Since the invention of the fuzz effect in the early 60s, guitarists have gone to great lengths to achieve the perfect fuzz sound. Legends say that Duane Allman placed his fuzz pedal in the freezer between sessions to cool the transistors, and that Roger Mayer meticulously modified Hendrix’s Fuzz Faces to the point of making them unrecognizable, in search of a magical and elusive fuzz experience. Fortunately, aside from these mythological methods, there is one trick that always works: using a dying battery. Intrinsically simple devices like fuzz circuits are extremely sensitive to the amount of voltage they receive, so any change in your power supply voltage will result in radically different sounds. Guitarists eventually figured out this trick and started draining their batteries to try to find the sweet spot for their fuzz pedal. A good idea in theory, but who has time for that? A few years ago, an anonymous guitarist asked me for a practical solution for this technique – and the Volture was born. The Volture is a modern device for your vintage fuzz circuit. Simply place it between your power supply and your pedal, and you can precisely adjust the input voltage and perfectly reproduce the sound of a dying battery. As the saying goes, “Power is made by the power that is taken.” Although we developed it specifically for vintage fuzz circuits, the Volture will work on any fully analog pedal. In fact, you might be surprised by the trippy sounds hiding in your favorite overdrive or distortion. With the Volture, you can input 9, 12, or 18VDC and output an adjustable voltage from 7.5VDC down to 1.25VDC, creating gated, distorted, possibly glitchy but always sputtery fuzz sounds. The input voltage ranges from 9VDC to 18VDC, center negative. The output voltage ranges from 1.25 to 7.5 VDC, center negative. The Volture uses an additional 10mA from the power supply when active. The Volture should be used with pedals drawing less than 50mA. NOTE: When you lower the voltage, the LED dims along with the voltage level. When you go below 2V, the LED turns off. This lets you know that your pedal probably doesn’t have enough juice to operate.
Brand reference number:JHSVOL
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