EarthQuaker Devices Afterneath V3 Reverb Pedal

Most pedal companies release updates to a popular pedal of theirs, and usually, those updates are just a color or size change. But for Earthquaker Devices and their most popular reverb pedal, The Afterneath, they practically re-invented their own device. The Afterneath sounds a lot like it looks, a wizard bursting forth from an ethereal cave and ready for the ambient battle. You're the wizard or sorceress, and the cave is your instrument’s signal, vast, expansive, and magical. 

Modes Control

• Changes The Way The Drag Control Functions
• Unquantized: Smooth, unquantized response over the operating range 
• Unquantized with Slew: Smooth, unquantized response over the entire operating range, but with a musical slew that is reminiscent of turning the varispeed knob on a vintage British tape delay. The “Drag” will lag behind the knob or cv changes, but then quickly catch up.
• Unquantized Volt/Octave: Smooth and unquantized, yet scaled to align with the 1v/octave curve to allow melodic modulation of audio in the buffer or control the frequency of self-oscillation like a voltage controlled oscillator.

• Chromatic Scale: Quantized 1v/octave to the chromatic scale

• Minor Scale: Quantized 1v/octave to the minor scale

• Major Scale (Lydian): Quantized 1v/octave to the major scale (Lydian)

• Pentatonic Scale: Quantized 1v/octave to the pentatonic scale

• Octaves & Fifths: Quantized 1v/octave to omit all but octaves and fifths

• Octaves: Quantized 1v/octave to omit all but octaves 

Expression Jack

• This is an expression pedal control jack for the Drag. The Afterneath requires an expression pedal with a value of 50k. It is recommended to use the Moog EP-3 or similar.  While it will work with a standard 10k expression pedal, a 50k expression pedal will allow you to access the full range of each mode. Tip is the wiper, Ring is 5v and Sleeve is ground. You can also use CV with this jack. CV operates 0-5v.

Flexi-Switch Technology Switching Style That Allows You To Simultaneously Use Momentary And Latching Style Switching.

• For standard latching operation, tap the footswitch once to activate the effect and then tap again to bypass.
• For momentary operation, hold the footswitch down for as long as you’d like to use the effect. Once you release the switch, the effect will be bypassed.

Tails / No Tails Switching

• The Afterneath is factory set in “tails mode.” This means that the wet signal will naturally decay and slowly fade to silence after the effect is switched off.

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