Electrofoods Pigpile User manual

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Bright Sustain
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Gnarly Bass Fuzz
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DescriptionDescription
We really, really appreciate that you have chosen to
put your hard earned gear dollars into one of our
pedals. It means the world to us.
Thank you!
This pedal is not a clone. Like the Interfax Harmonic
Percolator, at its heart the Pigpile has a very strange
and unique configuration of two transistors (which
we’ve cheekily dubbed the Harmonic Porkolating
Pair, or HPP) not found in any other type of fuzz or
distortion. But the similarities pretty much end there.
We used the old Percos as a jumping off point, and
with our ears to guide us, we analyzed, explored,
experimented, made dozens of prototypes, tried
hundreds of ideas and tweaks, and then smashed
all the best circuit bits together in a tiny box until
they made friends. The end result is this flexible
maniac of a fuzz pedal, huge and weird and gnarly
when unleashed, but tweakable enough to be house-
trained. There are whole worlds of new tones in this
thing, waiting to be discovered. We hope you’ll
enjoy finding them as much as we have.
Below you’ll find a few of our favorite settings to get
you started!
So...what is this thing?

9V DC Recommended
24V DC Max
Pigpile rev. E
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mode Footswitch
LED ON: HPP reconfigured to extend the counter-
clockwise range on the
brutality control, allowing
access to the gnarliest churning/grinding/skinflaying
flavors of Porkolation.
Mixes the output of the HPP with the output of the
Pre Amp, great for basses and keyboards. Also, if you
roll it all the way down you can use the Pigpile as a
clean boost…but why would you want to do that?
Blend
Level
Output signal volume.
Hi-Cut
Controls high frequency negative-feedback internal
to the HPP. Salt to taste.
'off' to move the clipping around the circuit. Our
favorite setting is the default—but experiment! Turn
on multiple dip-switches and things might get extra
weird (even when the toggle switch is not set to
alt).
3-position toggle switch for control of the JFET input
gain stage. BOOST is max full-range input gain, while
Bright boosts treble and high-mids.
pre amp
Gain control for the classic Harmonic Porkolating
Pair (HPP) transistor configuration, which can
generate everything from thick overdrive with
serious sustain, to harmonically-reactive sizzling
fuzz, to freaky windswept nuclear blasts.
harm
Adjusts the balance of input-to-feedback inside the
HPP, and therefore the intensity and character of the
chaotic interactions created. Crank it for max gain
and max heavy, but roll it back to allow more intense
Porkolations and weirder tones. It’s not a brutality
control, it’s all brutal. Choose and perish.
Brutality
Engages Germanium diode clipping that can be
connected to different parts of the circuit. Toggle up
for the traditional locale (
q2c) or toggle down for one
of three alternate locations (alt), selectable via
internal dip-switches. Turn one switch 'on' and two
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-Use only CENTER NEGATIVE DC power supplies.
Other types of supplies can and will damage your
pedal.
-We recommend 9V DC supplies, but you can also
run at 18V DC. DO NOT run your pedal any higher
than 24V DC or damage can occur.
-DOT NOT adjust any of the internal trimpots. We
very carefully adjust them on the bench for ideal
circuit and sonic function.
warning:
All electrofoods, ultd. pedals come with the
following features:
-True-bypass switching
-Ultra low noise metal film resistors
-Conductive plastic-element pots for low noise and
long life
-Sealed trimpots for long life and absolute minimum
bias drift
-Oversized, high-quality Panasonic electrolytic
supply caps
-High-quality WIMA film caps
-Low noise star-ground wiring on the input jack
-Custom-designed, gold contact PCB
-Hand-built, hand-wired, hand-biased quality
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blend pre amp
level Hi-Cut harm
alt
q2c
off
ge
Boost
bright
on/off
mode on/off
brutality