Way Huge - Pork Loin [traced]
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Got some shots at Guitar Center this weekend...
Chip says LM833N
The small metal can transistors were coded 2N2484. Any ideas about what else is going on with this pedal? I tried it out with a Nashville Telecaster and a Hod Rod Deville 4x10. It sounded very much like a tube screamer to me, and I got to play it at pretty high volumes (chickin' pickin'...usually not allowed in Guitar Center, but a friend of mine was working that day). Twisting and turning the knobs didn't really change the pedal up that much...it pretty much remained in TS land at all settings. The MXR 10 Band I tried out seemed to have a much more pleasant effect on the sound than this overdrive. A very well constructed pedal though...nice and solid.
Chip says LM833N
The small metal can transistors were coded 2N2484. Any ideas about what else is going on with this pedal? I tried it out with a Nashville Telecaster and a Hod Rod Deville 4x10. It sounded very much like a tube screamer to me, and I got to play it at pretty high volumes (chickin' pickin'...usually not allowed in Guitar Center, but a friend of mine was working that day). Twisting and turning the knobs didn't really change the pedal up that much...it pretty much remained in TS land at all settings. The MXR 10 Band I tried out seemed to have a much more pleasant effect on the sound than this overdrive. A very well constructed pedal though...nice and solid.
- puppiesonacid
- Cap Cooler
nice pics. I used to tear everything apart when it came in when I was a manager at guitar center hahah. funny, that footswitch looks like is SPST, wonder if there's a relay switching in there.
- soulsonic
- Old Solderhand
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Hoho... buffered electronic bypass! The TGP folks will throw a fit about this one.
"Analog electronics in music is dead. Analog effects pedal design is a dead art." - Fran
- Ben N
- Cap Cooler
Yeah, I guess that's worse than all those mojo-deficient metal film resistors.soulsonic wrote:Hoho... buffered electronic bypass! The TGP folks will throw a fit about this one.
- puppiesonacid
- Cap Cooler
buffered electronic bypass... another implementation of Craig Anderton via Way Huge/Jeorge Tripps... hmmm man... I could be rich hahahahah jk. wtf is up with that? Jeorge said in a you tube demo that "yes, these are true bypass" well... maybe ... sorta... kinda... but the switch looks right hahaha, at least from the outside.
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If it's like the Swollen PIckle MkII, which I have to imagine it is, it's a relay switch.
- soulsonic
- Old Solderhand
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Okay, I'm willing to admit that's a possibility, but we need to see the other side of the "Analog I/O" board with the jacks on it to see for sure. I would be less surprised to see a relay there than I would be to not see one.emptyburns wrote:If it's like the Swollen PIckle MkII, which I have to imagine it is, it's a relay switch.
I'm hoping for the best with this!
"Analog electronics in music is dead. Analog effects pedal design is a dead art." - Fran
I have not checked the circuit but I am pretty sure it's a relay switch. The bypass signal is there without power... which is a sign... and I think I have read somewhere that that's the case... apparently the carbon copy (which also has Jeorge Tripps fingerprints on) is relay too. I like it... much more than mechanical true bypass... the idea of having the signal going through the switch itself is something that bothers me... I don't know why though.
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I'll see if I can find some time later today to take some pics. But straight from the manual, it says "relay-based true bypass", and it's a soft switch. If the pedal isn't powered, signal will still pass through.soulsonic wrote:Okay, I'm willing to admit that's a possibility, but we need to see the other side of the "Analog I/O" board with the jacks on it to see for sure. I would be less surprised to see a relay there than I would be to not see one.emptyburns wrote:If it's like the Swollen PIckle MkII, which I have to imagine it is, it's a relay switch.
I'm hoping for the best with this!
Overall, I'm extremely impressed with the build quality of the pedal.
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It's a relay. An NEC EA2-5SNJ:
http://www.eu.necel.com/_pdf/ER0001EJ6V1DS00.PDF
Pics of the Analog I/O board:
The switch is labeled 0701R, and it's some sort of momentary switch, but I can't pull up a datasheet.
http://www.eu.necel.com/_pdf/ER0001EJ6V1DS00.PDF
Pics of the Analog I/O board:
The switch is labeled 0701R, and it's some sort of momentary switch, but I can't pull up a datasheet.
- soulsonic
- Old Solderhand
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I am very glad to see that relay!
I stand very much corrected.
I stand very much corrected.
"Analog electronics in music is dead. Analog effects pedal design is a dead art." - Fran
Logic for switching relay. Other SMD parts are for power supply protection and such.
Audio goes from jack to jack through the relay in bypass... Yes Virginia there is true bypass on the new Way Huge pedals...
-Mr. Huge
Audio goes from jack to jack through the relay in bypass... Yes Virginia there is true bypass on the new Way Huge pedals...
-Mr. Huge
- sevinisthenumber
- Cap Cooler
"The man who says he knows everything will never know the truth"
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
- Greg
- Old Solderhand
You want us to tell you why Dunlop decided to do something ?
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- Scruffie
- Opamp Operator
It's not that complex, not saying I could trace it but FSB has done worse, it's just 2 Op-Amps and a Few Transistors as far as I can see (all that complex looking SMD stuff is to do with the switching etc.)Sweetalk wrote:I LOVE this pedal, sadly it's a little bit complicated to trace it
And as we can see in the Pork Loin thread, this unit doesn't have it either https://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic ... oin#p55111
Maybe they decided it didn't do a whole lot so dropped it out, or did too much.