wintercept
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Yup! Been a while since I listened, but my local classic stations play Nirvana while the people on the morning show talk about how stupid millennials are and shit like that…
Pearl Jam "Ten" Tones
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Robert
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Give me a few more days and I can tell you with a bit more confidence.
As mentioned back in post #12, I went ahead and worked up a prototype for what I'm pretty sure this is. Those arrived today and are now verified and working great.
Then, as luck would have it, I stumbled across an original about 30 minutes later... I've mentioned before, I don't like working from best guesses or speculation, so that one should be arriving in a couple days and I can be 100% sure.
I got scalped, but sometimes we make sacrifices for science....
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Robert
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It's not.
Don't get me started! Mythos pedals have cultivated an edgy, rootsy, hand-made kind of identity but when I bought one of their pedals I found it was nothing more than a Red Llama, "carefully tuned" by changing one component. I couldn't find which part was changed - it looked dead-on Red Llama to me.
This is one reason why I build 'em myself.
This is one reason why I build 'em myself.
jjjimi84
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Your red lining bro, ease up. It is going to be a clone of something, it always is.
Paradox916
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I don’t know how it couldn’t be something close to it. I thought they used Jmc800s ts9s or sd9s.. not 100% sure on that, but I bet you are real close it’s funny though how cyclical music is...
Not as jarring as hearing Blondie and Talking Heads in elevators and at the grocery store.
cwsquared
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As a 41 year old "Elder Millennial", I grew up on grunge. But to hell with radio, they talk too much and don't play anything but the "hits".
Bricksnbeatles
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Rock radio: ALL the HARDEST rock ALL the TIME, because you’re a MAN and MEN are HARD, just like ROCKS!
also Rock radio: *plays this twice every hour*
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Robert
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Assuming I'm correct (or close), this is not a clone of another pedal. It's a portion of a preamp. I'm not aware of a pedal with exactly the same circuit. That's not to say it's some amazing new design, it's still a combination of opamp/diode clipping and passive tone controls.
If you'd be disappointed to find a Tube Screamer, Rat, Guv'nor, or some other clone I think you can be at ease, although that's not necessarily saying you'll be ecstatic about what it is either.
At this point I'm not really questioning "what" the circuit is, but how much has been changed to adapt it to a pedal.
I think this is one of those happy accidents that sounds great but isn't necessarily based on anything that was used by the bands or on the albums in question.... But it doesn't really matter where the circuit came from if it gives the sound you're looking for.
As far as the designer is concerned... I've read through his story about the pedal and he seems to be pretty straight up and humble about the fact that this is his first pedal design, he didn't really know what he was doing going in, and had to enlist the help from a couple other pedal builders to make it work. That's a nice relief over the usual "years of research and painstaking development" to find a Tube Screamer with a couple component tweaks. And at £99 it's not like the guy is "making bank" on the thing, no matter how many he's churning out.
Now, assuming I'm way off base, we'll have two new projects soon. The prototype is decent enough that I wouldn't scrap it regardless.
As soon as I can say for sure I'll tell ya what it is, and what I thought it was if I'm incorrect.
If you'd be disappointed to find a Tube Screamer, Rat, Guv'nor, or some other clone I think you can be at ease, although that's not necessarily saying you'll be ecstatic about what it is either.
At this point I'm not really questioning "what" the circuit is, but how much has been changed to adapt it to a pedal.
I think this is one of those happy accidents that sounds great but isn't necessarily based on anything that was used by the bands or on the albums in question.... But it doesn't really matter where the circuit came from if it gives the sound you're looking for.
As far as the designer is concerned... I've read through his story about the pedal and he seems to be pretty straight up and humble about the fact that this is his first pedal design, he didn't really know what he was doing going in, and had to enlist the help from a couple other pedal builders to make it work. That's a nice relief over the usual "years of research and painstaking development" to find a Tube Screamer with a couple component tweaks. And at £99 it's not like the guy is "making bank" on the thing, no matter how many he's churning out.
Now, assuming I'm way off base, we'll have two new projects soon. The prototype is decent enough that I wouldn't scrap it regardless.
As soon as I can say for sure I'll tell ya what it is, and what I thought it was if I'm incorrect.
Robert
Reverse Engineer
I get overwhelmed with curiosity about things like this... it affects my daily life and I can't just move on.
There's another pretty big one that I ordered direct last week but won't ship until the middle of February.... I've been on Reverb ever since trying to justify buying one from a scalper so I can get some damned sleep.
All it takes is a little bit of goop to drive me absolutely insane, it's like a drug.... and in almost every case it ends with a similar disappointment...
"Oh, that's all?"
It's like those videos "Do you choose $500 cash, or whatever is in this box?" ...
The box! I'll take the box. Give it to me! I don't care if it's empty, $500 won't buy me the answer.
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NickC
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this plot is much better than spiderman no way home
PBWilson1970
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My guess is a Peavey Bandit into a Sovtek. It would fit the timeline.
wintercept
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Did someone say Sovtek?
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