Warped Vinyl mkII

Think of it as a brightness dial for the wobbly effect sound. Turn it up for a clear, sparkling shimmer; turn it down for a warm, cloudy, vintage feel. It leaves your clean tone alone. If you've told the pedal to slowly sweep a parameter (ramping), this same knob controls how fast that sweep happens instead.

tip: Play with TONE and MIX together when dialing in chorus — the manual notes they interact heavily and small moves make a big difference to the chorus character.

Overall loudness knob for the effect. Because there's a built-in boost, you have plenty of extra volume available — push it hard for a slightly dirty, amp-like grit. It uses hi-fi-grade parts, so it can even work like a clean volume pedal if controlled by an expression pedal.

tip: Assign VOLUME to an expression pedal or the ramp function and you effectively get a volume pedal or, if you modulate it, a tremolo effect.

This decides whether you hear pitch wobble alone (fully wet), your clean tone alone (fully dry), or a blend. Blending the two in the middle is exactly what makes chorus. Fully clockwise gives you pure vibrato with no dry signal.

tip: For classic chorus, park it in the middle and tweak TONE to taste; for true 'pitch only' vibrato, go fully wet.

The speed of the wobble — low for slow, seasick drifting, high for fast fluttering. Tapping the tap footswitch overrides whatever this knob says.

tip: Use tap tempo (with the tap-control dip switch in the 'P' position) to lock the wobble speed to your song's tempo.

How dramatic the wobble is. Just a touch gives gentle, subtle movement; cranked all the way gives wild, exaggerated pitch bends. This model swings wider and crazier than the original.

tip: When using an expression pedal for direct 'whammy'-style waveform control, set DEPTH fully clockwise for the maximum pitch sweep.

Changes the 'lopsidedness' of the wobble. At noon the pitch rises and falls evenly. Turn one way and it snaps up then drifts down; turn the other and it drifts up then snaps down. It shapes the feel and rhythm of the wobble.

tip: Part of the ModuShape engine — combine off-center WARP settings with the two wave-shape toggles for unusual, sputtering or lopsided modulation textures.

Controls the character of the 'up' portion of each wobble cycle. Sine is smooth and rounded, triangle is a steady even glide, square makes the pitch jump abruptly. This is one third of the ModuShape system.

tip: Mix a square first half with a sine second half for a distinctive asymmetric warble you can't get from a normal vibrato pedal.

Controls the character of the 'down' portion of each wobble cycle. Same shape options as the left toggle but for the back half of the cycle. Together with the left toggle and WARP, it gives you total control over the shape of your wobble.

tip: Set both toggles to middle (triangle) for the most natural, classic vibrato/chorus feel.

When you use tap tempo, this decides how the tapped beat translates into wobble speed — one wobble per beat, two per beat, and so on. A switch on the back lets you swap in a second set of note divisions.

tip: For MIDI clock sync, this toggle also picks which note value equals one wobble cycle (whole, half, quarter, or dotted-eighth/eighth/sixteenth).

A quick two-preset switcher. Flick left or right to instantly load a saved sound; keep it in the middle to just use whatever the knobs are set to right now. To store a sound, hold one footswitch for 3 seconds then both footswitches for another 3 seconds until the light blinks. If you tweak a knob after loading a preset, the light dims to remind you the change isn't saved.

tip: To save to the RIGHT slot hold the right (Bypass) stomp first; for the LEFT slot hold the left (Tap) stomp first. Save order matters.

The main on/off footswitch (right side). Because it's true bypass, your clean tone is completely unaffected when it's off. There's an option on the back to make it 'hold-to-activate' so the effect only sounds while your foot is pressing down.

tip: Re-engaging the pedal always resets any ramp back to its start — handy for retriggering a slow sweep at the top of a phrase.

Tap this footswitch (left side) in time with your song and the wobble speed locks to your tempo. It listens to your two most recent taps, so you can correct on the fly.

tip: Whether tap sets the wobble speed or the ramp speed depends on the Tap Control dip switch on the back (P = RPM, R = ramp).

These five little switches choose WHICH knobs the pedal will automatically sweep (ramp) or let your expression pedal control. Flip one on and that parameter becomes 'movable'; you can select several at once.

tip: Assign RPM here with Tap Control set to R and Bounce on to make the vibrato speed sweep rhythmically — or assign Volume to turn the ramp into a tremolo.

These decide the DIRECTION of the automatic sweep for each parameter you turned on — does the value climb up or drop down over the ramp time?

tip: Combine with the Sweep dip switch to define exactly where the sweep starts and ends.

Decides whether a swept parameter keeps oscillating (on) or just glides once to its destination and stays there (off).

tip: Bounce must be ON if you want a parameter to ramp back and forth repeatedly rather than doing a one-shot sweep.

A grit-and-grime switch. Turn it on for a murkier, thicker, more warped and lo-fi character — leaning into the melted-record vibe.

tip: Great for the extreme 'damaged tape/vinyl' sounds the pedal is named after.

Turns the on/off footswitch into a hold-to-play switch — the effect sounds only while your foot presses it, and turns off the moment you let go.

tip: Use it for quick, stab-style bursts of extreme vibrato during a phrase.

Chooses whether tapping your foot sets the wobble speed (P) or sets how fast a ramped parameter sweeps (R).

tip: Set it to R (plus Bounce on) to tap in the rhythm of a slow filter-like sweep instead of the vibrato speed.

Switches which set of subdivisions the front-panel division toggle offers — the normal whole/half/quarter group, or the dotted-eighth/eighth/sixteenth group.

tip: Also affects MIDI clock sync note choices, so set it before syncing to a DAW or drum machine.

Defines the endpoint of a swept parameter. Top means the sweep runs from where the knob sits up to maximum; bottom means it runs from the knob position down to minimum. The knob position sets one end, this switch sets which direction the other end lies.

tip: To dial in an expression-pedal volume range from silent to unity gain, set Sweep to B and put the Volume knob at unity — nudge the knob up for more range.

Where your guitar cable plugs in.

Where the cable to your amp (or next pedal) plugs in.

Plug in an expression pedal here (Mission EP-1 or EP-25k recommended) to sweep parameters with your foot in real time. If no parameters are selected on the back, you get direct foot control of the pitch — an analog 'whammy' effect. It can also take a control-voltage signal from a synth or sequencer.

tip: For maximum whammy range with nothing dip-selected, set DEPTH fully clockwise. To set the sweep range for a chosen parameter, use the 'sweep' dip switch plus the knob position.

A do-double-duty jack: use it to send/receive tap tempo between pedals, or to add MIDI control via a Midibox so you can recall presets, control every knob, and sync tempo from a MIDI device.

tip: Default MIDI channel is 5. To change it, hold both footswitches while powering up, then send a Program Change from your desired channel — the pedal locks to it permanently until changed again.

Where power goes. Use a normal Boss-style 9V negative-center supply. It sips very little current, so almost any pedal power supply will run it.