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INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the Dirty Little Secret! If you're reading this, you obviously wanna bring the rawk! We're here
to help you on your quest!
The Dirty Little Secret was designed to be the secret weapon in your tone arsenal. Want to get cranked
amp tones at bedroom rocker levels? Playing gigs but have to use whatever amp is provided as the back-
line? Like your clean amp sound but don't care for its overdrive channel? Love your fuzz pedal but it needs
to be plugged into a cranked amp to sound good? Enter the Dirty Little Secret!
The Dirty Little Secret (DLS) is an overdrive pedal designed to bring you the sound and response of a
classic Marshall ampli er. It, like the other pedals in our Foundation Overdrive range of pedals, is designed
to be a "foundation" pedal - it is your "always on" pedal that forms the core of your guitar sound which you
can enhance and embellish by adding boosters, fuzzes, lters, and other overdrives in front of it - just like
you would in front of a real amp. And the reason you can leave it always-on is that you can get a great
clean sound just by rolling your guitar's volume knob back! That's the way the old school Marshall players
did things!
This is the latest evolution of our famous Dirty Little Secret, the most dynamic Marshall-style overdrive out
there.
The Dirty Little Secret features:
* Two distinct voicings - "Super Lead" and "Super Bass" switchable via an internal slider switch.
* A full three-knob treble-middle-bass tone control complement that reproduces exactly the tone circuits
of the Super Lead and Super Bass amps.
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- Page 1 The Dirty Little Secret was designed to be the secret weapon in your tone arsenal. Want to get cranked amp tones at bedroom rocker levels? Playing gigs but have to use whatever amp is provided as the back-...
- Page 2 The "Super Lead" mode gives you the great rock sound of a Marshall Super Lead amp with awesome harmonics, touch sensitivity, cab thumb, and kerrang. Higher gain than the Super Bass mode, Super Lead mode is perfect for use with humbucker-equipped guitars. It's gain range goes from classic plexi all the way to modi ed JCM800 levels.
- Page 3 After you've had a good session rocking out with your new Dirty Little Secret, come back here and read on to get more insight and tips on how to get the most out of your new DLS.
- Page 4 The Middle knob can also be thought of as a sort of "gain" knob since most of the guitar's energy is in the middle frequencies. So if you want the gainiest sound possible, run the Middle knob high. But if you want a less gainy sound run it lower.
- Page 5 Remember, your guitar’s volume works in conjunction with the Dirty Little Secret. Yup! You should consider your guitar's volume knob as part of the Dirty Little Secret's control surface. Even in Super Lead mode with the Pre-Amp cranked, you can get a perfectly clean sound by rolling back your guitar's volume knob.
- Page 6 INTERNAL CONTROLS Mode Switch The mode switch can be accessed by removing the four screws of the bottom plate. It is located up at the top corner of the pedal. It's a tight t to get ngers in there so a small at blade screwdriver can be used to access the switch.
- Page 7 DLS to really ne-tune your tone. Stacking with other pedals The new Dirty Little Secret was speci cally designed to combine well with other pedals. This section gives you ideas on how to incorporate it into your rig.
- Page 8 Note from the designer Hi, and thanks for getting a Dirty Little Secret! I'm really stoked on this new version of the DLS and hope you will be too! I managed to pack a lot of Marshall tones in there between the SL and SB modes. It was a tight t but I managed to cram it all in there! The SB mode solved a problem I've had for years - how to get a Fuzz Face to sound great at any volume.
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