For crying out loud! How many different ways can you make a distortion pedal? I want one.
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I haven't listened to any clips of it yet, but the pre-gain bass knob has my attention. That's a pretty popular mod for me to do to my pedals, it's an extremely versatile thing to have as far as going between a tight OD sound and a wooly fuzz tone.
Also passive EQ that's designed to be neutral at noon is a cool ideaYou will never understand How it feels to live your life With no meaning or control And with nowhere left to go You are amazed that they exist And they burn so bright
Whilst you can only wonder why
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Sheesh $129 is a lot cheaper than I was expecting. I may have to requisition one from Santa as well, provided I manage to pull off a spot on the Nice ListYou will never understand How it feels to live your life With no meaning or control And with nowhere left to go You are amazed that they exist And they burn so bright
Whilst you can only wonder why
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Originally posted by ArtieToo View PostFor crying out loud! How many different ways can you make a distortion pedal?
- soft clipping (diodes on the feedback loop)
- hard clipping (diods to Ref voltage)
- overloading a device (BJT, FET, MOSFET, OpAmp...)
the overdrive, distortion e fuzz pedals aways orbit around these three methods, there are not so many topologies used but the combination with the eq tailoring (pre distortion, post distortion ecc) and the components values used create millions of varieties, in some case significantly different with just the twist of a single value
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Originally posted by marcello252 View Post
generally talking, in analog realm, 3.
- soft clipping (diodes on the feedback loop)
- hard clipping (diods to Ref voltage)
- overloading a device (BJT, FET, MOSFET, OpAmp...)
the overdrive, distortion e fuzz pedals aways orbit around these three methods, there are not so many topologies used but the combination with the eq tailoring (pre distortion, post distortion ecc) and the components values used create millions of varieties, in some case significantly different with just the twist of a single value
You could add more parameters as well, such as octave fuzz's, even order versus odd order distortion (intentionally mismatched transistors), cascaded gain stages, pre and post gain eq's, and countless other glitchty effectsYou will never understand How it feels to live your life With no meaning or control And with nowhere left to go You are amazed that they exist And they burn so bright
Whilst you can only wonder why
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