Horrothia TEETH Instructions

Thankyou for purchasing a Horrothia pedal! Many many hours went into its development, and many sleepless nights went by obsessing
over tiny details. Long may you enjoy it!
The Horrothia Teeth is a low gain overdrive pedal. It has an entirely discrete, transistor based signal path - there are no IC operational
amplifiers. Instead, it has two op-amps made from carefully chosen transistors, much like in high-end esoteric pro audio or hi-fi. The
benefits of this are greater signal clarity and better phase coherence. The overdrive breakup of the pedal is more graceful, and softer.
Much less high-mid frequency harshness. Inside it has a voltage doubler, so internally it works from around 16.5V for greater headroom
before breakup.
The Teeth has power supply filtering, but we would always suggest using a high quality linear power supply. Cheap, low quality power
supplies can introduce buzz, noise and potential intermittency to the signal.
Instrument and Amplifier jacks
Input and output jacks are high quality ¼" / 6.35mm. Plug your guitar / synth / theremin in here, and the rest of pedal chain / amplifier here.
Engage LED.
When the LED is on, the pedal is engaged, and the effect is on. When the LED is off, the effect is bypassed.
Footswitch.
The footswitch toggles the effect on and off. When the effect is off, it is bypassed with a relay, so entirely out of the signal path.
TEETH
instructions
Saturation control.
The saturation control has two functions, it is a dry / wet balance and also a
gain control. At full anti-clockwise, the balance is nearly fully clean, and what
overdrive is present is at its lowest gain. Full clockwise, the opposite; almost
entirely overdriven, and at maximum gain.
Gain Stage control.
This sets the maximum amount of gain that the Saturation control works
within.
Clipping control.
Controls how hard the clipping on the overdrive path is. Towards HARD the
wave is clipped in a squarer, more abrupt way for a more distorted sound.
Towards SOFT the top of the waveform is squashed and limited - more like a
compressor.
Breath switch.
This is a high-mid frequency boost around 1.2 - 1.5kHz, to bring some 'air' or
'breath' to the signal. Works brilliantly in out of phase settings to cut through
the band mix.
Volume control.
Output level. Beware, at full it is very loud.
DC input.
The Teeth is powered by 9V DC. The socket is a 2.1mm jack, centre negative,
compatible with most guitar effects power supplies. Do not connect a
supply greater than 10V to the pedal as it could potentially damage the unit.
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