The King of Fuzz Distortion

When it comes to unmistakable, classic fuzz/distortion, the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff reins supreme. Vintage Big Muffs are prized for powerfully fat sustain, aggressive attack, and an over-the-top sonic personality.

Inspired by the hallowed early-'70's "triangle" version of the Big Muff, the Bermuda Triangle plug-in for UAD-2 and Apollo interfaces delivers the same bad-ass attitude and fiendish fuzz that has graced classic records from Pink Floyd to the White Stripes.

• Track through a faithful emulation of the legendary Electro-Harmonix Big Muff
• Conjure violin-like sustain and powerful slabs of fuzz with the same pedal used by David Gilmour, Jack White, and Dan Auerbach
• Add colorful distortion/fuzz textures to guitars, synths, drums, and vocals at mixdown with any UAD-2 hardware
• Get the same circuit interaction, gain range, and clip points of a vintage Big Muff thanks to Unison technology

A Faithful Fuzz Emulation

The Bermuda Triangle plug-in expertly captures the original Big Muff's huge sounding bass response and rich-yet-raspy character. Its simple Volume, Tone, Sustain control set allows you to easily and intuitively dial-in single-coil or humbucker-equipped guitars.

Triangle Tones

Whether it's violin-like sustain for lead lines, or bursts of punishing low-string riffs, the Bermuda Triangle plug-in is voiced to deliver the fuzzy goods just like the original vintage unit. From heavily saturated to colorfully clipped, the Bermuda Triangle reacts like the hardware to your touch and picking attack for a bountiful range of distorted delights.

Unison Technology - Key to Tone, Touch, and Feel

The interaction of your instrument and the first pedal in your signal chain is an essential ingredient to capturing a stompbox's unique character and tone. Thanks to Universal Audio's Unison technology, your guitar gets the same circuit interaction, gain range, and clip points of a vintage Big Muff when you plug in to an Apollo Twin, DUO, or QUAD. This gives you the true tone, feel, and response of the original hardware.

Not Just for Guitar

The Bermuda Triangle's signature voice can also be unleashed on bass, drums, vocals - or anything else. Blowout a drum bus with ridiculous amounts of distortion or add grit and edge to a vocal or synth. And by nailing the original hardware's beefy low-end response, the Bermuda Triangle is an ideal fuzz/distortion tool for bass guitar.

Bermuda Triangle

Using Bermuda Triangle

Standard DAW Inserts

In much the same way as some premier recording and mix engineers use stomp boxes in a mix, Bermuda Triangle can be used for creative purposes on any source signal by placing it in any plug-in insert within a DAW. For typical guitar tones, follow the pedal with a guitar amp emulation (as one would with a hardware guitar pedal and amp).

Because the plug-in accurately models the original hardware's high-impedance operating levels, precautions may need to be taken to avoid undesirable input clipping.

Note: Since Hi-Z devices typically operate at much lower signal levels than line-level devices, signal levels being routed into the pedal may need to be reduced to avoid undesirable input distortion.

Unison™ Technology with Apollo

Bermuda Triangle features Unison technology for integration with the high-impedance input hardware in Universal Audio's Apollo audio interfaces. With Unison, Apollo's Hi-Z inputs inherit all of the unique circuit interaction, gain range, and clip points of the original guitar pedal.

Hi-Z Signal Routing

For the most authentic stompbox tones, plug any high-impedance instrument (guitar, bass, etc.) into Apollo's Hi-Z instrument input and place the pedal plug-in into the unique Unison INPUT insert on the same channel within Apollo's Console application. If desired, follow the Unison pedal plug-in with another pedal or guitar amp emulation in Console's standard insert slots.

This Hi-Z workflow enables near-zero latency monitoring or recording with the same input characteristics and dynamic response as the original pedal.

Note: This plug-in can be Unison-enabled with Apollo's Mic or Line inputs. However, because the original hardware has a high-impedance instrument input only, Apollo's Hi-Z input and Unison insert will provide the most accurate sound and experience of the hardware pedal that is modeled.

Important: Unison is active only when the pedal plug-in is placed in the unique INPUT insert available on Hi-Z inputs within Apollo's Console application. For complete Unison details, see the Apollo Software Manual.

Tactile Control

Apollo's front panel preamp knob can independently adjust the Volume, Sustain, and Output controls available within the Unison pedal plug-in via Gain Stage Mode. The control being adjusted can be remotely switched via Apollo, so the control levels and their associated colorations can be tuned from the hardware knob for precise physical tactile control, all without using the Unison plug-in's software interface.

Bermuda Triangle Controls

Sustain

Sustain varies the amount of signal overdrive. Rotate the control clockwise to increase distortion and sustain.

Volume

Volume adjusts the pedal's modeled output level. Rotate the control clockwise to increase the volume.

Tone

Tone adjusts the high-frequency content of the signal. Rotate the control clockwise to increase the filter amount, which reduces treble content.

Power

The stomp switch toggles between plug-in enable and disable. Click the switch to toggle the Power state.

Like the original hardware, this is a true-bypass control. When disabled, the signal is not colored by the circuitry.

Tip: Power can also be toggled by clicking the UA diamond logo.

Output

Output controls the clean (unmodeled) gain at the output of the plug-in. The available range is -24 dB to +12 dB.

Tip: Click the "0" label to return the control to zero dB.