I love the Soft Focus. Its a patch on the Yamaha Fx500. Recently Catalinbread made a own pedal out of this. Unfortunately no clone pcb up to now, but youcan upvote on the Wish list.
I appreciate your pride to make a decent product. This is what we call in German "Handwerkerehre" - pride/honour of a craftsman.
But you had me at the word "forae" as a Latin scholar. It's not female but neutrum, so the plural of forum is fora.
I bought sets of resistors, film caps, mlcc, elco caps, colored LEDs and shrink tubes. Other parts I get from banzai and musikding, since I am located in Germany.
I rely on Björn Juhl, close the back lid and hope noone will open it again. Secret trick: No battery operation allowed.
Does anyone else seal the back with black goop or something...😝
You made me measure the cheapest set of ceramics i bought several years ago. Its a tiny plastic bag with tiny orange caps and super thin legs. The bag says 6.8nF. I measured 20 of them from 6.2 up 11.7nF, nearly all higher than 8nF. WTF?
First: Thank you for sharing the deep diving write up @mybud
Second thought was that this would be great stuff for the Pedalpcb Wiki. @PedalPCB: But it shows an invalid ssl certificate.
Yeah, loudness is a big concern in smaller venues, even for the musicians. We had an guitarist who quit playing with a band because of his hearing. He did wear protections all the time but his doc promised him to get deaf when he is older.
Asking for a friend and client. He changed from a Marshall amp to a Blackstar Amped3. Good sounds, works well in rehersal situations and recording. He uses the power out to drive a monitor box and the xlr to the mixing console.
But he had weird artefacts in live situation. The sound sometimes...
Possible. I built a fuzz with a fixed resistor as fuzz control. If you have a factory pedal, you can find your setting and put resistors in. Or use trim pots which allow to change settings with a screw driver.
As i understand it this pedal tries to sound like an amp. Without the amp tone controls it will sound different, even if the control are on a neutral setting. And a whole lot louder.