Tremolo Yes, the Sonar is a “tremolo” pedal, but this one’s different. This unit has the ability to chop up any signal you send into or out of it. Unlike most other tremolos, it can cut downyour high gain signal to silence. It can also sound gorgeously transparent like a traditional tremolo. It does other fun stuff like increase or decrease tempo, duty cycle (amount oftime the trem is ON in a given cycle), or both simultaneously on the fly. It also has tap tempo and a slew of advanced features (attack, release, and depth controls). Lastly, andperhaps most importantly, it has a famed ZVEX “Machine” circuit built right into the box. 1.Volume: Park this all the way clockwise for slightly over unity gain. If you need more gain (on either “clean” or machine” modes), a trimmer is inside the pedal thatcan be pushed harder clockwise. This will break-up the “clean” signal though. 2. Speed: Manual control of tempo2a. Attack: Controls how quickly audio reaches peak volume of tremolo 3. Duty: Controls duration of peak audio, the “on” portion of tremolo3a. Release: Controls how quickly audio ramps down from peak 4. Delta: Controls the rate of change when unit is in “Arrow Up/Down Mode”4a. Depth: Controls minimum volume of quiet portion of tremolo1. Bypass: Effect On/Off 2. Tap Tempo: Calculates tempo by taking the last two user taps. Always overrides a manually set tempo. The pedal will allow tempos as slow as 4 seconds per cycle.2A. This switch also functions as a “shift key” to accessHidden Wave Shaping functions 3. Clean / Machine mini toggle switch: “Clean” is a relatively clean sound based on our Super Hard On boost. “Machine” is our gnarly cross-over distortion circuit. 4. Tap Tempo mini toggle switch - Allows user to set tempo to 2x or 4x original tap rate. 5. Arrow Up /Down - Controls the up or down direction of auto parameter change, also selects which parameters are being changed. Please refer to the back of this pagefor more detail on this function.
