Cusack Effects’ goal is to create the best sounding equipment possible. Its founder, an electrical engineer, began searching for that perfect, right tone, and he spent years working to find it. Today, that tone has been found, and Cusack Effects creates some of the top quality products in the industry.
For those who need more volume on their guitar, the More Louder pedal is perfect for you. It features buffered and true bypass and gain boost. The buffered bypass will highlight sounds that you may have never noticed before thanks to its impedance buffer.
The Screamer Fuzz V2 brings gives you everything that the original Cusack Screamer did but with the addition of a fuzz knob. When you completely turn down the fuzz, the pedal works just like a screamer, and when you turn down the screamer, you’ve got a great fuzz pedal. It’s an amazing two in one pedal that also gives you the option of mixing the two sounds. Of course, if you aren’t interested in fuzz, the Screamer V2 is still available and provides all the amazing tone and clean overdrive you could ever want.
The Cusack Tap-A-Phase is credited as being the world’s very first analog phase pedal that features built-in tap tempo. It has 24 feedback, color, waveforms, and depth controls that give you the ability to create almost any sound you want.
Finally, the Tap-A-Whirl V3 is a great analog tremolo pedal that, like the Tap-A-Phase, also features built-in tap tempo. In addition to this, it also comes with 24 waveforms, the brake function to slow down or speed up the tempo, and more.
The Cusack Scruzz is the mini me of Cusack Screamer Fuzz, but without the True Bypass Switch, battery, and in a smaller case. All the things we took out make it a better fit for pedal board builders! You may want to buy more than one to plug into your new Cusack Pedal Board Tamer.
This pedal includes all of the great tone of the Cusack Screamer(minus the actual "Tone" knob) and adds a very unique kind of Fuzz. With the fuzz all the way down, it's like a screamer with the tone at noon. With the screamer all the way down, it's a gnarly fuzz pedal. You can get a really cool combination of sounds by mixing various amounts of each.
Like the Cusack Screamer Fuzz it has the Clip Selector toggle switch, which allows you to select either the Standard, Crushed, or Asymmetrical LED clipping!
The Cusack Music Tap-A-Whirl V3 is the world's first analog tremolo pedal with Tap Tempo built in. Now with 24 waveforms, stereo out, and tap jack !
Tap your foot twice on the tempo switch to set the tempo.
Choose from 24 predefined wave forms, including: sine, ramp, blip, bleep, square, waver, echo and ping pong.
Adjust the depth of the tremolo.
Brake: Speed up or slow down the tempo by holding down the tempo switch.
External Tap: Use as a Tap In, or a Tap Out.
Stereo Output: Selectable by an internal jumper to change this pedal from a mono output to a stereo output.
Changes from previous versions:
Stereo output added.
External Tap In or Tap Out.
Bank switch moved to top.
Live/Preset switch moved from internal to top.
The Cusack Louder is like the Cusack More Louder, but without the True Bypass Switch, and the buffer toggle switch. All the things we took out make it a bettter fit for pedal board builders! Plug one into your new Cusack Pedal Board Tamer for a solo boost or driving another pedal harder.
The Cusack Louder is a small pedal that produces big sound. It's a clean boost pedal that's adjustable from 0dB to over 25dB of clean boost. This is not a treble boost, it won't affect your tone, you get pure guitar coming through.
Cusack Music Louder Boost Features:
Compact size: 2?W x 3-5/8?H x 1-7/8?D
Switchless, always on operation
0 to 25db volume output
Clear, transparent boost
The Cusack Screamer is the first real inovation in the "screamer" market. Yes it's a Tube Screamer copy, but it's much more than that.
The Cusack Screamer is a "clean" overdrive with about twice the gain of a typical tube screamer. It offers much more clarity than a typical overdrive. You can actually hear the individual notes of complex chords that would normally be buried.
"Hey, what's that toggle for?"
Well, that's the Clip Selector, which allows you to select either the Standard, Crushed, or Assymetrical LED clipping! "Why is there an LED above the NEW Clip Selector?"
That's the all new LED Clip-O-Meter! That's right boys and girls, you can now SEE your guitar clipping! What's more, if you drive it hard with another pedal, you can use it as a "strobe tuner". Just hit your 5th fret, and the next open, just as you would tune by ear. When the Clip-O-Meter stops blinking, you are in tune!
The Cusack More Louder is a small pedal that produces big sound. It's a clean boost pedal that's adjustable from 0dB to over 25dB of clean boost. This is not a treble boost, it won't affect your tone, you get pure guitar coming through.
