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anyone had any experience with this pedal. it looks awsome.

It is!

A recording engineer that I know always recommends the DBA lineup to me. He recommended the Octave Clang for really nice sounds, and I always kick myself for not trying it out when I'm near my favorite gear shop. If there's a shop nearby that sells DBA stuff, definitely take the time to try it out, but from what I've heard it's a nice sounding fuzz with a distinctive "clang" to it.

I've wanted one for so long, but can't justify the price.
couldnt find a schem either

looked at the PGS demo & nothing about it really stood out to me. the Robot seems cool & i've heard good things about the Interstellar Overdrive Deluxe. it just seems like it would be easier to get a cheap Octave Up Fuzz & have a Ring Mod on a lower setting.

It sounds fucking awesome but I probably wouldnt ever use one.

cloudscapes wrote:I've wanted one for so long, but can't justify the price.
couldnt find a schem either

I've read it's jawari based. I think from lintybits.

hazelwould wrote:

cloudscapes wrote:I've wanted one for so long, but can't justify the price.
couldnt find a schem either

I've read it's jawari based. I think from lintybits.

Hmm by the PGS demo i'm not sure as that has a more 'starved' fuzz tone to it... It's just a standard full wave rectifier with a 1:1 transformer same sorta thing used in the Brass master, Octavia and Z.Vex Johnny Octave to name a few (and the Jawari, too, the Jawari just has its certain tone because of the input drive being low gain) and then just a fuzz of some description driving it.

Still, gotta love that ring moddy octave up.

Like most of the DBA pedals... it appears to be a bit of a one trick pony, but I'm a big APTBS fan and i talk to Oliver sometimes on the internet So I can't say its crap, cos it looks and sounds bloody awesome!

Just got one on ebay....i need to stop bidding on things hoping to get outbid. its a little pricey buts its still a nice sounding fuzz w/ geranium.

ccc253 wrote:i need to stop bidding on things hoping to get outbid

+1

hazelwould wrote:

cloudscapes wrote:I've wanted one for so long, but can't justify the price.
couldnt find a schem either

I've read it's jawari based. I think from lintybits.

That was my best guess, although I really don't know what the hell I'm doing

I found one for cheap right after I built myself a Jawari and was pretty shocked when I opened the DBA up. They didn't sound exactly the same but close enough for my to flip the Clang.

Don't remember what the IC was

damn...that is simple looking

yeah real simple. I'm guessing the ic is an opamp or an lm386
trasformer, couple germaniums, caps and resistors. no trannie, so at least that's different from the jawari

ccc253 wrote:damn...that is simple looking

That looks almost like an exact clone of Gus Smalleys Simple Octave Up...

I agree with cloudscapes though that it does look like a dirt simple 386 Fuzz driving a transformer... like a clone of a bobtavia except with 2 fewer diodes.