Ergot v3

*CURRENT BUILD TIME IS 3-6 WEEKS, HOPEFULLY LESS BUT I'VE GOT A LOT GOING ON RIGHT NOW <3*

Ergot is a fungal infection which forms mostly on rye and contains a number of psychedelic alkaloids such as Ergoline, Ergotamine, and Ergine. Consumption of Ergot fungus may result in psychosis, loss of limb, or death.

Ergot (the pedal) is mostly based around a Harmonic Percolator. It's got some tweaks, it's got some extras, it's got the classic 2N404A germanium transistor, and it's got a nasty fungal infection.

Controls:

V (Volume): is a volume control

T (Tone): sweeps between two capacitors, allowing more or less bass into the circuit.

H (Harmonics): the classic percolator gain control, basically a volume pot at the beginning of the circuit that adjusts how hard you hit the circuit

Toggle switches:

Brightness: dictates how much high end is let in to the circuit. This makes a larger difference when using the feedback loop or in hi-gain mode

Diode clipping: asymmetric schottky diodes in the down position for a more "vintage" heavy clipping, no clipping diodes in the middle position, and an LED and silicon diode in the up position for subtler, sharper clipping.

Gain mode: switches between the classic Ergot sound (the lower gain mode) and a big beefy saturated "higher-gain" mode

F/B footswitch engages a feedback loop, and the touch pads. Turning the F/B knob controls the amount of feedback, while the touch pads can be used to increase feedback even further using your fingers, toes, really any part of your/your friend's fleshy vessel(s) or other conductive materials.

The effect of the feedback loop will vary depending on pedal settings, other pedals, your guitar pickups, the position of the sun and the moon, what you had for breakfast idk. With a little knob twiddling you can get gurgling glitched out octaves, comb filtered gasps, wailing drones and so on.

Something to consider: like many feedback based pedals and transistor overdrives in general Ergot will perform "best" when placed after true bypass pedals. Placing Ergot after a buffered pedal, especially a fully digital buffer, will change how the feedback function behaves. In some cases it's really really cool (a Rat or a Data Corruptor have been my personal favourites to place before Ergot), but in other cases it renders the feedback nearly non-existent. It's just the nature of the beast I suppose.