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Back in the 60's and 70's when a lot of the circuits used in stompboxes were being designed they were designed around the crappy batteries that we all knew and loved back in the day. If you're an old guy like me you undoubtedly remember what it was like living with those batteries. They had an outer skin of cardboard and they leaked like crazy after a very short time. Pretty much every AM radio I had as a little kid was murdered by crappy batteries. I eventually built a crystal radio set and used that because it didn't need batteries and I was sick of acid pouring out of the back of my radios every time I opened them up to change the batteries.
Anyway, modern batteries are much better and deliver peak power for longer. And that makes some of the old circuits very unhappy. Particularly distortion and fuzz pedals, but also things like chorus pedals and phasers. Many of them like to see 7 volts or so. So people scramble around looking for generic Chinese batteries hoping they'll be as crappy as the real thing. Rumors were that Stevie Ray Vaughan used to carry around partially-depleted batteries to use in his Tube Screamers so they'd sound the way he liked them to sound.
BTW, don't ever use something like this with a modern microprocessor-based pedal. Your digital delay will not be happy and some of the magic smoke may even leak out of the case. As I'm sure you know, the magic smoke is what keeps these things functional. When it leaks out they stop working.
This is a simple "battery simulator" (or it will be when it's done) that allows a 9v DC power source to have its voltage rolled off and its resistance increased just like you'd find from a dying (or crappy) battery. You just place it between your wall wart and the effect pedal and there will be a potentiometer that will allow the voltage to be lowered. With the meter you can make a note of what power level sounds best to you with your chosen pedal for quick rough setups.
BTW, don't get me wrong...I did not invent this concept. A lot of people have been playing around with boxes like this for a while. This is just my crack at it. I'm following some well-worn tracks in the snow.
Anyway, I just glued the meter in place and clamped it down for the night. Tomorrow I'll give myself some new soldering scars.
DamiĂ¡n Iriarte nos mandĂ³ una foto de su pedalera que incluye:
MBS Black Sheep Wah
MBS The Wizärd Overdrive 2
MBS Delilah Delay
MBS Super Booster
MBS Multipower
DamiĂ¡n Iriarte nos mandĂ³ una foto de su pedalera que incluye:
MBS Black Sheep Wah
MBS The Wizärd Overdrive 2
MBS Delilah Delay
MBS Super Booster
MBS Multipower
A (slightly excessive) experimental setup for the March solo gig. The new Guyatone ST2 gives pickups a big fat boost which drives the HOG. The HOG is split into a "clean" and an effected channel. The "clean" channel drives the second effects loop (Yamaha NE-1, DOD Classic Fuzz, Crybaby and Vox 1904). The "clean", the HOG and the second effects loop all run through the first effects loop with a stereo Line 6 Echo Park giving the whole thing an ambient shimmer.
A previous version of this setup featured a Boss Super Shifter (on Harmonist mode for octave up, and Pitchshifter mode for octave down) which was placed either at the beginning or the end of the second effects loop. This wasn't sufficiently distinct from the HOG other than when it was being fuzz-wahed.
This setup is probably too big for the gig anyway. Something using the Super Shifter rather than the HOG, perhaps with some ring modulation, might work better. But all in all, the boosting effect of the new Guyatone Compression Sustainer had a rather bracing effect upon all and sundry and on that basis this should be thought of as a partial triumph!
DamiĂ¡n Iriarte nos mandĂ³ una foto de su pedalera que incluye:
MBS Black Sheep Wah
MBS The Wizärd Overdrive 2
MBS Delilah Delay
MBS Super Booster
MBS Multipower
Astrolabe, Orléans
Fun fact : you can easily spot guitar players at shows. They are the people in the first row looking at the feet of the guitarist instead of his face.
Humming Verb Digital Reverb. PresentaciĂ³n oficial en Muestra MĂºsica 2010
* TecnologĂa hĂbrida analĂ³gica/digital
* Procesamiento de 24 bits
* 3 modos: Classic, Hall y Room
* Controles externos de Blend, Amount y Mode
* Controles internos de tono de Reverb y Volumen general
* True Bypass
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I picked this up today at Atomic Music for $40. Not bad, considering they run $90 brand new. The casing is all busted up, and it was in need of some serious cleaning, but the effect works like charm. This thing rips!
This is a small part of my guitar effects setup. There's now 3 extra pedals in it.
Left to right:
Danelectro Tuna Melt tremelo
ProCo Rat
Boss RV2 Digital Reverb
*
Boss DD3 Digital Delay
**
Boss TU2 Tuner
(Added since this shot
* Electroharmonix Small Clone chorus
** Boss SD1 Super Overdrive
Boss DS1 Distortion)
This version of the BassBalls is in the original Russian-made chassis and comes in a fancy (and old-ish) pine box.