What else do you want in a OD/DIST pedal?

[wcchew]

Okay stick with me on this..

Input, into a booster, with a switch for a full range boost, a midrange boost, and a germanium treble booster. That goes in to an amp like, Marshall type overdrive, something like a JTM45. Give me an amp tone stack, treble mids bass presence. That goes into a clean boost section. Simple one knob volume boost. Send and return jacks so that I can run other drive pedals into it so I can use the stack the treble booster with them, and the clean boost will always be the last. Think the Tim..

Okay.. Who's gonna build me one?

great to hear out wat u guys like ! for a moment i thot this thread was going out of track , glad it came back on what i really intend to do, to build a unique pedal!

dudelove, you kinda have a different line of thot here, u mean you like to have the different sections in series? as opposed to 3 separate drive sections?
as for the rest of the ideas, it's kinda in line with what i'm thinking, but i am not sure whether to have too many knobs in case the pedals get too big and crowded (eg. a one tone knob that covers the whole spectrum instead of separte treble/bass/mids/presence).

and as for tuner, is it really desireable to the rest of you guys? 'cause then i'll need to throw ina PIC /MCU and a display of some sorts , again.. bigger footprint

howabout amp simulator out, any useful to u guys?
keep 'em coming!

 

[jskadiang]

^ I think Catalinbread has the amp simulator market covered, do the Dudelove thing! Do want.

 

[dudelove]

dudelove, you kinda have a different line of thot here, u mean you like to have the different sections in series? as opposed to 3 separate drive sections?
as for the rest of the ideas, it's kinda in line with what i'm thinking, but i am not sure whether to have too many knobs in case the pedals get too big and crowded (eg. a one tone knob that covers the whole spectrum instead of separte treble/bass/mids/presence).

Its 3 pedals crammed into one big box. 1 Big pedal is better than having 3 seperate pedals. (more cables, wiring = less tone :mrgreen. Thats where the effects loop comes in. Makes it super versatile. Come to think of it, the send return loop is really quite genious.

It'll be nice if I can get a similar tonestack of a Marshall. Size is not an issue right now anyway. Not as if someone is REALLY going to build one and has to take all these into consideration.. Just some wicked pedal fantasy..

And MANY pedal builders have gone about building pedals that emulate amps. Catalinbread is a great choice like jskadiang mentioned. My personal favourite are Menatones.

 

[wcchew]

Its 3 pedals crammed into one big box. 1 Big pedal is better than having 3 seperate pedals. (more cables, wiring = less tone :mrgreen. Thats where the effects loop comes in. Makes it super versatile. Come to think of it, the send return loop is really quite genious.

It'll be nice if I can get a similar tonestack of a Marshall. Size is not an issue right now anyway. Not as if someone is REALLY going to build one and has to take all these into consideration.. Just some wicked pedal fantasy..

And MANY pedal builders have gone about building pedals that emulate amps. Catalinbread is a great choice like jskadiang mentioned. My personal favourite are Menatones.

well, i do know i am gonna build one pedal myself this year.
and since i am not doing this for a living, i don't have a dateline, i dun have to worry about BOM cost, final product cost etc, i can slowly gather info, listen to opinions and tweak it til no end over the months.

think those old legendary pedals are invented in this vein, some guy keep tweaking for a artist until he likes it (think Jimi's Wah pedal, brian may's treble booster) and not purpose to make it into a commercial thingy (well, at least not in the first case).

guess i'll get big satisfactions if someone out there making great use of the pedal and liking it , 'cause if i were to make any profit out of it, probably the pedal will cost >$200-$300!

like i say before, please keep 'em coming!

 

[naviros]

Alright then, lemme just list out the variety I want.

Blues Pedal:
BB King type of overdrive / compression all in 1 box! Flexibility to tweak it to fit variety of amp / cabinet / environment combinations.

Rock Pedal:
Triple Channel, Smooth Overdrive, Crunch Overdrive, Saturated Distortion. Toggle switch for Vintage / Modern tones. Dedicated EQ for each channel. Clean boost at the end for 20db.

Metal Pedal:
Two Channel Distortion, Dedicated EQ, switch for Vintage / Modern tones, clean boost for 20db, addition of a wah pedal?

 

[theunknown]

A fender clean tube amp circuit, a marshall jcm tube circuit and a mesa mark V tube circuit. Size of enclosure 10" by 10".

 

[Godspeed64]

Actually what dudelove mentioned ain't so difficult.. The booster part with toggles for full range/treble boost is already in the market, and the second part is a foundation kinda thing going on like the DLS; just simply in one enclosure with an effects loop ala Tim.. But I'd rather swap the last clean boost to something else.. The Ge treble boost into a fuzz face would be sweet!

Speaking of ingenious:

4 boosts in one! Albeit the new makeover came with a new pricetag..

 

[dudelove]

Actually what dudelove mentioned ain't so difficult.. The booster part with toggles for full range/treble boost is already in the market, and the second part is a foundation kinda thing going on like the DLS; just simply in one enclosure with an effects loop ala Tim.. But I'd rather swap the last clean boost to something else.. The Ge treble boost into a fuzz face would be sweet!

It isn't I agree. What you said is very true. Anyway I believe its GE fuzz face INTO treble booster, not the other way round, ala AM Sun Lion.

Lets not get to the Fourbanger. It made someone pretty mad! :mrgreen: