{"product_id":"rainger-fx-minidrone-with-igor-pressure-pad-controller","title":"Rainger FX Minidrone with Igor Pressure Pad Controller","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Minidrone is a stripped-down version of the Drone Rainger. It’s really fun to play over, and is a great foundation for improvisation, songwriting and dramatic live performance. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s a deep and huge analogue synth, with modulation, made of up to three low-pitched triangle-wave oscillators mixed together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo of these oscillators are always in unison whatever the pitch - this is Drone 1 - though very slightly out-of-tune with each other. This creates ‘beats’ between them, a slow, wide-band modulation that keeps the drone very listenable. The pitch is controlled by ‘Pitch1’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd in the other tone generator - Drone2 - and you can make any kind of musical interval between the drones; major and minor thirds, a fifth, octaves, or thick unison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd all points in between - including tasty discordant chords, modulating fast and strangely…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrone1 and Drone2 are fully independently tuneable - with sweepable knobs - by tuner, or by ear (low volume is recommended for accuracy), with a range of approximately two octaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIgor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt comes with an Igor controller - a small pressure sensitive pad - which, when pressed, drops the overall pitch down a tone (two frets), rising back up on release. This creates a darkly atmospheric starting point for writing songs, riffs, or improvising…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePress the ‘1\/2Tone’ switch and this drop-down becomes only a semitone. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese two drop-down options actually make the pedal work in every kind of musical mode - dark and sinister, or happy up-beat ones, weird minor ones, blissed-out ones… the Minidrone is very musical and inspiring to play over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLow end\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere’s tons of bass - 70Hz down to 30Hz (approximately) is the fundamental note from Drone1, which has chorusing harmonics, but with Drone2 added there’s all kinds of tones and ‘beats’; the sound is deep and electro…\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s like hitting a low note on some big-ass old synth (Korg MS-20? Yamaha CS-80??) and bending it…! \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut in Rainger FX minipedal format (our custom enclosure).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Minidrone is true bypass, and loud. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s an electric tamboura!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a two-piece band it’s your low-end!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a window in the front panel you can see a motel scene inside - with car parks leading onto a busy road. There’s an eerie streetlamp glow - and the motel sign flashes whenever you press the Igor pad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUsing it\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou mix the drones in with your clean guitar signal, which passes through the pedal - buffered, but unaffected. The pedal can be a handy boost when you turn off the drones volume - great for a solo-type signal bump. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s designed to be used in series with other pedals (try a delay pedal after it), all plugged into a single guitar amp input.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rainger FX","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46916535976111,"sku":null,"price":199.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0503\/3980\/7407\/files\/o1evcbykbthrbusolbx1.jpg?v=1778815282","url":"https:\/\/aifineguitars.com\/products\/rainger-fx-minidrone-with-igor-pressure-pad-controller","provider":"Amelia Island Fine Guitars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}