The
flagship effect unit from
Totally Wycked Audio, the LD-01 Little Dipper is an envelope-controlled
vocal formant filter based on a classic 70’s circuit.
TWA has taken this
holy-grail effect and launched it into the future with improved
tracking, fuller frequency response, lower noise floor, and the hippest
packaging EVER…..
The Little
Dipper’s dual filters will bend and morph your guitar tone
into a blabbering, gurgling fury, creating peaks and notches that
simulate the vowel sounds of human speech! Emulate talkboxes, filters,
phasers, and get the most vocal wah-sounds this side of the Milky Way,
all from one amazingly sexy, totally wycked stompbox!
100 percent made in the
U.S.A., the Little Dipper is built from the highest
quality components
available to handle light-years of live abuse.
CONTROL
DESCRIPTIONS
ASCENSION
- Similar to the Threshold control of a standard
envelope filter,
Ascension controls the depth of sweep for the Little Dipper’s
filters. Sweet spots that create vowel and diphthong sounds sit around
7 o’clock, 12 o’clock, and 4 o’clock, but
are also dependant on the position of the Inclination control (below).
INCLINATION
- This control determines the
trigger timing of the two filters in relation to one another. Different
settings will produce different vowel and diphthong sounds, but are
also dependant on the position of the Ascension control (above).
DIFFRATION
- Diffraction is basically a
fuzz effect. With Diffraction at zero setting, the Little Dipper
produces “clean” filtering effects. As Diffraction
is increased, it adds a fuzz effect that accentuates specific
frequencies in the filter sweeps, yielding more dramatic effects.
(Internal
control) BLEND
- Blends in clean instrument
signal against the effected signal. With Blend at zero setting, the
Little Dipper passes effected signal only. With Blend at full setting,
the Little Dipper passes equal amounts of clean and effected signal
blended together.
(Internal
control) GATE
- Let’s face it; all
this filtering and fuzzing can sometimes get a little noisy. The Gate
trimmer acts as a threshold control for an internal noise suppressor
circuit that will gate noise in between notes. At zero setting there is
no gating, and the gating becomes tighter as the control is turned
clockwise.