Guardians of the analog
Papi Fuego
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Here's a blast from the past. I started this project in 2019 but never finished it. I had built this prior but sort of dismissed it as just the EVH flanger. I got rid of that build and this one sat unfinished all this time. That was wrong of me to dismiss this circuit. I'm glad I revisited this and finished it. With a little help from @Scruffie I addressed the one nagging issue that has plagued this circuit forever.
This is the 2015 layout that @bean had with the charge pump. His newer layout omits this in favor of an 18v power tap. I have no noise issues and love that I can just use a 9v tap. The build with typical fashion of Brian's layouts of complex circuits is very easy. The calibration is also simple. The clock frequency cap I ended up going with 33pf and have a frequency range of 35khz-1.2mhz. the only other issue was the slight volume drop the effect has. Scruffie gave me some guidance to change some values in the wet/dry mixing stage to fix that. Now there is no volume drop when I kick it on.
How does it sound? Warm, chewy, liquid, organic, musical and all that dumb stuff
. Its sonically somewhere between the BF-2 and the Electric Mistress. It's very warm and musical even on more extreme settings. It does a good chorus sound as well. Very intuitive to use and doesn't take over the signal unless you dial it in to. Fantastic sounding all around.
As with my anti-tarrif trash can series, I went with no film on a bare enclosure. Also a @dan.schumaker relay bypass with the code flashed by @Paradox916. It takes a village to build a pedal. Thanks also to @blackhatboojum for going over the frequency response.
Madbean and Schu tone both a projects for this so build one if you haven't, even if you like EVH
.
This is the 2015 layout that @bean had with the charge pump. His newer layout omits this in favor of an 18v power tap. I have no noise issues and love that I can just use a 9v tap. The build with typical fashion of Brian's layouts of complex circuits is very easy. The calibration is also simple. The clock frequency cap I ended up going with 33pf and have a frequency range of 35khz-1.2mhz. the only other issue was the slight volume drop the effect has. Scruffie gave me some guidance to change some values in the wet/dry mixing stage to fix that. Now there is no volume drop when I kick it on.
How does it sound? Warm, chewy, liquid, organic, musical and all that dumb stuff
. Its sonically somewhere between the BF-2 and the Electric Mistress. It's very warm and musical even on more extreme settings. It does a good chorus sound as well. Very intuitive to use and doesn't take over the signal unless you dial it in to. Fantastic sounding all around. As with my anti-tarrif trash can series, I went with no film on a bare enclosure. Also a @dan.schumaker relay bypass with the code flashed by @Paradox916. It takes a village to build a pedal. Thanks also to @blackhatboojum for going over the frequency response.
Madbean and Schu tone both a projects for this so build one if you haven't, even if you like EVH
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