MrDinsdale

NAM is essentially a virtual snapshot of a piece of gear, could be an amp or a pedal that can’t be created and shared by users. It can’t do modulation, time based effects etc right now, it’s mostly just preamps and drives etc. They’re typically very realistic in how they react and allow you to share gear captures of gear that might be hard to obtain. Its just a snapshot of the gear with a specific set of controls though, the block has some gain, eq, and volume controls but they’re not necessarily going to respond the same as the actual gear would so you really have to create multiple captures of the gear with different settings. They’re well worth experimenting with, in my experience a good capture can sound excellent. Particularly when you want to experiment with stuff that’s a bit off the beaten track.

A quick audio clip, I realised after that the battery in my bass was pretty low and breaking up a little.

Direct level at 12 and +1oct at 1ish. I’ve actually got it set to poly and the other knobs all the way down.

Today’s experiment with zero practical use but a ton of fun at home: I’ve wired up the OC5 so the Direct Output goes to the Dirtfixer Input and the Output goes to the Longsword > Model FeT and back into the Dirtfixer return. This lets me blend in some +1 octave with a tone of distortion with my normal bass tone. Sounds filthy!!! Disabling the Dirtfixer also bypasses the OC5. As fun as it is I think I’d rather have my normal drive tone.

I know I keep banging on about it but if you’re not finding the breakup to your liking you could set up the gain/output like you have with the expression pedal but assign to input level instead. I found it difficult to get a subtle breakup when digging in with out making the tone too dirty sometimes so that would give you a little more dynamic control over it. Because it’s tied to device input you don’t need to worry too much about compressor placement either.

Don’t ruin this for me. The way I see it this is just getting some fundamentals in, foot in the door and that.

PS some of this is very aspirational stuff considering my current understanding but would love to learn this stuff. TBF if software development continues the trend of shifting to offshoring work and more reliance on AI producing spaghetti code it wouldn’t hurt to have some foundational understanding of a more practical trade 🫠

Yeah it was this that got my attention: https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/harmonic-percolator-with-some-mods.22248/ I’d really love to take some of these circuits and simplify them, maybe play around with switching a 3-band eq for a tilt style or a Baxandall tone stack etc like on the EAE Dagger.

The more I’ve been digging around and I think I’m gonna build the Euna kit as a warm up. I decided I do wanna get a DIY breadboard and a bunch of components I need to try out a few designs. There’s a Harmonic Percolator someone shared which I’d like to play around with. Maybe make a few tweaks here and there and learn as I go. I really wanna learn more about what I’m building and I’m not gonna get that just from putting together kits. Might even make some use out of the videos I watched on KiCad when I was looking at doing my own split mech keyboard layout.

Yeah they’re terrible. It’s all based on a lot of legacy tech too.

I’ve got an EAE Model FeT and Dagger but I’d still love to build them 🤣 That’s a very handy list, there’s a bunch there which sound really tempting!

So far these are the 3 that stand out as potential builds that would be super handy for me. The Euna is a definite. I’d probably grab one more while I’m there. The Compressor is tempting because it looks pretty easy and my Accountant is ace but noisy. The Muzzle noise gate looks a little more faffy but a noise gate would be extremely handy for me, particularly with the sidechain option.

Oooo nice! Yeah I might hit you up when I’ve got something together!

Nice! Where you based?

I’ve always wanted to try Airbrushing, I’ve had a book on it for about 20 years 🤣 Maybe this would be a good opportunity to grab one.