Shallow Water / Low Tide Modulator build..

[grobbins]

Build Rating

5.00 star(s)

This was not my favourite pedal to build.

Here is why:
1. It cost me a fortune to build. And then my friend decided he wanted wanted one tooI had to pay shipping on the PCB from the states again. It also uses some unusual parts. I paid £30 shipping for 2 IC chips. The value of the chips was 40p.

2. It took me hours to find and order all the parts due to the weirdness of components

3. It's a nightmare to build. There's amps that use less components, there's a few micro SMD things in there too which are a pain to do without frying them. Also a very tight squeeze. I struggled getting the dc adapter in.

4. Setting it up (biasing the BBD etc ) is a huge faff, making microscopic adjustments on internal trimmers took me about 2 hours to get right on both pedals.

5. Controls - WTF is slew I cannot tell you what it does.

After all that it it makes your guitar sound weird and broken.

Was it worth it? yes.



NOTE: My complaints are directed at Fairfield Circuitry not Pedal PCB. I think theyve done a great job making a weird beast like this possible.

 

[Robert]

5. Controls - WTF is slew I cannot tell you what it does.

The microcontroller generates a random LFO waveform. (solid line)

Slew controls the amount of smoothing applied to that random waveform. (dotted line)

 

[grobbins]

The microcontroller generates a random LFO waveform. (solid line)

Slew controls the amount of smoothing applied to that random waveform. (dotted line)

View attachment 77797

Thank you. This actually makes a lot of sense now its visualised!

 

[giovanni]

Cool graphics!