COSMIC RAY

The Flickinger Tone Boxes Cosmic Ray creates an astronomic range of clipping and gain through the use of three NOS Tungsram AC125z Germanium transistors. The Gain control actually tunes the input signal to the first transistor to manage and influence the whole effect. Three Anti-Matter controls fine tune the bias settings to the transistor to produce everything from classic overdrive to catastrophic fuzz and beyond. The left Anti-Matter knob controls the input bias for the second transistor, while the center controls the last transistor’s collector and the right controls its emitter. With this much control over three powerful gain stages, you have an extraordinary range of sounds at your fingertips, but you might have to be careful about blowing up your amp. Fortunately the Low Cut toggle attenuates the low end while the Tone control rolls back the highs for a darker sound. The Q-Link toggle switch adds or removes gain and functionality from right Anti-Matter control while the Volume control manages the potentially huge boost of the effect. The Flickinger Cosmic Ray is hand-wired, hand-painted, wired for true bypass and is powered by a single 9 volt battery only.