Recent content by dunkindonuts

People are being weirdly pedantic about the role of "hybrid" as a term here. I don't really think there's anything to clear up. It's a digital delay with extensive analog processing to make it sound good and to create sounds that would not be possible with digital hardware alone.

Please don't interpret any of this as a substitute for real regulatory or legal advice, but here's my $0.02. RoHS is trivially easy to self-declare. If every part you source has a document that says its RoHS, you're fine. If you want to be extra careful, you can retain your own copies for each...

It certainly wasn’t four years of continuous work. I wasn’t even involved for much of that time. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Matt Hoopes, owner of 1981 inventions.

Kind of a necrobump but I recently came across this thread. Since this was my design I figured I'd chime in. The input buffer convergently ends up resmbling the Cornish buffer, though this circuit topology was not invented by Cornish. You see bootstrapping in a wide variety of high impedance...

Jeez that announcement was a roller coaster. Boss dropped the DM-101 out of nowhere less than 24 hours after we announced the release date. That's tough competition :LOL: But, appreciate you saying that. It's expensive, but for perspective the Moog MF104-m retailed for $700 in 2012 which is...

Thank you. This one for sure took a village. I am the primary analog/power/layout engineer, but there's definitely a lot more besides that! We basically dove straight into the digitally controlled analog deep end with this one. Not to mention they are fairly labor intensive and require...

That's a holdover from when USPS to Australia was just 1000% fucked. Things seem better now so we'll turn it back on! Thanks! I put in way too much work not to keep making it. It'll be available as much as possible and is going to stay in the lineup for as long as Xvive will sell us MM3005s. In...

Thanks folks. I'm glad people appreciate the DIY stuff. That side of the operation is somewhat neglected at the moment because I've been busy with new designs, but we have a few things on the backburner which I really need to get out. I've been sitting on a Maestro Fuzztain PCB for a hot minute...

Here's what it should look like on an analyzer at both extremes of the Bass control, all other tone controls at noon. The FMV doesn't have a whole lot of bass range, especially the way it's tuned, but that's the Model T for you. You can see why a lot of "amp in a box" pedals graft active...

There should be a pedal forum version of Godwin's law: every sufficiently long thread invokes klon at some point :LOL: Anyway, I'll see myself out now. Email inbox is always open (john [at] electronicaudioexperiments.com). If you build a Mofeta and like what you hear, please consider supporting...

Lots of people nowadays use bricks with 18V taps, and in the last year or two (prior to the design update) we noticed an increase in people blowing their charge pumps with over-voltage. The ICL7660S can only handle about 12V before it dies and it is also sensitive to ESD spikes. I don't mind the...

The simplest way to state this is that I'm bothered that something I made is, due to reverse engineering, no longer entirely in my control. It's something I've struggled to come to terms with, but it's given me lots to think about. I'd say this is accurate. I am a relentless self-critic and...

Bill is a personal friend and, all other things equal, he has really been through the wringer with manufacturing and the fallout from not being able to meet demand. That's a story for another place and time though. Scaling up is hard especially in such volatile and uncertain economic times. This...

Sure, would probably be instructive to throw these on an audio analyzer and look at the noise floor. It's difficult to evaluate THD+N in a high gain circuit (i.e. anything intended to clip) but a head to head test would be interesting. Based on the evolution of our products, I am confident that...

I made an effort to get in touch with pedalpcb directly, but I was unsuccessful. I don't mind having these conversations publicly. Seems like an educational opportunity though. This discussion indicates to me that relatively few folks in the pedal world talk about (or are cognizant of) factors...