MichaelW
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I was totally not planning to build this today but after seeing @geoffrey 's post I got stoked about it and decided to at least get it started.
I drilled and painted the enclosure thinking I'd have plenty of time for the paint to dry enough to handle. But I breezed through the build in like 45 minutes.....then got impatient...sigh....so there's some fingerprints on the enclosure.
I'd heard so many great things about the retail version of this pedal and as I recall it was a limited run so not a lot of them floating around.
I agree with everything @geoffrey said in his build report, AWESEOME tone shaping tool. In many ways it's similar to the Mercurial Boost in that it has the ability to boost certain frequencies with the sweep knob but perhaps a bit more focused on the mid-range.
Not only can it boost but it can also scoop the mids as well, which is a really neat feature. The "Mids" control is flat at noon. Left scoops, right boosts, sweep hones in on the center freq between 400hz to 7.5khz. There's a toggle that either tightens or broadens the frequency being boosted or cut.
Not exactly sure why it's called "Hi/Lo" but another very useful control.
I ran it in front of the drives sitting on my desk at the moment and it was very cool what it could do to each drive, in every case I was able to make it sound a bit better.
I think it's short selling this pedal to call it a "Mid Boost". I'm thinking of it as an all around boost or cut specific to guitar frequencies. I can see it staying on my "boost board" and maybe even knocking the Mercurial off. Very quiet pedal also.
I decided to add a buffered output on this pedal and used a "Simple JFet Buffer" on the output after the footswitch so it's "always on" regardless of the pedal is engaged or not.
Fingerprints notwithstanding, this is an awesome utility pedal and I highly recommend it. Thanks for giving me the nudge to build it @geoffrey !
I used a copper-ish hammer tone rattle can paint. This usually dries pretty well overnight. But......alas, my eagerness to get this built got the better of me.
The Simple JFet Buffer is a sweet little tiny board that can be tucked anywhere, even in a 1590B. I used an MMBFJ201.
I also rigged up a little pot condom for the B100k Dual as these are notorious for shorting out when in a lower position. I just sliced the back off a regular pot cover and hot glued it on. But it was still enough to can't the board on an angle so that I barely could solder the "Mids" control.
I drilled and painted the enclosure thinking I'd have plenty of time for the paint to dry enough to handle. But I breezed through the build in like 45 minutes.....then got impatient...sigh....so there's some fingerprints on the enclosure.
I'd heard so many great things about the retail version of this pedal and as I recall it was a limited run so not a lot of them floating around.
I agree with everything @geoffrey said in his build report, AWESEOME tone shaping tool. In many ways it's similar to the Mercurial Boost in that it has the ability to boost certain frequencies with the sweep knob but perhaps a bit more focused on the mid-range.
Not only can it boost but it can also scoop the mids as well, which is a really neat feature. The "Mids" control is flat at noon. Left scoops, right boosts, sweep hones in on the center freq between 400hz to 7.5khz. There's a toggle that either tightens or broadens the frequency being boosted or cut.
Not exactly sure why it's called "Hi/Lo" but another very useful control.
I ran it in front of the drives sitting on my desk at the moment and it was very cool what it could do to each drive, in every case I was able to make it sound a bit better.
I think it's short selling this pedal to call it a "Mid Boost". I'm thinking of it as an all around boost or cut specific to guitar frequencies. I can see it staying on my "boost board" and maybe even knocking the Mercurial off. Very quiet pedal also.
I decided to add a buffered output on this pedal and used a "Simple JFet Buffer" on the output after the footswitch so it's "always on" regardless of the pedal is engaged or not.
Fingerprints notwithstanding, this is an awesome utility pedal and I highly recommend it. Thanks for giving me the nudge to build it @geoffrey !
I used a copper-ish hammer tone rattle can paint. This usually dries pretty well overnight. But......alas, my eagerness to get this built got the better of me.
The Simple JFet Buffer is a sweet little tiny board that can be tucked anywhere, even in a 1590B. I used an MMBFJ201.
I also rigged up a little pot condom for the B100k Dual as these are notorious for shorting out when in a lower position. I just sliced the back off a regular pot cover and hot glued it on. But it was still enough to can't the board on an angle so that I barely could solder the "Mids" control.
