Bricksnbeatles
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Demo pending— I have another build report for tomorrow, and I’ll record demos for both of them at the same time. I’ll also take better pictures in the daylight.
Note: no primates were harmed in the making of this pedal (except when I stepped on a resistor
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It’s time for YATS! That’s right folks— the hype train has pulled into the monkey exhibit at the zoo, because today we have the Digitech classic that was ruined by a certain 7-foot midwestern pedal-televangelist. I’m talking about the Bad Monkey, which has become the newest victim of Josh Scott thanks to its recent feature on the JHS show.
I’ll be honest— I had no interest in building yet another Tubescreamer any time soon, but the day the Virgil board was released, I came up with the idea for the graphics, and I couldn’t pass it up, especially while it was still actually a relevant joke. It just so happened that I was in the middle of finalizing my Tayda UV print files, and I was itching to come up with a design to try on the new pastel green powder coat— it was quite serendipitous, so I put the Tayda order off for a little bit longer so I could put the design together, ordered the PCB, and now that the semester is over, I was finally able to actually build it!
I don’t think I need to explain the graphics, but for anyone who might be confused, just look up the Klon KTR— I even hid “y a t s” in the letters with a slightly darker shade of grey just like the “k l o n” hidden in Finnegan’s message on the KTR.
As for the circuit, the only change I made is replacing the op amps with 4558s, just as @MichaelW did, since the 4580 for whatever reason doesn’t seem to work. It definitely sounds like a YATS, but the tone stack makes it a much more versatile one at that— while I have no trouble finding the typical vanilla TS tones that we’re all familiar with, I found that the EQ let me quickly dial out the blooze lawyer-ness, and instead get a variety of smooth and cutting mid-gain prog/fusion tones reminiscent of Holdsworth’s tones on Soft Machine’s Bundles (I could help but fumble my way through the Hazard Profile solo a few times when I first plugged in) and Daryl Stuermer’s tones from Jean Luc Ponty’s Enigmatic Ocean LP.
Note: no primates were harmed in the making of this pedal (except when I stepped on a resistor
)It’s time for YATS! That’s right folks— the hype train has pulled into the monkey exhibit at the zoo, because today we have the Digitech classic that was ruined by a certain 7-foot midwestern pedal-televangelist. I’m talking about the Bad Monkey, which has become the newest victim of Josh Scott thanks to its recent feature on the JHS show.
I’ll be honest— I had no interest in building yet another Tubescreamer any time soon, but the day the Virgil board was released, I came up with the idea for the graphics, and I couldn’t pass it up, especially while it was still actually a relevant joke. It just so happened that I was in the middle of finalizing my Tayda UV print files, and I was itching to come up with a design to try on the new pastel green powder coat— it was quite serendipitous, so I put the Tayda order off for a little bit longer so I could put the design together, ordered the PCB, and now that the semester is over, I was finally able to actually build it!
I don’t think I need to explain the graphics, but for anyone who might be confused, just look up the Klon KTR— I even hid “y a t s” in the letters with a slightly darker shade of grey just like the “k l o n” hidden in Finnegan’s message on the KTR.
As for the circuit, the only change I made is replacing the op amps with 4558s, just as @MichaelW did, since the 4580 for whatever reason doesn’t seem to work. It definitely sounds like a YATS, but the tone stack makes it a much more versatile one at that— while I have no trouble finding the typical vanilla TS tones that we’re all familiar with, I found that the EQ let me quickly dial out the blooze lawyer-ness, and instead get a variety of smooth and cutting mid-gain prog/fusion tones reminiscent of Holdsworth’s tones on Soft Machine’s Bundles (I could help but fumble my way through the Hazard Profile solo a few times when I first plugged in) and Daryl Stuermer’s tones from Jean Luc Ponty’s Enigmatic Ocean LP.
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amazing job on this!
