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Description

Bring your sacrifices unto the Altar and immanentize the eschaton!

This dual pedal consisting of a mosfet boost and a high-gain fuzz/distortion circuit delivers lots of low end, sustain and punch. Loosely based on the classic Black Russian Big Muff it´s the perfect weapon for everything from Gilmourish sounds to sludgy Doom and Stoner riff-goodness! A perfectly voiced active 2-band EQ and a depth pot to vary it´s character from tight, distortionesque sounds to a full on sludgy fuzz give you ultimate control over your sound: from classic scooped Muff-sounds to mid-heavy, fuzzy distortion that will cut through every mix. A three way selector lets you choose between different clipping diodes: loud and open LED-clipping, saturated and raunchy silicon clipping like in the original Altar or thecompressed and smooth sound of Germanium-diodes! For the recent iteration we also added a charge pump that increases headroom and loudness of the Altar to unprecedented levels and the “DOOM”-switch: an internal slide-switch that pushes all the gainstages into beast mode! Also new is a blend-pot which blends a clean signal with the Altars heavy distortion making it the perfect weapon for bass-players!

The independently footswitchable boost circuit (switchable between full-range, mid and treble boost) adds overtones to your sound, drives your amp that extra bit more or pushes the dirt-section to new levels: never ending walls of droning fuzz, square wave sounds with a hint of glitchy octave: The possibilities are limitless - just take your time to dial it in try out different combinations of both sections!

Features:

Lichtlaerm Audio Smart Relay technology

"Depth" alters the input saturation, compression and fuzziness of the sound

2 band active EQ with fixed mid band

“Boost” to control the output of the first section

“Gain” & “Volume explain themselves, right?

9V center-negative power supply (13mA) (runs on 27V internally)

Product specs

Power 9V
ambienttrash

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Lichtlaerm Audio - Altar Fuzz/Distortion // Full Demo

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Lichtlaerm Audio - Altar Fuzz/Distortion // Full Demo

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ambienttrash

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Altar | Lichtlaerm Audio | Demo by Siets96

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siets96

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10 Bands - 1 Pedal | Lichtlaerm Audio Altar Pedal Demo

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Let's Play All

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This Made Me LOVE Fuzz!

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Sonic Drive Studio

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Lichtlaerm Audio - Altar

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Eric Merrow

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the best of all Muff Pedals? ALTAR by LICHTLAERM AUDIO

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SOUNDFARE

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