Electrofoods RAD SICKNESS Use and maintenance manual

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Fat Bass Grit
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Sparkle & Twang
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The Rad Sickness is an incredible utility pedal. The piles
of volume and treble, as well as the EQ, make it a
handy solo boost. It will make everything after it in
line sound better: shape the EQ of your signal
heading into a one-knob fuzz, perk up a dark over-
drive, breathe new life into your favorite dirtbox, or
add some dirt and spice to time/modulation effects
without overwhelming them. The Rad is an easy-to-
dial-in bass dirt machine that will give you that hint
of grind you're missing with your solid state bass
amp. Hell—crank the gain, boost the bass/mids
and turn up the treble and it’s a solid little overdrive
on its own. There is no limit to the fun things you
can do with the Rad Sickness.
Below you’ll find a few of our favorite settings to get
you started.
This sucker is nuclear
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!

9V DC Recommended
24V DC Max
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Output volume control. Warning! This is one of the
loudest pedals we make. It was intentionally built
to push amps harder than they’re used to being
pushed. With the
gain cranked, the final voltage
amplifier stage will be banging off the rails, and that
full huge signal is sent straight to the vol control. If
you run your rad off higher voltage power supplies,
you’ll get even bigger signals out. Crank this knob
at your own risk!
VOL
2-position toggle that controls the midrange
response from this pedal.
Flat closely matches the
incoming midrange content to the pedal, while boost
adds roughly 6db of extra gain in your midrange,
which is perfect for a nice bit of presence and
articulation, and can dirty up the pedal up nicely.
boost will let the Rad slice through a dense mix, or
allow you to counter-act some mid scoop from a
pedal later in the chain.
mid
make the Rad itself run dirtier, all while increasing
attack and clarity on anything that comes after.
Controls the gain on your treble frequencies. This
circuit was originally designed for someone that
asked for a Rangemaster, so there's a ton of treble
here. Flat response is at about 9-o'clock, so you
can go counterclockwise from there to cut treble, or
crank it clockwise to increase. This is an active
control so not only will it add volume to your treble
frequencies, but will (depending on your gain setting)
Treb
3-position toggle switch for setting low frequency
content.
Cut mode rolls off some lows before the
Ge voltage amplifier stages to keep things nice and
focused, but switching to flat mode passes every-
thing but the kitchen sink. Boost mode adds an
additional 6db of lows to bring the thunder and
squeeze out even more Silicon nastiness.
bass
Increases the full-spectrum gain for this pedal. With
the Rad S
ickness, we actually recommend that you
start with the gain at full and dial back to find the
level you'd like. The gain curve on this pedal starts
very clean and hifi, but eventually tips over into
silicon overdrive.
Gain
-Use only CENTER NEGATIVE DC power supplies,
designed for use with pedals. Other types of
supplies can and will damage your pedal.
-We recommend 9V DC supplies, but you can also
run your
Rad up to 24V DC. DO NOT run your
pedal higher than 24V DC or damage can occur.
-DOT NOT adjust any internal trimpots. We set them
very carefully 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
-Sealed trimpots for long life & 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 PCB
-Hand-built, hand-wired, hand-biased quality
-Lifetime free repairs for any pedal. (This covers
normal-use type repairs, even if you're not the
original purchaser. It doesn't cover fixing a pedal
you tried to mod, threw overhand at your drummer,
or blew up with the wrong power supply.)
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