I’m sorry this is so late. Lots of you have been asking about the new pedal for a few weeks now, but I just haven’t had time to sit down and write about it, but here I am 2 weeks from launch! Better late than never eh? As usual I’ve divided it into questions and…
Category: effects pedal design
The Swan Hunter – block diagram
I don’t have time to write in more depth about the pedal, but cos so many people are asking I’m just going to put up the block diagram so you can see what’s going on. I promise I’ll be back to give more detail about what it does and a bit of info behind the…
The Kilter
Firstly the TLDR bits. The Kilter will be released on Friday 27th November. It will retail at $210. It is a modulation pedal with a single input, a single output, and two FX loops in parallel. The Kilter modulates your signal between the two FX loops. Basically, when one FX loop gets quieter, the other…
sausage fingers (6) – boxing with sausage fingers
boxing up the prototype of sausage fingers led to some good old troubleshooting.
sausage fingers (5) – designing the PCB
Now sausage fingers is pedal-ready let’s design a PCB… …for sausage fingers!
sausage fingers (4) – oh why not!?
and now in a total U turn I go back on my plans again and get synthy.
sausage fingers (3) – keep it simple, stupid!
I decided to start taking stuff out to make the circuit simpler.
sausage fingers (2) – summing (amp) up
neatening up the modded BOSS OC2 octave overdrive here forth to be known as ‘sausage fingers’
sausage fingers (1) – back to the chopping board
so from the experiments with the BOSS OC2 circuit we say good bye to the rotund robot and say hello to sausage fingers.
The Rotund Robot (4) – diverging plans and sausage fingers
the end of the beginning, a U turn and the birth of sausage fingers.