Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Productivity!

I've had an oddly productive week. I've built a grand total of 3 working pedals.
The CA3080A from China finally came in, and after strapping it into my BYOC 2-knob compressor, it fired right up! It sounds good, to say the least. Not quite as transparent as I might like, but really good overall. The best part is it makes my chorus pedal much more usable, it's not as plinky and tinny as before. I also finished the DAM Meathead clone. It's pretty good, but not amazing. It's not quite a fuzz, and not quite a distortion. It sounds absolutely wonderful on the low strings, though.  Not sure if this one's going to get boxed or not, but if it is, I'm going to put a JFET blend circuit in to blend back some of the high end. I may also try slapping a 100nf cap on the input, but I'm afraid it'll be too dark.
I just ordered some GT313 Soviet mil-spec germaniums from mother Russia. Three will go into a VERY nasty fuzz pedal I'm building for a friend, and hopefully another three will go into a Buzzaround. I'm hoping I get a nice range of gains. The Klon Buffer's done, and that's waiting on a box as well. I've actually ordered that box, and I'm a bit pissed that I haven't heard anything from PedalPartsPlus about it.
Things I'm thinking about building:
Vox Repeat Percussion clone
EHX Green Russian Muff with active blend....
Buzzaround.
The Rustler will rise as well.
The Cormpressor has many demons, and they must be exorcised. I'm not giving up that easily on this one. 
That's it, go home.

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