PIOD Effects What You Want 2

This is the newest “What You Want” revision with more features and some great improvements!

What You Want 2 is a clear and natural distortion/preamp pedal. This is a mid to high gain pedal, powerful and natural like a tube amp. It is very touch-sensitive and focused at high-gain levels. The pedal was designed for rock, metal, fast riffs and chords. Unique analog circuit design, based on emulation of tube amplifiers gives structure to the tube distortion. You can use the pedal in any channel of an amplifier: in clean or overdriven. The What You Want 2 distortion pedal has a fairly good amount of it's own gain to say the least.

Most people like melodic rock or heavy-metal bands, guitar players can play fast or slowly, in a standard guitar tune structure or a dropped one, but the absolute favourite of modern metal styles, by our opinion are the chords and different harmonies. It has become the second most important condition – readability. Using What You Want, you can play chords at the high gain and your notes will be quite readable for one’s hearing. All versions have slight grains in the nature of distortion, because they contain several stages of limitations. Each stage operates as a small crusher, it provides a very soft and delicate, touch-sensitive sound with good attack. You may find best settings of gain control between dynamic and aggression. You do not have to “hack strings” with great effort, that would make the guitar sound more vicious. Little touches will give a lot of aggression. Your amplifier will reproduce every rustle and flaw when you play. What You Want is a very delicate and precise tool.

This pedal has an unusual approach to adjusting the output level, because boost is applied instead of the common voltage divider. You will be able to experience it if you are using a tube amp. Load the booster pedal as much as you need without the loss of any frequency. Works fine even with transistor amplifiers, which makes it even more versatile. What You Want can bring the devil out of your old small amp.

This version has a true relay bypass system. This is a true bypass pedal. Soft & Silent Relay Bypass Soft touch button gives perfect feeling of softness when you press, and it's have a much longer life than the mechanical 3PDT switches used in most true bypass pedals. The system provides a silent switching without of popping from clean sound to drive and backward. The pedal stays in bypass mode even without power.

FREQ 500/700 Hz mid frequency centre & PRE EQ switches

500 Hz mid notch shift gives a more open sound while the 700 Hz setting is more deep and darkens the tone of the mids. You can choose your MID's, However you please.

PRE EQ sets the amount of low frequency before gain stages.

Simulated Speaker Output

A built-in module provides simulation of the punchy Vintage 30, 12" frequency response speakers. You can play in amp and send signal direct to mixer, if situation is need. This is a good solution for home practice or recording into a your computer soundcard as shown in the Video below:

Features:

• Mid to High gain.
• Natural tube amp sounding. No diode clipping stages.
• Focused & touch-sensitive, readable chords without dust on tops.
• Simulated Output.
• 500 and 700 Hz mid frequency centre.
• Low level of audio noise. Noise friendly with DC adapters (but recomended to use the regulatetd).
• No battery supply. Reverse polarity protection.

Technical characteristics:

• Dimensions (with knobs): 5.5 x 11.8 x 9.4 cm
• Weight (packaged): 410 g
• Power supply: 9-15 V
• Current consumption: Less than 40 mA
• Power supply connection: Yes. Standard negative polarity, with the 2.1 mm “barrel plug” and negative center pin (standard for most pedals like Boss).
• Controls: Gain, Low, Mid, High, Level, Pre EQ (TINY/LOW)-switch, FREQ (500/700)-switch.
• Bypass: True bypass. Soft Silent Relay Bypass Switch System.
• Enclosure: Metal with anodized aluminum plate.
• Battery power: No. (DC adapter not included.)
• Input impedance: ≈ 1M ohm
• Output Impedance: ≈ 1k ohm