Benson Tall Bird Plus

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The Tall Bird Plus is our flagship all tube driven spring reverb and optical tremolo. It is a ground up original design with the goal of attaining the classic 60s sounds but with a dded functionality and improved noise characteristics.A few key improvements:Independent WET and DRY controls. The dry control can be used to overdrive an amp, or remove the dry signal completely! Straight up and down is typically unity volume. The SIZE control creates a high pass filter...turn it down for classic drip sounds, or up for cavernous hall stylereverb.A three-pole adjustable oscillator to drive the neon lamp for extremely slow or extremely fast tremolo settings Switchable optically driven standard OR harmonic tremolo...True bypass tremolo takes the optical circuitry completely out of the signal path to prevent the volume loss issues of the original circuitsTube driven output buffer for driving long cables.Dual LED footswitch and included TRS cable for turning the effects on/offA grounding schema lifted from the world of hi-fi stereos that prevents noisy ground loops while maintaining a direct wire ground connection to the chassis.The reverb bypass disconnects the send signal to the reverb tank, allowing for trails rather than a hard cutoff of the reverb tail.A couple interesting quirks:We've noticed, even though the Tall Bird Plus has a flat frequency response, it performs similarly to a high quality buffer and makes treble frequencies pop more than the user might be used to. We added a switch on the back that compensates for this...use the Hi-Fi setting for the technically unaffected tones, and Smooth for more of what you might be expecting...we prefer the Smooth setting most of the time but Hi-Fi has its place especially with pedal steel.When the harmonic tremolo is engaged, but tremolo depth is all the way down, you might hear some light bass throbbing...if this is bothersome, simply select the standard tremolo. Or just turn the tremolo completely off via the footswitch (recommended).TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS: Tubes: 3x12AX7, EL84Fuse: 1A Slo BloCONTROLS:Dry, Dwell, Wet, Size, Depth, Speed, Standard-Harmonic Tremolo switch Show more