The toggle switch lets you select between either Buffered or True Bypass while it's in the bypass mode. When the Cusack More Louder is off and in Buffered Bypass mode, your amp will sound crisp and clear like you have never heard it before. If you have been experiencing issues with degrading tone caused by long cable runs or too many pedals stacked together on your pedal board, this could be the answer you are looking for.
The Cusack Scream is much like the innovative Cusack Screamer, but without the True Bypass Switch, battery, and in a smaller case. All the things we took out make it a bettter fit for pedal board builders! You may want to buy more than one to plug into your new Cusack Pedal Board Tamer.
The Cusack Scream is a "clean" overdrive with about twice the gain of a typical tube screamer. It offers much more clarity than a typical overdrive. You can actually hear the individual notes of complex chords that would normally be buried.
Like the Cusack Screamer V2 it has the Clip Selector, which allows you to select either the Standard, Crushed, or Assymetrical LED clipping!
Cusack Music Scream Overdrive Features:
Microscopic size: 2?W x 3-5/8?H x 1-7/8?D
Switchless, always on operation
Clean and clear overdrive
Three, switchable clipping options
The Cusack Effects Tap-A-Phase is the world's first analog phase pedal with Tap Tempo built in. 24 Waveforms, Depth, Color, and Feedback controls allow you to mimic almost any phasing sound.
The Tweaker Option, now included with all pedals, adds two switches to the pedal, making it more versatile and easily customizable to suit your tastes. One switch allows: selection of feedback, no feedback or vibrato modes. The other switch selects between 3 banks of waveforms.
The Fade-in, Brake Speed, Tap Divide and Tempo are all programmable for each waveform independently. Once you have the settings for a given waveform simply push BOTH footswitches as the same time to save those settings.
An external RCA jack on the back of the pedal can be used as either a Tap IN, or OUT. Connect a cable from the RCA jack to another pedal's Tap input to use the internal switch on the Tap-A-Phase to tap both at the same time. You could also set the tempo remotely by plugging the PBT Tap Out or Remote Tap Switch into this RCA jack.
Size: 4-3/4?W x 4-1/8?H x 2?D
This pedal includes all of the great tone of the Cusack Screamer (minus the actual "Tone" knob) and adds a very unique kind of Fuzz. With the fuzz all the way down, it's like a screamer with the tone at noon. With the screamer all the way down, it's a gnarly fuzz pedal. You can get a really cool combination of sounds by mixing various amounts of each. "Hey, what's that toggle for?"
Well, that's the Clip Selector, which allows you to select either the Standard, Crushed, or Asymmetrical LED clipping on the "Scream" half of the pedal!
"Why is there an LED above the NEW Clip Selector?"
That's the all new LED Clip-O-Meter! That's right boys and girls, you can now SEE your guitar clipping! What's more, if you drive it hard with another pedal, you can use it as a "strobe tuner". Just hit your 5th fret, and the next open, just as you would tune by ear. When the Clip-O-Meter stops blinking, you are in tune!
The Tap-A-Delay is a 750mS digital delay that mixes the original analog signal with the delayed signal. It is gritty and a bit noisy and very analog sounding. This isn't your clean studio quality digital delay with perfect repeats.
Here is a rundown of the controls and features:
Level, Mix, Feedback and Delay knobs as you would expect. The Delay time can be set with the knob or by pressing the Tap Speed switch twice. When tapping the tempo, the Divide toggle selects 1/8, *1/8, and 1/4.
The Modulation Knob is an 8 position switch that selects several warm modulation themes as well as a few outer space themes.
The Mode switch decides how the brake function works.
Left: holding the brake will alternate between slowing down and speeding up. When you release the switch, it stays right where it was.
Middle: "Snap Back". Holding the switch will either slow down or speed up (depending on how you set it up). When you release the switch it snaps back to the original tempo.
Right: "Slide Back". Slide back is the same as Snap Back, except the tempo slides back to the original tempo slowly. To select between Speed Up and Slow Down for the Slide and Snap modes, just tap both foot switches. The light will blink to let you know it changed. If it was Speed Up, it will now be Slow Down.
Internally, there is a "Brightness" pot that adjusts the tone of the repeats. All the way up is bright, with a lot of clock noise coming through. All the way down is very dark. 2 O'clock seems to be a good "middle ground" for my ear.
November 16, 2009
Posted in Cusack Effects — anthony @ 10:37 pm
Its founder, an electrical engineer, began searching for that perfect, right tone, and he spent years working to find it. Today, that tone has been found, and Cusack Effects creates some of the top quality products in the industry.
