MichaelW
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Well it took a few tries to finally have a working Celestial Drive.
Just buttoned this up this morning.
Take 1: was a fail - Was documented in this thread that it was a board manufacturing defect. (I learned what a "spoke" was in this thread
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@Robert was kind enough to refund my entire order and I just got the replacement board yesterday. Thanks dude!!
Take 2: Was another fail, but it looked so cool I had to document it here
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I decided to be clever and try to make it into a 4 knob Stellar Drive. The later 4 knob versions had a clean blend knob which I think is very useful for this pedal especially for using with hum buckers. In order to accomplish this, I used a GuitarPCB Buff and Blend board. Because I was trying to get it to fit into a 1590B I had to build the blend board upside down. It was a lovely bit of trick building.
Except.......it didn't work heh. The clean side was fine, the circuit output was super low and I could barely hear the drive. After futzing around with it for a while I think the problem was phase cancellation, which is documented phenomenon in the Blender board docs. There wasn't enough room to insert yet another circuit to reverse the phase of the Celestial so I decided to punt, and just re-house the pedal in a 3 knob format.
But it did look pretty cool!
Take 3: Here it is without the Buff and Blend Board, in a 3 knob format and works great! Kind of interesting drive. I know these were the darling of the latest greatest low gain drive crowd for a hot minute. I think it's a not very transparent, dark-ish drive that REALLY COULD benefit from the "clean blend" option of the later 4 knob versions. Too bad I couldn't make my hack work. I'd need to house it in a 1590BB to make it all work.
As is, I think it works better for single coils than hum buckers. I like it a lot on my Strat. Not so much on my PRS or P90 guitars.
Just buttoned this up this morning.
Take 1: was a fail - Was documented in this thread that it was a board manufacturing defect. (I learned what a "spoke" was in this thread
)@Robert was kind enough to refund my entire order and I just got the replacement board yesterday. Thanks dude!!
Take 2: Was another fail, but it looked so cool I had to document it here
.I decided to be clever and try to make it into a 4 knob Stellar Drive. The later 4 knob versions had a clean blend knob which I think is very useful for this pedal especially for using with hum buckers. In order to accomplish this, I used a GuitarPCB Buff and Blend board. Because I was trying to get it to fit into a 1590B I had to build the blend board upside down. It was a lovely bit of trick building.
Except.......it didn't work heh. The clean side was fine, the circuit output was super low and I could barely hear the drive. After futzing around with it for a while I think the problem was phase cancellation, which is documented phenomenon in the Blender board docs. There wasn't enough room to insert yet another circuit to reverse the phase of the Celestial so I decided to punt, and just re-house the pedal in a 3 knob format.
But it did look pretty cool!
Take 3: Here it is without the Buff and Blend Board, in a 3 knob format and works great! Kind of interesting drive. I know these were the darling of the latest greatest low gain drive crowd for a hot minute. I think it's a not very transparent, dark-ish drive that REALLY COULD benefit from the "clean blend" option of the later 4 knob versions. Too bad I couldn't make my hack work. I'd need to house it in a 1590BB to make it all work.
As is, I think it works better for single coils than hum buckers. I like it a lot on my Strat. Not so much on my PRS or P90 guitars.
