Interesting DIY music electronics site

[Mark Hammer]

http://www.scoop.it/t/diy-music-electronics

[analogguru]

I don´t know why, but looking at this site (e.g. "Klon Centaur analysis") the saying:

"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"

comes to my mind.

[Kipper4]

Thanks Mark nice archive.

As for the Klon I don't see what all the fuss is about although I didn't realise it had so many feedback paths!!!!!!!

[vigilante397]

Thanks! Bookmarked for future (ie not in class) use Looks like a lot of cool VST stuff on there that would be very useful.

[Mark Hammer]

Thanks Mark nice archive.

As for the Klon I don't see what all the fuss is about although I didn't realise it had so many feedback paths!!!!!!!

Oh yeah.  It is absolutely a house of cards.  You can't change anything in one place without having an unintended impact elsewhere.  Bill was considering making a small change some years back, and contacted me to help with it.  The original design was developed working with a consulting engineer who tragically died in a single-engine prop plane accident.  Bill has great tonal and build-quality instincts, but the electronic side of things came to him less readily at that time, so he wanted someone to work with that he could trust.  Naturally, I was deeply honoured.  Not only because it is an esteemed pedal, but because he trusted me with something that was important to him, and I've held to that pact.  One of the stipulations was that, however I attempted to accomplish what my task was, it could NOT result in a change to the board layout.  Well, given the very interactive and complex nature of the Gain control (which does about 8 things at once), simply dickering with component values was not gonna get the job done.  Or at least if it could be done, I wasn't the person who was going to be smart enough to do it.  After many long conversations, we parted ways amicably, and I've kept it all under my hat until the schematic had become pretty much de facto public domain.

Even with the schematic "out there" (or at least something probably pretty close to it - Bill has a tendency to change 1% resistor values), the build quality is such that only a handful of folks here could produce something quite as dependable...which is why so many touring musicians swear by it: it never lets them down.

But yeah, interesting site.  You'll find a bunch of Tim Escobedo things on there, and links to yet other sites of interest.  May be more stuff for the synth types than the guitar types.

[Kipper4]

To be fair after saying that. In the intrest of a fair opinion and lo the first one I saw was this.

http://youtu.be/c7dNklFi6ws

I'm quite shocked at its ability to follow dynamics very well and a great sustain and decay.
Very nice
The worm has turned.

[Granny Gremlin]

Some misinformation on there too.  Not very significant, but in their post dissecting the Gibson RD Artist  electronics (which is a redirect to the website of a guy I know) they say it was the "sound of Nirvana" ... ignoring the fact that Krist didn't always play his RD (He had a nice collection including a Ripper and AEB-1)  and that his RD was a Standard not an Artist (no active electronics; different pickups) - the RD Artist was never heard on any Nirvana record or live show ever.