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Darkglass Electronics Fuzz!

#141
What was the biggest challenge in designing it? I know it's probably a novel, but I'm always interested with new designs, especially from collaborations between two very reputable companies.

I am not a dirt fan, but pretty much anything Spencer lays his hands on has stayed on my board... who knows what can change with time :D
 
#142
enjoi1018 said:
What was the biggest challenge in designing it? I know it's probably a novel, but I'm always interested with new designs, especially from collaborations between two very reputable companies.

I am not a dirt fan, but pretty much anything Spencer lays his hands on has stayed on my board... who knows what can change with time :D
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So many things! Starting from having 2 different circuits that needed to be distinctively different from each other, yet matched in terms of volume and low end.

Another major challenge, as I explained in another thread was making the fuzz sound consistent, yet respectful of different instrument's inherent character while at the same time allowing for great dynamic control.

The fuzz doesn't have a Gain control because it doesn't need one! Many fuzzes tend to prefer passive to active instruments, so for us keeping the same thick, tight distortion levels regardless of the bass being passive or active was pretty tough to engineer.
So it was designing a Filter control that would allow for the fuzz to work equally great with or without tweeters, another issue many fuzzes out there have.
 
#143
Here's a sample of how the controls will work:
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#144
enjoi1018 said:
What was the biggest challenge in designing it? I know it's probably a novel, but I'm always interested with new designs, especially from collaborations between two very reputable companies.
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The filter control was without a doubt the reason this pedal wasn't ready 2 months ago.

When Doug sent me the first revision schematic and I built a prototype, I thought it was WAY too harsh on the high end. After some back and forth we realized that our cab preferences were totally altering our perceptions. I play a Bergantino 410 with a tweeter, and I believe Doug at the time was using an Ampeg 210 without a tweeter. Then it was just a matter of designing a tone control that would have a usable range whether the cab had a tweeter or not. I think what we ended up with works really well. I find that fuzzes usually sound better with the tweeter off, but with the Duality there is still a huge range of tonal options when the tweeter is on.
 
#147
I occasionally "cough cough" bump mine into the on position, but then the overwhelming clank from the top end of my Eden reminds me to turn it back to it's "correct" position:)

BTW, I placed my pre-order a few minutes ago.:hyper:
 
#150
Every time Darkglass announce a new pedal, people are falling over themselves to buy it before they've even heard clips! They are the Apple of the pedal world.

Looking forward to hearing it in action, after which I might even buy one, but until then I'm keeping my pants on!
 
#153
jumblemind said:
You mean they make really high quality products that just work better and have an avid base of internet people that like to make fun of people that like them? I suppose that's a fair comparison. :smug:
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ugh. don't start this. Apple is one the worst companies out there in terms of pleasing customers. Jobs was an ass, Bill Gates is a philanthropic person that has given away a ridiculous amount of his money and changed the world by getting computers in everybody's home.

*ahem cough*BAILED OUT APPLE*cough cough*

an argument almost akin to religion or abortion in people's intractable viewpoint.
 
#154
Spencer! said:
I know, right? But I sometimes "accidentally" bump the tweeter knob out of its 'off' position....
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lol. i have spent like half an hour different times trying to figure why a speaker suddenly sounds like **** and checking cables and settings and knobs to find out the tweater knob got bumped up a smidge.

i need to go into all my cabs and remove those useless bastards.
 
#155
Tweeters in bass cabinets usually sound bad because they are a crappy implementation - a giant frequency hole between the woofer and tweeter means that to hear them you turn them up really high, and then you just hear super-high fizzy crap.

A good fullrange speaker with proper crossovers solves that, and you can turn the tweeter down but not off, and still hear it without all those annoying ultra-highs.

Oh, and sorry behndy, but Apple with Steve Jobs rocked, even if he was a jerk. Bill Gates has somehow reinvented himself as a philanthropist, but for many decades before that he was ANYTHING but.
 

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