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Just an example. When wiring up stripboard, the wires all get soldered to the ends of the board? So the wire for "Switch A1" gets soldered to the "A1" position?

I've tried stripboard twice, both times produced no sound, bummer. I did two really simple fuzz circuits, still failed.
 
DeadAirMD said:
Just an example. When wiring up stripboard, the wires all get soldered to the ends of the board? So the wire for "Switch A1" gets soldered to the "A1" position?
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DeadAirMD said:
I've tried stripboard twice, both times produced no sound, bummer. I did two really simple fuzz circuits, still failed.
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Post a troubleshooting thread, and folks here can help sort 'em out.
 
Every time I see that damn monkey, it's too small to see it's covering its eyes with its hands.
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When at normal size...
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... it just looks like it's pulled down its britches and bent over MOONING you.


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Harry Klippton said:
Can somebody explain sidechaining to me? What are some practical applications of sidechaining?
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First thing that comes to mind is ducking.

Personally, I sometimes use side-chaining on the bass guitar, triggered by the kick drum, so that the kick is more defined and prominent in the mix.

It can be cool on guitar solos with lots of delay, where you apply the compressor to the wet delay signal and trigger it with the dry signal, so that the repeats swell back into the mix during the rests.
 
Harry Klippton said:
Can somebody explain sidechaining to me? What are some practical applications of sidechaining?
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I like my autowah after dirt, but dirt compressing the signal makes the autowah less quacky — so taking Robert's handy three-way splitter, I have:

DRY — route the signal through whatever order of pedals... ["DRY" to go through pedal-chain's AUDIO PATH]
SIDE-CHAIN TO AUTOWAH (can put Envelope Filter anywhere I want)... [NOT PART OF AUDIO PATH]
SIDE-CHAIN TO COMPRESSOR (can put compressor wherever I want and it reacts to dry signal off my bass/guitar). [NOT PART OF AUDIO PATH]

SYNTH pedals should ALL have a side-chain, IMO, 'cause they track better with a raw signal, but maybe you need it after your fussy little don't-put-no-buffer-before-me Fuzz Face...


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Feral Feline said:
I like my autowah after dirt, but dirt compressing the signal makes the autowah less quacky — so taking Robert's handy three-way splitter, I have:

DRY — route the signal through whatever order of pedals...
SIDE-CHAIN TO AUTOWAH (can put Envelope Filter anywhere I want)...
SIDE-CHAIN TO COMPRESSOR (can put compressor wherever I want and it reacts to dry signal off my bass/guitar).

SYNTH pedals should ALL have a side-chain, IMO, 'cause they track better with a raw signal, but maybe you need it after your fussy little don't-put-no-buffer-before-me Fuzz Face...
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Isn’t this pretty much the same as running a parallel blender? I use one of those Sonicake Portals, before owned an OBNE Signal Blender, to mix my wet delays or whatever in. The Portal can be set to run in series or parallel.
 
bluedmc777 said:
Isn’t this pretty much the same as running a parallel blender? I use one of those Sonicake Portals, before owned an OBNE Signal Blender, to mix my wet delays or whatever in. The Portal can be set to run in series or parallel.
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Side-chaining is when a signal output controls a parameter of another effect. So in Feral's example the autowah and compressor would have to have a separate input for the sidechain trigger that routes to one of those particular parameters, which in the case of the autowah would be the split dry signal routed directly to the envelope follower part of the autowah
 
You’ll love this question.

Is there a looper pedal which does repeat recorded phrase as you’re really playing it?

And I mean WITHOUT THE LOSS IN AUDIO QUALITY and the tonezz? Have tried Zoom multieffect pedals looping and mates Boss RC-20. Those suck. And I’m not really keen on spending hundreds of coins for a looper.

Should I consider 2nd hand TC Ditto/s, DigiTechs Jamman/Hardwire or something wilder like Kliptons tape cassette tascam?
 
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