EarthQuaker Devices Levitation Manual

Have you ever wanted your tone to soar like a majestic eagle in a vast canyon? Perhaps you are a
simpler mortal and just want your tone to echo like the cries of a sparrow in a small room... Now
you can do both like a champ plus a whole lot more! Welcome to your new Levitation reverberation
™
machine! This Levitation device is a vintage voiced reverb that aims to fit somewhere between dirty
sixties chambers, classic spring and the big, ringing plate reverbs of days gone by. Four knobs and
one switch control quite a bit more than you'd expect. Want a slap back small room sound? Set all
of your controls to the minimum and use the mix to dial in the sound of room devoid of any thing
but a guitar and amp. Want to revel in infinite spatial oscillations? Flip the toggle to long, turn up the
atmosphere and decay then tune out. Dial in a bright chiming slap back by turning the tone all the way
counter clockwise and reducing the decay. Dime everything for a rattling, full-bandwidth assault.
You are only limited by your imagination, bro! Each of these little Levitation machines are made one
at a time, part by part, wire by wire in the hamburger capital of the world, Akron, Ohio.
Controls
Length (Toggle)- Broad stroke control for decay time. Shorter to left, longer to the right.
Decay- Controls the length of the reverb decay. Longer clockwise, shorter counter clockwise.
Atmosphere- This is a harmonic regeneration control, it feeds the upper frequencies of the
reverb trails back through to create a more harmonic (ringing) reverb. More atmosphere clockwise,
less counter clockwise.
Mix- This controls how much wet signal is blended in with the dry. More reverb clockwise, less
counter clockwise.
Tone- This is an input bandwidth control for the reverberated signal. All the way clockwise reduces
all low end content to make a brighter reverb, turning counter-clockwise allows more low end to
pass through resulting in a fuller reverberated tone.
Power
Our pedals take 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
80mA
Switching
This device is true bypass and uses electronic relay based switching. Audio will not pass
without power.
Suggested Placement
After all dirt and modulation, before signal boosters and into a clean amp. But, hey, these are only
suggestions, ya know? It's yours now so do as you wish.
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