order harmonic distortion to your signal. Unlike clipping distortion, even-order

harmonic distortion isn't audible as distortion, per se, but does sweeten the signal and make it

sound better—a lot like a clean tube amp. You can also turn the pedal up enough that it pushes

your amplifier into overdrive, producing a more audible distortion. Depending on how you have it

set up, the boost can emphasise treble frequencies or it can boost the full frequency range of

your instrument.

The Mandorla takes as inspiration a vintage treble boost circuit from the 1960s, updates the

sound, and dramatically increases its versatility. The Mandorla sounds great on guitar, bass,

and keyboards—and probably also some other things we haven't tried.

CONTROLS

The M ore knob controls the output volume. Clockwise is louder. You m ight hear a little bit of

scratching when you turn this knob. Don't worry, the vintage treble boosters do this, too. (The

volume pot is also the load resistor on the transistor, so there's some DC across the pot which

causes it to be a little scratchy when you turn it.) All the way down is roughly unity gain (output

volume is same as input volume)—so you can use the Mandorla just to sculpt the low end

response and enhance the sound a bit. At higher settings, of course, you can pummel a tube

amp into some nice singing overdrive.

MEAT

The M eat knob controls the amount of bass content in your signal. Clockwise is more bass. All

the way down voices the Mandorla a lot like a classic '60s treble booster, although it still sounds

pretty different because of its MOSFET transistor instead of a germanium bipolar junction