D.M.N.
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Thought some other builders might be interested in this. As primarily a bassist myself, I do like having a blend on overdrive/distortions/fuzzes/comps. However, I find just a standard clean blend can end up sounding more like you're layering two signals together, rather than just bringing in some cleans to retain the low end. In talking with other members over on Talkbass, I've seen one solution to this is to use blending loops with the Broughton High Low filter, with the highs pass rolled off so you're just getting a LPF to retain the low end without bringing in the clean signal highs. I thought, why not just use a clean blend, like the ROG Split n Blend, but with a LPF on the clean side? So I've been working on this circuit, a modified ROG (thanks to PRR over on diystompboxes), with the LPF from the Broughton pedal in the clean side. The thought being, keep the LPF on internal trimpots, so you can dial in the lows you want, then set and forget, but of course the LPF control could be externalized as well. You could also add switching to make the LPF defeatable and have the full range clean blend. Still need to tidy up the schematic a bit. I haven't had a chance to build this yet, so it's untested, and if anyone sees anything that can be changed, please chime in.
