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Condition: Used, Excellent
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Famous for its noiseless clean sustain, the Philosopher’s Tone has staked its claim in the crowded world of compressor pedals. In addition to Volume and Sustain controls, the Philosopher’s Tone features a parallel Blend knob that allows the musician to mix their instrument’s original tone with the compressed sound effect. This technique restores natural pick-attack and allows more extreme sustain settings to remain musical. The Treble control provides up to a 6db cut or boost at 2kHz for fine-tuning the frequency response of the effect. The Philosopher’s Tone features true-bypass switching and internal 18V power rails for maximum clean headroom, even when used with hot pickups and line level signals.
MODEL NAME: Philosopher's Tone
FUNCTION: Optical Compressor Sustainer
CATEGORY 1: Compression
BYPASS: True Bypass
ELECTRONICS
VOLTAGE: 9VDC
CURRENT DRAW: 100mA
INPUT IMPEDANCE: High
OUTPUT IMPEDANCE: 150ohms
BODY
LENGTH (IN): 1.5
WIDTH (IN): 3.75
HEIGHT (IN): 1.75
WEIGHT (LBS): 0.5
Warranty
This item is sold without the Sound Pure 3-year warranty (used / B-stock / dealer-exempt). Coverage terms for items in this category live in Terms & Conditions, Section 27.
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