"Almost excited" by a new Cornish pedal......

MichaelW

MichaelW

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I was pretty stoked when I got the email from AionFX about his latest tracing journal's for 3 new Pete Cornish projects.

Especially the GC-1 overdrive.

Then I read through the whole article. Bleah.....this seems pretty beneath Pete Cornish to recycle and re-hash then lie about the circuit being something "completely new".

Cornish GC-1 Tracing Journal

Having said that, I might still build it. I really like my CC-1. OC-1.
 
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MichaelW said:
I've had my OC-1 out the last couple days, actually since reading the article reminded me I had built it :)
Still like it. It's a cool medium gain drive with an interesting texture to the crunch.
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Crunch is pretty much exactly what I don't want from a compressor, usually. Might work for me for guitar though, if I ever actually play mine again. :cool:
 
Passinwind said:
Crunch is pretty much exactly what I don't want from a compressor, usually. Might work for me for guitar though, if I ever actually play mine again. :cool:
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Ooops, sorry I meant the "CC-1" the Cornish Crunch, it's an overdrive.
My OC-1 was the first optical compressor I built, and I still like that one a lot too. It's a bit fiddly to get a good sound out of it, which is ironic since it's only 3 knobs. But the Cornish website has instructions how to set it up. Having said that, it does have more coloration than I care for in a compressor. It's got more squish than the General Tso but not as transparent and doesn't have that lovely "hi fi boost" that the Tso has.
 
OC-1 is really just an OC-2 with the sub-octave circumcised.

You can get the single-octaver PCB from Oshpark (or from Griffin, IIRC a clone of the Oshpark layout)
 
People who hear them think they sound good, they are used by artists they like, and they like the way they look.
 
MichaelW said:
I was pretty stoked when I got the email from AionFX about his latest tracing journal's for 3 new Pete Cornish projects.

Especially the GC-1 overdrive.

Then I read through the whole article. Bleah.....this seems pretty beneath Pete Cornish to recycle and re-hash then lie about the circuit being something "completely new".

Cornish GC-1 Tracing Journal

Having said that, I might still build it. I really like my OC-1.
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Go for it, at least it has enough Knobs to dial in & out what you do or don't want!
 
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