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I love when people with experience of any level can share ideas freely. I appreciate when a pedal manufacturer can take time to teach people, what may seem simple. I can look at schematics and pictures all day but seeing things been done and explained teaches me far easier
Brian- super useful video on the Zen Drive regarding altering components. Would love to see more like this- also getting into what various IC’s do and how to tweak them.
Also, could be fun to get a video of common modding mistakes, components that don’t do well in pedals and why, tweaks that almost always will result in a ‘bad’ sound, or cause epic pedal fails. It’s really helpful to learn what NOT to do! (I’ve already learned quite a bit from failed builds all by myself in this regard, FWIW.).
Thanks again!
-Ted
Would like like a video on merits of various types of overdrive – distortion circuits: IC + diodes, cascaded JFETS, CMOS, etc.
Thanks for putting up quality content 😁
I started building clones about a year ago. this is exactly what I need to jump to the next level of modding/designing. Great Idea! Thanks Brian!
I recently played ‘Dr Frankenstein’ with a TS808 clone. That was a lot of fun!
I’d love to see more of your ‘Nerdy circuit details on pedals’ video series!
During quarantine, I’ve started building pedal kits. The kits are fun but don’t really provide an understanding of what the various components are actually doing. This video is timely in that regard and I look forward to more. Thanks!
I love “bending” circuits (I’m a disabled electronics tech who loves playing guitar and bass) and I would love to see more videos to help me understand even more of how all thos awesome stuff works! Great work, my friend!
I always like and watch your videos they are very informative and entertaining, the tech and breakdown videos about the pedals and circuits are especially useful to myself as I have started making pedals here in the UK, Your breadboard style videos are very useful and one particularly on the different types of diodes and there effect on the sound and tone of the circuit was very useful when putting together the circuit for my overdrive pedal. Thanks for great videos.
Loved the breakdown of the signal chain and what each component does. Would it be beyond the scope of this to examine a wider variety of clipping circuits? Maybe a comparison of overdrive vs distortion vs fuzz circuits. I made a crude fuzz from 914 diodes and a TL072 back in the 80s… noisy as heck but worked a treat!