bobbass4k

Sounds like a spambot, as long as you didn't open any files or links there won't be a virus/malware problem, but i'd report it to the mods

A clean blender, I tried a friend's RAT and really liked the sound except for the low end loss, I was originally gonna add a clean blend to one, but then it kind of evolved into it's own project, al etched me a pcb, schem and stuff here: [url="http://gaussmarkov.net/wordpress/circuits/b-blender/"]http://gaussmarkov.net/wordpress/circuits/b-blender/[/url]

Well I haven't started building it, it may prove too complex for me (I can always get my electrician father to salvage it), just ordered all the stuff, that bitbox site is really good, had all the stuff I needed (except a chicklet capacitor, but they seem to be extinct) and a full £7 cheaper than farnell, I'll put up a finished thread if i ever actually finish it

Did you make that blender from that schematic I put you on to? (PCB arrived btw, cheers) What op-amps did you use? I can't find the ones the schem requires and I'm having a hard time finding substitutes

[quote name='cheddatom' post='549759' date='Jul 24 2009, 09:25 AM']Right, but why is anyone using a wah on bass without a blender?? Surely the whole idea of a wah is that you loose low end when your foot's all the way down?[/quote] Not neccaserily, the 105q only sweeps the mids and highs, leaves the lows alone, i'd imagine other bass specific wahs are like that

[quote name='cheddatom' post='549015' date='Jul 23 2009, 03:20 PM']Also, (and I know it's too big) I LOVE the wahs on the XP-100[/quote] They only sound good with a blender on bass though, they cut all the low end and sound really clanky, except the envelope filter patch, that sounds absolutely awesome

I think the major thing to remember is that nobody's trying to pass someone else's work as there own. Al fully acknowlodges this is a mammoth clone, which itself is a modified fuzz face clone. The argument is a tricky one though, the fuzz face is a fuzz circuit, one of the first, but there's only so many ways to build a fuzz circuit, all of which share a few core elements, does whoever sold the circuit first get eternal credit for it, and anyone else who builds a circuit and calls it fuzz is just ripping them off? Is everyone who currently makes and sells cars just ripping of Henry Ford? (I know he didn't invent the car, but he was the first person to mass-produce and sell them, which is kinda my point) My point is that most pedals of a certain type are just varations on a theme, Fuzz-Faces and shin-ei's and muff's are cloned so often not because builders are too lazy to deisgn new circuits, but because they're the ciruits that work and that people want. Just a thought

I think they've fallen under the radar a little, the pitchfactor and modfactor have been quite revolutionary, there haven't been that many pitch and modulation pedals with the versatility and control of these, but all in one delay boxes have been around for a while (dd-20, dl-4), I think the idea is they're basically just rack units in pedals, and like you said, knowing the quality and reputation of the pitch and mod factors, I'd be very suprised if the timefactor was anything short of amazing, but they bloody better be for what they cost

[quote name='steve' post='544361' date='Jul 18 2009, 09:56 PM']thanks for that, but if you read through the above posts, you'll realise neither of us are intending to do that. I was hoping this would turn into an interesting thread about modding fuzz circuits and swapping out components instead of an misplaced lecture[/quote] I wasn't trying to imply anything, hell, i consider myself a borderline communist, I love the idea of building your own stuff, I don't believe any one person can own an idea, if I had more time and energy i'd be building loads of clones myself, I was just trying to point out that the rather hefty price the "mooly wammoth" sells for is probably not a result of gouging and greedy business, a lot of people seem to have the attitude that if they can make something for cheap, then a mass produced professionaly built version should also be cheap, and the fact that it isn't is a result of the greedy corporate machine, which i accept is probably true for a lot of businesses, but something i don't really associate with the boutique pedal industry, certainly wasn't a comment on anyone

Nice board man, but any specific reason for 4 delays?

You have to remember a lot of the cost of the original (are we avoiding the actual names for legal reasons, or just to be all cool and sleuthy?) is the hand painted enclosure, hand wiring, paying employees, distribution, marketing, all the costs associated with a business, yes you may be able to make a clone for a lot cheaper, but if you made them and sold them on the scale of the original, the cost would quickly skyrocket

The oc-2 is defiintley special, even boutique snobs who hate boss like it, the tracking probably isn't as good as the oc-3, pretty much anything below A just gets chewed up, but it's tone just can't be beaten, lovely warm and fat

Looking good man, good to hear the green stache is treating you well, if you ever get a chance try it on guitar, i almost kept it just for that, and i'd replace the oc-3 with an oc-2 if i were you

Damn, I'd have gone for this, but I'm only back in york for the summer and my amp's back in canterbury, oh well, good luck