I was pretty sure 'twas a stripped down OC-2, an "OC-1", if you will.
For sure it is the cost of $hipping that is the bane of our current "golden era" of pedals.
Gooping... I guess some deterrent is better than none at all, from the manufacturer's perspective. Given that the Klon Centaur and so many other gooped pedals...
Actually, he
wanted you to trace it, otherwise why put in the motivator to do so?
If I ever come up with a circuit of my own that I think is super-cool, I'm going to goop it so that others will take interest, de-goop it and then all shall see my brilliance in circuit design.
I haven't owned any Broughton pedals, yet. I wondered about the objectivity of the growing fan-base at TawkBsss after Josh stopped doing requested custom one-offs for TBers, and switched to production "drops" only. I guess it was a good business model, to slowly roll out some unique items and let word-of-mouth do the advertising — then transition to less time-consuming (ie no more costly lost-leader) profitable production runs.
I stopped following the Broughton thread because the GAS-lighting by the punters was too much, can't keep up with the Joneses.
I still have difficulty believing that one chef's Spaghetti-Bolognese can be so vastly superior to another's, but by the same token I've had some completely crap spag-Bolognese that used tomato-paste, flecks of dried basil, and sub-standard spaghetti that was made from sub-par milled flour, topped with Mozzarubber.
Compare that to a chef that makes the sauce from vine-ripened tomatoes and peak-picked garlic etc, fresh basil AND other herbs and spices; freshly made-from-scratch spaghetti that knows
nothing of being dried out and sitting in a box for months; topped off with Pecorino Mirano...
In the end, it's still spaghetti-Bolognese.
You can tell utter crap from the extremely good, but comparing plates in the middle of the spectrum, mediocre-to-good, well then it just gets down to subjective-preferences:
SERVER: "
This Bolognese sauce is magic, the chef's secret ingredient? She puts in a pinch of fennel"
DINER: "EWWww I hate fennel!"
For cooking up pedals, I'm sure Josh is closer to the latter chef mentioned above than the former, even given the less-than-fresh footswitch Hal encountered. I don't know what's being cooked up right now at Broughton Pedals, it's a rotating menu that in the past has included some of the following (and some one-offs, too, while others in the list are currently-offered):
- APEX — VCA Compressor
- ARCHETYPE VALVE PREAMP (1590BB landscape)
- ARCHETYPE TUBE PREAMP amp chassis
- ARCHETYPE BOOST (N1)
- ATD 12AX7
- AZURE DRIVE
- AZURE DRIVE 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (wow! 10 years. Already? Egad I'm old)
- BASS BOX GERMANIUM FUZZ
- BROUGHCTAVE — Maybe PPCB Ocelot w/ SqWave mod see the Broughton Builds doc for more info
- BUFFER / BANDWIDTH AMPLIFIER
- CALAMITY
- CALYPSO
- CARINA ANALOG PHASER
- CHIMERA CMOS DISTORTION
- CONSOLE PREAMP
- DREAM CRUSHER
- DYSTOPIA
- ELECTRONIC TUBE DIRECT INJECTION
- FANTASM MODULATED DELAY
- FILTER FX LOOP (also known as FXXL) — can fab similar w/ PPCB’s Frequency Interchange etc? See Broughton Builds doc.
- FLIPTOP JFET PREAMPLIFIER— PedalPCB Capsize
- FLIPTOP BOOST — oneknobber 1590a
- GLADIUS — based on WAL preamp
- HIGH PASS FILTER 1590a — two versions vertical w/ bypass and horizontal no bypass
- HPF-DI
- HPF & LPF — 1590A individual HPF & LPF
- HELION — "Traynor preamp section of the TS-50B bass amp. An internal power supply chip provides the full +/-15V supply as in the original amp, allowing plenty of headroom to easily achieve line level. At higher gain settings, the Helion creates a cutting grindy tone. Check out the bands Shellac and The Jesus Lizard for examples of bass using the TS-50B amp." Got AION TS-50
- JOSH WAH
- LOCUST STAR
- LOW + HIGH PASS FILTER — PedalPCB Frequency Interchange
- MAESTRO BASS FUZZ
- MASTERING EQUALIZER — Pultec PEQ-1A
- MESSENGER INSTRUMENT PREAMPLIFIER — EQ, HPF, LPF, stereo aux-in, headphone, DI out, 1/4" out
- MESSENGER JR PREAMP + DI — LP/HP pedal with sweepable mids, EQ, and DI
- MINI FRIDGE CAB SIM + DI
- MONO BLOCK — TRAYNOR MONOBLOCK PRE vero
- MONOCLE OPTICAL COMPRESSOR 1590a — one-off that got bought and sold a few times; TBer davelowell2 has it as his avatar, so I guess he has it currently
- MONOCOMP
- OMNICOMP — 6-knobber
- P-15 — DI based on a B-15 preamp. DIYable? Sort-of-not-really — scratch-build a B15 or B12 Preamp and add a DI.
- PHASE LOCKED LOOP (PLL) — DEFX PLL1 probably comes close enough
- PROTO DI
- QUICKSILVER TUBE DRIVER
- RESONANT FILTER EQUALISER — Is this just an Anderton design, or? PPCB PRO FILTER may be close, or not (haven't checked)
- RESOUND
- RUMBLEFISH TRANSISTOR FUZZ
- S300 TUBE PREAMP amp
- SCORPION OVERDRIVE
- SENTINEL 8knob N1
- SIGNAL CYPHER
- SILVER DELUXE JFET TONE STACK
- SOLARIAN SIGNAL BOOSTER
- STATE VARIABLE FILTER — inspired by the Alembic SF-2 SuperFilter
- STUDIO BOOST CONSOLE GAIN STAGE
- STUDIO BOOST 1590A
- STUDIO ONE
- SUBMARINE DESIGNER — Josh traced a Zeibek, then handed it off to Southampton, became the Ictineo — PedalPCB Drebbel
- SUBSONIC ANALOG OCTAVER
- SUNDER FUZZ
- SUNRAY TUBE OVERDRIVE — “Sunray is an original tube overdrive by Broughton Audio.”
- SUPER STACK TUBE EQ + BOOST
- SUPER STACK TUBE DIRECT BOX — DI lunchbox like the P15
- SV-PRE
- SYNTH VOICE ANALOG OCTAVER — Boss OC-2 w/ square-wave mod?
- SYNTH VOICE DELUXE
- SWINGER, THE UPRIGHT BASS PREAMP : see this TB thread, best preamp money can buy
- TERRAFORMER BASS OVERDRIVE
- TONE SENDER
- UPRIGHT BASS PREAMP — well, not really but see the BB doc for ideas
- VALVE CHAMP
Whew! I may have omitted a few, or missed something new.
Anyway, I still like the Broughton stuff, I'd like to get a Broughton or two, etc, for myself to round out my Canadian collection, eventually, and see what all the zealotry on TB is about.
What to get, though?
If I get something used, it probably won't be gooped, but I won't be able to afford it.
If I get it new, I'll have to hover over the computer waiting for a new batch to drop and risk the goop (not that goop would be a problem — never bothered to de-goop anything, so that won't be a problem)...
The main Broughton I've always been interested in is the P-15.
I wish Josh continued success, and hope the bad footswitch was/is an anomaly, given that I intend to eventually own a (few?) Broughton pedals.
This was a few years ago when I was basically nobody. I'm still basically nobody, but I also was then.
