Hello and welcome aboard the good ship Solar Molasses.
At its heart the Solar Molasses is a reverb pedal based around the Belton/Accutronics module but that's just the beginning. We've added a droning feedback loop where the reverb is fed back on itself to create short blasts of reverb wash or layers of droning reverb. It’s a feature rich pedal with multiple controls to fine tune the main reverb and the drones. We've colour coded the controls and we'll start with the standard reverb ones. These are black on the standard version of the pedal. We have dwell, tone, mix and master which we'll cover in detail below.
The feedback/drone has the drone tone, volume and dirt controls plus a toggle that switches the momentary “drone” footswitch between normally on or normally off operation. The standard position is off with the toggle down. Set this way we engage the drone footswitch to create swells and drones. When the toggle is set to on we can use the volume control to build up drones and the footswitch to pause them.
On footswitch turns on the effect or bypasses it, the LED on top right indicates when the effect is engaged.
Dwell control works like a traditional dwell control up to about half way through it's travel controlling the length of the reverb decay. After this it adds saturation/drive to the reverb signal. From gentle warmth to crispy distorted decay.
Tone brightens or darkens the reverb signal, centre is balanced, turn it clockwise for brighter reverb and counter for darker.
Mix controls the balance of dry signal and wet reverb. Clockwise is wetter and vice versa.
Master is an overall volume of the affected signal, both the regular reverb and the drone. It's very handy when you're delving into the crazier sounds the unit is capable of. For general use I like to set it around 75% or 3 o'clock.
And now onto the fun stuff..
Drone footswitch in conjunction with the toggle switch opens the feedback path allowing the reverb signal to feed back on itself. In normal use keep the toggle down. Set the toggle up to the ON position for constant feedback and use the footswitch to pause it.
Drone Tone sets the tone of the feedback path. Centre is balanced, turn it clockwise for brighter drones and counter for darker. The combination of the Drone Tone and the Tone can work as a sort of band pass filter. Definitely worth exploring the combination of these two.
Volume controls how much of your signal is fed back through the drone path.
Dirt allows you to add some, or lots, of saturation to the drone signal.
The pedal can be used as a stand alone noise box or with any instrument of your choice. Have fun!!
PS See the first image for my suggested settings for starting off.
The pedal graphics are hand pulled screen prints on powder coated cases. Colours can vary from run to run, feel free to get in touch for more info.
All pedals are true bypass as standard and powered by the industry standard (boss style) negative tip 9V DC power supply. For best results use a reputable regulated pedal power supply.
Thanks to Nicholas Williams for PCB design and layout, Ror Conaty for Graphic Design, John Snyder for Inspiration and advice, and last but not least Gareth Quinn Redmond for collaborating with me on it along with beta testing and road testing the shit out of it on tour. Here’s what Gareth had to say about it.
“The Solar Molasses is exactly what I’ve been looking for in a dual reverb and feedback pedal. The ability to control the tone of both the reverb and feedback signals individually opens up a dynamic range of drones/swells. What really sets it apart is how the feedback interacts with your playing, unlike other reverb/feedback pedals I’ve tried, where the feedback tends to blur into a undefined mess, the Solar Molasses preserves the original frequencies and gradually introduces an array of upper harmonics. It’s a unique pedal that Moose has obviously crafted with great care.”
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Solar Molasses - Drone Reverb
Hello and welcome aboard the good ship Solar Molasses.
At its heart the Solar Molasses is a reverb pedal based around the Belton/Accutronics module but that's just the beginning. We've added a droning feedback loop where the reverb is fed back on itself to create short blasts of reverb wash or layers of droning reverb. It’s a feature rich pedal with multiple controls to fine tune the main reverb and the drones. We've colour coded the controls and we'll start with the standard reverb ones. These are black on the standard version of the pedal. We have dwell, tone, mix and master which we'll cover in detail below.
The feedback/drone has the drone tone, volume and dirt controls plus a toggle that switches the momentary “drone” footswitch between normally on or normally off operation. The standard position is off with the toggle down. Set this way we engage the drone footswitch to create swells and drones. When the toggle is set to on we can use the volume control to build up drones and the footswitch to pause them.
On footswitch turns on the effect or bypasses it, the LED on top right indicates when the effect is engaged.
Dwell control works like a traditional dwell control up to about half way through it's travel controlling the length of the reverb decay. After this it adds saturation/drive to the reverb signal. From gentle warmth to crispy distorted decay.
Tone brightens or darkens the reverb signal, centre is balanced, turn it clockwise for brighter reverb and counter for darker.
Mix controls the balance of dry signal and wet reverb. Clockwise is wetter and vice versa.
Master is an overall volume of the affected signal, both the regular reverb and the drone. It's very handy when you're delving into the crazier sounds the unit is capable of. For general use I like to set it around 75% or 3 o'clock.
And now onto the fun stuff..
Drone footswitch in conjunction with the toggle switch opens the feedback path allowing the reverb signal to feed back on itself. In normal use keep the toggle down. Set the toggle up to the ON position for constant feedback and use the footswitch to pause it.
Drone Tone sets the tone of the feedback path. Centre is balanced, turn it clockwise for brighter drones and counter for darker. The combination of the Drone Tone and the Tone can work as a sort of band pass filter. Definitely worth exploring the combination of these two.
Volume controls how much of your signal is fed back through the drone path.
Dirt allows you to add some, or lots, of saturation to the drone signal.
The pedal can be used as a stand alone noise box or with any instrument of your choice. Have fun!!
PS See the first image for my suggested settings for starting off.
The pedal graphics are hand pulled screen prints on powder coated cases. Colours can vary from run to run, feel free to get in touch for more info.
All pedals are true bypass as standard and powered by the industry standard (boss style) negative tip 9V DC power supply. For best results use a reputable regulated pedal power supply.
Thanks to Nicholas Williams for PCB design and layout, Ror Conaty for Graphic Design, John Snyder for Inspiration and advice, and last but not least Gareth Quinn Redmond for collaborating with me on it along with beta testing and road testing the shit out of it on tour. Here’s what Gareth had to say about it.
“The Solar Molasses is exactly what I’ve been looking for in a dual reverb and feedback pedal. The ability to control the tone of both the reverb and feedback signals individually opens up a dynamic range of drones/swells. What really sets it apart is how the feedback interacts with your playing, unlike other reverb/feedback pedals I’ve tried, where the feedback tends to blur into a undefined mess, the Solar Molasses preserves the original frequencies and gradually introduces an array of upper harmonics. It’s a unique pedal that Moose has obviously crafted with great care.”
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