I just put a order on for one of these bad boys. They just came out and man does that look like a cool pedal. Pre boost, distortion, 5 band parametric EQ, post boost, and a noise gate all in one. And it was only $249! I thought that was a very good deal. Check it out if you want to below;
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Okay, generally chips, well, opamps, amplify, diodes clip, so most (at least a few years ago) distortion/OD pedals are an opamp with diodes in the circuit to clip off the top and bottom of the signal. Prior to that most pedals used distcrete transistors to amplify and when overloaded, distort the signal.
The new breed of amp in a box type pedals generally use FETs to simulate tubes in a preamp circuit, because FET act similar to tubes when driven to clipping.
My guess is this is a combination of some or all the above, maybe an opamp for the input gain, or discrete FETs, driving FETs to overdrive to get the amp-ness, with probably some diode clipping kicking in at a certain point in the gain range. It seems to react pretty amplike in the videos, with way more overdrive than a TS, I'm guessing it was designed to be the main distortion generator in front of a clean amp.
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Originally posted by Demanic View PostIbanez has put out some decent preamp circuits. Remember the Tubescreamer amp?
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Originally posted by Securb View Post
Yep. I found a great deal on one and played it for a half hour and couldn't gel with it. I like the TS to push an already overdriven amp but I don't like them for stand-alone gain. That is why I am a bit stand-off-ish on this pedal.
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Originally posted by Securb View Post
Yep. I found a great deal on one and played it for a half hour and couldn't gel with it. I like the TS to push an already overdriven amp but I don't like them for stand-alone gain. That is why I am a bit stand-off-ish on this pedal.It's funny how some stories became historic,
especially when the authors clearly wrote them to be metaphoric,
But people will believe anything when it's written in stone or ancient scroll...-Fat Mike
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