Electro-Harmonix Turnip Greens Multi-Effects Pedal with Selectable True Bypass and Effects Loop

The Electro-Harmonix Turnip Greens is a multi-effect pedal that combines the Soul Food Overdrive and Holy Grail Max Reverb. The Soul Food delivers transparent sounds starting with a clean boost and progressing to intense overdrive. It’s equally adept at adding punch to a player’s tone, pushing an amp into saturation, or in front of other dirt pedals driving them into new worlds of distortion. The Holy Grail Max provides four carefully crafted reverbs - Spring, Hall, Plate, and Reverse. A newly designed analog wet and dry control yields a constant volume curve as the Blend knob is turned from fully dry to fully wet, while also keeping the dry signal analog through the pedal. A toggle effect-order switch, located in the middle of the Turnip Greens, selects whether the overdrive or reverb is first in the effects chain. Send and Return jacks let the player insert effects into the signal path between the two. The Turnip Greens features an internal switch that lets the player select between true bypass or buffered bypass for the Soul Food section.
Soul Food Controls
DRIVE Knob controls the amount of input gain. As you turn DRIVE clockwise, the overdrive ranges from a clean boost, in the fully counter-clockwise position, to classic distortion, in the fully clockwise setting. There are many great sounds found within the full range of the DRIVE knob, we recommend experimenting with different positions in both halves of the DRIVE knob to find just the right amount of grit for your needs. In addition, turning DRIVE clockwise will bring out more mids in your tone. TREBLE Knob acts as a tone control. When set to 12 o’clock (50 percent), the tone is neutral. As you turn TREBLE clockwise from the 12 o’clock setting, the treble gain increases making your overall sound brighter. As you turn TREBLE counter-clockwise from the 12 o’clock setting, the high end is reduced giving you a bassier sound. VOL Knob sets the output level of the Soul Food section of the Turnip Greens. As VOL is turned clockwise, the output volume increases. The OVERDRIVE footswitch selects whether the Soul Food section is engaged or in bypass mode. When the Soul Food is engaged, its corresponding LED is lit. An internal Bypass Mode switch is included to select between True Bypass and Buffered Bypass.
Holy Grail Max Controls
REVERB Switch Knob is a rotary switch that chooses the reverb mode. Clockwise, the modes are SPRING, HALL, PLATE and REVERSE. TIME Knob adjusts the decay time, or reverb length and size, for the SPRING, HALL, and PLATE reverbs. In REVERSE mode, the TIME knob sets the length of time between striking a note and the reverb fade-in. While in PLATE mode, when TIME is set to its maximum position, the reverb decay is over 30 seconds creating a lush reverb wash with each new note. BLEND Knob controls the wet/dry mix from 100 percent Dry (counter-clockwise position) to 100 percent Wet (clockwise position). As the BLEND knob is turned, the overall output volume remains nearly constant. Your Dry signal remains analog from input to output through the Holy Grail Max section of the Turnip Greens. The REVERB footswitch selects whether the Holy Grail Max is engaged or in True Bypass mode. When the effect is engaged, its corresponding LED is lit. The EFFECT ORDER Switch, located in the middle of the Turnip Greens, selects which effect is first in the signal chain. With the switch to the right, the signal chain is OD followed by Reverb, which produces a sound most players are used to - their boosted tone with some added reverb. With the switch to the left, the signal chain is Reverb followed by OD, which produces a slightly different and interesting sound. Now the reverb is being boosted by the overdrive which, when used in conjunction with pedals in the effects loop, can create some very lush textures. The Turnip Greens has 1/4-inch audio input and output jacks. The SEND jack is a 1/4-inch jack that can be used to put effects in the signal path between the Soul Food and Holy Grail Max to expand its sonic capabilities. This output can also be used to split your signal to a separate effects chain or amplifier input. The 1/4-inch RETURN jack must be used in conjunction with the SEND jack. Connect this jack to the output of the effect(s) in the loop. If you remove the Turnip Greens’ bottom cover, you will see a small switch on the board that holds the footswitch for the Soul Food. It is located in the bottom-left area of the pedal, below the INPUT jack. Above the switch is the label TRUE BYPASS and below the switch is the label BUFFERED. When the switch is set to TRUE BYPASS, its upper position, bypassing the Soul Food section will be True Bypass. When the switch is set to BUFFERED, its lower position, bypass will be the Soul Food’s Buffered Bypass. The switch is normally set to BUFFERED in the factory. In True Bypass mode, when the Turnip Greens is set to bypass, the INPUT jack is connected directly to the AMP jack and nothing else. In Buffered Bypass mode, the bypass signal passes through a high-quality buffer circuit before it is output from the OUTPUT jack. The buffer circuit requires power to hear your instrument in bypass mode. Plug the output of the supplied AC adapter into the 9V power jack located at the top of the Turnip Greens. The Turnip Greens draws 125mA at 9VDC with a center-negative plug. The Turnip Greens accepts Boss and Ibanez-style AC Adapters.