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  1. daeg

    Wall of Shame: pedal abominations

    Well obviously; they sound sterile and digital. ;)
  2. daeg

    Wall of Shame: pedal abominations

    Mine is a bucket of Boss pedals I "modded" that now barely work. Very shameful indeed.
  3. daeg

    Tri-Color LED

    Will this support floats? Can I put (0.8, 0.3, 0.5)?
  4. daeg

    Practice/Headphone Amp Project

    I just spent half a billion dollars on the Walrus ACS1 as a headphone amp to not wake the kids up at night. One thing I have to say, is that the adjustable Room Reverb really helps dial in convincing tones. On both the Walrus and Strymon, it's subtle as far as reverbs go, but makes a big...
  5. daeg

    The Informant Noise issues

    Stacking a compressor and a distortion is like the noisiest thing you can do. You don't hear it when you run the compressor into other distortion pedals?
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    The Informant Noise issues

    My first impression is that it's less noisy than a stock Rat and pretty quiet for a distortion pedal. Describe the noise you're hearing. How does it relate to the positions of the pots? What kind of pots did you use? Did you make any parts substitutions? Are your chips genuine TL072 and an...
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    The Informant Noise issues

    I'm building one today and I'll let you know.
  8. daeg

    Squidward quiet when powered on.

    One way or another, we'll need some more info. A close-up of the underside of your board and voltage readings of your transistors would both be very helpful. Do you have a Digital Multimeter? One thing I notice right off the bat is you didn't socket the transistors. It's very easy to fry them...
  9. daeg

    You guys set up your own guitars?

    JM's are notoriously difficult to setup. One of the reasons they're so maligned is because they play terribly when you sit down to play them in music stores. No neck shim + light gauge strings + low break angle over the bridge + shallow bridge saddles + rocking bridge + spring loaded vibrato...
  10. daeg

    More usable volume pot sweep

    A linear pot would undoubtedly make things worse. When a Linear Pot is at 50% of it's rotation, it's at 50% of it's total resistance When a Logarithmic Pot is at 50% of its rotation, it's at 10% of its total resistance. That means, if you like the Acapulco at 9-o'clock, you're at like 6/100...
  11. daeg

    Is it just me or is the Simulcast kinda bright?

    Awesome. So glad it worked out. The Simulcast has found a home on my board as the light overdrive. It's taken the place of the Crowther Hotcake (Aion Anomoly), which was doing the typical light, full-range OD into a Vox Top Boost channel. My impression is that it doesn't compress when you dig...
  12. daeg

    Delay recommendations?

    The Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay scratched the itch for me. Very simple, but nails the '3-knob Delay' thing. https://www.pedalpcb.com/product/seabed/
  13. daeg

    Tri-Color LED

    Just checked the Terrarium. The LEDs are connected to Pin 22 and 23. Unfortunately there are only 2 DAC Outs.
  14. daeg

    Tri-Color LED

    Has anyone thought about using a 4-pin RGB LED with the Daisy? If we figured out how to connect 3 of those pins to the Daisy, send each pin a square wave and control the PWM of each square wave, we could have have and endless spectrum of colors available to us. I might create a thread on the...
  15. daeg

    MT-2 / Metal Zone clone PCB

    You know, when I first started building PedalPCB circuits I was on a 6-knob kick. I built about 10 6-knob/125B circuits and loaded them all onto my pedalboard at once. After the board got completed I started having moments like "...F***, how did I like the Alpha Dog set? Oh crap, now it's not...
  16. daeg

    MT-2 / Metal Zone clone PCB

    Exactly. 4 knobs of EQ on a pedal + 3-5 knobs of EQ on an Amp is just too much for a beginner guitarist. The high compression is also a problem, which is why the LED clipping mods are so popular. Almost a decade ago, I bought an MT-2, modded it and gave it a metal head friend as a gift. He was...
  17. daeg

    Broadcast AP Schematic

    I went looking for it a couple weeks ago and couldn't find one.
  18. daeg

    Is it just me or is the Simulcast kinda bright?

    I just realized, when I was testing the pedal out last night, I had my guitar plugged directly into it and the treble sounded just right. Today, when I found it was way too bright, it was on my pedalboard, after a buffer. As you all already know, low input impedance loads your pickups and...
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    Is it just me or is the Simulcast kinda bright?

    Here's what it looks like in my build. I'm using a 2n5088 so ignore the transistor orientation. I like bright so a 68pf cap was right for me.
  20. daeg

    Is it just me or is the Simulcast kinda bright?

    Built it. Caiofilipini was kind enough to mail me a PCB. Playing a low volume late last night, it sounded perfect. Playing at medium volumes today, oh my god, my ears bled. There is an easy fix though. Silicon Fuzz Faces are notorious for being too bright, and one of the common solutions is to...
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