Solid Metal

Damage Control Solid Metal: Tube-amplified high gain distortion.

The Damage Control Solid Metal is no longer being made.

Thermionic Studios has one(1) Solid Metal available for rental.

Controls

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Image from Musician's Friend

• Knob 1 - "Level":
• Knob 2 - "Drive":
• Knob 3 - "Treble":
• Knob 4 - "Bass":
• Knob 5 - "Scoop":
• Footswitch 1 - "Engage":
• Footswitch 2 - "Radiation Symbol (Boost)":

Jacks

• Jack 1 - "Input":
• Jack 2 - "Amp Out":
• Jack 3 - "Direct Out":
• Jack 4 - "Power":

General Information

Highest Gain Distortion made by Damage Control

As the Damage Control Solid Metal powers two 12ax7 vacuum tubes for its effect, the pedal requires a special, high-powered AC adapter. We have this adapter and it is made available free of charge for people who rent this pedal.

marketingspeak scraped from the Damage Control web site:

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Pure Class A Distortion

   Massive dual 12AX7 tube saturation.
   Unruly amounts of class A gain.
   Active EQ with treble, bass and mid scoop controls.
   Unique bass control adjusts your speaker’s resonant peak response for chest pounding lows. “Palm mutes from hell.”
   High order multi-stage treble control for detailed high end response.
   Scoop control allows you to easily shape your mid EQ from classic to progressive/modern.
   20dB of additional footswitchable gain via “nuclear” footswitch.
   Remote switchable via standard TRS cable and remote switching controller.
   Crafted with love in the USA

Superior Analog Performance

   True Bypass. No compromise relay true bypass for zero loss bypass signal performance. NO tonal degradation.
   Premium low noise signal path.
   Dual 12AX7s run at their full 250V plate voltage. No starving plates here.

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Phase Inversion

As there is no schematic available for the Solid Metal, it's not possible to determine whether this pedal inverts phase without an oscilloscope. Once we get this on the bench and scoped, we'll be able to inform everyone of whether this pedal inverts phase or not.

Schematic

None has ever been made available and Damage Control, as a company, now exists as Strymon, and specializes in creating digital effects pedals.

Creating a schematic would be very laborious without a lot of return. It would require removing what is likely a double-sided PCB from inside the pedal, understanding the circuit on the PCB, and then creating a schematic from the PCB. This is not like decoding a Fuzz Face that has, maybe a dozen parts and is a very simple circuit.

If we can get them from Damage Control/Strymon, that'd be the best case scenario...

Artists

We are currently unaware of any artists actively using the pedal now, or who have in the past.

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