Mostly Elevators (auction) 2

Description

Mostly Elevators* is a tremolo pedal with some special features:

Spectral Tilt allows the tremolo to be tilted towards high frequencies, leaving lower frequencies untouched, or vice versa. At center position, all frequencies tremble.

The Rate or Depth can be modulated either by your dynamics (Env) or by the Pitch of the notes you play. The toggle switches at the top select the modulation source and destination, and the Mod knob controls the strength of modulation, which can be positive (right of center) or negative (left of center).

For example, select Env->Depth and turn Mod to right of center; softly plucked notes will appear unaffected, but dig in to the strings to bring the tremolo in more strongly.

Or, select Pitch->Rate and turn mod left of center; low notes will pulse quickly and high notes slowly.

The LFO waveform is a lovely, perfect sine wave, but as Depth is increased it becomes harder, choppy and percussive. The blue LED pulses green to show the LFO’s rate.

This particular Mostly Elevators, serial number 2, is engraved, with hand-painted black lettering on raw, steel-wooled aluminum.

Background

This pedal was originally designed way back in 2013, in collaboration with engineer Don Stavely. Actually, Don deserves 95% of the credit for the design. Due to having too many projects going on at once, for some reason this one got put on hold indefinitely. Oftentimes with a design, you wonder if you should add a particular feature, or subtract one to make it possible to do this other thing, and you just get stuck trying to decide.

Now, 10 years later, I think it’s just too cool never to see release. So I did some finalizing to bring it to life and engraved a few enclosures. I will only be making a tiny number of these, one every once in a while in between fulfilling existing pre-orders for other pedals. Expect these to be rarities!

*It’s an anagram.