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Post by bear on Oct 10, 2020 9:00:43 GMT -7
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Post by bear on Oct 10, 2020 11:14:10 GMT -7
Damn EJ is a beast. The harmonic thing after the 3 minute mark is killer.
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Post by bear on Oct 10, 2020 11:54:38 GMT -7
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Post by EllisD on Oct 10, 2020 19:41:59 GMT -7
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Post by higs on Oct 13, 2020 13:20:27 GMT -7
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Post by higs on Oct 15, 2020 6:32:26 GMT -7
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Post by higs on Oct 18, 2020 12:30:01 GMT -7
I have a problem. The Algal Bloom feels like you're playing a rubber band. Awesome tones. The Icarus v2-r2 has russian diodes in it and sounds great. It puts a nice hair on everything after it. The Meteore is cool, but I leave it on a pretty mild spring reverb setting. The Depths is fun. Definitely feels like you're underwater. The Crimson Drive is a nice old school 70s sounding overdrive.  |
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Post by higs on Oct 18, 2020 13:10:09 GMT -7
So, I was going to say that the Meteore is more pedal than I need, but it does have this cool feature. The feedback knob is a gain stage. You can send it a clean signal and the reverberation will distort if you have the feedback turned up. That is a pretty neat. I need to mess with it more.
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Post by bear on Oct 18, 2020 13:32:01 GMT -7
Is Icarus like the EHX Red Army? I've been playing the heck out of my Smiletone Abbysal octave fuzz.
I changed out some parts in my 5F1 amp (50s Fender Champ "tweed" circuit) to reduce the bass since it doesn't have a tone control. The coupling capacitors on the preamp tube are .022 microfarads so I reduced it to .01 for less low end frequencies.
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Post by higs on Oct 18, 2020 13:49:54 GMT -7
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Post by higs on Oct 18, 2020 13:51:22 GMT -7
Oh duh... from the listing... About This Listing SUPER RARE PEDAL!! Hand-wired in our workshop, the ICARUS MK2 is “sonic awesomeness” based on our Parabola™ and Météore™ preamp sections, but with a mix of silicon and germanium components, a tone control, multiple gain stages, and a switchable option of true or buffered bypass for longer signal chains and cable runs. If you want to keep it clean, it can do over +12db of clean boost just from the secondary gain stage by keeping the gain control down and cranking the volume. For the Fourth of July, in 2020, this "Soviet" V2 features “rock, flag, and eagle” graphics in a bomb pop finish, with a combination of silicon and D310 Russian germanium diodes for sweet, rounded drive tones when pushed, and a 4559 chip because it's one louder and better than a 4558.  Ships with original bag, sticker, and printed insert. Pedal has Dual Lok on bottom. |
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Post by higs on Oct 18, 2020 15:44:07 GMT -7
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Post by higs on Oct 21, 2020 6:16:17 GMT -7
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Post by bear on Oct 21, 2020 6:19:13 GMT -7
WANT
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Post by higs on Oct 21, 2020 6:27:04 GMT -7
I have a Vol 2 which has 3 delay settings and it sounds great, but when it is in bypass it sends a click in the chain in time with the delay. It is annoying and the other night I just boxed it back up. Might be the daisy chain power? |
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Post by bear on Oct 21, 2020 7:43:25 GMT -7
I have a Vol 2 which has 3 delay settings and it sounds great, but when it is in bypass it sends a click in the chain in time with the delay. It is annoying and the other night I just boxed it back up. Might be the daisy chain power? yes probably. I would try isolating the power supply |
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Post by bear on Oct 21, 2020 8:35:46 GMT -7
Or if you have a buffered pedal before it, isolating that might do the trick
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Post by higs on Oct 22, 2020 6:41:47 GMT -7
I opened up several pedals last night and all the Caroline pedals have hand written quotes on the inside of the back plate with dates and signatures. Pretty cool. The Haymakers have something on the circuit board that look like the head of a philips head screw and they are plastic. It is printed on the board next to it, don't even think about it. About what? Looking under it to see what it is hiding? Or turning the "screw"? None of any of the other pedals have anything like it and I'm just curious what it is.
*there is also a sticker on the inside that says something like, "we know you are smart enough to figure out our circuitry, but please don't post pictures of the board online"... Fair enough.
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Post by bear on Oct 22, 2020 6:58:41 GMT -7
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Post by bear on Oct 22, 2020 7:56:12 GMT -7
Those are trim pots. They usually control some part of the circuit. In the carbon copy mini above they control the parameters of the modulation effect to save space on the top of it. On some fuzz pedals they control the bias current to the transistors, so sometimes they are not meant to be adjusted unless you really know what you are doing.
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