Intensive Care Audio Vena Cava Filter Distortion/Ring Modulation Effect Pedal

When Bland Guitar Syndrome's got you down, don't despair, try the Intensive Care Audio Vena Cava Filter. Straight from London's premier purveyors of effective audio medicinal treatment, the Vena Cava Filter is a fast-acting solution of auto-filtering and ring modulating distortion to enact relief from this and other similar instrument-born conditions.

The Vena Cava Filter is a formidable distortion propelled by filtering and modulating powers to come to interesting tonal conclusions. At the center of this solution is a powerful, filtered distortion coupled with a ring modulator controlled by the Ring dial as it sets its base frequency. This ring modulator can be minimized or even zeroed out as settings before noon will make the frequency inaudible and even produce interesting stutter effects. From here, an eight-way Wave Function rotary switch engages a variety of LFO waveform shapes including random slopes, random steps, steps, sine, step up/step down, square, ramp down, and ramp up.

Producing wildly mobile modulations, the LFO is then shaped through Frequency and Peak speed and intensity controls, respectively. Distortions are then topped off with Gain and Blend controls as the Vena Cava can be beefed up or mellowed out. Blend sets a mix between the distortion and ring modulation distortion while a two-way Voice switch selects between two different voicings for the filter and a two-way Ring switch turns the LFO on or off, if you're looking to set it to a specific static frequency. An onboard tap tempo switch sets the rate of the LFO for added control. The Vena Cava features soft-touch, relay-based true bypass switching and standard nine-volt power operation for easy integration into existing rigs.

In the most noteworthy cases of Excessive Aural Dryness, the Intensive Care Audio Vena Cava Filter is a highly recommended solution.