ZIMcards

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T9 (currently available)
T-9 - TS-9 clone
If you love the sound of a stock TS-9, and want that sound in your ZIM, T-9 is the way to go. Same tone, gain, low cut, mid hump, ect.. same sound.

B9 (currently available)
Big 9 - Modified TS
A "boutique" Tube screamer, if you will. More bass and more available gain range (.1uf / 3.3k, 1 meg gain pot w/ 10K series). Mid-hump is softened resulting in a more up-front sound.

H9 (currently available)
Hot 9 - Modified TS
A very high-fidelity and high-gain version of the TS circuit. Much of the original TS circuit is omitted, creating a clearer sound. Full bass, even mids, smooth top end. At low gain it's a great overdrive and at high gain it's in distortion territory.

CS (currently available)
Clean Smile Very clean sounding OD
A very transparant, tube-like overdrive that lets the sound of your pickups shine through. Mild crunch with clean bass and treble and no mid hump. Also works well as a moderate gain clean boost. Cleans up well with your guitar's volume knob.

BB (not yet available)
Buffer Boost - clean voltage gain
High impedance input, low impedance output, and flat frequency response. It makes your signal sound more high-fidelity, but any tone change you hear with BB is purely the result of no more tone suckage due to cable runs or other forms of loading. Set it at unity gain and use it as a signal buffer, or crank the gain to distort whatever BB is driving.

T+ (not yet available)
TAR + Vintage metal distortion
A tweaked version of the classic distortion circuitry used in Distortion +, Rat, and other distortion pedals. Nice 70's/80's style crunch with plenty of gain and output volume.

FF (not yet available)
Fat Fuzz - Vintage Fuzz
A new take on the vintage Dallas Arbiter circuit. A more stable circuit that delivers the same fat attack and organic sustain of the classic Fuzz Face.

BM
Brown Muff - Fuzz/Distortion (not yet available)
A great lead tone that falls somewhere in between Fuzz and distortion, this is ZIM's take on the Big Muff Pi. This is a modified version of the transistor muff. Silky smooth sustain and classic tone.