Astronaut V1
This pedal has been discontinued in 2020
The Sunless Effects Astronaut was designed around the Electro Harmonix op amp Big Muff.
It covers a wide range of tones, for example, on low gain, it is very bright and dynamic pedal, play softly to get a slight crunch or play hard to get more saturation, while on high gain, it is thick and compressed without being muddy.
The Astronaut features a blend control, good for bass guitar to recover some of the low end, but it is also useful for guitar, as it can help you recover some attack on high gain settings without sounding unnatural.
You have complete control over the blend, some effects without a blend control can have that "doubling effect" that sounds very unpleasing, having that blend knob will allow you to not worry about that.
The clean signal is trully unaffected and is in parallel of the entire fuzz circuit, the volume knob is a part of the Fuzz signal and wont affect the clean.
The controls:
Tone - The classic big muff tone control, boost lows on the left, boost highs on the right.
Gain - Controls the amount of gain.
Volume - Controls the output volume.
Blend - Clean blend, far left is your clean signal, far right is your distorted signal.
Switch - Bypass the tone section.
The Astronaut is hand wired and build with carefully selected components.
True Bypass.
9v only.
All Sunless Effects pedals feature top mounted jacks and operate on 9v DC power adapter only (standard 2.1mm negative center).
Sunless Effects pedals don’t have an internal battery clip.
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