LukeFRC
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TLDR version: It's my clone of a Prunes and Custard in a really small case, it's a DIY pedal I made myself but to a fairly high standard. It sounds amazing! Long version: I like making pedals, and have made quite a few for myself - often of things, like this, that seem to be unavailable to buy new. A few years back I laid out my own PCB and made a version of a SS/BS mini - it was amazing in a metal stamped case , and ended up making a couple for a couple of friends on here- which was a long and not massively fun experience. I didn't have any distortions on my board and wanted to build one, in talking to @lee650 he convinced me to try a Prunes and custard. The next issue is, I've a small board so wondered if I could fit it all in a mini (1590a) size enclosure... Then I saw the fancy Gorva M45 which is 5mm or so wider ... but crucially if you use the right Lumberg jacks, you can get top jacks into it! The PCB is a combination of SMD parts (resistors, a couple of ceramic caps, most diodes and IC) and through hole for capacitors and one diode. Mini 3PDT footswitch is low activation pressure and nice. The Gorva M45 is the most expensive part of the build in matt black - and I designed a fern leaf design for it printed in gloss on black by Gojira here in the UK. The original Prunes and Custard being made in New Zealand, and the fern leaf and er... All Black design influenced by the country of origin and watching the All blacks as my kiwi uncle introduced me to rugby... Importantly the LED is green. This is the kind of detail that matters. But making a small batch it meant I could get the SMD parts of PCB assembled and it made the unit price on the printing make sense. I had 10 PCB and bulked a bit at the cost to build them all up (plus that gets out of hand!) so made 6. One is mine, one sold to Lee who inspired it, and then a couple I've friends ask to buy, one is out for testing ... which leaves me with one (maybe two) left... so I offer it here for £85. Which will be £89 including first class postage here in the UK. Which is cost of parts plus a bit for my time in assembly. Controls are gain, mix and volume, high cut is guitar/bass on the original (I think) and ... cuts the top end, low cut is contour on the original and in the down position adds clean lows back in. It sounds like a prunes and custard. It's very small. Did I mention how small it is? NOTE: compact jacks like EBS needed. See photo in second post. -
errrm - I think you need to split it down into roughly what things are doing to the sound to understand them. So a chorus has a few variations of how they work but basic is modulating the sound with a delay line, and a LFO effecting time and then mixing it 50/50 with clean. So if you have two a lot of it will depend on the LFO - my messing around in stacking them on a HX stomp the LFO timing is the same - so it increases the effect - but also each one effects an effected tone and it looses the cleans. So if the OP wanted more chorus what are they actually wanting? A bigger amplitude of change of delay time? a fatter sound? A different wave form on the LFO? One nice thing is splitting by frequency and leaving the bottom end uneffected - which to my ears makes it sound more. If you were recreating the A preamp it would be different. It's got a level of EQ, saturation and compression - which might change depending on the level of the signal - or it might saturate and compress differently at different frequencies - so it depends what you like that was "better" that you like- that might be improved by doubling it
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I just stuck 8 chorus in a row on my hx stomp- obviously the LFO will be synchronised as it’s one unit. it didn’t sound great
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I don't think so - if it was I don't know why the main room lights switching on and off would turn the noise on or off.
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If it's the noise from lights being picked up by stomp is it the power or the signal ground I need to try and sort?
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no daisy chaining- I'll go and try again and unplug things but when I had it before it was just stomp and colourbox and Cioks being used. (before my pedal phase started)
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just tested the outputs of the Cioks DC7 with my multimeter - they are isolated from one another
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in-between HX and colourbox? I'm guessing it's some kind of 1:1 transformer in there
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No - because it doesn’t have ground lift! Neither does the stomp - other people have had this issue it seems https://line6.com/support/topic/60123-ground-loop-hum-from-a-pa-system/ balls
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Help I have a colourbox that I love, and had a HX stomp and was getting noise from the both. so sold the stomp. Two years on I rebuy a HX stomp.... .... and the first time I take it to church to play and it sounds great... Until the main lights in the room go on (LED spotlights) and it goes Buzz really loudly - like about 1/3 of the signal of the bass. This happens even when the bass is muted. It seems to be a combination of the venue lights, the HX stomp and the colourbox just don't work together... but why? Isolated power supplies, Lights on a different mains ring from switchboard Turn hx off, no buzz or turn Colourbox off and use it as a passive DI, no buzz turn lights off, no buzz - but apparently not an acceptable solution! What's going on here and how do I avoid it? I made a diagram of things I've tried so far...
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can the Ashville pattern into fuzz/envelope get close?
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If you put two heliospheres on a path each (one short, one long) each followed by random chorus and then combine into a long dynamic plate reverb with some modulation it gets pretty close to some of the settings of an eventide black hole reverb! now it probably needs eq too so it’s going to max out the blocks on my hx stomp but interesting exploring
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The Bass Show UK - Cranmore Park, Birmingham - March 1st and 2nd
LukeFRC replied to Goliath_FX's topic in Events
Was that a mocha 78 with an epoxy 77 preamp in it? Asking for a friend -
The Bass Show UK - Cranmore Park, Birmingham - March 1st and 2nd
LukeFRC replied to Goliath_FX's topic in Events
Ah. As you were, I can calm down -
The Bass Show UK - Cranmore Park, Birmingham - March 1st and 2nd
LukeFRC replied to Goliath_FX's topic in Events
what colour? Reason being there was a 77-78 stingray which is my one that got away.... -
With a time dimension too- so that it models that eq curve over time. a small bit of time for a cab sim, a big bit for a reverb
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I didn't know they had a bass player on the Mary Rose!
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some lovely and rate things in here - good prices too- 6 replies
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in my head a lot of digital effects have a kinda sound signature - which goes from raw harsh organicness (Source Audio) through to Slick smooth polished studio type sounds (Eventide) - my inexpert opinion having not played as much gear as other folk on the thread, but for bass, esp live, the polished sound doesn't work as well as rawer sounds. Obviously that's not always the case, music style varies, what you're running before it matters, and where it is in the chain too... This sounds like the polished end of things.
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+1 One of the best bits of advice for digital gear someone gave me was for an H9, ignore every preset, start with 2-3 of your own and ignore the rest. Just think about 1 thing. It makes you focus on making the single thing you need, and then you can expand it later if you need. Before I did that I was trying to make use of everything and focusing on the technology rather than my/the musics needs that the technology would help me do
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Why a tiny little fiddly thing that needs expensive parts? well this is it compared to a 1590a size pedal - slightly wider - untill you plug something in and here is it compared to a 125b side - think standard size for a walrus pedal so it can take up way less space than a larger pedal. I think if they had side jacks that clashed you could fit two of these in the space of a 1590b MXR size enclosure. That’s with EBS Gold cables too! the downside is fiddlyness more expensive parts and probably not being able to use just any patch lead!! That’s EBS gold cables and a Cioks power cable.
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So as well as the one I’ve already shown… this happened
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Nice
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from the Neve schematic or Broughton inspired?
