As you probably have worked out, I'm a big fan of the Rockett pedals, specifically the Caliber 45, Blue Note, Animal, and Majestic. These pedals, especially in the tourbox series, are very, very similar. So I suspect it wouldn't be too difficult to make a generic PCB that you could make into any of these pedals just by varying a few components or adding a link. Would anyone be into that?
An idea for a generic Rockett pedal...
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Good info, sweet that you posted the layout on the tagboard forum.
I haven’t looked at the majestic schematic yet, but from what I remember couldn’t the other three all be built on the same pcb? (The mammal on here). But I think it would be cool if the build docs listed all the components.
Funny I never realized I built a caliber 45 a few years ago till your post prompted me to look up the schem just now... I had made a blue note and decided to do a couple mods -- 250k gain pot, omit the hot switch, and 47k pair for vref (like the animal). Looks to be the exact same haha.
I haven’t looked at the majestic schematic yet, but from what I remember couldn’t the other three all be built on the same pcb? (The mammal on here). But I think it would be cool if the build docs listed all the components.
Funny I never realized I built a caliber 45 a few years ago till your post prompted me to look up the schem just now... I had made a blue note and decided to do a couple mods -- 250k gain pot, omit the hot switch, and 47k pair for vref (like the animal). Looks to be the exact same haha.
I'm not sure - I'd have to have another look at them all. I have built a few different versions on the PCB boards. But there is no documentation on building the various forms and I think the switch is superfluous - just my opinion! And you are absolutely right - there is not much difference circuitwise. But they each sound different enough to justify having them all - again, IMO. I just built myself a Majestic (with 1N4148s in place of the Ge diodes) and a 45 in the same box with the second switch as a switch between the two circuits because the Majestic is a little thicker sounding than the 45. I use the 45 as a cleaner, janglier OD to use with neck and middle positions and switch to the Majestic for the bridge pickup and thicker tones.
I would buy a few boards for a generic Rockett OD like this. It would make my builds neater.
I would buy a few boards for a generic Rockett OD like this. It would make my builds neater.
