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Demolator Demo

FiveseveN — Fri, 13 May 2011 12:03:05 +0000

Demolator teaser

FiveseveN — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 16:00:48 +0000

Pedalboard revamp

FiveseveN — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:08:05 +0000

This summer I’ve finally found the resources to beautify my setup a bit. It’s mostly a cosmetic change but there have been some small changes effect-wise:

Wah is now first in the chain
FET boost clipping options are now none, soft clipping and hard clipping
Fuzz is now selectable between Big Brown Beaver and Silicon Fuzz Face
Distortion is now a Dr. Boogey, which can be switched from one channel (replacing the V-Amp’s ampsim) to both channels (also replacing Death Metal)
Chorus is after boost and fuzz but before distortion
True bypass has been replaced with electronic bypass (via CD4053).

Everything else is just a pretty box and some paint. Clicky for larger images.

Pedalboard porn

FiveseveN — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:04:58 +0000

OK, my setup is not very sexy but sure was cheap, around 100EUR! So let’s break it down (click for larger image—1600px):

Behinger V-amp 2
V-amp’s footswitch
Digitech Death Metal (through cabsim out)
Sound JS CE-5 Stereo Chorus (Russian BOSS copy?)
Harmonic Converger Workalike
9V regulated PSU
Purple Plexi-ish 386 overdrive/distortion
FET Boost high-pass switch
FET Boost
Big Brown Beaver (comparator fuzz)
Big Brown Beaver tone switch
FET Boost clipping diodes: Ge sym., none or Si asym.
Behringer Hellbabe wah-wah
mains voltage level
Purple Plexi controls: gain and tone
headphone monitor select: left & right channel source
Guyatone PS-026 Bass EQ
Big Brown Beaver volume
headphone volume
FET Boost volume
Purple Plexi volume
headphone output
line level output
master power switch
guitar cable (with phantom power)

And the signal path goes like this:

Both channels (before chorus splits the signal): FET Boost ► Purple Plexi ► Big Brown Beaver ► Hellbabe Wah ► Chorus
Left channel: Death Metal ► EQ ► (output and headphone amp)
Right channel: V-amp 2 ► Harmonic Converger ► (output and headphone amp)

They call me Dr. Love

FiveseveN — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:52:41 +0000

I’ve got the cure you’re thinking of!

This is the first production unit from Indefinite Pitch. Well, one could hardly call it a series since so far only three have been made and will be sold. It’s also strictly for the local market so I won’t bother you with details. This is Dr. Love in a nutshell:

buffer/preamplifier/overdrive, chiefly for software ampsims (AmpliTube, ReValver etc.) and DI
low-cost alternative to dedicated audio interfaces
9—12V power supply range

For reference’s sake, here’s a link to the Dr. Love User’s Manual (PDF, Romanian).

reference’s sake

Is that a beaver on your pedalboard?!

FiveseveN — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:30:25 +0000

You can’t have “boutique” effects without fuzz, right? I actually made the furry enclosure about a year ago, I knew it just had to house some kind of fuzz but I only recently found a circuit that was “worthy”. So here it is, the Big Brown Beaver: a comparator fuzz with hyper-compressed, gated square wave output. Controls are sensitivity and output volume. Features bright blue LED for that extra bit of “boutiqueness”.

Audio sample (.mp3)

Also, as a bonus, a picture of another fuzz project I’ve worked on. It’s like a cross between a silicon Fuzz Face and a Fuzz Factory, just in case I ever need something more “classic” yet flexible.

The Demolator

FiveseveN — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:44:01 +0000

For a couple of years now I’ve been searching for the single distortion unit that can embody the spirit of Indefinite Pitch: “over the top”. Today I give you the Demolator, a kind of Distortus Maximus with a dash of Nigel Tufnel. It can go from a light crunch to scare-your-neighbour’s-kids saturation but if anything, this thing is loud! In fact you could plug it straight into a cab, since it’s based on the LM386 Low Voltage Audio Power Amplifier, two of them actually. This also means it will probably start to feed back before the volume pot hits 12:00, but hey—that’s what it’s for. So in a nutshell:

high-gain distortion (theoretically capable of 72dB)
Gain and Volume controls
9V operation
virtually guaranteed to destroy your amp