BRASS
The first of the GROUNDED sub-line.
Brass is a JFET style preamp with drive/octave fuzz blend controls.
Can it be used for guitar? Yes. This was mainly based around to be used for bass but if you like that larger headroom drive, this is great for guitar.
Look, clean blend is cool and useful with bass at times but personally and I think some could agree with me on this, that’s pretty boring. However, an always on dirty preamp with dirt/fuzz blend, I’m all about it. So yeah, the main idea for Brass was to have a dirty preamp that can get dirtier and massive on the preamp side with drive/octave fuzz to blend in with the mix.
Now, the drive/octave fuzz circuit, this was all taken from the Trigonaut (which is discontinued) and improved to have a more leveled drive and the glitchy octave fuzz (what Trigonaut was known for) now more controlled and stable. In other words, it’s glitch-hell free.
You may ask "Why does my BRASS look different from all the rest?". The answer is that each BRASS is it's own variant of acid etching.
Footswitches
Bypass
Turns the effect on and off. LED indicates whether Bypass is on or off
Toggles
G - Gain
Gain boost on preamp side
M - Mid/bass cut
When positioned to the left, a passive tone stack is placed which does limit a little output but gives you a more warm sound with your overall bass tone. When positioned to the right, all restraints are removed giving more output as you will notice a gain increase as well.
F - toggle switch between drive and octave fuzz that is brought into the mix by the blend control.
Knobs
V - Volume
Overall control of volume output
B - Blend
Blend control that blends in drive/octave fuzz (depending on toggle position) as you turn clockwise