What's on the workbench?

[LukeFRC]

I take it you missed the bit about the knobs?



If this were true, wouldn't no knob at all be a better solution?

Ever traced any of their stuff? it's either massively over engineered verblem parts, or its the same alpha pots and parts as everyone else!

 

[Fama]

I guess I get it. Everything resonates at some frequency. At least on paper. But I can't imagine a few pots would be close to a single carbon comp or the general resistor noise. Definitely seems like an engineer finding a solution for a problem no one has(and then demanding their hard work be acknowledged in the ad copy).

What are the chances that they actually did consider what kind of brass knobs would in theory be minimally better, or alternatively did they just make some shit up to sell pedals?

 

[pbrommer]

So I was on the free the tone (the Japanese company) website and noticed in the selling points of one of their pedals :



Which they then explain



Just think how wrong we’ve been getting it with these aluminium boxes and how much tone upgrade we could all have?!

Guess it’s time to burn all of my Lovetone project boxes. I was going to put them in nice wood enclosures with stained maple tops, but now I know my quest is foolish.

 

[jcpst]

Guess it’s time to burn all of my Lovetone project boxes. I was going to put them in nice wood enclosures with stained maple tops, but now I know my quest is foolish.

I think it’s still worth it to see how the tonewood changes the sound. You might want to experiment with how many times you apply the stain.

 

[LukeFRC]

What are the chances that they actually did consider what kind of brass knobs would in theory be minimally better, or alternatively did they just make some shit up to sell pedals?

which would be worse?

 

[Nostradoomus]

that’ll free the tone real good

 

[pbrommer]

I think it’s still worth it to see how the tonewood changes the sound. You might want to experiment with how many times you apply the stain.

Oh yeah. Gotta make two similar pedals: one with lacquer and one with poly. For science.

Welp, two ringstingers it is!

 

[owlexifry]

No doubt they polish those knobs, too, so they generate more harmonics when they go into overdrive...

 

[Fama]

which would be worse?

I think flat out making up some bullshit would be worse, there could in theory be some point to it for someone who has gotten so deep into the miniscule details of electronics that they've lost sight of what actually matters or not. But I would probably rather have a pedal designed by someone like that than whatever someone who is just willing to lie to make money came up with.

...although I think depending on how strict your definitions are, the latter might apply to a surprisingly large chunk of the pedal world and/or capitalism in general.

 

[LukeFRC]

I think flat out making up some bullshit would be worse, there could in theory be some point to it for someone who has gotten so deep into the miniscule details of electronics that they've lost sight of what actually matters or not. But I would probably rather have a pedal designed by someone like that than whatever someone who is just willing to lie to make money came up with.

...although I think depending on how strict your definitions are, the latter might apply to a surprisingly large chunk of the pedal world and/or capitalism in general.

I think that a lot of guitar pedals and whole pedal industry are as much marketing as they are sound or electrical design.
Like the hype about a tubescreamer variant, or a buffer with an over designed power supply or whatever - and no focus on what sounds good. That's why I ended up drawn to the DIY world at least, I think it was seeing a schematic of something and going "there's £2 of parts in there so why does it cost £300"? and then finding out.
Oddly enough I do have preferences for what I like but as a bass player I'm pretty sure, in the mix, the pedal board made up of £20,000 boutique pedals, £300 of DIY builds or a HX stomp would sound identical for all intents and purposes.

 

[Robert]

What's on the workbench? A lot....

It always makes my day when prototypes and parts show up at the same time... Let's build some stuff.

 

[LukeFRC]

Nice! Doom2 prototype?

 

[CheapSuitG]

What's on the workbench? A lot....

It always makes my day when prototypes and parts show up at the same time... Let's build some stuff.

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The parts to PCB ratio is off!

 

[Robert]

The parts to PCB ratio is off!

They're not all prototypes.... wheeew.

 

[Nostradoomus]

They're not all prototypes.... wheeew.

Ah so there’s build docs in there too.

 

[Robert]

Ah so there’s build docs in there too.

If you thought the parts to PCB ratio was off......

 

[jimilee]

Where we’re going, we don’t need build docs.

 

[Guilherme Collateral]

What's on the workbench? A lot....

It always makes my day when prototypes and parts show up at the same time... Let's build some stuff.

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Holy cow

 

[MattG]

Is it just the camera angle, or do you really have a guitar randomly sandwiched between the wall and your parts shelves?

 

[jwin615]

Is it just the camera angle, or do you really have a guitar randomly sandwiched between the wall and your parts shelves?
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A Kramer Pacer as a spacer?