Pedal Industry Faux Pas

Robert said:
I'd have to dig up the trace to say for sure, but it was something silly like capacitors from one lug to the next going around the rotary switch.... which would have worked fine, except it was a 2P6T rotary switch so two capacitors on opposite sides of the switch were in parallel at any given position...

This resulted in random values, no sequential order, and two or three positions of the exact same value.
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Sounds like something Willy Wonka would come up with…the Oompa Loompa Drive…
 
cdwillis said:
A buddy of mine recently had me look at one of his Lonewolf Pedals. It had an internal trimmer as master volume, but no volume control outside. I desoldered the trimpot and offboard wired a pot that I mounted on the side of the enclosure. It definitely cut volume, but not like a typical volume control. I'm guessing he didn't make it a voltage divider type setup for some reason. After seeing the pcb/wiring in there (this is supposedly a professional builder lol) I should have absolutely no doubts whatsoever marketing and selling my own circuits now.
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Is that his "it's not a TS" overdrive that is probably just a TS with all kinds of extra controls yet no volume knob "because who needs that anyway"?

I really don't care about cloning his pedals, but I'd like to see them traced just to see how full of it LWA is.
 
It has a separate footswitch that engages or disengages two red LEDs. Another reason the internal volume trim pot is a piss poor design decision. It' goes from quiet to super loud. You can see he took a couple wires off those pads to the 3pdt switch.
 
Oh yeah, it's definitely TS derived.

This one also has the crazy rotary switch arrangement from the LHW.

The equivalent capacitance values for each position of the rotary are:
  • 2.8nF
  • 2.76nF
  • 2.74nF
  • 7.8nF
  • 20nF
  • 63nF
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I suspect the plan was for the rotary switch to incrementally step through the capacitances, but because the two gangs are jumped together in series it doesn't exactly work like that....
 
Robert said:
Oh yeah, it's definitely TS derived.

This one also has the crazy rotary switch arrangement from the LHW.

The equivalent capacitance values for each position of the rotary are:
  • 2.8nF
  • 2.76nF
  • 2.74nF
  • 7.8nF
  • 20nF
  • 63nF
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I suspect the plan was for the rotary switch to incrementally step through the capacitances, but because the two gangs are jumped together in series it doesn't exactly work like that....
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That’s just hilarious 😂
 
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Now is there also a trace of the LHW? Again, I don't want to clone it for sure, got my own chainsaw pedal circuits that would probably piss off the old wolf, but I'm really curious... 😬
 
Harry Klippton said:
Does the diy black eye count for this thread?
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thewintersoldier said:
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jesuscrisp said:
Now is there also a trace of the LHW?
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There most certainly is.... although now that I'm digging for it I believe I have messed up and lost the original trace of the rotary switch.

I changed it to behave like it should, and apparently didn't keep the original schematic. No loss really, and I don't think I'd bother to retrace it since it was broken, but still a facepalm nonetheless.
 
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Robert said:
There most certainly is.... although now that I'm digging for it I believe I have messed up and lost the original trace of the rotary switch.

I changed it to behave like it should, and apparently didn't keep the original schematic. No loss really, and I don't think I'd bother to retrace it since it was broken, but still a facepalm nonetheless.
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You uh… got a schematic to drop?

I’ve had a LWA parody build kicking around in my head for a while, and planned on just doing a stock HM-2 circuit, but if there are poorly implemented mods to be made, I will poorly implement with pride
 
Robert said:
There most certainly is.... although now that I'm digging for it I believe I have messed up and lost the original trace of the rotary switch.

I changed it to behave like it should, and apparently didn't keep the original schematic. No loss really, and I don't think I'd bother to retrace it since it was broken, but still a facepalm nonetheless.
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It’s okay I still have the drill template 😂
 
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I always thought lone wolf audio had something to do with Jack Control. I just did some sleuthing and looks like the LWA dude used to do something with enormous door and is friends with one of the dudes from From Ashes Rise so I guess I wasn't far off.
 
Harry Klippton said:
I always thought lone wolf audio had something to do with Jack Control. I just did some sleuthing and looks like the LWA dude used to do something with enormous door and is friends with one of the dudes from From Ashes Rise so I guess I wasn't far off.
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“After all this time, would you really waste your money ? On a brand that doesn’t care about death metal at all? Where were they the last 15 years of people asking ? If a waza hm2 comes out , it’s purely boss cashing in on what those of us offering superior options created. It’ll probably only have a little toggle and a mid knob too. Truthfully , I created the entire modded hm2 boutique market close to a decade ago now , that’s spawned an entire sea of others making them, but that’s another story to trigger all the haters for another day. I’ll personally be skipping this as I have no interest in cash grabs if they announce a waza model.”
 
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