blackhatboojum
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As @Guardians of the analog and I typically do, we were having a lengthy discussion about all things BBD one evening. During that talk, Chris brought up the idea of a DIY, dual 3205 DM-2. The funny thing was, I had already been kicking around that idea in my head. When he mentioned that I should call it the DM-2B, the “B” standing for “Blackhat”, like the Boss “W” standing for Waza, I was 100% on board. With this fresh motivation, I fired up my PC and got to work.
The end result is this. A GOTA/Blackhat Boojum collaboration, the DM-2B analog delay. As already mentioned, it’s essentially a Boss DM-2 but, with an extra V3205 delay chip and is true bypass. Outside of that, everything else is true to the original circuit.
When doing the layout for this project, I paid very close attention to where I laid out my traces. The idea being, that if I keep the delay and power as far away from each other as possible, and on separate board layers, I would eliminate any possible noise. This idea totally paid off. This thing is super quiet and has virtually no hiss or white noise. Something the Boss DM-2W doesn’t have going for it in my experience. Trying to run that pedal in front of my rig resulted in tone suck and a ridiculous amount of unwanted noise. The only way I could be happy with the Waza DM-2, was to utilize a true bypass looper. Not anymore with the Blackhat edition.
I typically don’t brag about my accomplishments but, I’m stroking my own ego on this one. I set out to make a DM-2, with more delay time, and without the Boss BS, and I crushed it
.
The end result is this. A GOTA/Blackhat Boojum collaboration, the DM-2B analog delay. As already mentioned, it’s essentially a Boss DM-2 but, with an extra V3205 delay chip and is true bypass. Outside of that, everything else is true to the original circuit.
When doing the layout for this project, I paid very close attention to where I laid out my traces. The idea being, that if I keep the delay and power as far away from each other as possible, and on separate board layers, I would eliminate any possible noise. This idea totally paid off. This thing is super quiet and has virtually no hiss or white noise. Something the Boss DM-2W doesn’t have going for it in my experience. Trying to run that pedal in front of my rig resulted in tone suck and a ridiculous amount of unwanted noise. The only way I could be happy with the Waza DM-2, was to utilize a true bypass looper. Not anymore with the Blackhat edition.
I typically don’t brag about my accomplishments but, I’m stroking my own ego on this one. I set out to make a DM-2, with more delay time, and without the Boss BS, and I crushed it
.
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