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The cool thing about the electra distortion vs LPB1 with diodes is also that the Electra adds transistor breakup so the drive tone from diodes alone doesn't feel so empty.

Adding clipping diodes to an op amp boost basically makes it a distortion like the DOD250. Adding clipping diodes to a mosfet boost (super hard on) is the JPTR FX jive. You can pretty much add clipping diodes to anything.

Builders are afraid of tracing for no reason IMO. If your pedal is worth a damn and marketed well enough, people will buy it. If people really care about the pedal, copycats are inevitable, but few pedals become "important" enough for companies to clone them. If companies like Demon FX, Mooer...

About your points in the post: - Transparent doesn't mean it IS flat, but it feels/sounds flat. a completely flat overdrive/distortion would be shrill and fizzy as hell on the top end, and excessive low end gives you mud and in the worst case oscillation. It is of course often just a marketing...

The "gyrators" on that one generally just look all wrong.

It's probably a low estimate and really depends on the Youtuber. Not all of them state their prices, but for example Andy Ferris (Guitar Geek) does on his website. Pretty sure Andy Martins, Ola Englund or somebody with similar status costs you quite a bit more.

Some smaller channels do demos for a free pedal and do a serviceable job, but often it's just 2-3 loops and fiddling with the knobs. That's the guys with like up to 1-5K subscribers. Any guys above around and above 50K I'd say expect around 500-1000 bucks or more from what I've heard from people...

Designing a circuit that sounds okay isn't hard, but designing something that isn't completely redundant nowadays not so much. It's hard to break even with fair priced "boutique" pedals (I'd say below 200$ these days) as long you're making small quantities and hand solder your components...

Capitalism will capitalize. If economic theories are true, those businesses that can't compete in the market will disappear anyway. There are definitely a bunch of pedal companies that I just don't see how they get good ratings or even keep afloat given my own experiences with them, but...

At the same time just because you know electronic science stuff, doesn't mean you know what is actually "better" or that you can scientifically explain why something "is better" or sounds better. Lots of things in guitar pedal design sometimes just don't make sense, simulate wrong in software...

Most of the shit talk is often if A) the marketing is clearly lying about the circuit or is (unironically) over the top with the claims B) the circuit is clearly a clone of something with next to no innovation C) ridiculously priced D) overengineered (often to justify driving up the price) E) a...

If you want to be very sure to conserve your low end, just use a 10uF cap. But realistically speaking, 1uF is plenty even for bass.

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I'd say build something else for Marshall type lower gain sounds. The Golden Falk seems popular for that in this community.

I love how the marketing makes it seem like it's somehow based off, or at least emulating, a rangemaster, while it really is just an ever so slightly modded spark boost...

So it's a mosfet clipping BB kind of thing with maybe an active tone stage? Not like the first time ever that's been done (in the smaller Instagram pedal builder circles at least), but I'm intrigued... looking forward to the schematic...

@Robert sure that there's no power filtering on the Vref?

It's a very complex way to achieve something quite ordinary. The buffer is a Cornish Buffer. Not sure whether the wiring does anything to increase impedance, but it's an established circuit so I guess it should be good enough... Yet, I feel like you could leave out the entirety of the circuit...

But electrons rattling the crystal lettuce are where the Dumble toan is at. TBH though, I rarely find specific op amps to make that big of a difference in noise other than what I described. Also I've seen pretty much every popular op amp described as noisy in online discussions so I stopped...

Nobody has time for this, make it into a 1 minute tiktok video. :rolleyes: Nah, joking aside, I think this could be very helpful for a lot of people, good writeup without going too science-y. I wouldn't generalize it like that, as noise is sort of the product of a bunch of different things...