Fredric Effects Accomplished Badger MkII...Now With Diodes & Transformer!

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At the start of this year, I demoed the Accomplished Badger MkI from Fredric Effects in London - a really cool 2-stage preamp/boost pedal, using an Op-Amp to push a single NOS Ge transistor. Today, we have the MkII of that pedal...which is fundamentally the same circuit, but with a few key improvements.
The circuit now contains a charge pump - so even though it only wants a standard 9V input, it ups that internally to run on 18V for increased headroom and clarity. There's now an audio-grade Triad transformer on the output, for some subtle colouration, saturation and compression. But also, you get three dip-switches on the circuit board - one to double the gain of the Op-Amp, but the other two introduce clipping diodes into the mix, for extra tonal options and some more Overdrive-Like character.
What do you think? All the gain options you could ever need? Or not for you? Comment below!
Guitar is a Gibson SG Standard w/ OX4 Alnico IV PAFs. Amp is a Vajra JTM45 clone running into a Zilla Studio Pro 2x12 cabinet loaded with Scumback S75-PVC AlNiCo and Celestion Heritage G12M ceramic speakers. Recorded with Aston Spirit Condenser, '70s Sennheiser MD441 and sE RNR1 ribbon mics, with a Schoeps CMC6 room mic.
0:00 Intro
2:50 Clean Unity Buffer
4:17 Op-Amp Gain
6:19 Ge Transistor Gain
8:33 Cascading The Gain Stages
12:41 Joe's Favourite Setting
14:09 The Three Dip Switches
18:48 Outro
joeperkinsmusic
jp@joeperkins.co.uk
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Комментарии : 25

@jeremiahMc11 2 года назад

Fredric Effects Super Unpleasant Companion is in my top 3 fuzz pedals ever.

@JoePerkinsMusic 2 года назад

I'd love to try some of their gnarly fuzzes :-)

@CoenBijpost 2 года назад

Fredric effects is the bomb. I’ve just got their duoface. So nice to be able to go between germ and silicon fuzz face with one switch. Really accentuates the differences between the two circuits.

@timjx3675 2 года назад

Great OD sounds awesome

@mikeroadblock 2 года назад

You rock kind sir!

@starshineraiser6729 Год назад

I need this. I have the Golden Eagle and Blue Monarch. Fredric is one of my very favorite builders. I just hope they make some more classic overdrive circuits, their take on them.

@JoePerkinsMusic Год назад

Fredric make some epic pedals - I'd love to try their Regent preamp thing! The Blue M always looks pretty great too :-)

@starshineraiser6729 Год назад

@@JoePerkinsMusic I hope you get the Blue Monarch. It’s one of the best I’ve ever played. It basically has a built in treble booster that is so effective. There’s another booster circuit inside but trust me, the tone is so much better with that off.

@Jaredt771 2 года назад

That sounds fantastic!!!

@steveturner6770 2 года назад

Never owned a Fredericks pedal. Very nice. Preferred it without dipswitches being engaged , sounded a tad more "organic" on my (cheap) headphones.

@JoePerkinsMusic 2 года назад

I agree...I think having the switches is cool, but my favourite tones were with the Op-Amp into the transistor :-)

@enricopallazzo8510 2 года назад

This pedal has the greatest name ever. I was surprised by the quality of the buffer at unity gain and the Ge-Gain was reallty cool. Fredric pedals are great and affordable too (affordable, NOT cheap). Joe, i have two unrealated questions: 1. do you have or use any low wattage amp (like 5watt amps)? I saw a lot of famous players (Joe Perry, Phil X etc) combine their big 50/100watt amps with small 5watt amps, now that you have your Vajra will you try this combination of small and high wattage amps on a video? 2. Have you ever tried Alnico 8 magnet pickups? Usually Alnico 8 magnets are associated with "high gain" (like ceramic magnets) pickups but there are a few guys (Arcane pickups in L.A. for example), that create pickups using Alnico 8 and very few winding for a more "vintage" inspired pickups with A8 magnets qualities.

