Deluxe Memory Man as a rite of Passage?

[sean k]

Now I've been at this pedal making malarky for a few years, including my little holiday away, I'm seeing the old DMM turn up every so often and seeing the recent posts I remember back to when I first thought it'd be a good pedal to make and found the free info society schematic.

I even went out and bought the chips.

This was a few years ago and since then the AD3208 has come about as well as the stuff that uses the PT2399 chip.

The thing is that with all the info out there and the data sheets I've managed to accumulate I reckon I could sit down and make my own version of a DMM and it'd be more fun than having a straight DMM schematic to follow.

The reason I say that is because that bugger of a thing, the DMM, and all the mystery surrounding it, has forced me to learn.
It has forced me to see a chronologic growth and mutation of the life of delay pedals and the bits we use to make them and the way that we make them.
Just handing me a verified DMM schematic wouldn't have allowed that.

So my question is... is the rite of passage making my own DMM or is keeping those MN3005's un-used as a reminder that I might have actually reached a point that is significant. Kinda like a zen thing where now I can actually do it I don't need to or want to anymore.

Though I suppose I will eventually get around to it 

[Joe Hart]

I vote for DO IT! Why not?
-Joe Hart

[sean k]

Well, Joe, The thing is I've still got an AD3208 to build, the payback with a isd2540 and another delay using the HT8955 and I think doing those, and modding them to do what I want, I will be in an even better position and figure out what I'd really want from a DMM build. Maybe I wouldn't need any more delays and might be thinking about using the 3005's in a flanger or chorus of some description.

I'm almost thinking that the longer I delay, pun intended, using them the better off I'll be! I think that we time we just get a little subtler about our expression, another pun, and maybe the acme at the beginning nadirs at bit and we start to appreciate subtler forms.

[Rocket Roll]

I've build me an AD-3208, it works beautifully, but I still yearn for a DMM. Just sayin'.