Mike wrote:I'll ask benecol to make me a decal for it when he's back from camping.
I'm back.
Owen, I've got a Ram's head clone you can borrow if you want. I've obsessed over Mascis's tonezzzz for years - I thought I heard one our students nailing his sound in the studio a while back, and ran in fully ready to plunder his gear secrets, only to find him playing the electric violin. Fuck.
My favourite Mascis-aping trick is the fuzz-wah-distortion sandwich - plumb in all three pedals and mess with the wah to pick out frequencies, feedback and odd cadences. Lovely.
Damn, that's mighty generous of you. I'd really like to try one out. Would you be looking to off load it or is this one a keeper ?
I seen Gearmanndude's comparison to the Pi version and I felt it was significantly nicer.
othomas2 wrote:(or Rams head if I win the lottery ?)
Ask Mike to make you one. There's no mojo in old parts or flimsy boxes.
I've meant to start advertising the Ram's head version on my website in a Purple Box actually, there's just some minor tweaks to the circuit - they all do sound subtley different though.
The Ram's head itself uses PNP transistors and is positive ground, so I'd probably make the violet Ram's head version. Pedals that can't be daisy chained are a pain in the arse.
I need to finally get around to boxing up an IC version aswell from my layout (Silver) but I'm just so busy at the moment.
The gig rig virtual battery is supposed to be able to isolate an output on a daisy chain using a toroidal transformer, making positive ground issues not an issue. I've never tried it myself though:
I would sooner just convert the design to negative ground. It's not that hard after all and there's no magic in pnp Si transistors. It's probably just what they had lying around at the time.
