Cali 76 Compressor

Indeed it would be but not likely going to happen considering the complexity.
BUT, the General Tso build is less than $50 and from what I’ve been told from a friend who has the Cali and a Tso I built for him is that the Tso is pretty damn close.
 
giovanni said:
What’s the root of the complexity? Tons of components, SMD?
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Yes on both counts. My guess is that to make a through hole version of the Cali 76 compact, you’d need to do it in a 1590DD enclosure *with* stacked PCBs. Could maybe manage 1590XX if it used 1/8w resistors.
 
I've got an original big-box 76 Standard, it'd be fun to build a clone of it even if it's a 1590XX. Not sure I'd build it if it was 1590DD, unless the layout enabled me to use a goot percentage of the Double-D as a pedal riser for smaller builds.

Maybe stacked boards is the way to proceed?
 
From Revival Effects’ Instagram
Dear Friends,
Just a heads up on Origin Effects and their business practices -
I feel an obligation to share my experience with this company and offer a warning to others in the pedal community. For the last 12+ years as a sole owner/operator of Revival Electric here in the Bay Area, I've offered amp service and sales of EQ & vocal pedals - all designed and built by myself. About 18 months ago Origin Effects blindsided me with legal action after they found out their RevivalDrive pedal was denied for a trademark.
Instead of reaching out (or changing their naming practices), they decided to go after me. With a team of lawyers, they have filed false allegations to get the trademark office to strip me of this name, even doubling down during the pandemic with more malicious and aggressive claims. In my opinion this is all an attempt to help shield them from potential lawsuits since they are illegally using Revival, which infringes on my registered TM.
I love this community - it has always given me immense satisfaction over the years to carve out a space in an industry that combines doing creative and technical work with the goal of adding something to music production. I also feel an immense sense of gratitude when I think of all your support over the last 12+ years.
This week they are forcing me to give a 7 hour deposition (aka interrogation by their attorneys) in their latest attempt to drum up any evidence. They are using the law to inflict as much undue burden as possible in order to exhaust me and escape any consequences for their illegal actions.
I feel like the community should know what kind of company they are supporting, and how much of that $700 pedal is going to lawyers trying to put small builders out of business in order to cover for their mistakes. While I just want to lay low and design circuits. I can't remain silent about these guys any longer.
While these legal proceedings have been taxing, I still plan on designing and putting out unique circuits that hopefully elevate the creativity of this community.
Thanks,
Travis
Revival Electric
All this is publicly available if you give REVIVAL ELECTRIC ORIGIN EFFECTS TRADEMARK CANCELLATION for a quick Google.
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This makes me even more eager to build a clone of the cali76 instead of buying one, but it also makes me wonder if they’d pursue the same sort of baseless legal action against PedalPCB for making a PCB for a clone of their product (even though their products already clone existing circuits)— if you do ever make a cali76 PCB, maybe make sure the name doesn’t hint to Origin or the cali76 so they can’t try to screw you over
 
That's disheartening.

Kind of like how Fender and or Making Music (correct dealer?) couldn't use "Telemaster" for the Tele necks on Jazzmaster bodies run they did because of a RC-Model Aeroplane company claiming the name. As if the clientele of either company couldn't tell the difference between a RC-plane and a guitar. Courts/laws are F'd up — a single cutaway PRS was deemed not enough like a Gibson LP to warrant Gibson's move against PRS, customers were thought of as being smart enough to tell the difference there, but not for a guitar and a model aeroplane. Yarbles!

I hate that kind of chepooka.
Nadmenny bratchnies like that need a good tolchocking, a venailing of the yarbles.
I know a little cheena who specialised in IP law for a llllonnnnggg time ... might have a quick govoreet there.
Lomticks for the mozg: which oomny lewdies have the rights to the numbers "1176"? We don't need no stinkin' skitebird’s cal Cali-Clone if we're reproducing the one one 6666666.

If Mr PedalPCB puts his rassoodock to it, I’m sure he’ll rabbit out the circuit. I’d have a good smeck if we all prod a bunch of “Putnam Panhandle” pedals… or “Studious Eleven Seventy Sixers” or “Yuri’s компрессору”...
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
it also makes me wonder if they’d pursue the same sort of baseless legal action against PedalPCB for making a PCB for a clone of their product (even though their products already clone existing circuits)— if you do ever make a cali76 PCB, maybe make sure the name doesn’t hint to Origin or the cali76 so they can’t try to screw you over
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Is Fornia76 taken?
 
giovanni said:
I like that we are brainstorming names even though we don't even know if this is coming yet! :)
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That’s just how I roll. I have a notes folder in my phone with hundreds of song names that I came up with that I need to eventually write songs for. Also 90% of the Star Wars pedals I’ve made or have plans to make started because I came up with a great pun name for a pedal, and not because I actually needed or wanted to make a pedal of that sort lol
 
It's always good to see both sides of the coin, and consider the edge. Is it knurled? Smooth? Faceted?

Bricksnbeatles said:
That’s just how I roll. I have a notes folder in my phone with hundreds of song names that I came up with that I need to eventually write songs for. Also 90% of the Star Wars pedals I’ve made or have plans to make started because I came up with a great pun name for a pedal, and not because I actually needed or wanted to make a pedal of that sort lol
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Can relate. Some pedals come to you rather than you going to them. I've no real need/want for the VHS other than I've got a Beta idea for it. So, I will get it to silence the tape-hiss that repeats the idea for it... build the test pattern, then at long last I might achieve vertical hold.
 
This Origin drama is getting juicy. Their argument of “we have 11 employees and not a team of lawyers” really doesn’t hold any water, they two are not related. They sell $400 - $700 pedals and are clearly very successful. Just scroll down the pedals Reddit and count the origins stuff you see, they are able to stock small guitar shops too at least, like Anderton’s.

Revival have had to produce like 300’pages of evidence including invoices and other documents that prove their still in business: https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/ttabvue-92072799-CAN-15.pdf

Here is origins response, written by at least one lawyer: https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/ttabvue-92072799-CAN-22.pdf

Both companies can say what they want on social media because that’s the easiest way to affect people’s opinions. They know you won’t read the actual legal documents yourself.
 
Origin's Response loaded immediately, but I started DLing Revival's first... it's still DLing!😸


[Edit] Read the docs (but not all the receipts/invoices etc of Revival Electric). However this turns out, it doesn't change my desire to build an Eleven-Hundred & Seventy 6.

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