What's on the workbench?
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Bricksnbeatles
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It’s pretty easy to make heads and tails of the different controls once you play around with it a bit. Volume and tone are self explanatory. Speed is essentially the envelope of the theremin-glissando pitch, and intensity acts sort of as a blend between the ragged fuzziness, and the random envelope-controlled pitch. It’s easily my favorite PLL style pedal, and as long as you keep either the speed or intensity below 50%, you can crank the other and still get pretty controllable effects. Hitting the front end with active pickups or a clean boost tightens up the tracking and completely changes the character of the pedal in my experience. Fun without; fun with.I guess the Schadenfreude is verified.... How can you really decide if a circuit like that is broken?
One of my favorite ways to get monstrous bass tones is to track with the guitardammerung on guitar at double-speed, and then slow it down to half speed to drop it an octave.
Bricksnbeatles
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Once I get the schadenfreude board I’ll make an extensive demo video to show y’all how to get some really rad tones out of it since the guitardammerung has been a mainstay of my board since like 2014 or 2015I guess the Schadenfreude is verified.... How can you really decide if a circuit like that is broken?
Bricksnbeatles
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If you turn everything down to 0 and then just adjust the volume to taste, it’s incredible as just a nicely aggressive fuzz. All controls to 10 is of course the fun and sensible choice with noisy synthy freaks like this, but this one actually has a lot more subtlety (as subtle as a big muff or Acapulco Gold, that is) than most other PLL pedals if you go mild on the controls. I think I may have just thought of the candidate for my first buff and blend builds
cwsquared
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Send me the prototype, I'll let you know.I guess the Schadenfreude is verified.... How can you really decide if a circuit like that is broken?
Big Monk
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That’s why you’re the Cap’n!
Bricksnbeatles
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Which one did you save for last?
szukalski
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ZVEX Ringtone?I'm curous wtbbf is that thing with all the led's and pc mounts pots? almost rivaling my solder table but I know it's from me dragging arse gettign a design for the 'box art'
Robert
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They all get tossed into my salvage boxes fully assembled. They're there if I need any parts, but still (mostly) intact in case I need to pull one back out for some reason.
Not yet. That's the Wah.
That's a severe case of SBGAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Salvage Box Gear Acquisition Syndrome.
Robert
Reverse Engineer
The last one was the "Boston Baked Boost", which is basically a fixed EQ set relatively close to Tom Scholz 6-band EQ settings.
Not much fun on it's own, but it's pretty fun in front of another distortion.
I had to adjust a few resistor values so those go into the box of shame. I'll mark out one or two incorrect component values, but anything more than that warrants reordering the PCB.
Cybercow
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Ha! (Not really "On the Bench" - but required for the project none the less.) I re-examined my build notes on the rack mounted "Stereophonic Gizmotronic Symphonic Harmonic Perambulator" being built for a client. I had to completely re-work the interface layout to accommodate all that it really does. I may still need to go back and rethink the two Chorus sections to better emphasize the association of the Bypass toggles for each of two dual-chorus circuits.
The two FV-1 "Pythagoras" circuits will be synchronized and use dual-gang pots to manage their respective controls. Nor do they need a Bypass control because that can be achieved with the dual-ganged "Mix"control. The "Volume" control, also dual-ganged, will act as a master volume for the entire effect.
The two FV-1 "Pythagoras" circuits will be synchronized and use dual-gang pots to manage their respective controls. Nor do they need a Bypass control because that can be achieved with the dual-ganged "Mix"control. The "Volume" control, also dual-ganged, will act as a master volume for the entire effect.
benny_profane
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Is everyone tracing this pedal now?
Cybercow
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Dunno. Just Robert and I AFAIK.
