Solid Gold FX NU-33 - Vinyl Engine

Capture the golden era

We love vintage guitars for very much the same reasons we love listening to vinyl. While they might not play as great as a shiny new high-end, precision built custom axe, their magic lies in their flaws. Every ding and scrape tells a story, every little bit of player wear and lacquer checking lends a feeling and leads to inspiration. Same goes for records.... a little bit of noise and static pops add ambiance, allowing the listener to get lost in the music while mesmerized by the rotating platter.... its not so much about fidelity but rather warmth and texture to create a mood. We set out to combine our love for guitars with our love for records and the result is the NU-33.

Named after the Greek letter symbolizing spatial frequency and the RPMs of a turntable, the NU-33 is a lo-fi Vinyl modulator like no other. Designed to capture the vibe of some our favorite records such as a particularly worn out copy of Black Sabbath's Master of Reality and an original pressing of Led Zeppelin I with just the perfect amount of static, the NU-33 serves up chorus and vibrato mixed with tastefully engineered hiss, crackle and pops to give your riffs just the right touch of vintage flair. The controls allow you to choose how much or how little flutter to add to your tone, color it with 2 additional filter modes, shape it with 3 different waveforms and dial in the mix with an analog blend; you can easily make this pedal sound as pretty and lush or as dark and sombre as you please.

Once we were finally happy with the way it sounded, it was time to pepper it with all the fun bits! Crammed in this little box is a manual mode to create a doubler ranging from 15ms to 50ms, an internally assignable expression pedal/CV input, multi-function foot switches for tap tempo and speed ramping, top jacks, relay based true bypass switching and a hold-to-skip function with 3 selectable speed presets to create a unique sonic stutter.

Well, with all that said, and whole lotta painstaking work leading up to this point, the NU-33 is finally here and all that's left to do is to get lost in its immersive waves and textures.

Endless Vinyl Capabilities

Dial in your favorite vinyl sounds. From bright or darkened vibrato, looming white noise, crackles and pops, and record skips. Your preferred tone is just a few knob turns and toggle clicks away. Choose how your vinyl warbles!

Modern Features - Old Soul

While the NU-33 is designed to capture golden era tones, this is a 21st century device. Loaded with tap tempo and soft touch true bypass switching, assignable expression/CV input, top jacks and momentary speed ramping, this is the SolidGold standard.

Modulation Mechanisms

Loaded with chorus and vibrato effects in perfect harmony, the NU-33 utilizes these techniques to deliver anything from classic modulation and pitch effects to warm vinyl record warble emulations.

Main Features

• Tap Tempo Chorus & Vibrato with Analog Dry Blend
• Vinyl emulation noise generators for hiss & crackle
• Momentary speed ramping with adjustment knob
• Momentary skip function with long, medium and short settings
• Color toggle for High Pass and Low Pass filter modes – center bypass
• 3-Position LFO Waveform switch
• Center position: classic sine wave
• Left position: sine wave modulated by triangle wave.
• Right position: sawtooth with a touch of modulation to capture the wow of vinyl.
• Assignable expression/CV input
• Made in Montreal, Canada
• Powered by 9V DC PSU (center -, 2,1 mm, 60 mA current draw

Instruction Manual

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