MichaelW
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I hope I'm not overwhelming everyone with my build report posts that have been coming in fast. I'm catching up on a year's worth of builds that I didn't post while I was getting my cancer treatment. I had enough energy to build but not enough to post or demo.
This is one that Sheepy (@szukalski) and I did last year I think. I wanted to build a Vemuram Jan Ray that was not a modded Timmy board.
When I asked @szukalski if he was down for it, his reply was a completed lay out hahaha. It's good to have friends, it's better to have really smart friends
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It's no big secret that the Jan Ray controversy is that it's essentially lifted Paul Cochrane's Timmy circuit. Which in and of itself is not that big of a deal, I can think of at least a dozen and a half circuits that are based on the Timmy. The controversy was the usual over the top, lies, lies and damn lies from Vemuram.
As I recall, he claimed to have spent hours and hours listening to an amp to "design" a circuit that would best emulate it. His design turned out to be an outright rip of the Timmy circuit. Thus, the name of this project is "The Grift" which I think is hilarious!
Having said all that, there are a few Vemuram pedals I really like and the Jan Ray is one of them. Is it a Timmy? well, yes from a circuit point of view. But it's also got a very "Vemuram-ish" signature which is fuller low mids, more bass and in general a mellower top end.
On the original pedal there is a bass trimmer that is exposed via a hole in the top of the enclosure. I've found that this bass trimmer is an extremely useful control to dial the pedal in for a particular rig. So I wanted to make sure we had access to the trimmer.
Dave came up with the brilliant idea of locating the trimmer so that it could be a standard internal trimmer, or you could drill a hole in the back cover and access it with a screwdriver, OR........you could mod a 9mm pot and expose it from the top. We did this same thing on the Vemuram Butter Machine, which is an upcoming post, stay tuned for that one.
So I LOVE this pedal, yes, it's got the Timmy DNA but it also sounds different for the reasons stated above. It's a wonderful low gain overdrive and also acts much like a TS808 in driving a dirty amp.
I decided to expose the Bass Trim as a mini knob using a 9mm pot soldered to the back of the PCB.
I believe I have one more spare of this board if anyone wants it. Just DM me, first come first served.
I liked it so much that I decided to build a second "high gain" version with different clippers. It turned out to be a bust. It doesn't sound as good as the original.
Another great Sheepy Love project!
This is one that Sheepy (@szukalski) and I did last year I think. I wanted to build a Vemuram Jan Ray that was not a modded Timmy board.
When I asked @szukalski if he was down for it, his reply was a completed lay out hahaha. It's good to have friends, it's better to have really smart friends
.It's no big secret that the Jan Ray controversy is that it's essentially lifted Paul Cochrane's Timmy circuit. Which in and of itself is not that big of a deal, I can think of at least a dozen and a half circuits that are based on the Timmy. The controversy was the usual over the top, lies, lies and damn lies from Vemuram.
As I recall, he claimed to have spent hours and hours listening to an amp to "design" a circuit that would best emulate it. His design turned out to be an outright rip of the Timmy circuit. Thus, the name of this project is "The Grift" which I think is hilarious!
Having said all that, there are a few Vemuram pedals I really like and the Jan Ray is one of them. Is it a Timmy? well, yes from a circuit point of view. But it's also got a very "Vemuram-ish" signature which is fuller low mids, more bass and in general a mellower top end.
On the original pedal there is a bass trimmer that is exposed via a hole in the top of the enclosure. I've found that this bass trimmer is an extremely useful control to dial the pedal in for a particular rig. So I wanted to make sure we had access to the trimmer.
Dave came up with the brilliant idea of locating the trimmer so that it could be a standard internal trimmer, or you could drill a hole in the back cover and access it with a screwdriver, OR........you could mod a 9mm pot and expose it from the top. We did this same thing on the Vemuram Butter Machine, which is an upcoming post, stay tuned for that one.
So I LOVE this pedal, yes, it's got the Timmy DNA but it also sounds different for the reasons stated above. It's a wonderful low gain overdrive and also acts much like a TS808 in driving a dirty amp.
I decided to expose the Bass Trim as a mini knob using a 9mm pot soldered to the back of the PCB.
I believe I have one more spare of this board if anyone wants it. Just DM me, first come first served.
I liked it so much that I decided to build a second "high gain" version with different clippers. It turned out to be a bust. It doesn't sound as good as the original.
Another great Sheepy Love project!
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