How does the effects loop work with a just one plug for in out. I understand the explanation that you use a special cable with out and in on the same cable on the effects box, but how does that work on the other end. Do you have to have an in out on that side that works the same way? Most effects loops would require two cables for the in out, would they not?
I two of these for years. I sold the silver button one and modded the other one. The best mod was to rip out the noisy op amps and then mod the rate circuit to make it go faster. When I made a BYOC copy I did these as standard.
Great job! They sound very similar indeed, the original is a tiny bit dryer and less trebly, but the quality of the distortion is the same and as you say: in a musical setting, no one will care or be able to tell. I love my Zap Machine (v2) and have for ten years now <3
Great stuff-I wonder if you noticed a difference when soldering components after wire brushing-I suspect the earlier wire soldering difficulty may have been due to terminal oxidation? Are you guys still using 60/40 lead solder?
I love the Tumnus DLX its been on my board since it came out. I felt it was very similar to the Klon KTR (JHS Modded), I have compared the Tumnus to other K clones and the Tumnus is the Best to me.
Just disassembled my Plumes yesterday to install a .047 uf capacitor across the volume pot to reduce the brightness, and to my surprise everything is now super tiny surface mounted components. They were so small I could not find the clipping diodes or LED’s. I can only assume this was done to save production costs. The capacitor worked out great. I just wish the other components were able to be tweaked. Bummer 😩
It doesn’t look like the powder coat was masked on the inside of the enclosure for grounding to the jacks. Are the sharp edges on the washers expected to penetrate the overspray of powder coat?
This is one of the greatest pedals of all time. All the demos suck. I use it after a Prince of Tone and it’s Velvet Underground and Nico all day. I never expected to like this pedal, I got lucky to see what its full potential is.
Nice work as always Joe, I just had a 2014 Wampler Hot Wired V2 od/distortion pedal in that I repaired and thoroughly cleaned (had to evict a colony of dust bunnies) and also noticed some of the odd shaped holes in the enclosure so that the assembly could be wiggled into place. I was glad that there was no surface mount components used on this model (Brent Mason signature) to deal with. Can’t wait for the next one 👍🤙🖖
This is a fantastic channel. I was toying with fitting a 1n34 diode to a conventional Tumnus, but, I’ll check out your upload as to whether or not ge diodes are worth buying. Thank you for the quality uploads.
actually,smd chips are easier to replace than through hole components,once you have the right technique and proper tools,its faster and less prone to ruin traces on pcb
Enjoyed this one Joe as I had a Tumnus on my board for a while before switching to a CTC Unobtanium 18 months ago. Unobtanium always feels more responsive even though the Tumnus has the 18v bump too. I'd like to see an Unobtanium teardown and your thoughts on the pedal. I enjoy your videos.
So the pedal that beat the real Klon in the Anderton's blind test, is using SMD diodes. I wonder how likely it is that they are silicon ...and how furious BF is that, particularly being not being 1N34 from his select batch, it never really mattered anyway 😂 Not to mention the KTR PCB that says "These are essential" on the inside (next to the diode location) - and the message about "ridiculous hype" not being of his making on the outside. He is a card.
I no longer care for boutique companies. I’ll keep my boss and Maxon pedals. And will only buy a new pedal if it’s through the hole. I really want the prs flanger tress in the wind
It makes sense to go SMD but it means the major assembly work is done by the pcb manufacturer and that doesn't really align with boutique does it? That coupled with the fact that there are user friendly tools for pcb design that are making the pedal industry so saturated, and the fact that most pedals are variations on established schematics sort of makes the boutique moniker a pretty hard sell these days, to me at least. On the other hand, I suspect the quality of construction is generally better these days, not sure if we've ever seen a single sided pcb on this series?
Thankyou! Can you please do some of the boutique digital FV-1 based pedals out there - Walrus Audio, Chase Bliss, OBNE, etc? I am keen to see what the difference really is aside from the digital coding.
4:12 - definitely a Molex KK254 or equivalent. I don't know if I'd call them JST though, even with them being superficially similar. TE CST-100 is an equivalent in most cases.
Thanks so much for putting together this series!! Feeling more confident to tackle a fender style build, your step by step guide for the chassis fabrication(the most daunting part for me) was super clear
To get only the leakage of 30 pcs of AC126s I made the modified setup setting power rail to 10V lab voltage (current limited) and using 1k ohm collector resistor. That way I was able to read the milliamps directly being the same number as the voltage change over the collector resistor. Those AC126s are mostly bad only 6 having it under 300 (micro!)amps. Is it ok to use 1k in this case?
greetings from buenos aires, argentina. man, i learn a lot from your videos and really want to thank you for that! i know this is jhs take on fuzz face schematic, but i'd like to understand why the signal path is being taken from the 1k resistor and not from de q2 collector as on every other common emitter amplifier. i'd really appreciate that info. cheers!
Just came to this video right after watching your breakdown of the Warm Audio Warm Bender. Omg what a difference. I’d definitely take the Warm Audio over this ridiculous nano-circuit thing.
Hey ! I have a mini I love that is thoroughly trashed. Is there a way I can send it to you for repair? It means a lot to me. Brian built it for me at his place in 2018 and I dearly miss it. I had a "friend" attempt to repair it and it is in desperate need of a skilled technician. I'm going to email you.
This has been in my 'watch later' list for ages (because, you know, run time...). I have to say that It was superb and well worth the watch. I knew various bits of the story around Bill and the FSB de-gooping, and had fallen into the diode rabbit-hole when I built my own clone (1N5711 anybody?) but seeing it all laid out as a coherent presentation was fantastic. Congratulations on putting this together in such a complete way - I don't see how you could have made it any shorter.
This looks like a fairly generic digital build - I think all their pedals are the same in terms of components. They just put on a new avant-garde screen print and change the firmware per model. For the price, you would be far better off investing in digital plugins. Where are these PCB's made? China? I find it ironic that the company pretend to be a bunch of hipsters yet peddle lifeless digital platforms like this as opposed to analog circuitry.
