Dry
Dry is basically a strange variant of Wet. Replacing the spring tank with a transducer that is pressed against a piezo element (contact microphone) through a spring. So essentially its a spring reverb with no reverb at all. More like a fuzz or crazy sounding box of industry sounds. Probably the only pedal ever invented where you tighten wingnuts to affect the sound!
Dry User Guide
The pedal uses 9VDC power (2.1mm jack: center-negative).
Input is on the right side (black ring) and output is on the left (white ring).
Dry is sort of a spring reverb without the reverb. Created by replacing the spring tank in my "Wet" pedal with a transducer that is forced against a piezo element through a large spring. Turning the wingnuts into control knobs (kind of). It sounds really harsh and has a way of becoming a box that just screams by itself. But its kind of cool regardless!
Triple Bypass (left footswitch):
This pedal uses a unique bypass switching system that I call “Triple Bypass”, where you have three different “modes” for turning the pedal on and off:
- Short Press: Works like any regular pedal. Press to turn it on and then press to turn it off.
- Momentary/Hold: If you press and hold for about 1-2 seconds the pedal will enter a hold mode. Here it will simply stay in the state it entered when pressing down the button, for however long you decide to hold down the button, and then return when you release the button. So if you press down when the pedal is turned OFF it will stay ON for as long as you hold the button pressed down, and vice versa.
- Tap Tempo Bypass: If you quickly double tap the bypass button (either when on or off) the pedal will enter the Tap Tempo Bypass mode. Here the pedal automatically turns itself on/off in whichever tempo you tap. So to change tempo you simply tap a new tempo.
N.B. Dry continuously counts the time since your last tap. So if you have been in a tempo for some time and give the footswitch another single tap, it will set your new tempo based on the time between the pervious tap and the new tap - upto a maxium length of around 1min.
To exit Tap Tempo Bypass you simply press and hold the button for about 2 seconds. Note that when exiting this mode the pedal will be ON (regardless of if the pedal is in an OFF or ON state).
Controls:
The controls are very simple and basically just let you shape the tone of your non-reverb spring signal.
The top “V” knob is your Volume control. Since Dry can get VERY LOUD “V” is your safety net knob.
The middle “C” knob will Crunch up the signal running into the transducer.
The bottom “B” knob Boosts the signal after the piezo element. It can get very loud and clippy, which sounds really cool!
The two “Wingnuts” tighen or loosen the internal spring. Experimentation is positively encouraged!
The Right Footswitch: is a tone-switch. Use this to Switch between two modes of signal harshness - pretty harsh, and even harsher.
Enjoy!