falco_femoralis
Well-known member
I've been on an "amp in a box" kick lately and just finished up this Brownout Overdrive. The pedal art on the original is AC/DC themed with their font and the lightning bolt, but AC/DC was never known for using a variac, so I'm not sure why Subdecay chose that name. The "Brownout" name also suggests Van Halen, but despite this, I went the AC/DC way because I love them and I used Marshall knobs and painted the pedal in colors reminiscent of the Bonfire box set.
I moved the controls around vs the PCB because I like to make it hard for myself, and I made the LED change color along with the toggle switch setting.
Actually I installed two LEDs
And a double pole switch to control them
I also off boarded one of the pots, and I was super glad when this thing worked when I first fired it up
This is a really interesting pedal. The Pentodes control and the Phaser Inverter switch are supposed to be simulating different kinds of tube amp overdrives (I think?) I wish I understood what was going on. I was not ready to try to understand any of it after blasting my mind building this pedal the past two hours.
When I play thru it, the Pentodes control adds more treble response and a super nice saturation when turned up - you have to turn down the Treble control to adjust for it. The Phase Inverter toggle switch is fairly subtle, but now that I've taken a look at the schematic I can see it seems to be reactive to the Pentodes control, so I'll have to flesh it out a bit more and see if there's a setting where the toggle makes a more substantial difference.
With the Preamp and Pentodes controls dimed, I was getting some superbly awesome feedback, reminiscent of the Let There Be Rock Movie live recording from 1979.
This one is going to be on my board for a while.
I moved the controls around vs the PCB because I like to make it hard for myself, and I made the LED change color along with the toggle switch setting.
Actually I installed two LEDs
And a double pole switch to control them
I also off boarded one of the pots, and I was super glad when this thing worked when I first fired it up
This is a really interesting pedal. The Pentodes control and the Phaser Inverter switch are supposed to be simulating different kinds of tube amp overdrives (I think?) I wish I understood what was going on. I was not ready to try to understand any of it after blasting my mind building this pedal the past two hours.
When I play thru it, the Pentodes control adds more treble response and a super nice saturation when turned up - you have to turn down the Treble control to adjust for it. The Phase Inverter toggle switch is fairly subtle, but now that I've taken a look at the schematic I can see it seems to be reactive to the Pentodes control, so I'll have to flesh it out a bit more and see if there's a setting where the toggle makes a more substantial difference.
With the Preamp and Pentodes controls dimed, I was getting some superbly awesome feedback, reminiscent of the Let There Be Rock Movie live recording from 1979.
This one is going to be on my board for a while.
