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Solid Gold FX - NU-33

Description

COMES WITH ORIGINAL BOX AND TWO TEMPLE AUDIO© PLATES MOUNTED!

There are very few things that Solid Gold enjoys more around than guitars and records. What could be more satisfying than putting your mitts on your favorite instrument or spinning a record and watching the needle drop on a limited color pressing?

Named after the Greek letter symbolizing spatial frequency and the RPMs of a turntable, the NU-33 is a lo-fi Vinyl modulator like no other. Designed to capture the vibe of some our favorite records such as a particularly worn out copy of Black Sabbath's Master of Reality and an original pressing of Led Zeppelin I with just the perfect amount of static, the NU-33 serves up chorus and vibrato mixed with tastefully engineered hiss, crackle and pops to give your riffs just the right touch of vintage flair. The controls allow you to choose how much or how little flutter to add to your tone, color it with 2 additional filter modes, shape it with 3 different waveforms and dial in the mix with an analog blend; you can easily make this pedal sound as pretty and lush or as dark and sombre as you please.

Crammed in this little box is a manual mode to create a doubler ranging from 15ms to 50ms, an internally assignable expression pedal/CV input, multi-function foot switches for tap tempo and speed ramping, top jacks, relay based true bypass switching and a hold-to-skip function with 3 selectable speed presets to create a unique sonic stutter.

Well, with all that said, and whole lotta painstaking work leading up to this point, the NU-33 is finally here and all that's left to do is to get lost in its immersive waves and textures.

Knobs
Speed: Adjusts the speed of the LFO, from low and slow, to warble fast.
Flutter: Adjusts the width of the chorus/vibrato effect
Ramp: Allows you to speed up or slow down the LFO by holding the Tap Tempo/Ramp switch
Hiss: Controls the amount white noise that is mixed in with the effect
Blend: Blends the dry and wet signal from fully dry to 50/50
Level: Master volume of the pedal and can boost or cut the output

Switches
Wave: Changes the LFO waveform
Skip: Provides three tempo presets for the Skip function
Colour: Selects filter modes
Crackle: Adds random vinyl-like pops and crackle to your signal when set to the right.
Bypass/Hold Brake Footswitch: Turns the effect on and off
Tap/Hold Ramp Footswitch: Provides a tap tempo and when the switch is held down it ramps the speed/depth up or down, depending on how the ramp knob is set