I'm looking at building effects as a way to make a bit of extra money. Eventually, I'd like to be building extremely complicated non-distortion stuff to offer something different then the TS clones. So what would you guys like to see? I'm especially interested in stuff that you think would sell so I can get some seed money for original designs I have in mind.
I'm thinking a clone of the 1st triangle BMP, fixed for a standard power supply, would be a good place to start and probably have a fair bit of interest.
-optical compressor w/ attack and tone controls
-optical tremolo w/ sine & square wave
-clean boost w/ 3 or 4 band EQ
-Gretsch ControFuzz
Alright, since nobody cares I'm gonna do a clean boost with 3-band EQ.
The schematic I drew up will still be boosting slightly at minimum gain and go up from there. One of the EQ controls will be a push/pull that bypasses the tone controls.
Now, usually I act as Mike's arbiter of pedal taste, but since you're on the other side of the Atlantic: I reckon it's fuzzes people go berserk for - if you made affordable superfuzz and green muff clones, you'd be quids in, I reckon.
I'd like to see an optical compressor in pedal format with attack, release, ratio, threshold and output controls. I'd probably not buy one, but those controls are standard (and necessary) in outboard compressors, so I'm still a bit surprised guitar pedal versions haven't gone much beyond "sustain" controls that don't really tell you what's going on.
James wrote:I'd like to see an optical compressor in pedal format with attack, release, ratio, threshold and output controls. I'd probably not buy one, but those controls are standard (and necessary) in outboard compressors, so I'm still a bit surprised guitar pedal versions haven't gone much beyond "sustain" controls that don't really tell you what's going on.
