Guardians of the analog
Papi Fuego
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There aren't many of these left of these analog circuits for me to make and this is one I've wanted to make for a long time. This was like the last original all analog circuit boss made before going full digital or before they started doing the waza craft series of reissues. The MD-2 Mega Distortion was realsed back in 2001 and despite remaining in production the past 20+ years it is often overlooked and misunderstood. This is a great pedal that I'm stoked to have built. Anyways, here's wonder wall
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I originally wanted to do this pedal a few years back and like most things, life got in the way. Last year scouring schematics I found a couple and David at EF made a couple boards and even after a few revisions it wasn't functioning properly. Turns out none of the schematics were really right, so I did the least logical thing, I got a cheap used one and tore it apart and traced it myself.
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This is a rather complex circuit that uses a topology I haven't seen in a distortion pedal before. It's a clean boost running into a mid focused high gain distortion that has a hearty bass boost available. Imagine pushing a DS2 with a lpb-1 and adding a bass boost, that's sort of what it reminds me of. There are so many tonal options that this is not just a one trick pony. Lower the drive and push the boost for more of a QOTSA power amp distortion type sound. Push both for a fuzzed out super saturated tone. Raise the bass and really make it doom or make it lean and mean. It has a great mid forward character to the drive and I don't think people ever learned how to use it or were misinformed on what it was.
For the enclosure I went with a tayda matte violet box with UV print. For my design I used Clea, the sorceress supreme. For my sound clip I tried to demonstrate just what this can do. The pedals gain, boost and bottom controls are all at around 1 o'clock and the tone was around 11, so lots of range still on the knobs. This thing transformed my little vibro champ and SG into a monster.
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