Lung.
Polarity is center negative
.
6. Turn both knobs to their middle, 12 o’clock positions.
7. Set the Mic Gain switch to the middle position.
8. Push the MIC BYPASS footswitch until its associated LED is lit. Play your instrument,
while singing or talking into the microphone. You should hear the vocoding effect.
Remember you will only output from the Iron Lung when you are playing your
instrument and speaking into the microphone.
9. If you connect a guitar to the input of the Iron Lung, try adding a distortion pedal
between your guitar and the Iron Lung, this will help to emphasize the vocoder effect.
- CONTROLS, INDICATORS I/O- &
TONE
This knob adjusts the tonal quality of the effect Fully CCW emphasizes lower frequencies and .
fully CW emphasizes higher frequencies Additionally as the TONE knob is turned CW from .
noon, harmonic overtones are added to the instrument signal to make them sound fuller and
richer. The added harmonic overtones are especially useful when you using a dry electric
guitar straight into the Iron Lung.
GENDER
BENDER
Formant shift corresponds roughly to the length of the vocal tract. Bass and baritone singers
have longer vocal tracts than sopranos and tenors.
The GENDER BENDER knob adjusts the amount of formant shift that is applied to the effected
signal. For knob settings above noon, the formant will shift upward, which is equivalent to
shortening the vocal tract, to sound more female. For knob settings below noon, the formant
will shift downward, which is equivalent to lengthening the vocal tract, to sound more male.
At noon, there is no formant shift.
BYPASS FOOTSWITCH / STATUS LED
The BYPASS footswitch toggles the Iron Lung between effect mode and bypass mode. If the
STATUS LED is lit, then the Iron Lung is in effect mode. If the STATUS LED is off, then the
Iron Lung is in bypass mode.
NORMAL BYPASS mode:
when a standard mono guitar cable is plugged into the Iron
Lung’s output jack, while the Iron Lung is set to bypass, your unaffected instrument is output
through the OUTPUT jack and the effect is muted. In effect mode the dry guitar is muted and
only the effected vocal signal is passed through the OUTPUT jack.
SPLIT BYPASS mode:
when a TRS Insert Cable plugged into the OUTPUT jack before is
applying power. In bypass mode, the instrument is output the TIP of the OUTPUT jack and on
the vocal is output the RING of the OUTPUT jack. In effect mode the effect will be on ,