Aleph Null Troglodyte Reverb

[cendle]

Build Rating

5.00 star(s)

First non dirt pedal! Really amazing layout and design by @Aleph Null,

The layout made it very easy to assemble and the build docs provided with the PCB were very informative (mods + wiring diagrams too!)

The design leverages the core Belton 3 + PT2399 really well into a set of interactive controls with loads of "sweet spots"

Few notes

• Tone tilt control is great with down-tuned guitars
• Controls have curated range like the best Boss pedals, where most of the time I have it 'always on' as my basic reverb but with a few turns things can get crazy
• If you stack it with other delays it imparts a faux multi-tap space echo flavour
• Also, with the dwell, pre-delay, saturation, and sway controls, it makes for a very controllable reverb before distortion
• Really good for any genre with "post" in the name
• Separate dry and wet controls are very nice

Only mod I stuck with was upping the Sway control to 10K (RV1 = 10k)

Illustrator and Tayda UV print for the graphics

Looking at the other Trog builds, my soldering & offboard wiring is most definitely lacking will try to improve in that area

 

[Aleph Null]

Great job with the enclosure design! Could you post the background art? I can't quite make it out. Is it some necromancer sitting in the catacombs?

 

[cendle]

Great job with the enclosure design! Could you post the background art? I can't quite make it out. Is it some necromancer sitting in the catacombs?

Thanks! I thought it would work well for a hall/church themed reverb as a background texture

I think this the original IG account of the artist, really nice gothic inking style and they have prints here

 

[Aleph Null]

Inks and wood cuts lend themselves to screen prints and thus pedal art really well. Thanks for the links.

 

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First non dirt pedal! Really amazing layout and design by @Aleph Null,

The layout made it very easy to assemble and the build docs provided with the PCB were very informative (mods + wiring diagrams too!)

The design leverages the core Belton 3 + PT2399 really well into a set of interactive controls with loads of "sweet spots"

Few notes

• Tone tilt control is great with down-tuned guitars
• Controls have curated range like the best Boss pedals, where most of the time I have it 'always on' as my basic reverb but with a few turns things can get crazy
• If you stack it with other delays it imparts a faux multi-tap space echo flavour
• Also, with the dwell, pre-delay, saturation, and sway controls, it makes for a very controllable reverb before distortion
• Really good for any genre with "post" in the name
• Separate dry and wet controls are very nice

Only mod I stuck with was upping the Sway control to 10K (RV1 = 10k)

Illustrator and Tayda UV print for the graphics

Looking at the other Trog builds, my soldering & offboard wiring is most definitely lacking will try to improve in that area

I've built this, great pedal! Love the graphics