Primestortion

[Feral Feline]

I usually like to just lurk here, but just came across this "Primestortion" pedal from EC Pedals.
http://www.ecpedals.com/pedals/primestortion.html

It relys on "eq structure and 4 gain-stages" and "it doesn’t use any clipping diodes at all".

So what's the deal with this pedal? I've only ever come across fuzz pedals that derive the clipping from diodes, germanium or silicon or LEDs, FETcetera...

Thoughts, comments, epiphanies?

Cheers n Beers,
FF

[goroth]

Big muff uses 4 gain stages.
Plenty of cool fuzzes without diode clipping - the Elements can do it, crowther hotcake, way huge red llama (tube sound fuzz), demo tape fuzz...
Um... I'm too tired to make this post useful. Sorry.
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[BitchPudding]

Thats a lot of knobs.

[wafl]

Big muff uses 4 gain stages.
Plenty of cool fuzzes without diode clipping - the Elements can do it, crowther hotcake, way huge red llama (tube sound fuzz), demo tape fuzz...
Um... I'm too tired to make this post useful. Sorry.
... Sleeeeeeep...

Most sixties fuzzes like the fuzz face, tonebender, buzztone, pep box etc

[goroth]

Big muff uses 4 gain stages.
Plenty of cool fuzzes without diode clipping - the Elements can do it, crowther hotcake, way huge red llama (tube sound fuzz), demo tape fuzz...
Um... I'm too tired to make this post useful. Sorry.
... Sleeeeeeep...

Most sixties fuzzes like the fuzz face, tonebender, buzztone, pep box etc

of course, transistor clipping! How did I forget that?
Mmm, transistors clipping...

[frigid midget]

It's out of stock and huge

Plus I'd prefer sliders instead of knobs on an eq pedal, even if it has fuzz/dist abilities

[Feral Feline]

Thanks for the replies, they've made me seek out new information and I learned something: Diodes and Germanium, Silicon and all that stuff don't all belong in the same online shopping basket.

The Primestortion is knobly alright, but not any worse than a slew of other pedals. It's got 8 controls, my Elements has 10 (6 knobs and 4 switches)


So, any bets on how EC is getting clipping on the Primestortion?

[Gone Fission]

So, any bets on how EC is getting clipping on the Primestortion?

I'm guessing it's cascading jfet stages in the current style of imitating the cascading triode stages of a high gain tube amp's preamp (think Soldano, Bogner, whatever). Only video I found seemed okay but not OMG-life-changing. I'd sooner look at Bogner's pedals, but I'm still a bit ticked for Aen about the whole Shiva thing.