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USAGE, CONT.

Overview

The NG-3 is great at what it does, but it's very important to understand what exactly that is. The circuit

is intended to sound like it's broken, but it's been designed to get these broken sounds in reliable and

repeatable ways. This means it can be difficult to tell whether it's been built successfully, especially if

you've never played one before.

The two best things you can do to understand the circuit are 1) watch a demo video such as

this one

from Shnobel

Tone, and 2) study the schematic to see exactly how the circuit is arranged, particularly

what each control is supposed to do, since the control labels are not overly intuitive.

Beyond that, we're including a few notes from our own experience to help you get the most out of it.

Bias control

When you first complete the Nysiad build, the bias control should be turned all the way up (clockwise).

This provides the most "normal" fuzz tone. Drive, Sustain and Tone should be around 12:00.

As you turn down the bias control, the circuit becomes more and more unstable and glitchy, especially at

higher Drive and Sustain settings.

Drive vs. Sustain

These controls seem redundant at first glance, but think of them as inter-stage gain controls. Drive is the

signal level going into transistor stage 1, and Sustain is the signal level going into transistor stage 2. The

first transistor stage overloads differently than the second, so high Drive and low Sustain sounds very

different than low Drive and high Sustain.

Generally speaking, the Sustain control has a stronger interaction with the Bias control. For example,

with Bias at 12:00 and Sustain toward the bottom half of the rotation, there's a very strong "sag" effect,

almost like an over-eager compressor that reduces the gain too much before swelling back to normal.

The Drive level has much less of an impact on this effect.

Noise

The noise floor will be amplified a great deal at higher Drive and Sustain levels, so if you have single-coil

pickups, you'll have better luck with one of the noise-canceling positions. This is less of an issue as Bias is

turned down since there's a noise-gating effect when nothing is being played.

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