BurntFingers
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It's not a pedalpcb board.
It's a vero.
Avert your eyes if you're not into that.
It's a ritual/meathead/colorsound style of thing but with an added tone knob and voltage divider which replicates a dying battery by sending 9v to ground (to a minimum of 2.2v).
The tone is a super basic 0.047uf cap on a pot after the output (the volume in this case) that sends treble to ground. Basically like a tone pot on a guitar. This pedal inherently has a lot of top end so this thickens it up wonderfully.
After 2 days of troubleshooting and basically rebuilding everything I got it working. Turns out the qs were backwards, even though they were the same way as v1 and v2, but these are from a different supplier so there we go.
There's no gain control but the starve function sort of functions as a pregain. The only caveat there is the volume of course drops off but stick a boost in front and it's super good fun. 8 bit sputter and dying notes, then roll it back up and it's like liquid sludge pouring out of the speakers. Great fun.
I kept it quiet by using a 330uf cap as power filtering. If you can see I did use a cap on series with a resistor across the jacks, which did filter out even more noise but then I realised I hardwired a treble cut across the entire circuit so I removed it. It's no noisier than anything else I've made so all is good. V1 was a can of bees. V3 is as it should be.
It's a vero.
Avert your eyes if you're not into that.
It's a ritual/meathead/colorsound style of thing but with an added tone knob and voltage divider which replicates a dying battery by sending 9v to ground (to a minimum of 2.2v).
The tone is a super basic 0.047uf cap on a pot after the output (the volume in this case) that sends treble to ground. Basically like a tone pot on a guitar. This pedal inherently has a lot of top end so this thickens it up wonderfully.
After 2 days of troubleshooting and basically rebuilding everything I got it working. Turns out the qs were backwards, even though they were the same way as v1 and v2, but these are from a different supplier so there we go.
There's no gain control but the starve function sort of functions as a pregain. The only caveat there is the volume of course drops off but stick a boost in front and it's super good fun. 8 bit sputter and dying notes, then roll it back up and it's like liquid sludge pouring out of the speakers. Great fun.
I kept it quiet by using a 330uf cap as power filtering. If you can see I did use a cap on series with a resistor across the jacks, which did filter out even more noise but then I realised I hardwired a treble cut across the entire circuit so I removed it. It's no noisier than anything else I've made so all is good. V1 was a can of bees. V3 is as it should be.
