First Combo build....and it works! Mach 1/Southern Belle

If you wanted to stick with a double-Greer build, put the Mach 1 back, but replace the Southern Belle with the Hatchet. I liked the Hatchet better than Southern Bell, and it's made to be stacked behind another drive, so perfect for a double pedal.
 
spi said:
If you wanted to stick with a double-Greer build, put the Mach 1 back, but replace the Southern Belle with the Hatchet. I liked the Hatchet better than Southern Bell, and it's made to be stacked behind another drive, so perfect for a double pedal.
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Have you looked at the Soma 63? There's a PCB for it (Neurocyton) plus I have an extra TY-141P that I got for my Duocast build that needs a home.

We're chatting about Fender Brownface era amps in the other thread, this pedal sounds right up my alley. Mach 1 into the Soma 63 sounds like it could be tasty......
 
MichaelW said:
Have you looked at the Soma 63? There's a PCB for it (Neurocyton) plus I have an extra TY-141P that I got for my Duocast build that needs a home.

We're chatting about Fender Brownface era amps in the other thread, this pedal sounds right up my alley. Mach 1 into the Soma 63 sounds like it could be tasty......
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The Soma is in my future, but I haven't built it yet.
Another reason Hatchet came to mind is that it's the same knob layout as the Southern Belle, so will fit into what you already drilled. (And I don't know if the transformer will fit in the shallower depth of the 1590BB).
 
spi said:
The Soma is in my future, but I haven't built it yet.
Another reason Hatchet came to mind is that it's the same knob layout as the Southern Belle, so will fit into what you already drilled. (And I don't know if the transformer will fit in the shallower depth of the 1590BB).
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Hmmm good point, I'd have to mount it off board to make it fit. Although there IS a lot of room for that.
 
szukalski said:
Looks nice. I haven’t had much luck stacking my Mach 1, always too much high end. Alone, it’s really useful for shoegazer stuff.
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MichaelW said:
Yah, that's what I'm running into, I really have to back down the tone knob to make it work. Both pedals have a deceptively large amount of high end that really gets accentuated when stacked.
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My trick has been to stack it with an overdrive that most people complain has TOO MUCH bottom end: the Nobels ODR-1. The last few guitar gigs I’ve played (now, to be fair, they’ve been country gigs) I’ve mostly lived on the back pickup (split to single coil) of a Squier ‘51, Boss CS-3 always on, Lightspeed always on, Nobels for leads, EQ pedal always on set flat with just a slight push on the middle band and about the same push on the level control, into a Blues Jr. A little bit of tape-style slapback, tremolo for the pretty songs, Phase 90 for Waylon tunes. I keep a Mostortion clone for neck pickup bluesy stuff, and a Rat for the 80s.

Like I said, that has been for country gigs, but I’ve used the same board for a more typical bar rock gig, and it sounded great, even with a Gretsch or a Les Paul. I think the Nashville guys might just have it right with the Lightspeed into the Nobels. I’m a bit surprised nobody has done a commercial double pedal with derivatives of these two circuits yet.

My Nobels copy was made by KEP, and looks like a near-copy of the Aion Andromeda but built on KEP’s own PCB. Whatever it is, it has a bass control, which I did have to roll back to about 2-2:30 with humbuckers. With a bridge single coil, I leave the bass wide open, and the top end from the Lightspeed seems to balance it out just fine.
 
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OldManAP said:
My trick has been to stack it with an overdrive that most people complain has TOO MUCH bottom end: the Nobels ODR-1. The last few guitar gigs I’ve played (now, to be fair, they’ve been country gigs) I’ve mostly lived on the back pickup (split to single coil) of a Squier ‘51, Boss CS-3 always on, Lightspeed always on, Nobels for leads, EQ pedal always on set flat with just a slight push on the middle band and about the same push on the level control, into a Blues Jr. A little bit of tape-style slapback, tremolo for the pretty songs, Phase 90 for Waylon tunes. I keep a Mostortion clone for neck pickup bluesy stuff, and a Rat for the 80s.

Like I said, that has been for country gigs, but I’ve used the same board for a more typical bar rock gig, and it sounded great, even with a Gretsch or a Les Paul. I think the Nashville guys might just have it right with the Lightspeed into the Nobels. I’m a bit surprised nobody has done a commercial double pedal with derivatives of these two circuits yet.

My Nobels copy was made by KEP, and looks like a near-copy of the Aion Andromeda but built on KEP’s own PCB. Whatever it is, it has a bass control, which I did have to roll back to about 2-2:30 with humbuckers. With a bridge single coil, I leave the bass wide open, and the top end from the Lightspeed seems to balance it out just fine.
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I actually built a combo with the LightSpeed and Heavy Hand, It seems to work pretty well. LightSpeed and ODR-1 sounds pretty interesting too. I might dig out my old Nobles and see how they sound together.
 
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