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USER'S GUIDE
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the Dirty Little Secret MkII! If you're reading this, you obviously wanna bring the rawk! We're
here to help you on your quest!
The Dirty Little Secret MkII (DLS MkII) was designed to be the secret weapon in your tone arsenal. Want
to get cranked amp tones at bedroom rocker levels? Playing gigs but have to use whatever amp is
provided as the backline? Like your clean amp sound but don't care for its overdrive channel? Enter the
Dirty Little Secret!
The DLS MkII is an overdrive pedal designed to bring you the sound and response of a '70s-era Marshall
ampli er. It, like other pedals in our "amp drive" range of pedals, is designed to be a "foundation" over-
drive pedal - it is your "always on" pedal that forms the core of your guitar sound which you can enhance
and embellish by adding boosters, fuzzes, lters, and other overdrives in front of it - just like you would in
front of a real amp.
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- Page 1 USER’S GUIDE INTRODUCTION Welcome to the Dirty Little Secret MkII! If you're reading this, you obviously wanna bring the rawk! We're here to help you on your quest! The Dirty Little Secret MkII (DLS MkII) was designed to be the secret weapon in your tone arsenal. Want to get cranked amp tones at bedroom rocker levels? Playing gigs but have to use whatever amp is provided as the backline? Like your clean amp sound but don't care for its overdrive channel? Enter the Dirty Little Secret!
- Page 2 QUICK START GUIDE Plug it in, turn the knobs till it sounds killer, and rock out! That might be all you need to know, but let's go ahead and check it out a bit further..First, set your amp to a clean setting that sounds good. If you're playing into a Fender style amp, try setting the Vol somewhere between 2-4, Treble - 6, Bass - 3, and Middle (if you have it) to 6.
- Page 3 A Rangemaster "treble-booster" style pedal is great in front of the DLS MkII. It tightens up the sound and makes it explode with rich harmonics! (spam alert: Check out the Catalinbread Naga Viper booster which was made to go with all our amp drives!) Fuzzes and TS-style overdrives sound great in front of the DLS MkII too! Basi- cally, most dirt pedals will be the best plugged in front of the DLS MkII.
- Page 4 AMPLIFIERS Generally speaking, the DLS MkII works best into a tube guitar amp set relatively clean and neutral. However, it can work great to further overdrive an amp that is already overdriven as well, although this was not its design intention.
- Page 5 A lot of time was spent tuning the circuit to stack well with other pedals, especially other gain pedals pushing the DLS MkII. I hope your Dirty Little Secret MkII brings you many years of rock and roll glory! - Howard Gee, Catalinbread...
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