MichaelW
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Here's another one I buttoned up yesterday.
This is Catlinbread's take on a Tweed Bassman.
Coming from a completely different direction than the Sole Proprietor (HAO Sole Pressure) which only has 2 controls. The Tweedman has 6 controls (counting the internal Presence Trimmer).
At some of the cleaner settings the two pedals have the same vibe going on. Big bold clean sounds.
But at higher gain settings, the Tweedman goes a lot further. There's even a "turbo" mode or something that kicks it into high gain (but not like a Marshall like you'd expect).
The recommended starting point for the internal presence trimmer is halfway but I found the presence too high and a bit piercing. After messing with it a bit I wound up setting it to just barely cracked.
The external "Treble" control works kind of interactively with the internal presence trimmer, I've given some thought to adding another Pot and exposing the trimmer as a knob. The treble control seems to control the high mid range where the "mid" control covers the lower mids.
Lots of low end presence on this pedal and I think it would probably work great on bass too!
Again, I'll try to get a demo up a bit later, but very cool pedal. I like both the Sole and Tweedman, they "kinda" cover the same ground as a clean-ish preamp but have different voices once you start cranking up the gain.
The build went super smooth, for some reason it LOOKS like a lot more components than it really is. Having all the resistors lined up in a row made quick work of populating it.
Excuse the dog hair on the pic, there's little white hairs everywhere around here heh.....
This is Catlinbread's take on a Tweed Bassman.
Coming from a completely different direction than the Sole Proprietor (HAO Sole Pressure) which only has 2 controls. The Tweedman has 6 controls (counting the internal Presence Trimmer).
At some of the cleaner settings the two pedals have the same vibe going on. Big bold clean sounds.
But at higher gain settings, the Tweedman goes a lot further. There's even a "turbo" mode or something that kicks it into high gain (but not like a Marshall like you'd expect).
The recommended starting point for the internal presence trimmer is halfway but I found the presence too high and a bit piercing. After messing with it a bit I wound up setting it to just barely cracked.
The external "Treble" control works kind of interactively with the internal presence trimmer, I've given some thought to adding another Pot and exposing the trimmer as a knob. The treble control seems to control the high mid range where the "mid" control covers the lower mids.
Lots of low end presence on this pedal and I think it would probably work great on bass too!
Again, I'll try to get a demo up a bit later, but very cool pedal. I like both the Sole and Tweedman, they "kinda" cover the same ground as a clean-ish preamp but have different voices once you start cranking up the gain.
The build went super smooth, for some reason it LOOKS like a lot more components than it really is. Having all the resistors lined up in a row made quick work of populating it.
Excuse the dog hair on the pic, there's little white hairs everywhere around here heh.....