Hello, and thank you for supporting Magpie Pedals and getting yourself one of my effect pedals! Please feel free to use it with guitar, bass, synths, vocals or anything in between.
The pedal uses 9VDC power (2.1mm jack: center-negative).
The Stutterphone is built upon one of my oldest DIY ideas: Taking apart an old rotary phone and passing the signal through the original mechanics, using both the number dial and big red button as killswitches. In this version I also added a fuzz!
Controls:
Footswitch: Effect Bypass.
Big Red Button: This is a classic mechanical killswitch. Pressing it will cut the audio signal completely. It works regardless of the pedal’s power state - because it’s mechanical, so no power needed. Press it to cut the signal.
Number Plate: Use it just like in the olden days, for dialing a phone number. Wind it up, and when it’s released it will cut the signal on every number it passes back to zero. So, if you wind it up to nine it will cut the signal nine times (I think) on its way back. This, together with the big red button, makes it a sort of hands-on mechanical pattern generator. Very tactile and fun!
The left-hand “V” knob is your volume control.
The right-hand “F” knob is a Mix between two different fuzzes. Counterclockwise is a cleaner one, and going clockwise is going gnarly!