Intensive Care Audio Life Support

What LIFE SUPPORT is, and what it's used for

LIFE SUPPORT is a high-fidelity, all-analogue overdrive and distortion pedal for the treatment of Bland Guitar Syndrome and Excessive Aural Dryness. When used regularly, it can provide effective relief from these and other music- and instrumentation-related conditions.

All Intensive Care Audio pedals are built in London, England, using high-quality components and feature soft-touch, relay-based true bypass.

Controls

• PREAMP – Sets the gain of the overdrive, ranging from sparkly, chiming clean tones to natural, tube-like edge-of-breakup, and on into grittier distortion territory. This control interacts interestingly with the CLIPPING control.
• VOLUME – Sets the overall output volume, including when BOOST is engaged.
• TOP – A passive subtractive treble filter after the last gain stage, useful for taming high frequencies that may become more pronounced as gain increases or clipping settings are adjusted.
• BOTTOM – A subtractive bass filter after the last gain stage, which variably bypasses the output capacitor just before hitting the output transformer.
• CLIPPING – Allows blending between two clipping options: LED clipping (fully clockwise) for softer, more transparent breakup, and a parallel MOSFET/JFET arrangement (fully counter-clockwise) for harder, compressed, saturated clipping.
• BOOST – Controls the gain of the boost circuit, which drives the front-end of the overdrive circuit. Intended to push the front-end harder — increasing gain and compression, and acting as a boost for lead/solo situations.

Enclosure Dimensions

• Length: 92 mm / 3.6 in
• Width: 122 mm / 4.8 in
• Height: 47 mm to 27 mm / 1.9 in to 1.1 in
• Weight: 387g