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Dear valued Little Labs customer,  

 

Congratulations on your purchase of the Pepper. 

With so much new audio gear out there, it was tough to figure 

out something new, unique, and utilitarian enough to be used 

on all phases of a project. It had to be a product, that sounds 

fantastic, and you would find eventually, you couldn't live 

without. 

So I came up with the Pepper.  Like the spice, you will use it 

everyday. 

Interfacing different gear for an engineer/instrument player 

can be a challenge and I saw a need for a one box solution. A 

central hub for your instrument that easily interfaced your 

pedals, your pro gear, a  mixer and the obvious,  your amp, 

and the less obvious, external gear like a Little Labs PCP or 

Redeye 3D. 

This product is a useful super interface, and I can't think of 

anything quite like it out there (that I know of) that is a truly 

professional piece of kit. There are some guitar pedal wet 

dry multi interfaces with tone controls etc., but all I looked 

at were no where near the quality you find in the Pepper. The 

electronics in the Pepper is truly state of the art, and will only 

be found in high end audiophile gear. The transformers used 

are timeless gems so it really is a combination of the best of 

the new with the best of the old.  
This manual is preliminary, meaning it will have  typos and 

grammatical errors, I'm no English major,  but it should get you 

started. Have fun with the pepper! 

Yours truly,
Jonathan Little

Summary of Contents for THE PEPPER

Page 1: ...THE PEPPER PEDAL PRO INSTRUMENT BLENDER DIRECT BOX RE AMP P R E L I M I N A R Y O p e r a t o r s M a n u a l ...

Page 2: ...nstrument that easily interfaced your pedals your pro gear a mixer and the obvious your amp and the less obvious external gear like a Little Labs PCP or Redeye 3D This product is a useful super interface and I can t think of anything quite like it out there that I know of that is a truly professional piece of kit There are some guitar pedal wet dry multi interfaces with tone controls etc but all I...

Page 3: ...assive pickup puts out about 14dB You have plenty of headroom Depending on what type of pick up or if your instrument has a pre amp the load impedance of this instrument input will effect the tone of your signal It s subtle but if you send a lot of time with an instru ment and an amp you ll hear it Most vintage passive guitar pick ups like a 1 meg ohm to 500 k ohm load too low a load it will sound...

Page 4: ...l trs foot switch the button must be in to be controlled by the foot switch more on the foot switch later When not selected this insert is hard wire bypassed with a quality return cut return polarity and a little on re amp levels The return cut mutes the pedal and pro insert chain You will still hear the dry signal of your instrument if the instrument thru is turned up The polarity reverse only fl...

Page 5: ...ust like a wet dry mixer Sometimes your instrument will lack intelligibility when using effects and blending in a little dry signal can be just the ticket to give you more attack while still keeping groovy Parallel compression is really nice too take your best pro compressor like an 1176 put that on the pro insert and blend in a little dry for a nice thick sound Another use of this instrument thru...

Page 6: ... a pedal or pedal chain into pro gear The Pepper can turn a pedal or a chain of pedals easily in to a pro piece of gear with balanced line level inputs and outputs Let s say you want to use a pedal on the balanced insert of a console First turn your instr thru level on the Pepper all the way down and push the pro insert button in Plug the console send into the Peppers pro trs in trs cable or alter...

Page 7: ...thru level or wireless shure differential amp pro gear Pepper standard set up pro return hi z amp differential sum amp pro send expansion out pro insert hi z amp differential amp pedal insert instrument in pedal instrument mic level out mic preamp instrument out guitar amp ...

Page 8: ... level differential amp instrument pro return hi z amp differential sum amp pro send expansion out hi z amp differential amp pedal insert instrument in pedal pro insert pro tools or pro analog tape machine Pepper re amp set up mic level out mic preamp instrument out guitar amp ...

Page 9: ...dal out is plugged into instrument in Pepper pedal to pro i o set up pro return hi z amp differential sum amp pro send expansion out pro insert hi z amp differential amp pedal insert instrument in out in pedal or plug in pdl ts out and select pdl insert console send and return or any place that needs pro i o balanced line level i o mic level out instrument out ...

Page 10: ...ged into instrument in differential amp instrument Pepper two instrument set up instrument instrument in pro return becomes level of instrument plugged into pedal ts in pro return hi z amp differential sum amp pro send expansion out pro insert hi z amp differential amp pedal insert mic level out mic preamp instrument out guitar amp ...

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