Caroline Wave Cannon

I know a MKI board is dropping in my cart right away. Going to put that insanity toggle on a momentary switch and get fucking weird in the video.

If I remember it is a rat variant, right?
 
I have a Rat, I just haven't used one enough to instantly recognize it. (that other one did turn out to be a Rat for the most part)

I think I must have had a bad experience with one waaaay back many years ago. I always expect them to sound thin and brittle but am always surprised.
 
I know you know the Rat. (I can’t imagine there are many pedals you don’t know.) I wonder what gave you the bad impression. I suppose the filter can get rather thin—but there’s a lot of range with that control.
 
It could have been a subpar amp at the time, a defective unit, or possibly just completely mistaken.

I have an original Pro Co and have seen quite a few derivates, they've all been perfectly acceptable.
 
Wave Cannon 1 is discontinued so there is no conflict is there??????

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DOD OD-250/ Proco Rat style frame: single op-amp pushed really hard, hard clipping to ground, and a discrete transistor buffer between the tone and volume control. We incorporated a variation of a known mod to these kinds of pedals courtesy of Phillip Ruetz that we called the Shape control (named that way because I once saw the actual shape of some treble frequencies I played go from square to sine as we changed the values), and added the feedback loop we called the Havoc control after I did it by accident on the breadboard
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Interesting, so a ruetz mod knob and a feedback loop control of some sort. Like maybe a switch to add or remove diodes in the feedback loop?
 
I have met Phillipe several times, he seems like a nice guy. I remember the sticker in my Shigeharu, I believe I sent it to you Bugg to be traced. Didn't keep it long afterwards.
 
Both, I guess. I have a friend's PackRat and I'm trying to figure out if I like the so-called Wave Cannon option JHS put in there. That's most likely based on Mk I since everything else inside is a Rat derivative.
 
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