flemming
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- Build Rating
- 5.00 star(s)
This is my first FV-1 build. I'm not quite sure why I had low expectations, but there are a lot of fun sounds in this thing. Soldering the FV-1 chip was no big deal, I just did it one pin at a time. I initially built it with the FV-1 Clock Module, but when I fired it up it was noisy and had a weird static sound at times. I read somewhere that the clock module can be noisy so I switched it back to the crystal and the problem still existed. An accidental 100K resistor instead of a 100R was the root cause, but I didn't bother to put the clock module back after I fixed it. I'll save that for the Hydra I have on deck. The enclosure was printed by AmplifyFun and I really wanted to come up with something for the graphic that allowed for designating each effect without using a legend or some other silly list. I'm pretty happy with how it came out. The 1900H knobs are a little too tall and make accessing the chicken head a little hard in some positions, but I couldn't find any other small diameter brown knobs at the time to use instead. I should totally contribute sound clips, but I'm a shy guy A couple effects stand out to me after playing with it for a bit. Shimmer Reverb can make cool organ like background tones that drone underneath picked notes. The Dual Pitch Shifter can be used to create a 12-string like effect. I also tinkered with shifting one to the 3rd and the other to the 5th to generate chords and that was kinda fun. Daydream is fun just to randomly noodle on and see what magic happens.