Acclam failed to include the Fuzz in the Original Dr Robert so even if the Fuzz is seperate , its a Bonus!
Beatle Juice / Pharmacist Combo
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Robert
Reverse Engineer
In my head the plan was Fuzz > Pharmacist, similar in structure to the original amp.
A bypass footswitch for the whole pedal, and another footswitch to activate the fuzz in front of the Pharmacist when the pedal is active.
I have to find my Pharmacist prototype so I can play around with the combination together and see what actually works best.... just because it sounds like a good idea doesn't mean it is.
GotchaI have to find my Pharmacist prototype so I can play around with the combination together and see what actually works best.... just because it sounds like a good idea doesn't mean it is.
Like two beautiful people with ugly kids...
I'd prefer the boost stay, at least on a toggle switch. Not having one kinda neuters the pharmacist some. The ability to move the boost pre each circuit would be nice as well.
It just seems, to be worthwhile, adding functionality would be prerequisite to necessitate the reworking. Just sticking both circuits in a box, mostly as is, seems rather redundant.
Robert
Reverse Engineer
Well, except for the part where they don't fit at the moment.
If they don’t fit, use a bigger hammer!
The issue with moving the boost around is that it is, more or less by definition, the very end stage of the original Phamacist design (or rather, a choice between two differently-biased end stages).
The more that I fiddle with this circuit, the more it feels to me that Vox got it right in the amps the first time round. Also, I'm pretty sure Aclam's "bias" on the Mocker/Beatle Juice is born of a schematic mistake – their base resistors on Q2 might work well to help control the fuzz in fuzz mode, but don't work so well when trying to run it as a clean channel. I'd even go so far as to say that the Sergeant Fuzz might be a better platform than the BJ for this project, at least up until the redundant mids control (and ditching the asymmetrical clipping diodes)...
The more that I fiddle with this circuit, the more it feels to me that Vox got it right in the amps the first time round. Also, I'm pretty sure Aclam's "bias" on the Mocker/Beatle Juice is born of a schematic mistake – their base resistors on Q2 might work well to help control the fuzz in fuzz mode, but don't work so well when trying to run it as a clean channel. I'd even go so far as to say that the Sergeant Fuzz might be a better platform than the BJ for this project, at least up until the redundant mids control (and ditching the asymmetrical clipping diodes)...
. Great idea!!
Feral Feline
Well-known member
Waddaya tokkin’ bowt?!?
There’s a TON of 1590XX builds,
just pick any two N1-sized PCBs and stuff ‘m in an XX!
If 1590BB, I vote for minimalism in a vertical (portrait) mode;
and if 1590XX then the full works in landscape mode.
Really decisive, I know.
There’s a TON of 1590XX builds,
just pick any two N1-sized PCBs and stuff ‘m in an XX!
If 1590BB, I vote for minimalism in a vertical (portrait) mode;
and if 1590XX then the full works in landscape mode.
Really decisive, I know.
airbud
Well-known member
i always forget that the enclosures can be sideways... it's so subversive
Feral Feline
Well-known member
In that case, for the subversive amongst us, how about 1590TRPC, mounted on the pedalboard at the exact following angle:
Custom 3-D printed knobs; and with Top jacks of course!
Custom 3-D printed knobs; and with Top jacks of course!
airbud
Well-known member
That's arguably my favourite drive pedal ever. It's not on my board for a couple of reasons but the sound isn't one of them. I actually purchased a CIOKS AC-10 to power it and the rest of my pedalboard, but it's not externally switchable and it doesn't like having power connected after a couple of hours. Mine blew a power transistor at some stage (replaced and fixed) but I ended up capturing it into my Mooer Preamp Live and using it that way (and then the Mooer blew up).
The power thing isn't really that much of an issue anymore, most modellers will need 9 or 12v @600ma+ at a minimum but the AC16v@800ma was a big ask at the time (and a bit odd). Now you're looking at 1A+ with the new Darkglass and Kemper modellers.
IIRC, it actually had diode clipping, much like the Valvestate amps, and I'd love to see a smaller version of it.
I’m going to say that I’m the FIRST one to come “And Your Bird Can Sing” and I am asserting intellectual rights!Also @Robert if you do this in a 1590XX (which I think is a better choice anyway), might you make the bass and treble controls external? Definitely would be cooler that way
As for name suggestions:
- Ultra Liverpudlian 730 (pretty self explanatory)
- Birdsong/Singing Bird (‘And Your Bird Can Sing’)
- Black Diamond Apple (in reference to the black diamond grill cloth on the ul730 as opposed to the typical brown diamond grill on most Vox stuff, also applebeing the Beatles label; it’s an actual type of apple that’s pretty neat)
Here’s a current prototype image… y’all got about one or two weeks until it’s debuted. (My wife did the graphic) and I have the Beatle Juice coming down the pike which will will have a complementary graphic and be called “this bird as flown”Attachments
I would say at first that you should keep all variations- for the people that have built one and not the other already. Maybe down the line just have no boost and the Mocker circuit.. wasn’t the Boost added by Aclam because the amp they were going from for the original build had an inoperable drive circuit, and added the boost in its place?
