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Broughton Audio Super Thread

#55,181
revd said:
Makes sense. You seen Zachary's SV video? He goes for some nice combos of voices with clean / synth at 12 and sub at, say, 1 o clock. Dues this work as a rule of thumb for keeping a unified volume on SVD too? Maybe he's edited the vid to deal with level jumps.

Related, I don't use clean on my FMeron so if it's the same for SVD that's one less complication.
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I’ve seen that vid but haven’t watched it in a long time. I assume he was not trying particularly hard to maintain unity output volume.
 
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#55,183
NKBassman said:
That’s the gist of it, yeah.
The hardest part for me is dialing in the right balance of all three voices to get the tone I want, but also keeping the overall output at or near unity volume.
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Exactly. Once you find your desired tone/sound, it’s challenging to balance everything out in terms of output volume. Not “boomy” per se but temperamental in that department compared to its predecessor.
 
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I'm having too much fun recreating Broughtons in Figma...still WIP obvs, and I have a ton more to do, but...

Broughton Pedal Mockups WIP.png
 
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Thinking about using a preamp on my PJB double four and since I've never opened any of my broughtons, can any of them use 9v batteries? I use the battery for my double four and not sure if the fliptop or anything else can use a 9v. My board is at my bands practice space and can't access it till Wed.
 
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mmbass21 said:
Thinking about using a preamp on my PJB double four and since I've never opened any of my broughtons, can any of them use 9v batteries? I use the battery for my double four and not sure if the fliptop or anything else can use a 9v. My board is at my bands practice space and can't access it till Wed.
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I think some old ones can, but the safe answer is no, they don't take batteries.
 
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mmbass21 said:
Thanks, didn't think so. I need to find a decent 2 or 3 band 9v preamp now. Will be weird looking at the big box brands.
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For a battery-runnable pedal, I'd honestly say take a look at a Zoom MS-60B. For the price, it's an amazing little all-in-one multi-fx box.

As for your Broughton pedal should you want to use it, any reason to not just use one of the 9v battery boxes/recharable supplies with your existing pedal? Then it doesn't matter if the pedals themselves take 9v batteries:

9v in a box, no 9v booster so as batteries die, it'll send less voltage to pedals. Probably not the option for this, but for reference:
Vertex Effects Battery Power Supply

Usb battery pack to pedal board adapter, so any cellphone battery pack would work, and steady voltage output. This would be my choice for 1 pedal:
Mission Engineering Inc 529M Ultra-compact USB Pedalboard Power Converter

Rechargable supply itself, 9v out; this would be my choice if I had multiple pedals.
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Pedalnetics said:
For a battery-runnable pedal, I'd honestly say take a look at a Zoom MS-60B. For the price, it's an amazing little all-in-one multi-fx box.

As for your Broughton pedal should you want to use it, any reason to not just use one of the 9v battery boxes/recharable supplies with your existing pedal? Then it doesn't matter if the pedals themselves take 9v batteries:

9v in a box, no 9v booster so as batteries die, it'll send less voltage to pedals. Probably not the option for this, but for reference:
Vertex Effects Battery Power Supply

Usb battery pack to pedal board adapter, so any cellphone battery pack would work, and steady voltage output. This would be my choice for 1 pedal:
Mission Engineering Inc 529M Ultra-compact USB Pedalboard Power Converter

Rechargable supply itself, 9v out; this would be my choice if I had multiple pedals.
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Thanks for that info. I actually have a volto 3 but use it as a back up for gigs. The Mission Engineering one looks like pretty cool tool to have with voltage options. I'm looking for simplicity for practice purposes since the double four and pb-100 need a push on the front end.
 
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benjobass said:
I don't know what that is. I'm just doing this for fun. When they're done, and if people find them useful, I'm happy to share the source file. What is the site you're talking about?
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This site is here, Pedal Playground some of us in this and other threads mock up combinations of boards and pedals using their libraries of templates of boards and pedals, but the site creator has a way people can load new pedal templates into the library from the Contribute link in the top right (I was wrong about Bitbucket, it's Github): PedalPlayground/PedalPlayground.github.io
Last I checked there were no Broughton pedals in there.

I personally use the site to test out different pedalboards to see if they are the right size for the combination of pedals I want to use on a board, to scale down from my current, larger board. You have to create your own pedals if they don't exist in the library, but they sometimes disappear after your session or some other reason.
 
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