Ritual Electronics Guillotine Manual 

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2 Summary 03................Warranty 04................Installation 05................Overview 06................Controls 07.................Colors 08................Routing 09................Patch ideas

Your module has been assembled with care in our studio in Marseille, France. You can find your module on Modulargrid: https://www.modulargrid.net/e/ritual-electronics-guillotine For any remarks and informations, contact us at: [email protected] For video demos and patch ideas check: https://www.instagram.com/ritualelectronics/ Limited warranty Ritual Electronics warrants this product to be free of defects in materials or construction for a period of one year from the date of purchase. Malfunction resulting from wrong power supply voltages, backwards or reversed eurorack bus board cable connection, abuse of the product or any other causes determined by Ritual Electronics to be the fault of the user are not covered by this warranty, and normal service rates will apply. During the warranty period, any defective products will be repaired or replaced, at the option of Ritual Electronics, on a return-to-Ritual Electronics basis with the customer paying the transit cost to Ritual Electronics. The return of your module is on us. Ritual Electronics implies and accepts no responsibility for harm to person or apparatus caused through operation of this product.

or unplugging a module. Do not touch any electrical terminals when attaching any Eurorack bus board cable. As the 1U series does not have a shrouded header, so remember: RED STRIPE DOWN Ritual Electronics Guillotine requires: 26mA on +12V 26mA on -12V 0mA on +5V You will need 14HP of free space in your Eurorack case to install Guillotine. The module is 35mm deep. Guillotine is a 1U module, you will need a 1U rack space, either Intellijel format or Pulplogic format.

distortion in 1U format. Its insane amount of gain can also be used as an instrument adaptor (guitars, basses, microphones...) as it can bring line and mic levels to modular levels. Do not expect it to be clean though... Guillotine is two channels of hard clipping distortion with up to 25dB gain. If you process mono signals you can self patch the module to chain the two channels for close to 50dB gain. Insane amount of gain guaranteed. Guillotine has an internal feedback routing allowing for two distortion colors per channel. The result is similar to a low pass fi lter, but not quite. The lower position gives emphasis on the low end, the middle position is straight up distortion, with no coloration & the higher position emphasises on the high frequency content.

Middle: neutral Lower: emphasis on low freq The left switch is for the left channel The right one is for the right channel Gain knob Fully CCW the module is silent Fully CW you go to +25dB of gain Guillotine controls Guillotine In R In L Guillotine Gain Color In L / In R If you patch a mono signal in In L it will be replicated to In R If you patch a cable in In R the connection will be broken for true stereo use or for serial use. See page 8 Out L / Out R Both outputs are independent for true stereo

Neutral Low frequency emphasis High frequency empasis brings a resonant peak which moves down in frequency as the gain increases. The frequency above the peak are slightly raised. Neutral position has no emphasis. Think of your regular distortion with no tone control. All the above illustrations were drawn using white noise from our own Krach module and Guillotine set at 25% gain. Low frequency emphasis gives your sound a slightly resonant bump and lower the frequencies above the bump. The bump moves down as the gain increases.

with a mono input. By reinjecting the left output in the right input you double the amount of gain (you get close to +50dB of gain) and double the tone control too. When used in serial mode certain color combinations at low gain setting can self oscillate! External modules can be inserted betwenn Out L and In R for more processing in between the two distortion stages. Out R can also be sent to In L for feedback patching... Try insering effects in there too. Play with colors. A world of weird sounds will arise! Guillotine In R In L Guillotine Gain Color

Guillotine input is very sensitive to input levels. As you turn the input down, Guillotine will distort less. This means you can get pseudo voltage control over the gain of the distortion by patching a VCA between your signal and Guillotine. Patch notes Whatever, audio out ------------ VCA In VCA, VCA out ------------ Guillotine In VCA, VCA CV ------------ LFO / Enveloppe Of course, use two VCAs and one or more CV source for stereo gain control VCA Out I Out II CV A CV B CV I In I CV II In II Guillotine In R In L Guillotine Gain Color Coarse Fine 1V/Oct Lin FM Exp FM PWM

We can take advantage of the serial Guillotine configuration trick to create a switchable gain / more gain distortion, reminiscent of the “rythm / lead” switch on certain guitar amps. Pair Guillotine with Pointeuse, our 1U switch module to do so. Pair Guillotine & Pointeuse with a footswitch and pretend you have an expensive amp. Patch notes Whatever, audio out ------------ Guillotine, L In Guillotine, L Out ------------ Pointeuse, Out/In I Guillotine, L Out ------------ Guillotine, R In Guillotine, R Out ------------ Pointeuse, Out/In II Pointeuse, In/Out ------------ Audio out Patch ideas P+ Trig In Latch Mom Pointeuse Guillotine In R In L Guillotine Gain Color

Use Guillotine as a feedback hub. With two stackcables or a multiple you can even have a stereo feedback patch in no time. Insert your favorite effects in between the ins and outs. We prefer analog effects to minimize the risk of unwanted digital clipping (it will happen) - but I’m sure some of you psychos might like that. Patch notes Guillotine, Out L ------------ Filter, In Filter, out ------------ Guillotine, In R Guillotine, Out R ------------ Delay, In Delay, Out ------------ Guillotine, In L Turn the knobs frantically & flip those switches! DLY In Dly Fd b k O u t Fd b k Fd b k Fdbk Delay _ + _ + _ + Out 1V/Oct Freq CV In Blend Color Guillotine In R In L Guillotine Gain Color

That’s a simple trick which will work with all distortions. Miasma users, keep an eye open. Oscillators tend to sound a bit dull in a distortion, compared to a guitar let’s say. But if you add a generous dose of white noise before the saturation, you will have a somehow electric sound, breaking the monotony of the ever repeating waveform of your oscillator. Patch notes Osillator, Saw out ------------ Mixer, Ch. 1 In Noise, White out ------------ Mixer, Ch. 2 In Mixer, Out ------------ Guillotine, In L Try using colored noise instead of white for 110V synths Mix In I In In II In III O ut I O ut III O ut II Ø I Ø II Multiple II I WhiteP ink Bleed Hiss Krach VCA Out I Out II CV A CV B CV I In I CV II In II Guillotine In R In L Guillotine Gain Color Coarse Fine 1V/Oct Lin FM Exp FM PWM

If you are into experiments, try using Guillotine to distort LFOs, enveloppes, and other control signals. It does work. If you use the left side of Guillotine to process the CV why not using its right side to process the related audio ? This way you can achieve drastic changes at the turn of a knob. HARDCORE AUDIO HARDCORE CV Patch notes LFO, sine out 1 ------------ Guillotine, In L Guillotine, Out L ------------ VCA, CV in Guillotine, Out L ------------ Filter, CV in VCA, Audio Out ------------ Guillotine, In R VCA LFO Out I Out II CV A CV B CV I In I CV II In II Guillotine In R In L Guillotine Gain Color Coarse Fine 1V/Oct Lin FM Exp FM PWM _ + _ + _ + Out 1V/Oct Freq CV In