TV the Wired Turtle
April 10th, 2012, 04:04 PM
Been getting Pm's about the forth coming uber Brain pedal; the
DETROIT CASKET so here's what this thing is..
To meet the requests for a Nocturne Brain with a delay.. I am just not equipped to make a good analog delay pedal so I got an idea from a suggestion by one of the designers at Tech21 to make my preamp more versatile for stage.
The detroit casket has a stompable/switchable true bypass effects loop with a 100% wet/dry blend knob so that you can plug in say a non true bypass Fender Reverb tank and be able to switch it in and out of your rig, or a vintage echoplex or EH Deluxe memory man and not have it jack up your tone. Thats one benefit..
Why I want this blendable loop is to get the same effect of an RE301s circuit layout that has the input preamp first and then that feeds to the tape echo which has its wet dry effects level.
you would set your delay pedal 100% but then you would use the blend control on the Detroit Casket to set say a 40/60 mix of your delay signal to the D.C's preamp. This sort of completes my mission of having a viable alternative to my actual RE-301. As well one could
put a reverb pedal like the Maleko Chiclet that is not true bypass and has a poor buffer yet sounds pretty dang spring like into this and comp the spring tank of the RE301.
If you could care less about an RE301 thats okay because the preamp on the D.C. is going far beyond what the original Brain Seltzer ever was conceived to be. Its preamp is indeed based on the original circuit but will have the gain options of all the individual stomp boxes
I have out plus controls for bass cut and treble cut. You wouldnt even have to use delay
or verb in the loop stomper, you could put your TIM pedal in it and set it grindy as hell but
still blend it so that a percentage of its overdrive mixed with the preamp instead of the Preamp slamming into the front of it. just saying
In addition it will be two channels with individual volume controls, this is something requested by Buzz Campbell for his dual channel Billy Brain because he often has to use
a backline amp and stage conditions change where the boost side of the Billy or Atomic need
to be louder or less loud depending.. There have also been requests for a bit of grit added to the preamp that leans toward the Rev Horton heat side of things so channel two on the D.C. will have switchable grit.
Please note, this will have actual amp style component board with full size amp components (the way I like a preamp to be constructed). Totally unneeded and completely desired on my
part.
controls:
brain 1 & 2 = individual channel gain
cruise = channel 1 on/off
drag= channel 2 on/off
flames= Fx loop on/off
lo, hi gear= EQ
additional..back panel blend knob for FX loop switch for grit and stang modes on channel
2.
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DETROIT CASKET so here's what this thing is..
To meet the requests for a Nocturne Brain with a delay.. I am just not equipped to make a good analog delay pedal so I got an idea from a suggestion by one of the designers at Tech21 to make my preamp more versatile for stage.
The detroit casket has a stompable/switchable true bypass effects loop with a 100% wet/dry blend knob so that you can plug in say a non true bypass Fender Reverb tank and be able to switch it in and out of your rig, or a vintage echoplex or EH Deluxe memory man and not have it jack up your tone. Thats one benefit..
Why I want this blendable loop is to get the same effect of an RE301s circuit layout that has the input preamp first and then that feeds to the tape echo which has its wet dry effects level.
you would set your delay pedal 100% but then you would use the blend control on the Detroit Casket to set say a 40/60 mix of your delay signal to the D.C's preamp. This sort of completes my mission of having a viable alternative to my actual RE-301. As well one could
put a reverb pedal like the Maleko Chiclet that is not true bypass and has a poor buffer yet sounds pretty dang spring like into this and comp the spring tank of the RE301.
If you could care less about an RE301 thats okay because the preamp on the D.C. is going far beyond what the original Brain Seltzer ever was conceived to be. Its preamp is indeed based on the original circuit but will have the gain options of all the individual stomp boxes
I have out plus controls for bass cut and treble cut. You wouldnt even have to use delay
or verb in the loop stomper, you could put your TIM pedal in it and set it grindy as hell but
still blend it so that a percentage of its overdrive mixed with the preamp instead of the Preamp slamming into the front of it. just saying
In addition it will be two channels with individual volume controls, this is something requested by Buzz Campbell for his dual channel Billy Brain because he often has to use
a backline amp and stage conditions change where the boost side of the Billy or Atomic need
to be louder or less loud depending.. There have also been requests for a bit of grit added to the preamp that leans toward the Rev Horton heat side of things so channel two on the D.C. will have switchable grit.
Please note, this will have actual amp style component board with full size amp components (the way I like a preamp to be constructed). Totally unneeded and completely desired on my
part.
controls:
brain 1 & 2 = individual channel gain
cruise = channel 1 on/off
drag= channel 2 on/off
flames= Fx loop on/off
lo, hi gear= EQ
additional..back panel blend knob for FX loop switch for grit and stang modes on channel
2.
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