Seraphim User Guide

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Connections

We recommend that this pedal be placed at the end of your chain, before or after another reverb. Also, shimmer will have more sibilance if placed after a speaker simulator rather than before. If you are using the overdrive channel of your amplifier, this effect should be placed in the effects loop for best results.

Power

The power jack accepts a standard (5.5 mm OD x 2.1 mm ID) center-negative pedal power adapter (not included). The power adapter must be between 9 V and 12 V and capable of supplying 100 mA or more.

Input

The input jack (top right) accepts input directly from your instrument, amplifier effects loop output, or other effect pedals via a standard 1/4” (6.35 mm) phone connector.

Output

The output jack (top left) supplies output to another effect pedal, an amplifier, or effects loop return via a standard 1/4” (6.35 mm) phone connector. The buffered output is capable of driving long cables. If plugging into the input of an amp, you should use the low impedance (Lo-Z) input if available.

Footswitch

The Engage switch selects between engaged and bypassed. The LED lights when the effect is active. Bypassing the effect does not lower power consumption, because it does not turn off power to the pedal.

Press and hold the footswitch for 1 second to switch between reverb only and reverb with Shimmer. Release when the LED illuminates red.

Primary Controls

Mix

The Mix knob controls the mix between the dry signal and reverb:

  • Full counter-clockwise is 100% dry
  • Full clockwise is 100% reverb
  • Approximately 3 o’clock is an even mix: half dry/half wet

Depth

The Depth knob controls the length of the reverb tail; or in other words, the size of the acoustic space.

Shimmer

The Shimmer knob controls the amount of shimmer in the effect. With this knob fully counter-clockwise, there is no shimmer: the effect is reverb only. The Shimmer knob is inactive in reverb-only mode.

Alternate Controls

These controls are accessed by holding down the Engage footswitch while turning the knob.

Effect

The effect control switches between the popular original shimmer algorithm and the new W3T shimmer algorithm (which is the same as the algorithm on the Immerse Mk II).

Effect

Reverb-Only LED color

Shimmer LED color

Knob direction

Original

blue

yellow

counter-clockwise

New, with W3T

green

white

clockwise

Trails

The bypassed signal may be selected to have trails or not. When Trails is on, the effect signal trails off naturally after the pedal is bypassed. When off, the effect cuts off immediately when the pedal is bypassed. 

The LED will momentarily change color to indicate which bypass mode is selected.

Bypass mode LED color Knob direction
Trails off magenta counter-clockwise
Trails on cyan clockwise

Specifications

Electrical

Nominal input level -10dBV, instrument level
Maximum input level 8 dBV
Input impedance 1 MΩ
Output impedance 1 kΩ
Level, enabled vs. bypass 0 dB
Frequency response, dry  / bypassed 20 Hz - 30 kHz, +/-1 dB
Total harmonic distortion, dry / bypassed 0.01%
Signal-to-noise ratio, A-weighted
  • dry / bypassed
  • Enabled, all knobs 50%

  • 116 dB
  • 101 dB

Power

Input 9 - 12 V DC, 100 mA
Connector center-negative, 5.5 mm OD x 2.1 mm ID

Physical

Dimensions 115 mm L, 64 mm W, 46 mm H / 4.6" L, 2.6" W, 1.9" H
Weight 190 g / 6.7 oz

*Specifications subject to change without notice.

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This product contains no user-serviceable parts.

This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

California Proposition 65 Warning: This product may contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. While we believe our products are not harmful when used as designed, we provide this warning to comply with Proposition 65.

© 2014-2020 Neunaber Technology, LLC. All rights reserved. Neunaber® is a registered trademark of Neunaber Technology, LLC. Wet™, W3T and Seraphim™ are trademarks of Neunaber Technology, LLC. US Patent #8204240 & China Patent #CN101689840B.