EarthQuaker Devices Acapulco Gold Operation Manual

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Hey there, treasure hunters! Welcome to your new Acapulco Gold
Amp Distortion! The Acapulco Gold is a dirt-simple distortion Device modeled
after the sound of a cranked vintage Model T amplifier, bringing the openness,
clarity, and crunch that only a dimed tube amp can provide, at a fraction of the
size, and without expensive maintenance costs!
Since tone is in the hands, we decided to keep the controls of the Acapulco
Gold as simple as possible. The footswitch turns the pedal on and off, and the
giant knob controls the output volume. That's it. The rest is at your fingertips.
Want less gain? Turn down your guitar's volume knob. Need a darker rhythm
tone? Roll back your guitar's tone control. Easy, right?
With your guitar's volume all the way up, the Acapulco Gold roars like a
wide-open Model T on the verge of explosion. At just-barely-backed-off, the
Gold becomes a raunchy overdrive. At minimum guitar volume settings, the
Acapulco Gold delivers a hazy, Nashville-sounding spank to your tone.
How about this? If your guitar has separate volume and tone controls for each
pickup and a three-way selector switch, this little one-knob banger becomes a
three-channel tone monster at the flick of your wrist!
Each Acapulco Gold is made part-by-part, wire-by-wire, giant knob-by-giant
knob with real, live humanimal hands in our gilded manufactory located in gray
olde Akron, Ohio USA.
Controls
Big Knob: The big knob sets the output level, sometimes known as Volume.
PLEASE BE CAREFUL, the Acapulco Gold is extremely loud!
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® Power Power
This device takes a standard 9 volt DC power supply with a 2.1mm negative
center barrel. We always recommend pedal-specific, transformer-isolated
wall-wart power supplies or multiple isolated-output supplies. Pedals will make
extra noise if there is ripple or unclean power. Switching-type power supplies,
daisy chains and non-pedal specific power supplies do not filter dirty power as
well and let through unwanted noise. DO NOT RUN AT HIGHER VOLTAGES!
Current Draw: 18 mA
Input Impedance: 50 kΩ
Output Impedance: <10 kΩ
Switching
This device is true bypass and uses electronic relay-based switching. Audio
will not pass without power.
Warranty
This device has a limited lifetime warranty. If it breaks, we will fix it. Should you
encounter any issues, please visit www.earthquakerdevices.com/warranty.
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