Decent Wolly Mammoth Clone? (don't want to build one)

[HolmeBass]

Originally Posted by blubolt

Isn't cloning a pedal a lot like pirating music?

No, not at all. Stealing someone else's fuzz pedal is like pirating music.

Building a clone is like making your own recording of that song. And if the song is in the public domain, then you don't owe them mechanicals.

[JonnyAngle]

Originally Posted by HolmeBass

No, not at all. Stealing someone else's fuzz pedal is like pirating music.

Building a clone is like making your own recording of that song. And if the song is in the public domain, then you don't owe them mechanicals.

What if you sell your recording of someone else's song?

[caeman]

Originally Posted by JonnyAngle

What if you sell your recording of someone else's song?

Then you owe a royalty to copyright holder.

Hmm...copyright holder. Circuits are NOT protected by copyrights. No copyright, no royalty.

[icecycle66]

Circuits can be protected, but usually by patent.

People who try to protect a circuit usually try to protect the design of the circuit and not really the function.

A lot of circuits are actually provided free by the companies that make the components.

Take the PT2399 delay chip. One company that manufactures them is Fairchild Semiconductor. In the datasheet, the detal codument of the chip, they actually give you the schematic of how to build an audio delay. An enormous amount of delay pedals are built around that schematic. Fairchild doesn't care, they just want you to buy the chip, so they give the recepie away to make you use the ingredients.

Other circuits, like distortion, are the same way. A lot of Op Amp makers give the the recepie and EVERYBODY uses that recepie to make their distortion.

If you don't use an Op Amp for distortion and instead use diodes and transistors it's the same thing. Saying that it is illegal to make a Big Muff clone is like saying it is illegal to make ravioli because Olive Garden makes it.

[krstko]

Try JaMit FX, you can find them on FB. Pro pedal makers, they will also customize the pedal anyway you want

[TomA1234]

Originally Posted by blubolt

Isn't cloning a pedal a lot like pirating music?

Definitely not in the case of the mammoth, the circuit wasn't designed by Zvex and the design was published on the web by the creator. (I can't remember the name of the guy who designed it though)

[insomniac2295]

Originally Posted by TomA1234

Definitely not in the case of the mammoth, the circuit wasn't designed by Zvex and the design was published on the web by the creator. (I can't remember the name of the guy who designed it though)

It's just a fuzz face with a gate mod, no?

[Kobaia]

Chuck zeweki. Or something like that

[TomA1234]

Originally Posted by insomniac2295

It's just a fuzz face with a gate mod, no?

Google imaging the circuits shows that, yes, they are pretty much exactly the same, except the mammoth uses NPN transistors rather than PNPs, has a gate and EQ function.