The Tiger Max
Last ones left with no plans to build more!
What sets this pedal apart from others? It's all in the signal routing. Blending in your dry signal is all well and good, but what if you want to eq your dry bass tone separately from your distorted bass tone? Which let's be honest, gets heavily filtered anyway. This pedal gives you control over the low end power, high-mid attack, as well as the 250hz range which will allow you to find your "era" sweet spot (ie:Modern, Vintage).
The choices are endless with guitar based overdrives, but now bass players have a third option. I started with a completely blank slate and designed a truly original pedal that uses the same concepts found in modern metal mixing/audio engineering, rather than the same old boring "eq on the dirt, literally nothing on the dry. Deal with it." mentality.
-Richard
Volume: This is the most obvious. It makes the pedal louder. But what isn't obvious is that it has an immense amount of clean headroom that can boost a weaker signal without coloring or distorting it.
Low: This focuses around 80hz and gives you control over a lot of the fundamental tone coming from your bass.
Mid: This is where you dial in your warmth as well as the "era" you want your tone to sit in. Lower settings being more modern and higher settings being more vintage.
High: Here is where you adjust the amount of string and/or pick attack to make things pop.
Eq Tip: Turning one control DOWN can also give you the effect of the other controls seeming higher. lowering treble and mids will make the lows seem louder and vice versa. Not enough treble and the High control is up fairly high? Turn down the mids.
Mix: Fully counter clockwise will give you only the clean side of the circuit. Fully clockwise will give you only the drive side of the circuit. Find your sweet spot. Side Note- Try running heavily on the driven side of the Mix control, but with the Gain very low. This will let you blend the distortion filtering with the main Eq controls for added flexibility.
Gain: Controls how clipped/distorted the drive side is. While it may not seem like a huge amount of gain/distortion, this is purely because of how heavily the low end is filtered in this part of the pedal. Nobody likes a muddy bass tone. Side Note- the led found next to the gain control is giving you a visual indication as to when/how hard your signal is being clipped. The led will always be active when the pedal is as the signal is always going through both sides, regardless of the Mix control position.
Power: The Tiger Max features an onboard bi-polar power supply, so it requires 9volts ONLY!!! Higher voltage will only damage it.
Graphics by Richard of Airis Effects & Airis Audio Technologies
Volume/Gain/Mix/Low/Mid/High Controls
2 Year Warranty
True Bypass
Powered by 2.1mm negative tip 9Volt DC adapter (Sold Separately)
Current Draw 25-40mA
Hand Built in Canada
What sets this pedal apart from others? It's all in the signal routing. Blending in your dry signal is all well and good, but what if you want to eq your dry bass tone separately from your distorted bass tone? Which let's be honest, gets heavily filtered anyway. This pedal gives you control over the low end power, high-mid attack, as well as the 250hz range which will allow you to find your "era" sweet spot (ie:Modern, Vintage).
The choices are endless with guitar based overdrives, but now bass players have a third option. I started with a completely blank slate and designed a truly original pedal that uses the same concepts found in modern metal mixing/audio engineering, rather than the same old boring "eq on the dirt, literally nothing on the dry. Deal with it." mentality.
-Richard
Volume: This is the most obvious. It makes the pedal louder. But what isn't obvious is that it has an immense amount of clean headroom that can boost a weaker signal without coloring or distorting it.
Low: This focuses around 80hz and gives you control over a lot of the fundamental tone coming from your bass.
Mid: This is where you dial in your warmth as well as the "era" you want your tone to sit in. Lower settings being more modern and higher settings being more vintage.
High: Here is where you adjust the amount of string and/or pick attack to make things pop.
Eq Tip: Turning one control DOWN can also give you the effect of the other controls seeming higher. lowering treble and mids will make the lows seem louder and vice versa. Not enough treble and the High control is up fairly high? Turn down the mids.
Mix: Fully counter clockwise will give you only the clean side of the circuit. Fully clockwise will give you only the drive side of the circuit. Find your sweet spot. Side Note- Try running heavily on the driven side of the Mix control, but with the Gain very low. This will let you blend the distortion filtering with the main Eq controls for added flexibility.
Gain: Controls how clipped/distorted the drive side is. While it may not seem like a huge amount of gain/distortion, this is purely because of how heavily the low end is filtered in this part of the pedal. Nobody likes a muddy bass tone. Side Note- the led found next to the gain control is giving you a visual indication as to when/how hard your signal is being clipped. The led will always be active when the pedal is as the signal is always going through both sides, regardless of the Mix control position.
Power: The Tiger Max features an onboard bi-polar power supply, so it requires 9volts ONLY!!! Higher voltage will only damage it.
Graphics by Richard of Airis Effects & Airis Audio Technologies
Volume/Gain/Mix/Low/Mid/High Controls
2 Year Warranty
True Bypass
Powered by 2.1mm negative tip 9Volt DC adapter (Sold Separately)
Current Draw 25-40mA
Hand Built in Canada