Your own reverb into distortion one box pedal?

[Atom ant]

I’m thinking about building my own one box noise maker like freqscene’s Coil or EAE beholder. Not an original circuit, but a combination of boards. What would you put in a combo box?
I think i’m going to go with OD as the gain, because although I love fuzz, i think a lower gain circuit would be more useful.

Just looking for ideas or projects that you’ve done or are thinking about.

Cheers!

 

[Robert]

Following because I've been kicking around this idea for a while myself....

 

[p_wats]

Following because I've been kicking around this idea for a while myself....

Ha. Same

I built a Reverberation Machine from Moonn, but it's was underwhelming (very muddy circuit and the gain is bleh).

I've also got a Gravitation Reverb that's populated but not boxed up, as it's not grabbing me either. Maybe adding a dirt board after it would help?

For what it's worth, I'm leaning toward an OD as well (instead of a straight up fuzz)

 

[jcpst]

I built a Reverberation Machine from Moonn, but it's was underwhelmed (very muddy circuit and the gain is bleh).

Same.

I would love to have a drive on an intelligent bypass, but when you hold it for momentary dirt, it swells in and out. That might work better with a fuzz- I think it would produce some nice synth-like tones.

 

[Erik S]

I built a beholder a while back. I pull it out once in a while, but I’ve never managed to bond with it. One of the interesting things about that circuit is the feedback control. That seems like a useful feature to really get things droning. If you’re going to 2 in 1 it, it would be cool to do an order switcher for a little more versatility.

Off the top of my head - ghost echo into pestle/ Zoar could be cool. Might try that later!

 

[Atom ant]

Ha. Same

I built a Reverberation Machine from Moonn, but it's was underwhelmed (very muddy circuit and the gain is bleh).

I've also got a Gravitation Reverb that's populated but not boxed up, as it's not grabbing me either. Maybe adding a dirt board after it would help?

For what it's worth, I'm leaning toward an OD as well (instead of a straight up fuzz)

Yeah, I built a beholder, and have a moonn board as well. Waiting on building that one because I heard the same.
I want it to be useful for more than just extreme noise/weird, and could add another fuzz into it if needed.

Was thinking about a gravitron into a brown betty. I bet that might be fun.

 

[Einzeln]

3 in one:
Rub a dub reverb into green ringer into chopshop. Because of the dynamics and lowgain I can use a lot of verb. A more compressed gainstage makes the verb overwhelming.

 

[Feral Feline]

I've been toying with different ideas along these lines for a long-long-time.


I'll be most likely using something like the Spirit Box (EQD Ghost Echo), because it has the PT2399 to hack (longer repeats-to-oscillation) and in general I think the Belton Brick is more hackable for my purposes and skills (lack thereof) than the FV-1 'verbs.



Atom, why not use a dirt that covers a wide range of gain? A Rat's gain can be set ultra-low and approaches Fuzz when up full AND add in the option of clipping diode selection for stock-none-LEDs and you have a very versatile dirt circuit. Add AMZ's Saturation Control and you've got game.


Lots of switches and extra pots to jam in there, but maybe you're going for a streamlined control-set? If so, pick up some Trimmits!
All the bells and whistles you'll need in a handy set-to-lunacy-and-forget-unity.

 

[Einzeln]

Oh I like. I hope to build the Nein Fuzz soon. So the Rub a dub into the Nein Fuzz.

 

[Atom ant]

I've been toying with different ideas along these lines for a long-long-time.


I'll be most likely using something like the Spirit Box (EQD Ghost Echo), because it has the PT2399 to hack (longer repeats-to-oscillation) and in general I think the Belton Brick is more hackable for my purposes and skills (lack thereof) than the FV-1 'verbs.



Atom, why not use a dirt that covers a wide range of gain? A Rat's gain can be set ultra-low and approaches Fuzz when up full AND add in the option of clipping diode selection for stock-none-LEDs and you have a very versatile dirt circuit. Add AMZ's Saturation Control and you've got game.