@JoePerkinsMusic 2 года назад

Hi Enrico - hopefully I answered this ok in the September Q&A vid :-)

@BopKitBill 2 года назад

Hey Joe, -a sort of unrelated question on your speakers... So one of yours is a Heritage G12M... Have you ever compared that model with the bog standard new Chinese G12M. I recently bought one but haven't yet installed it...I bought that model over the Heritage because Greg Germino says it's his favorite and prefers it over the Heritage G12M. Someday I hope to play thru a Germino JTM45 into a G12M loaded cab...Just to see what he means by that!

@JoePerkinsMusic 2 года назад

Hi Bill - that video is coming in a couple of weeks! But they're fairly different...the Heritage has less 'fizz' and much more low end.

@myeyesarewaiting 2 года назад

would have liked to see an internal DIP switch to flip the order of the gain stages - so you can run the Ge into the Op Amp.

@JoePerkinsMusic 2 года назад

That would be cool - though I'm not sure how feasible that would be (but I'm not a circuit designer!)

@myeyesarewaiting 2 года назад

@@JoePerkinsMusic totally do-able. Plenty of dual-pedals-in-single-enclosures have an order switch. exact same principle. Would probably require a 4PDT switch, but doable.

@timhulio1 2 года назад

Yes, very doable. However having the Ge transistor gain stage first would leave this effect very fussy about where it is in the signal chain and how it'd react with different guitar pickups. Having the OpAmp stage first acts like a buffer. I'm not saying it wouldn't be interesting, but there would be drawbacks and I'm not sure how many people would need that functionality.

@myeyesarewaiting 2 года назад

@@timhulio1 very good points!

@Paul_Lenard_Ewing 2 года назад

I love the Fredrick Effects pedals and they are great on their own but I run 72 pedals in my rig. That has been knocked down by a good 10 pedals or more. I just looked, I sold 136 pedals on Reverb over just year. I need to run at unity gain and most of the F.FX are not very cooperative on many issues, lol. Pedals in general tend to have issues of compatibility as is. I have kept but retired a great Tonebender and a Rangemaster booster and even a few OD's. So far an old Vox treble booster has resisted getting shelved.

@steveturner6770 2 года назад

Impressive! I've been trying to go down to half a dozen pedals from a board of 20 & its a struggle!

@Paul_Lenard_Ewing 2 года назад

@@steveturner6770 My rig is wired as 4 separate self contained boards. Each board having its own comp, delay and verb. I have a 3 piece Metal trio doing my 26 original tunes. I have in effect a clean/low gain board, a medium gain and high gain. The 4th is for synth, a faux 12 string thing and odd things. It is simple to use as I use a switcher with just 4 loops. Except for changing wet dry knobs on verb & delay. I simply need to turn on and off pedals between tunes. I pretty much use all the boards in a single tune. I can get very dynamic changes or even just get the perfect tone by switching for intro, verse, chorus, mis 8 solo etc. With all original tunes one has to make a BIG impact. I only get one chance to make a first impression, lol.

@JoePerkinsMusic 2 года назад

72 pedal rig! 😳

@Paul_Lenard_Ewing 2 года назад

@@JoePerkinsMusic Yes Joe and I have 3 other pedals on order. After carefully using them for a week or two they may replace one or more pedals. The losers go on Reverb. After doing this for about 5 years I can tell better what will work. It is still a gamble as some things have very poor dynamics or sustain or small artifacts that one can not tell from a video. Price or maker guarantees zero, lol. Lately used pedals sell well and I can even make money from them. I buy world wide and usually get good deals often buy buying from unusual places like American made pedals from east European countries or Russia or even China.Even Chinese pedals new from China can be had as low as 2/3 cheaper. $20 to $35 a pedal with free shipping is not unusual.