THE LeadEr – lead distortion

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Sustain, a good pinch of musicality, and the right dose of nastiness are the best recipe for an incisive distortion. The leader of the vintage motorcycle club, Ignazio “The Leader”, has skillfully blended these ingredients to obtain a Lead Distortion able to deliver your musical message to your audience, highly defined without annoying grittiness. Designed specially to make an electric guitar scream, both with Single Coils or Humbucker pickups, when it arrives on the scene it becomes the star of the song. Based on original TEFI Vintage Lab circuit, The Leader focuses on medium range frequencies that can be tailored according to your own personal taste using the “Body” and “Presence” controls. The “Sustain” control adjusts the length of the note depending on the requirements of the Solo or Rhythmic pattern.

THE SMILIN’GHOST- Dynamic Percussion Tremolo

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Renato is frightened by the ectoplasm that suddenly emerges from the fireplace, but you must not be afraid: it is a good ghost with a nice flickering laugh. The Smilin’ Ghost is a Dynamic Tremolo Percussion, flagship of TEFI projects, developed after months of research and experimentation. It uses an optocoupler like in vintage amplifiers driven by our modern wide-range LFO (from 0.7Hz to 15Hz). The special proprietary circuit “TRFI”, totally analog, allows to control the activation of the modulation depending on the dynamics of the instrument’s execution: in this way it is possible to decide, with the energy impressed on the notes played, the activation or not effect. The two types of modulations are:

• Tremolo: gives a uniform modulation, driving the opto-isolator with a sine or square wave.
• Percussion: The envelope is a percussive type; using a lever-switch you can decide between fast and slow decay.

The LFO speed can also be controlled with an externally connectable expression pedal. The T.R.F.I control can also be activated with remote control.