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Are you powering it within its stated voltage range with an appropriate limiting resistor? If so then I'd say it's a lot more likely to simply be the wrong LED.

- accidental double post and apparently I can't delete posts anymore?

As the guy who bought it I say absolutely definitely not. Having played with the hd1000, it was a fun unit, but tone wise there's nothing it did that can't be done be better by modern effects. The unique features for me were that you could set the harmony pitch in 5 cent intervals so you could get completely atonal ring mod sounds out of it, and the delay had an fx loop on the feedback path, which is still a very rare feature on pedal delays. But the tone, tracking and delay time were very much "of the era". As people have suggested, a good cheap multi will get you there, or separates if you want a bit more flexibility.

Maybe I'm too deep in the hole but all those things seem very reasonable to me.

I respect a strong DIY theme. Most of my DIY stuff doesn't have a name but I tie the pedal to a theme through logic that only usually makes sense to me but is entirely dependable in my own head. The one decorated with Londo Mollari, ambassador of the Centauri from Babylon 5? That's the klon centaur clone. The one decorated with the black metal cat? The katzenkonig clone, obviously. The one with Julio from the Simpsons? Naturally the walrus Julia clone. What is life without convoluted inside jokes?

The zoom ms-70cdr can be as simple or complex as you make it and is a very compact footprint.

C+p explainer - Important things first - the tuner lives on the desk on an output from the mixer. Obviously this isn't remotely designed for gigging so i've tetrissed on as much as I can but in socks it's surprisingly stompable. There is logic to the overstuffed chaos - I know myself and if I set things up as I need them my floor and desk will be a pile of pedals and cables within 10 minutes - getting 90% of what I know I'll need on a board keeps things neat. This is for a very noisy progy/mathy/metally project so it's designed to cover ambient/delay cleans, bread and butter OD/Dist and tongue-in-cheek silly synth stuff for guitar and bass. Probably easiest to just run through the whole signal and explain the DIYs as I go - Bass Whammy - Fairly self explanatory, I'm principally a bassist and I prefer the harmony options on the bass version anyway Scratched Silver - Compressor from a kit - my very first experiment with acid etching (I couldn't print a design at the time so it's just scratched in with a screwdriver) Black with yellow knobs - EQD arpanoid clone - in conjunction with stuff later down the line does a decent synth arp. impression Boss OC-2 - Nothing like it for bass. Boss LS-2 - All the dirt pedals sit in the loops so the lighter ODs/Dists can be blended with the silly fuzzes. Loop A > Londo - Centaur Klone (basically VFEs clone) - I was a late convert to klone's but I couldn't be without it now AMT Slap Bass - I've had this for over a decade and I've never seen another one. It's a very compressed, heavily EQd OD with cab simulation at the end - I hate the term secret weapon... but it's amazing for guitar and bass Perry the platypus - Nobels ODR clone Superman Values Teamwork - Catalinbread SFT clone with 18V option Loop B> Fab Tone - Cheesy? Yes. Versatile? No. Amazing? Absolutely. Homer - Big Cheese clone WMD Geiger Counter - For the aforementioned silliness Massive bastard on the bottom left - Schumann PLL clone. For ridiculous synthy nonsense it has no equal - worth every mm² of board space LS-2 Outputs to the gold duck tales one - Frostwave funk-a-duck clone. Best filter I've ever had, it's an absolute bugger to dial in, but it's amazing. Julio from the Simpsons - Walrus Julia clone. I was sceptical, but I've got 2 other choruses and I haven't used either of them since I built this. Korra - Lovetone doppelanger clone (Phaser) - It takes some getting used to but the options justify the space - by putting resistors onto jacks and into the exp jacks you can lower the LFO speed to I think about 0.003Hz - i.e a 5 minute sweep. Useful? no. Cool? Also no, but interesting. Moog EP-1 - Currently controlling the rainbow machine clone She-ra - EQD rainbow machine clone. What can I say, I like the silly noise it makes. The eagle eyed may notice it's not currently connected - I found 5 dead patch cables while hooking up so I'm waiting on parts to build more. Catalinbread csidman - A really unique effect, not very versatile but really effective. Zoom ms-70 - I've gone to the dark side. I'm amazed by this thing, I've currently got it doing some one trick pony emulation (generation loss, ct5 etc.) and textural tremolo picky stuff but with more time it might replace a lot more. Walrus monuments - Bought on a bonus induced whim and while I like it, I'm not sure if I love it. Boss DD-20 - This year we celebrate 13 beautiful years together and I can only hope for 13 more. Cab Sim - DSM omnicabsim, for going direct into the interface. ​ I guess that's it? Powered mainly by a Walrus Phoenix with a couple of daisychain cables to maximise the outputs. The PLL, filter and zoom all need their own supplies.

