Nostradoomus
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what order should my pedals go in? I’m not willing to experiment, just tell me.
Ppcb forum re-evaluation
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jessenator
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do what the Boss tells ye
Well, Boss Australia, anyway, but they do things upside down, so.... amp first?
chongmagic
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If you dig in the that subreddit they like to talk shit about this forum lol.I gotta give it up to you guys and girls, I've been reading the reddit diy pedals sub forum and I have seen the worst diy has to offer there. That subreddit is undefeated when it comes to stupidity. I thought I had seen some ridiculous nonsense here, but they have the most clueless mouth breathers on the Internet, even more than the facebook diy pedals group. @Robert should vet buyers on the storefront and not sell to anyone posting on Reddit. Here are some great posts from the past couple days I've seen. These are not serious people
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Nostradoomus
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Bruce Springsteen is the only boss I listen to.
Mentaltossflycoon
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drgonzo1969
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What do they say about us?
falco_femoralis
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My favorite reddit argument is the one about 500k knobs affecting the tone of pickups differently from 250k. And people wiring an HSS guitar with 250k pots and a resistor in series with the humbucker so it "sees" a 500k pot like it isn't some bullshit
comradehoser
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For what it's worth, I haven't noticed any particular dislike of PPCB over on Reddit. Several of our producers and regulars post there. Reddit was also one of the places I learned and troubleshot in my early fumbling days, and it's not a bad place to land what with mas effects et al. I've mostly found folks to be largely helpful.
Actually, a recommendation from organic_ambassador_3 on reddit (thanks, buddy!) is the whole reason I discovered ppcb. https://www.reddit.com/r/diypedals/s/UNrNlDdFJ0. 3 years ago, damn! I built a whole lot of pedals in 3 years.
Sure, there is a lot of kookery, but the demographics are much larger, so it stands to reason.
Actually, a recommendation from organic_ambassador_3 on reddit (thanks, buddy!) is the whole reason I discovered ppcb. https://www.reddit.com/r/diypedals/s/UNrNlDdFJ0. 3 years ago, damn! I built a whole lot of pedals in 3 years.
Sure, there is a lot of kookery, but the demographics are much larger, so it stands to reason.
Robert
Reverse Engineer
The only thing that has stuck in my mind is one guy blaming me that 90% of overdrives are Tube Screamer derivates... like I dream these things up myself or something.
There's good and bad everywhere.
szukalski
Well-known member
Wait until he finds out about the OD-1..
Robert
Reverse Engineer
It was something like "I think PedalPCB just tweaks existing circuits to make them close enough, I know [x] and I don't believe his pedal is just a Tube Screamer with different clipping diodes."
Sit down here next to the fire sonny, let me tell you a story about original designs....
Bricksnbeatles
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I mean… if you do an A/B test, it definitely makes a difference. It’s just that if you honestly think it’s an *important* difference, you belong more on the Steve Hoffman Forum than anywhere with actual musicians.
falco_femoralis
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What got me started on this was doing an A/B test with a toggle taking the pot out of the circuit and putting it back in. There was no difference with the pot on 10 and in the circuit vs removed from the circuit. I actually have 250k pots in my HSH strat now and it's very bright. When I dial the vol back the neck humbucker retains its brightness. It's a great sound and I love it.
Given what we know about how tone is shaped by filters, it makes no sense that a pot's resistance alone would interact with some freqs more than others. The reactance of a capacitor and resistor pair is what changes freq response and therefore tone.
You may say that the pot arranged in a voltage divider downstream from a pickup creates an RL filter, but if you play around with a calculator you find that any freqs altered by an RL filter using the values found in guitar components are outside the audio spectrum.
OD is Glorious
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Me too! All that 99% iso was ruining my hands. It was painful!
Harry Klippton
Not Interested
Why were you touching it?
Unrelated sub-reddit but emblematic of the dumbest kind of reddit posts you see. I just don't get it? There's so many of these types of posts on various types of forums. Or someone will have just purchased something and just title it "How'd I do?". Like FFS if you want advice maybe ask before you do the thing?
Aentons
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I don't really get Reddit in general. It's just.. ask a question and get answers? It's hard for me to tell the ads and all the other clutter from the answers. Not sure why anyone would want to spend time there
Harry Klippton
Not Interested
I have never understood reddit due to the formatting. Like just show me ...all the posts, in the order they were posted? I don't want to see them ranked in the order of people's opinions that I don't respect on which they thought were the best?