Slowly, very slowly Iam starting to make progress on my "drum distortion & process" unit. The drive part will be based on my mid 90's distortion pedal the Rocktron Austin Gold. Hence the name: GOld Distortion: GOD. TA just because it sounds funky and because the street where I live is Tigris-something and A is for audio. Tigris Audio TA-GOD. I used the austin gold pedal a lot years ago on snare and kickdrums, so I figured it would be a nice start.
GOD will consist of a number of segments. Drive is the first one. It will be two austin gold overdrives per channel. I want to use two so I can split the audio in two at a certain frequency so I coul distort the low frequencies different from the higher frequencies. Both overdrives will get a blend function so the distortion can be applied parallel as well. Maybe I could use the drives in series if Iam not using the split function, for more distortion.
So far, I have managed to retrace the austin gold schematics and Iam working on a pcb layout. I have found a nice little blend board on guitarpcb.com: http://www.guitarpcb.com/apps/webstore/products/show/1320462. It shoul be very easy to adjust it for just a blend function. I have searched for small blend boards on this forum but have not been able to find anything confirmed tested working.
At the far right side of GOD, you see two segments I want to have in, but apart from drawing them, I have no clue yet. I want to have a blend function for paralel compression, and as simple as possible controls for the compressor. Iam looking at a number of stompbox based compressors, but maybe some of you have suggestions, ideas, or? The filters are needed imho to be able to put the distorted sounds a bit nicer in the mix, to control the harmonics.
As you can see in the attached front panel layout (I have to imagine what a machine looks in order to think of what functionality I want to have in it), there are some empty sections. Maybe a bitcrusher would be nice. Or a tube warmer (although with my skills a tube circuit is a life and house threatening plan). Or a tape simulator. Or maybe some of you have a suggestion. Always welcome.
I was thinking of using the whole unit on the insert of my just finished EZ1290, which has a JLM go-between so it could be used with a line level input. I do not know why I have this Idea, but something tells me it will sound better this way. Correct me if Iam talking complete nonsense here.
As you can tell by now, my dreams are big, my progress little and my skills and knowledge even smaller. Eventually, I will make this work. Any input from you will be highly appriciate though.
Cheers
Erik
GOD will consist of a number of segments. Drive is the first one. It will be two austin gold overdrives per channel. I want to use two so I can split the audio in two at a certain frequency so I coul distort the low frequencies different from the higher frequencies. Both overdrives will get a blend function so the distortion can be applied parallel as well. Maybe I could use the drives in series if Iam not using the split function, for more distortion.
So far, I have managed to retrace the austin gold schematics and Iam working on a pcb layout. I have found a nice little blend board on guitarpcb.com: http://www.guitarpcb.com/apps/webstore/products/show/1320462. It shoul be very easy to adjust it for just a blend function. I have searched for small blend boards on this forum but have not been able to find anything confirmed tested working.
At the far right side of GOD, you see two segments I want to have in, but apart from drawing them, I have no clue yet. I want to have a blend function for paralel compression, and as simple as possible controls for the compressor. Iam looking at a number of stompbox based compressors, but maybe some of you have suggestions, ideas, or? The filters are needed imho to be able to put the distorted sounds a bit nicer in the mix, to control the harmonics.
As you can see in the attached front panel layout (I have to imagine what a machine looks in order to think of what functionality I want to have in it), there are some empty sections. Maybe a bitcrusher would be nice. Or a tube warmer (although with my skills a tube circuit is a life and house threatening plan). Or a tape simulator. Or maybe some of you have a suggestion. Always welcome.
I was thinking of using the whole unit on the insert of my just finished EZ1290, which has a JLM go-between so it could be used with a line level input. I do not know why I have this Idea, but something tells me it will sound better this way. Correct me if Iam talking complete nonsense here.
As you can tell by now, my dreams are big, my progress little and my skills and knowledge even smaller. Eventually, I will make this work. Any input from you will be highly appriciate though.
Cheers
Erik