Gears is many things, an overdrive, sub octave generator, and resonant filter with expression pedal input. What it means for the player is a device that allows you to emulate many familiar synth sounds, as well as create brand new ones.

The overdrive is a fixed sound that can be mixed from silent to LOUD. This signal is fed into a clock divider, which puts out a Square wave (or two) we can mix into the output. This audio travels on to the aggressive filter section. There’s also a drive control allowing you to play nice with the filter, or just slam audio up against it. The filter also sneaks into self oscillation, for a little bit of extra noise, if you so desire.

The expression pedal input allows foot control over the „Freq“ knob, and is the most magic trick in this new box. Electronic „wubs“ familiar „wahs“ and plenty of other new sounds are effortlessly dialed in and modulated with your foot.

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Gears

The Wizard began as a simple idea: cut the Pitchgrinder down to a single pitch shifter, with a mix control.  What it became is something much more exciting, with brand new capabilities.

The pedal’s resolution has been cranked up to 32 bits from the ‘Grinder’s 8, but the same lo-fi glitchy sound.  There is a mix control. Then we have the “speed” control.  When set to zero, the Wizard behaves like a standard pitch shifter, but as you turn up the speed your output will cross fade between the wet and dry signals, allowing for beautiful moving soundscapes, or stimulating modulation at higher rates.

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Wizard of Pitch

A combination Attack/Release envelope generator and resonant filter. The envelope is triggered by tapping the left footswitch, rather than depending on some "pick dynamic" detecting circuit which ALMOST NEVER WORKS. (and you can't put it in the middle of a note's decay, or modulate a drone with it)

Depressing the switch engages the attack stage of the envelope. Holding your foot as long as you like is the decay stage (That's like a bonus, it's not even in the name!) sustaining the envelope at whatever DEPTH you have dialed in on the knob of the same name. Releasing the switch will engage the Release stage of the envelope, and your filter will ramp back down to it's knob-set-position.

The filter section has a familiar array of controls. Cutoff, resonance, and drive. You can use the drive knob to boost a quiet signal, tame a loud one, and often add grit to your input.

The filter can also be coaxed into a very rude self oscillation. Of course.

Demo by  Stephen McLeod

The Minivan is a dark echo, built off a digital chip so old it sounds analog.  Yes pedal people, I’m talking about the pt2399. We have a couple tricks up our sleeves, though.  Most echo pedals built of the 2399 give you a pretty short range of delays, using the “best” range of the circuit.  But we’re Dwarfcraft.  Sure, you can have those traditional sounds, but then you also have another half-turn or so to go into super slow and mangled territory. And what’s a delay pedal that doesn’t run away into self oscillation? A delay pedal you don’t need.  Crank that feedback up and ride the waves, my friend.

The mix knob is a pretty standard affair, from 100% dry at 7 o’clock, and for echoes just a touch louder than the dry, twist it all the way up to 5 o’clock.

We also added an insert FX loop so you can make your own fun.

Review by Pedal of the Day

Demo by Pedals Fusion

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Minivan Echo

What seems like a long time ago, I tried to make a normal fuzz. That didn’t last long. While the She Fuzz does do a couple familiar sounds, a nice beefy powerchordy type of fighitn’ fuzz, and a snotty octave up, I found it much more exciting to get odd sounds out of it. Shiva squeels and motorboats and has some suboctave powers too! A lot of these sounds can be switched on via the starve switch on the right.

She Fuzz has become quite a hit with the kids, and who am I to argue? I guess I’ll keep making them. Oh, PS, the She Fuzz used to be called Shiva.

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