This Pedal is discontinued.
Wavehsaper / Ringmod
The Metasonix TM-1's circuit is directly derived from the award-winning Metasonix TS-21 "Hellfire Modulator".
The pentode preamp stage provides traditional tube distortion, from soft and creamy to screaming fuzz.
The "pulser" circuit injects small, badly-formed pulses on top of the signal, giving an effect roughly similar to very erratic (and violently unstable) VCO sync, that is easily tweaked over a broad range with the PULSER STABILITY knob. The pulser circuit works best with sharp-edged electronic waveforms, especially those from digital synths, or analog VCOs such as the Metasonix TM-3 pedal.
A special beam-deflection vacuum tube gives both wavefolding and ring modulation (carrier is provided by an internal wide-range oscillator, or by injecting an external carrier signal, such as from the TM-3). There is nothing quite like the cross-modulation produced by the beam tube, its nonlinearities and resulting tonal effects are distinctive.
TM-1's pulser effect uses a positive feedback loop, so the circuit is not stable under all settings. This allows its use as a self-contained pseudorandom signal generator, by patching its output back to its input.
As with other Metasonix TM series pedals, settings can be controlled manually or via control voltage inputs.
This is the 1st generation version, which uses a simple switch for the Activate Ringmod setting.
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