CARL MARTIN PURPLE MOON MKII

Carl regularly spends some of his spare time listening to his old records from the 60’s and 70’s.  
More often than not, he will find a record or artist that will inspire him to create a new pedal. 
Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 records or artists to fully develop an idea!  Now, think back to Jimi Hendrix 
and the Band of Gypsies, Robin Trower’s  Bridge of Sighs, or almost anything by David Gilmour, 
and then open your creative mind to the Purple Moon!  It has taken a couple years on the bench 
for Carl to be satisfied because it has been developed with very creative guitarists in mind.  
The Purple Moon is the only True Bypass, all analog, dual speed Vibe with Fuzz, and it is your ticket 
to recreating the same classic guitar sounds  that inspired Carl. Like the rest of the pedals in the 
Vintage Series, the Purple Moon features a die-cast case with it’s own special colour, mini knobs 
for ease of use, high quality switching, bright visible LED’s and a choice of 9V battery power, 
or suitable transformer (we recommend using a quality regulated power supply for maximum response).

Specifications
Input: 1M Ohm
Output: 200 Ohm
S/N Ratio: 54 dB
Dimensions: 60 (W) x 115 (D) x 50 (H) mm
Weight: 340g / 0,75lbs

Syntetic version of the Gut & Silk 900
Up to the middle of the 20th century, the only available strings for guitar were plain gut for trebles 
and silk wound strings for basses: their acoustical performance was quite different from that of modern 
stringings.
The salient characteristics were: a marked tonal presence, a response and brightness typical of gut strings 
(certainly superior to plain nylon and in some respects closer to fluocarbon strings) while, on the other 
hand, basses had an exquisitely vocal quality, i.e. not so bright as, and with less sustain than modern 
wound on nylon strings, with a sound that was richer in fundamental frequencies.

Our Ambra 900 set was developed keeping in mind this historical fact, in order to best re-create, by 
means of modern synthetic materials, the sound of gut and silk-wound basses of that times.

This set was conceived for one grade of tension only, and consists of gut-coloured Supernylgut® trebles, 
with a rectified surface exactly as it’s made on gut strings, adopting the representative mean diameters 
as indicated by Pujol in his method “Escuela Razonada de la Guitarra” of 1934. Basses have a silver-plated 
copper winding over special multifilament core, that we call ‘Rayon’, and are specifically balanced between 
metal and core in order to achieve the same texture of sound found in the original silk-wound strings.

Kvalitetskabel med Neutrik plugger. 
Produsert i Italia.

Kabel:		Jack/Vinklet Jack
Lengde:		5m

Kabel:		2 Jack/2 Phono
Lengde:		3m

LED Pianolampe i moderne design.
Kan drives via USB 5V.  Adapter følger med.
Touch bryter for dimming.

Finish:   Hvit gloss