Peavey Decade Stomp
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Same.
I welcome our Sweet overlords.
JHS also does a Decade pedal
This isn't a JHS, it's a Ten Years Is A Decade pedal. Looks like they're not making them anymore?
I guess this is the same situation as Boss releasing the HM-2w and knocking most of the Heavy Metal clones off the market.
It is amazing how much the original company doesn't see or understand the market. Other companies take their ideas, and manufacture them, and bring them to market. Only then does the original company realize they can make money on their old designs.
Securb
One of Jerry's Kids
Interesting I found it on Twitter they attributed the pedal to JHS.
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One of Jerry's Kids
I am not a Peavey historian, but I remember playing and falling in love with a Peavey VTX MX head around '85. It was built in a road case. It was pretty much a Decade-style solid-state preamp with a 100-tube power section. I remember just being blown away by that amp and it having massive gain on tap.
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One of Jerry's Kids
I got it! It is definitely a keeper, but I will say this pedal is not for everyone. It has a lo-fi vibe. If you are looking for buttery, creamy overdrive, this is not your pedal. It is very raspy, almost more fuzz-like than distortion. In its standard mode, it sounds as advertised, like a cranked small solid-state practice amp. 70's style drive with lots of grit and nice touch sensitivity. Maybe too much, there is a bit of string noise when sliding your fingers. When hitting the "SATURATION" switch, it is a gain boost that kicks the pedal into the realm of metal. Those '90s solid-state metal tones are within reach.
The form factor is smaller than I expected, which is nice. Here it is next to a standard BOSS pedal. It is a plastic enclosure, which is fine by me. I will say this pedal adds an overdrive/distortion flavor I previously did not have, so I am very happy with it. The final test will be when I plug it into the 100w amp for rehearsal, and also see how it responds to gain staging.
The form factor is smaller than I expected, which is nice. Here it is next to a standard BOSS pedal. It is a plastic enclosure, which is fine by me. I will say this pedal adds an overdrive/distortion flavor I previously did not have, so I am very happy with it. The final test will be when I plug it into the 100w amp for rehearsal, and also see how it responds to gain staging.
Securb
One of Jerry's Kids
The PRE handles the dirt so in theory, you could run it clean and then hit the saturation switch for more gain. However, it is not really designed to be used clean, once you get the PRE to around 2, it starts clipping. With the SATURATION turned off and the PRE cranked I would call it early 70s hard rock distortion. SATURATION is adding another gain stage from what I can tell, and gets you a more modern tone, yet still dated. In short, it is like having two dirt stomps in one unit.
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One of Jerry's Kids
Noticable but not a huge jump. A manageable little bump, pretty much what you would want for the lead to jump out. Nothing big enough to give an issue managing your live volume. There is also silent switching, so there is no "pop" when engaging the pedal.
I was working on a song for the band. I decided to plug it into the DAW audio interface. It is dead silent and sounds fantastic direct. No hum, no noise, nothing! Not, the application I bought this for, but I will take it. An unexpected bonus.
idsnowdog
Imperator of Indignation
The circuit is pretty conventional. This schematic is from a clone kit. It uses a JRC4558 dual op-amp. The first stage has a symmetrical soft clipping circuit using 1N4148 silicon diodes with 100pF smoothing capacitors like a tube screamer. The saturation switch engages a 22uF bypass capacitor to ground which boosts the entire frequency range. Engaging a bypass cap makes it sound louder and higher gain. A Fender Deluxe uses a 25uF bypass cap on the first triode of V2. I don't go above 10uF because the bass response gets mushy. When people mod Deluxe, Princeton, or Champs they reduce the bypass capacitor value to tighten it up and reduce blocking distortion.
After the first stage there's another symmetrical hard clipping stage using 1N4148 diodes. Then there's the tone stack and the second stage is basically a make up gain stage with some smoothing capacitors in a feedback loop but no soft clipping diodes. There's another 22uF non-switchable bypass cap on stage two. After stage two there's another symmetrical hard clipping stage. I wouldn't have expected that after a make up gain stage but its there.
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