Quality
Spicetone guitar effect pedals are designed, assembled and tested in Estonia in the North-East of European Union. Highly skilled personnel, who use precise automated PCB assembly equipment with automated optical inspection, make our pedals. We test the effect pedals with special testing equipment. Before shipping, we check each piece of gear with a guitar and an amplifier. And we keep in mind the environmental impact of our products.
Product Highlights
- Full Analogue Signal Path
- Polyphonic Overdrive and Fuzz (separate for each string + one monochannel)
- Effect Tweakable per Channel
- Breakout Box (6+1 Channels from 13pin to ¼” jacks)
- Digital Control: 6×24 User Preset Memory Slots
- Full MIDI Control
- Instant Circuit Modifications (Root Boost Pre, Post, Extra Gain, Tone On/Off, Filter On/Off)
Sound settings
- Resonant Stereo Filter Section (Two Low Pass Cut-Off Points, Adjustable Resonance)
- Pre and Post Root Boost Circuit (beef up your close-to-bridge GK pickup!)
- Dry Signal Blend (Transparency and Attack)
- Mono Signal Blend (Mix Hex with Mono Pickups)
- Overdrive, Crunch And Fuzz Mode
- Analog Polyfuzz Sounds like in Analog Guitars Synths of 1970ies
- Per String Settings (Effect On / Clean / Mute)
- Parameter Spread And Tilt (More Effect on Higher or Lower Strings)
Modulation Effects (LFO, Tremolo, Vibe, Sequencer)
- LFO1, LFO2 (Syncable; Sine, Triangle, Pulse, Sawtooth Up, Sawtooth Down, Random)
- Parameter Modulation (Modulate any Potentiometer with LFO)
- Panning Modulation (Per String Stereo Panning Modulation)
- Filter Modulation (Auto Wah-Wah and Rhythmic Resonance)
- Synchonized Tempo (with DAW or MIDI Device)
- Sequencer (Sequenced Modulations, Synced)
- Envelope Modulation (with External Equipment like Roland GR-55)
- Tap Tempo
Use with External Devices
- MIDI Control In (Control 6APPEAL with MIDI)
- MIDI Control Out (Control Your DAW/PC with 6APPEAL)
- Modulation Tempo Sync to External Devices
- Breakout Interface for Your 13pin Guitar,
- Send Clean, Overdriven and/or Modulated Signal to Soundcard
Technical Features
- 13PIN IN and OUT (to chain with 13pin effects like Roland/Boss GR/GP series)
- MIDI IN, OUT/THRU
- 3 Stereo/Mono ¼” Jack Outputs
- 3 Footswitches and 10 Illuminated Pots
- High quality JFET opamps and Alpha pots
- 12+3 LED Clock Interface
- Sturdy Enclosure (Maritime Grade Anodized Aluminium)
- Suitable for Bass Guitars
- Universally powered with many common guitar pedal adapters (9v-12v, 300mA min, 2.1mm plug). Therefore no adapter included.
Other Important Features
- Artwork by Alar Kriisa (Cathouse Radio)
- Software updates (mini USB)
- Made in Estonia, Europe
Gutars and pickups
6Appeal is superb for guitars with a hexaphonic pickup. Actually, for the hexaphonic/polyphonic sound it needs a guitar with hexaphonic pickup.
- hexaphonic.org
- dedicated website for Hexaphonic (Poly-Processing) Guitars
- there is a list of hex guitars and hex pickups
- Godin Multiac Nylon String and xtSA electric guitars with Synth Access
- we believe the electronics is from RMC
- Roland GK (V-Guitar)
- Graph Tech Ghost
- Cycfi Neo6 pickups
- Ubertar pickups
- Carvin MIDI synth access guitars etc.
- It also acts as a classic distortion box with a conventional electric guitar
- some users have speculated that the unique features of 6APPEAL justify its cost also for conventional guitarists. We think it depends on how deep your pockets are…
User Manual and Flowcharts:
- 6APPEAL User Manual (v 1.21)
- 6APPEAL Short Handout (v 1.1)
- 6APPEAL Flowcharts (v 1.0)
- 6APPEAL Editor Software and Manual
Background:
- Frequenctly Asked Questions (FAQ)
- Wikipedia on hexaphonic pickups
- “Putting the Hex On: the Postmodern Pickups” by Wallace Marx Jr (Premierguitar article)
- A White Paper on Multichannel Guitar Processing and 6APPEAL”