Pro-10

Erik S

Erik S

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You know how sometimes a friendly dog will randomly meet a person and decide they don't like them for no reason anyone can figure out?

Maybe try taking your hat off? Maybe he doesn't like people with beards? Maybe he smells something on you?

I don't really like this pedal but not for any reason I can figure out. Both sides sound perfectly nice. They sound nice together, they're each their own thing, but I just couldn't get excited about it.

Oh well. On to the next one.


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I like the bare wire runs. And the matte green with red bezel looks great.

I remember liking the carbon/blue half of this circuit as a low gain boost thing, but I haven't used it in a while. I am fine without pairing the BB TS in a box. That got kinda old after everyone took a crack at it.
 
Thanks! @VanWhy @GizzWizzKing @BuddytheReow

I had the bus wire out for the stomps and decided to just run with it.

I keep changing my technique for aligned daughterboards like those. On this one, I cut and bent bus wire into little L shapes so I could drop them in from the top and the short leg of the L kept them from dropping through. Then I soldered everything top side in the box then only trimmed from the top.

I don't know how everyone else does those, but I've done it some much dumber / labor intensive ways in the past, and I was pretty happy with how that worked out.
 
Having built several bluesbreaker type pedals, I was underwhelmed by the blue side of this. The green side is nice though, but I never use it because it's stuck in a dual pedal.
 
Oh man. I love this pedal. I think it's the best BB variant I've built/played and I think the nobles side is fantastic too. They stack great as well. If you could only build one OD project on this site this would hands down be the one I recommend.

I get a good rhythm sound using the blue side and use the nobles side when I need to step it up or get a lead tone.
 
Route14 said:
Oh man. I love this pedal. I think it's the best
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I love that for you. 🤣

Seriously though, I’m not surprised people like this one. I can’t even really explain why I didn’t connect with it. I might even pull it out of the drawer in a few months and have a different take on it.

Lately I’ve been liking my dirt pedals a little dirtier. Like if it doesn’t have a hint of something weird or unpredictable or lo-fi about it, I’m less likely to get excited.

The Protein sounds great. That’s probably why I didn’t like it.
 
Erik S said:
I love that for you. 🤣

Seriously though, I’m not surprised people like this one.
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I totally accept that this pedal is very "traditional" and "refined" and for that reason people might want something more unique out of their dirt choices. For me it hits just right. I'm also self aware enough to know I am very unexciting in my tastes!!!
 
Route14 said:
I totally accept that this pedal is very "traditional" and "refined"
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Sometimes I get excited about that stuff too. I did a Mach 1/ Greer Lightspeed recently and that’s super smooth and refined. For some reason that one made me smile. 🤷‍♂️

I guess what I was trying to get at with my dog analogy was that I have a surprisingly hard time predicting what I’m going to like. It doesn’t seem to be terribly logical.
 
It took some time for the pro-10 to grow on me. I think I ran it through the wrong amp and set the tone knob on the ODR side where I thought it should sound good vs where it did sound good (I think I tied some caps in parallel to get some values I didn't have and screwed that up so my tone sweep is a but weird on the ODR side). I think it's fine with a guitar. Kind of meat and potatoes, nothing too mind-blowing. It's my go-to for my baritone though and the BB side is what I use to get my bass sound. One of my "never going to leave my studio board" pedals.
 
I built one of these and tried it out on my board for a few weeks- took it to a few jams. I was able to get good sounds out of it. It felt appropriate for certain settings. But in my own music, I’m a major signal abuser. So not exciting in that context.

I built mine in a 1590Q with individual blue and green PCBs, with 4 jacks for routing flexibility.

I think I just don’t like double pedals.
 
Great build, even if it didn't float your boat. Initially...


Sometimes it's just a mood thing.

I've come across old build threads on the forum that get zombified and brought back to the present from a new comment — and I think it's a new thread and "WOW! What an AMAZING BUILD!" and when I go to click on ":love:" I see I've already liked it with just a "(y)". That's when I think to myself, "WTF was I thinking when the thread came out a couple years ago? It's an AMAZING BUILD!"


So maybe keep this build around and try it again later with a different guitar/amp and it'll come to life for you.
 
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