Schumann PLL clone - nothing like it for synthy woo-woo nonsense. Give me a second and I'll edit in the spiel I wrote elsewhere.

The latest iteration of my beautiful half DIY disaster-

You could look at the Wooly Mammoth or Mastotron as bass friendly fuzz face type circuits, plenty of good layouts/project PCBs available for both. Good bass overdrive circuits tend to be bigger and more complex, as a rule fuzzes are the easiest and a good place to start. Are you building on stripboard or buying PCBs? What kind of pedals are you most interested in?

Interesting, the site says it's fundamentally a blower box, which itself is fundamentally a rat clone. Yeah the sonic maximizer is basically a 3-band filter, each band gets split and processed differently then blended back together. The extra gain control could be the gain of the preamp stage in the sonic maximizer part (which would normally be fixed) and maybe the volume is some sort of blend? Interesting idea, surprised they haven't pushed it more considering the current popularity of aggressively eq'd distortions (after so many years of the metal zone being a punchline...)

Adjustable crossovers adds a fair amount of complexity/physical size. Certainly not beyond a DIY designer but as bloke_zero has pointed, when there's a decent kit that covers everything you're after that's always going to be the easiest option.

Messy new setup for recording a new project, home use only hence the very tight spacing - intended for bass and guitar. Few brandeds creeping back in but still largely DIY

Someone mentioned the dimension-c earlier. If you're intrigued, TC do an almost perfect clone of it in their "how-is-this-making-a-profit" £30 odd quid range (3rd dimension). Pretty much a risk free gamble at that price I'd say.

Looks like a muff with an active 3-band EQ, should be interesting for bass and go beyond traditional muff territory.

I spent a lot of the time I worked at Farnell trying to convince them they needed to offer a prototype/small run service like that and was repeatedly rebuffed... Should have emailed my digikey contact...

Though "true" bit-crushing is digital you can do a decent impression of it with an analog circuit, though I actually don't know which came first, it could very well have been the digital. As martin said, there's only so much you can do to a soundwave from a physics perspective. We've hit the limit on actual unique effects, don't forget none of the are particularly new - everything now is about the boundaries of digital - combining the effects and controlling them in ways that weren't possible before. Look at something like the Rainbow Machine - it's fundamentally a delay and a pitch shifter, but the way they're combined and the controls you're given makes it sound completely unique.

In case you haven't discovered it, you can wedge the switch between mode 1 and mode 2 to run both in parallel and get another sound out of it. Obviously it's not designed for it, but it's a delightful upside of behringer using the cheapest switches possible.

Melissa Villasenor from SNL is an insanely good singing impressionist. The sketches may not be to everyone's taste here ("American rubbish!" I hear you cry already...) but it's hard to argue with her pipes -

It's been a while but I think i know what bit you mean (2:40ish?) - he's not shifting the drone note of the original riff, he's basically playing fifths, letting them ring and throwing in a few hammer ons to give the feel of the original riff shifting up, but in a way that he can actually play. Justin chancellor is a brilliantly creative bassist, a virtuoso he ain't. Many of his lines can sound intimidating, but tend to be based around one or two tricks and can sound hard because of the time sigs/rhythm tricks but they just need a bit of work. Lateralus, jambi and the grudge I remember as being fun ones to play.

Do you have a shot of the internals? Are you planning on replacing it yourself? It's likely just a sub-miniature switch, but you'll need to know the contact configuration and whether it's SMT or Through-Hole. These are the general idea - https://uk.farnell.com/w/c/switches-relays/switches/toggle-switches?product-range=2m-series

I only used EZ Drummer briefly but from what I remember of the tutorials they were really pushing using the VST interface, I seem to remember a slogan claiming that "you'll never need to use the piano roll again", which for me is not a selling point. I eventually settled on Superior Drummer 2 (also toontrack) which is exclusively focussed on the sounds. Like Douglas, I program parts in manually (keyboard/mouse) directly into the piano roll. This is just the most intuitive for me and lets me program very complex parts that I'd have no chance playing in on the midi controller. Like Douglas, I try to do eveything at DAW level and am very skeptical of VSTs that try to shackle you into them for basic functionallity. I'm not sure what you looked at before settling on EZDrummer but Addictive might be worth a look - it doesn't have the flexibility or sound library of Superior Drummer but it has loads of very useable presets that make it very easy to get going.