Ryan wrote:Well guys, the great thing about finally having a perfect prototype and being able to really dig in and test and tweak and evaluate the circuit is that I get to learn things about it that I just can't tell on the bread board.
What I learned with this layout is that it's even darker than the v2 and has more clock noise. Really discouraging at first but I'm glad to know it now and I've realized what needs changing and what I did wrong to deserve this setback.... and everything else about it's perfect so it's still progress, although I need to do circuit tweaks and a new layout with all new flippin reference designators.
I know this overhaul is taking a crazy long time but this pedal just has to be extra perfect right out the gate... it's gonna be worth it!
You can't rush art.
Take all the time you need......Zombies are dead, they ain't going anywhere
It's like Eminem in that movie where he had to ride a bull for 8 seconds or whatever... *Eminem voice* I've only got one shot, one oppahtunity!
It's too complicated and tough of a build to not have it perfect right from the start, it would be a big disaster otherwise and we just can't afford another release where I have to make big mods to it or mod a bunch that went out too early... I can't go through all that with this!
It's really close now too.. it's just a matter of balancing the clock noise/high frequency response of the circuit now and I'm gonna work on it this weekend as much as I can. That's the bottom line though.. it's gonna be worth the wait bigtime! *smile*
Haha yeah! I could release an amazing noise pedal... you wouldn't believe the hiss and squeaks you can get out of a BBD chip if you push it hard and don't filter it, it's nuts. I never thought about that before but to the right crowd a crazy white noise generator with rate control, tone control, squeak control, could go over very well!
