Cybercow
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After over a year of research, testing, development and prototyping, the Rockman X100 (rev 10) V2 pedal is done. This is the world’s first single-unit full Rockman X100 in a functioning, stand-alone pedal. At this point, only about 40 of the V2 units will be made - still using all the same discrete circuitry (with genuine MN3011 & MN3007 BBDs) as designed by Tom Scholz of Boston. A team of four techs labored over dozens & dozens of X100 (rev 10) units; measuring, testing, tracing, comparing to patent schematics, correcting, prototyping, more measuring, more tracing, more comparisons, thousands of scope measurements, schematic corrections, more prototyping trial & error, over every nuance of of the circuit. Ultimately only two of the researchers remain, and just Josh & I are finishing these beautiful monsters. (Josh is the head-chef of this whole project. I just sling the burgers, design the menus & mop the floors.)
EDIT 1/1/24: Added full schematics HERE.
We've added a few modifications to make this stand-alone pedal as versatile as possible. We've added a custom power supply circuit so it can be powered with a standard 9v @ 500mA, negative center, 2.1mm wall wart. The FX options also includes a "Dry" option. True-bypass footswitch. Sequential Mode & FX switching stomps with LED indicators. A controllable 'Compression'. Wider input trim control, ("Tone"), to provide that 'brown' sound. Headphone volume control. And a standard volume control.
The line-level output jack exhibits the same eccentricities of the original X100 - in that it mostly wants a TRS plug; but a mono plug can be used when inserted to touch both the tip and ring contact points by pulling the plug out by about ¼".
These Rockman X100 (rev 10) V2 pedals are using custom drilled & painted enclosure from PolyCase to house the rather large main PCB. The white line marks on the "Tone" and "Comp" pots indicate the rotational points at which those two controls achieve the X100 default settings.
V1 used original Rockman X100 Rev 10 PCBs that were unpopulated and with over 400 components, the whole project took anywhere from 40 to 60 hours to assemble. With ~90% of the components now surface mounted at PCB manufacture time, V2 builds are now down to 8 to 10 hours to fully wire and assemble.
Enough of the “blah-blah-blah” . . .. on to the photos . . . .
EDIT 1/1/24: Added full schematics HERE.
We've added a few modifications to make this stand-alone pedal as versatile as possible. We've added a custom power supply circuit so it can be powered with a standard 9v @ 500mA, negative center, 2.1mm wall wart. The FX options also includes a "Dry" option. True-bypass footswitch. Sequential Mode & FX switching stomps with LED indicators. A controllable 'Compression'. Wider input trim control, ("Tone"), to provide that 'brown' sound. Headphone volume control. And a standard volume control.
The line-level output jack exhibits the same eccentricities of the original X100 - in that it mostly wants a TRS plug; but a mono plug can be used when inserted to touch both the tip and ring contact points by pulling the plug out by about ¼".
These Rockman X100 (rev 10) V2 pedals are using custom drilled & painted enclosure from PolyCase to house the rather large main PCB. The white line marks on the "Tone" and "Comp" pots indicate the rotational points at which those two controls achieve the X100 default settings.
V1 used original Rockman X100 Rev 10 PCBs that were unpopulated and with over 400 components, the whole project took anywhere from 40 to 60 hours to assemble. With ~90% of the components now surface mounted at PCB manufacture time, V2 builds are now down to 8 to 10 hours to fully wire and assemble.
Enough of the “blah-blah-blah” . . .. on to the photos . . . .
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