NOLK

goroth · Post by **goroth** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 4:36 am

Yeah, so this happened.

BROOOOOTZ!

UglyCasanova · Post by **UglyCasanova** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:03 am

And people say Seppuku's horizontal knobs were a bad idea.

goroth · Post by **goroth** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:05 am

What can I say - it's the antiklone!

UglyCasanova · Post by **UglyCasanova** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:11 am

What do they all do?

goroth · Post by **goroth** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:04 am

Knobs on the face are (L-R) Vol, Osc freq, Gain
Knob on the top is mids
Switches on the face: (L-R) engage oscillation, bypass
Switch on top is oscillation range (high or low)
Switch on the left is knives in your ears. It removes a smoothing capacitor from one of the gain stages. It introduces insane amounts of treble and hiss, and in oscillation mode interacts a lot with the other knobs.

You can pretty much kill people with this thing - or at the least make their ears bleed.

The thing I love about it is that there is no way to know if the knives are engaged, and if the range is high or low, nor if oscillation mode is engaged when it is bypassed. So turning it on is a like playing Russian Roulette unless you remember how you had it set up previously. Super fun!

UglyCasanova · Post by **UglyCasanova** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:13 am

Sounds awesome! We're going to need some clips!

resincum · Post by **resincum** » Mon Aug 24, 2015 3:47 pm

that is so fucking JAWESOME!!

KaosCill8r · Post by **KaosCill8r** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 1:30 am

Very cool fuzz. I want one. Have you tried it on bass? I'm thinking of building up a bass board and looking for cool options for dirt.

goroth · Post by **goroth** » Tue Aug 25, 2015 1:53 am

If I remember I'll take it to band rehearsal on Thursday and give it to the bassist. Probably in knives + high pitched oscillation mode.

Mu hu ha ha!

Will report back.

It is fucking rad on guitar. If I was using this for less silly purposes I think it'd sound great with some sort of "degain" switch, like Tom has on my Suneater. Pretty sure it's just a fixed input resistor mimicking turning the volume down on the guitar, but whatever. There is soooo much gain on tap here. Very articulate too. It lurves the palm mutes.

morange · Post by **morange** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 5:39 am

goroth wrote:If I was using this for less silly purposes I think it'd sound great with some sort of "degain" switch

Yeah the gain on these goes from high to very high, because I used transistors with Hfe 500, instead of the 200 or so used in the original Bee Baa. These are darker and sustainier. I'm planning to make a few more (last) Nolks with a different look and using the lower Hfe transistors, for a change. Will post whenever I do that.

goroth · Post by **goroth** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 3:38 pm

Sorry I haven't made a demo dude. Life has not been conducive to me sitting with the guitar an extended period of time. But crazy fun pedal! I love it. And the build is super tight man.

morange · Post by **morange** » Mon Oct 26, 2015 9:01 pm

Hey thanks, no problem; glad you like it.

morange · Post by **morange** » Mon Apr 25, 2022 3:53 pm

Here's the Nolk schematic in case anyone is wondering about the particulars. I have a paper somewhere documenting the mods to Goroth's unit that I may post sometime.

https://i.imgur.com/tjUHN7o.png

goroth · Post by **goroth** » Mon Apr 25, 2022 5:21 pm

This thing was a blast!

Dandolin · Post by **Dandolin** » Mon Apr 25, 2022 5:57 pm

huh, where the hell was my head at while all this was going down? anybody still have theirs?

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