Lots of switches and extra pots to jam in there, but maybe you're going for a streamlined control-set? If so, pick up some Trimmits!
All the bells and whistles you'll need in a handy set-to-lunacy-and-forget-unity.

See, now you’re just challenging me to expand my knowledge base, learn some new things, and giving me ideas that I don’t have enough wrinkles in my brain for.

I like the belton brick idea, and I love some oscillations. But man, I just can’t gel with the rat. I have a mosky king rat, and I mess with it before and behind every other one of my drives…and it just doesn’t inspire me. I try all the time. I really want to love it.
Right now its a greengate into fornicus into bd1 for me.

 

[Atom ant]

Oh I like. I hope to build the Nein Fuzz soon. So the Rub a dub into the Nein Fuzz.

Its good. You can get the pcb from EAE and build your own. Mine has a lag between string attack and sound that I havent figured out yet.

 

[Atom ant]

3 in one:
Rub a dub reverb into green ringer into chopshop. Because of the dynamics and lowgain I can use a lot of verb. A more compressed gainstage makes the verb overwhelming.

Have you built this? Demo?

 

[GizzWizzKing]

I would maybe use a preamp as the gain stage personally. Off the top of my head I would pick between a Mofeta, Figment, or maybe a FreakZEQ.

For the spacey noise portion of the circuit... Not sure. I know the circuit is polarizing and big but I would be tempted to try something more like the leprechaun than just a reverb... But that would be a tight fit in a big box and maybe pointless to do a 2 in 1 with... So maybe a ThreeVerb or Spatialist.

 

[Einzeln]

Have you built this? Demo?

Not as a three in one. These are my first three pedal in my pedalchain.

 

[falco_femoralis]

I have a Luxury 763 and a Boing I'm thinking of combining into one enclosure. My amp is a DRRI and I bought the 763 to see how it compares to the real thing, but I don't know what purpose the Boing is going to fulfill in that scenario.

In addition to that, I could build the amp's reverb/tremolo controls into the same enclosure, which is something I've wanted to do with a modulation, like a Julia chorus. I just dk. Two in ones are hard

 

[zeropluszero]

I don't have any reverb as it generally would be a pedal I never use, but if I want this effect I run a space echo delay on my HX One into my Prometheum distortion. Does the thing I reckon.
Distortion 5oclck, bass about 3oclock, high around 1, level to taste.

 

[Nostradoomus]

ghost echo and a percolator/karma suture because they clean up so nicely

 

[drgonzo1969]

What about putting a real spring tank in there while we’re at it. Then you could kick it for effect too. I built the Spaceman Effects Orion on Vero. It would definitely fit in one of those tall boy enclosures with another pcb and mini spring tank.

Spaceman Effects Orion Reverb

Per request. Note that he relay bypass switch circuit is omitted. Based on schematic from Dead End Fx .

dirtboxlayouts.blogspot.com

 

[Fama]

The thing that has stopped me from building any combo pedals is that if I build them separately, I could effectively use them as a combo (just put them next to each other) or not as I feel like. So the obvious answer here to me is "why not give it a try if you have reverb/delay pedals already", and see what you might like or not like.

Obviously it only works for pedals you already have, but I think testing it out first is more useful than just theorycrafting.

FWIW I agree the Reverberation Machine is lackluster, I don't like the gain at all in that, and it darkens your tone a lot. It's fun if you play into it and dial your tone so it sounds good with it, but then if you bypass it changes drastically. AFAIK it's also sort of just... badly designed? Which explains why it is like it is. You could argue it's intentionally done like that so it's not "bad" but... it's sorta bad.

 

[jcpst]

The thing that has stopped me from building any combo pedals is that if I build them separately, I could effectively use them as a combo (just put them next to each other) or not as I feel like.

This has stalled every combo that I dream up.