jhaneyzz
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Well, not 100% complete yet but I was taking some other photos and did this one while I was at it.
The drive sounds absolutely superb at all three gain settings.
I was a bit off-put at first by the control choices. I labeled the Gain Trim knob "Gain" which, if you are familiar with the pedal ends up be a bit misleading. the knob very subtly "trims" the gain, as lower gain settings it doesn't really make much of a difference at all. Frankly, I personally could live without this even being on the front of the pedal.
And honestly, the Low Cut control is pretty subtle as well, I happen to play a Reverend guitar which has a "bass contour" pot that achieves exactly the same effect. Again, I could live with this being an internal trim pot.
The lack of any tone control was the most off-putting, not because the "tone" is bad, but that, to my ear there is a spike at about 5-6K that was annoying, Thanks to previous threads on this forum and some helpful additional guidance of several forum members I came to a happy resolution. I soldered some sockets to pins 1 and 2 of the volume pot and tried a bunch of caps. I found that a 560pf cap rolled the high end down just enough for me.
While the above might lead you to believe that I am critical of the pedal. however I am decidedly not, because...
The LEVEL control is a whole other story, at 27 V this thing is a BEAST.... between three levels of gain on the switch and all of the headroom in this thing the range of drive is pretty absurd and there isn't a bad tone in it. While it is my newest drive pedal and we're still in the honeymoon phase of our relationship I'm really damn impressed.
I originally planned for this to be another of my acid etched enclosures the art wasn't dark enough nor bold enough to hold up and it looked like crap but I reallly liked the design. I ended up heat transferring a positive of the design using that traditional transfer paper and iron. (BTW, I've come up with an absolutely KILLER method of getting the absolute maximum transfer from paper to enclosure if you'r interested). After it cooled I applied 3-4 coats of clear gloss spray to it.
Gotta say, i'm not really in love with the look in the end.
Can't wait for the Duocast mini....
The drive sounds absolutely superb at all three gain settings.
I was a bit off-put at first by the control choices. I labeled the Gain Trim knob "Gain" which, if you are familiar with the pedal ends up be a bit misleading. the knob very subtly "trims" the gain, as lower gain settings it doesn't really make much of a difference at all. Frankly, I personally could live without this even being on the front of the pedal.
And honestly, the Low Cut control is pretty subtle as well, I happen to play a Reverend guitar which has a "bass contour" pot that achieves exactly the same effect. Again, I could live with this being an internal trim pot.
The lack of any tone control was the most off-putting, not because the "tone" is bad, but that, to my ear there is a spike at about 5-6K that was annoying, Thanks to previous threads on this forum and some helpful additional guidance of several forum members I came to a happy resolution. I soldered some sockets to pins 1 and 2 of the volume pot and tried a bunch of caps. I found that a 560pf cap rolled the high end down just enough for me.
While the above might lead you to believe that I am critical of the pedal. however I am decidedly not, because...
The LEVEL control is a whole other story, at 27 V this thing is a BEAST.... between three levels of gain on the switch and all of the headroom in this thing the range of drive is pretty absurd and there isn't a bad tone in it. While it is my newest drive pedal and we're still in the honeymoon phase of our relationship I'm really damn impressed.
I originally planned for this to be another of my acid etched enclosures the art wasn't dark enough nor bold enough to hold up and it looked like crap but I reallly liked the design. I ended up heat transferring a positive of the design using that traditional transfer paper and iron. (BTW, I've come up with an absolutely KILLER method of getting the absolute maximum transfer from paper to enclosure if you'r interested). After it cooled I applied 3-4 coats of clear gloss spray to it.
Gotta say, i'm not really in love with the look in the end.
Can't wait for the Duocast mini....
