Coppersound Reboot and Evolve their Telegraph Stutter and Kill Switch Pedal - Now in V2 Extended Active Format

I’m the proud owner of the previous version of this - the Passive V1 Edition with simple Polarity Switch. I was a touch surprised when the original Telegraph was discontinued - but I understand why that happened now.

Coppersound have taken all the engineering R&D and learning from their massive Tripplegraph success and incorporated that in their Telegraph pedal - which is much more robust now.

Those engineering improvements alone were considered insufficient for a new launch - so the very core of the pedal has been evolved too. This has upsides as well as downsides. The former pedal was entirely Passive and Unpowered, while the new one needs a regular 9V supply.

The power is needed to run a Burst LFO - which automates the Stutter element - delivering a sort of choppy tremolo - not dissimilar to some of the algorithms on Boss’s recent SL-2 Slicer. 

Controls - Burst Speed, Mode : Kill (Manual Signal Cut) / Burst (Auto-Stutter) / Activate (Manual Signal Enable), Burst Mode : Active (Enable) / Kill (Cut), CTRL Mode : CV / Exp, (Control Burst Speed with Expression Pedal).

So you now have a 3-way Mode switch to be used in conjunction with a Burst Knob - which sets the Rate of the Automated Stutter - which can be Additive (Activate) or Reductive (Kill). So you can either punch in and activate your signal or else punch out and kill the signal.

The 3-way Mode selector switch goes from Manual Kill Mode, to Automated Burst Mode, and Manual Activate Mode.

You can also impart CV input or Expression control via the switchable Expression port. So quite a bit more to this new edition.

Part of me would just have been happy the reinforced Telegraph as a more Robust Passive pedal - while the new Automated Burst functionality is pretty cool - but you loose a little utility in that previously you did not require a power-supply.

They should add the Burst function to the Triplegraph really - as that already has a massive footprint - and I’m not necessarily going to add in a whole other Telegraph style pedal to deliver the kind of output I already get from my SL-2.

This is a cool new pedal for sure - and I’d quite like to have one, but in practical terms it falls on my nice-to-have list. If the Burst Mode was being included on the Tripplegraph that would certainly be a reason to upgrade!

The new V2 Telegraph is available now via the Coppersound Pedals Webstore and at leading dealers - where it goes for $249.

Any fans of the Telegraph here - or the Tripplegraph for that matter?