Caroline Guitar Company Wave Cannon Zero

Superdistorter

This is "Wave Cannon Zero”. It is the final form of the pedal that launched our brand, a throwback to one of the first prototypes we ever made, and the result of decades of playing, studying, repairing, modifying, and then releasing our own versions and flavors of op-amp “drivestortions” and delivering for our customers like the rock stars they deserve to be.

On the drive side, if you just leave the voltage all the way up, ignore the havoc control, and just use the gain, shape, tone, and volume controls, you’ll be just fine. You’ll have a wide range of beautiful, crunchy, and rich overdrive & distortion sounds that stack well with other pedals and can push your

amp from mild crunch to saturated big-stack drive with heft, punch, and crunch. Just leave the voltage up and don’t mess around with that havoc switch.

(I guess you could say we’ve gotten to know you. And you’re not going to do that.)

Our updated Havoc™ control incorporates the positive feedback & oscillating mayhem you’ve come to expect from these pedals in ways we’ve never done before. While you can still run this pedal first in the chain for maximum interaction with your guitar, our new circuitry now makes this feature available later in your setup. Special switching by our longtime collaborator John Snyder at EAE allows the Havoc stomp to be momentary or latching, so you don’t *have* to hold it down while it’s going wild. And the combination of Havoc and our voltage starve control creates all kinds of new trouble, from just “extra dirty” to broken, weird, gated artifacts and envelope triggered collapses.

We didn’t make the rules, we only wrote a manual. Where you take it is up to you.

HAVOC can be momentary (holding the footswitch down) or latched (hit it and leave it on).

GAIN sets the drive level,

VOLTS can starve the circuit (like a dying battery)

 TONE is the highs in the circuit, SHAPE sets the gain level and emphasis. VOLUME is self explanatory.

ORDER toggle allows you to set the HAVOC for whether the pedal is first in your chain
or later in your signal path.

HAVOC works its own control and the others as well. Some settings go crazy, others not somuch. May your own experiments prove rewarding.