Tefi Vintage Lab THE LEADER User manual

Te Vintage Lab is pleased to welcome you to our family. We hope you
enjoy using our new LeadEr lead distortion. Feel free to get in touch
for any suggestions or clarications as to how you might best use the
effect. Play music and enjoy using our products!
The LeadEr - Lead distortion
Sustain, a good pinch of musicality, and the right dose of nastiness
are the best recipe for an incisive distortion. The leader of the vintage
motorcycle club, Ignazio “The Leader”, has skillfully blended these
ingredients to obtain a Lead Distortion able to deliver your musical
message to your audience, highly dened without annoying gritti-
ness. Designed specially to make an electric guitar scream, both with
Single Coils or Humbucker pickups, when it arrives on the scene it be-
comes the star of the song. Based on original TEFI Vintage Lab circuit,
The Leader focuses on medium range frequencies that can be tailored
according to your own personal taste using the “Body” and “Presen-
ce” controls. The “Sustain” control adjusts the length of the note de-
pending on the requirements of the Solo or Rhythmic pattern.
With its 75dB maximum gain, the Leader is designed to create electric
guitar lead solos that will not be covered by the other instruments in
the band. The ideal position in the effects chain is immediately after
other overdrive pedals and before a delay, in order to have a complete
distortion package at your feet.
THE LEADER Operating Manualwww.tevintagelab.it
Dimensions
Max gain
Signal switching
Power connection/ground
Battery type
Output impedance
Power supply/
Power consumption.
9Vdc/135mW
(I-max: 15mA @9Vcc)
Chassis
Weight
Input impedance
127x95x52 mm
+75dB
True bypass
Negative tip/negative ground
+9V (6LF22)
470 Ohm
Die-cast aluminum
350gr (w/o battery)
700 kOhm
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

CONNECTION AND USE
• Connectingtoinstrumentandamplier/gear: connect your instrument
(or gear effects chain) to the Input jack on the pedal’s right side with a 6.3mm
Jack instrument cable. Connect the output jack on the pedal’s left side to an
amplier (or to the next effects in your chain) with a 6.3mm Jack instrument
cable.
• Battery: to access the battery compartment, remove the four screws on
the bottom cover. Connect the 9V battery (6LF22 type) to the battery hol-
der. Do not reverse the polarity! Insert the battery into the battery holder
located in the center of the enclosure. Be careful not to damage the wires
and/or the battery clips. To preserve battery life disconnect the instrument
cable from the pedal Input jack when the pedal is not in use.
• Powersupply: connect a 9V stabilized external power supply adapter to
the pedal’s power connector located on the right side (5.5mm connector
with 2.1mm pole type). Do not reverse polarity! (external positive, inter-
nal negative). In the presence of reversed polarity the pedal will not power
up; no damage will be caused below 25V reversed polarity.
CONTROLS AND FUNCTIONS
VOLUME: this knob sets the output level, that can considerably override the
Bypass signal level to get an adeguate Solo boost, regardless of the type of
guitar being used.
SUSTAIN: the maximum gain available is about +75dB. Setting the knob at
minimum provides a remarkable crunch for rhythmic parts, melodic phrases
or light Solos. Turning CW increases gain and sustain without affecting the
sound performance.
The following knobs are useful to set the LeadEr tonal balance in combination
with your guitar amplier to achieve your desired response. They are desig-
ned to obtain maximum versatility and musicality, whether using Single Coils
or Humbuckers.
PRESENCE: enhances the mid-high portion of the frequency spectrum, ad-
ding presence by emphasizing the harmonic content of the instrument. This
knob is not equivalent to a “treble” command; it emphasizes the high frequen-
cy band of your instrument without any cuts.
BODY: enhances a dened mid-low frequency, to get fatter sounds, full of bass
and mid-bass tones.
TEFI Vintage Lab invites you to activate the warranty within 10 days of the purchase of the product. It is necessary to connect to our website www.tevintagelab.it and, on the page describing your product, ll in the required form in the “register product” section.
TEFI Vintage Lab products are covered by a 5-year warranty. If the user nds an anomaly due to component defects and erroneous assembly, please contact us by sending an e-mail to info@tevintagelab.it, describing the problem encountered in detail and the
circumstances in which it was veried.
In compliance with the regulations dened in the following clauses, TEFI Vintage Lab undertakes to repair the instrument with no additional costs.
Warrantly is valid for 5 years. Does not include parts subject to wear such as jacks, switches, potentiometers, dip-switches, 9V battery clip or 9V battery holder, nor does it include aesthetic parts such as knobs.1.
Warrantly does not extend to damage caused by inexperience or negligence in the use of the effects pedal, or bad/neglected maintenance.2.
TEFI Vintage Lab undertakes to replace at its own discretion the malfunctioning or incorrect manufacturing parts, only after a careful check and verication of bad construction.3.
In the presence of incorrect use of the warranty, shipping costs will be charged to the user.4.
During the warranty period, the replaced parts/products become the property of the manufacturer.5.
This warranty is only valid for the original purchaser who has followed the normal maintenance instructions described in this manual. Our warranty liability expires at the moment the original owner surrenders ownership of the product, or modications are 6.
made to it.
Warranty does not include damage caused by excessive stress, such as the use of the product after the detection of an anomaly, the use of inappropriate methods of operation, as well as the failure to observe use and maintenance instructions. 7.
The manufacturer assumes no responsibility for any difculties that may arise in resale or use abroad due to the provisions in force in the country where the product was sold.8.
The product part of the defective unit must be delivered to TEFI Vintage Lab for replacement, otherwise the replaced part will be charged to the buyer.9.
Any product repair or modication by the user or by companies not authorized by TEFI Vintage Lab will invalidate the warranty10.
EU DIRECTIVE AND DISPOSAL
TEFI Vintage Lab products are designed to comply with the standards laid down by EU directives regarding safety and the environment. Pursuant to Legislative Decree No. 49 of March 14, 2004 “Implementation of Directive 2012/19/EU on
waste electrical and electronic equipment (RAEE)”.
The crossed-bin symbol indicates that the product, at the end of its useful life, must be separately collected from other waste.
The user must therefore confer the equipment with the essential components at the end of their life to the appropriate collection centers for electrical and electronic waste.