- Build Rating
I built this back in 2020 or something but never made a build report. At first I used a 7660 and had weird noise interactions with a lot of gain pedals. A high pitch squeal which had seemingly only happened when using some other certain pedals despite using an isolated power supply. When I'd turn down the knob on this it would increase the noise but would stop if I turned the gate off, then just normal gain noise was happening. I recently finally switched it to a 1044 since I had that on hand and that helped but it works best with a buffer into the key. I have not tried it with a 1054.
The pedal was originally designed to expect a split/buffered signal to be used for the trigger instead of having an output for the key/trigger section as well so I wonder if it sucks the tone at all or just because that also helps prevent potential noise issues. Fortin have since made a version with the "key thru" jack but I'm not sure if it was implemented the same way.
Another thing I used the io board but didn't like it. Having the power jack right between instead of raised makes it a little more of a pain depending on which cables you use and I used to always use the hosa pancakes and the right angle ends of the power cables on the pedals. Both of those are fault of my own I suppose so that's up to personal preference. Worrying about oversized circular holes for a square internal jack is another thing to worry about. That can be solved by the version that uses a faceplate and to be fair it is nice to not worry about the power jack spinning in the future and looks nice.
Nowadays apparently it's hard to get either version of the "that4301" chip necessary to make this.
Ultimately it's a great pedal but if you can't get the chip you need then I would recommend you just buy a tc electronic sentry as I have two of those and think it works great or a real zuul.
If it didn't need a buffer in front I'd give it five stars.
The pedal was originally designed to expect a split/buffered signal to be used for the trigger instead of having an output for the key/trigger section as well so I wonder if it sucks the tone at all or just because that also helps prevent potential noise issues. Fortin have since made a version with the "key thru" jack but I'm not sure if it was implemented the same way.
Another thing I used the io board but didn't like it. Having the power jack right between instead of raised makes it a little more of a pain depending on which cables you use and I used to always use the hosa pancakes and the right angle ends of the power cables on the pedals. Both of those are fault of my own I suppose so that's up to personal preference. Worrying about oversized circular holes for a square internal jack is another thing to worry about. That can be solved by the version that uses a faceplate and to be fair it is nice to not worry about the power jack spinning in the future and looks nice.
Nowadays apparently it's hard to get either version of the "that4301" chip necessary to make this.
Ultimately it's a great pedal but if you can't get the chip you need then I would recommend you just buy a tc electronic sentry as I have two of those and think it works great or a real zuul.
If it didn't need a buffer in front I'd give it five stars.
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