Holmes H-X6 Spectrum

[digi2t]

Bit of a hen's tooth, thanks to strategy over at diysb for sending me this.



This pedal is really cool. Like strat says, a three band eq, with BP and HP filtering. It has a sort of MS-20 filter edge to it, like the Resonator, but with much less complexity.

I traced it out, with my super-duper-pooper schematic skills (not), here it is;



Here's the trace side reversed, with the components drawn in, in case anybody wishes to double check it.



If anyone wishes to clean up the schematic, by all means...

I'm going to vero this, maybe stick it into a Crybaby shell, just controlling the BP, which can really rock the tone on it's own. All in all, it's one of those circuits that acts like a subtle seasoning on a nice juicy steak. I mean, the steak is great on it's own, but the seasoning adds that little extra zing to push it to the next level. Tone seasoning. Yeah... that's it!

Many thanks to Strategy for lending me this pedal for tracing. Another feather for the Hen's Tooth Cafe. I'll try to get a HTC video out soon.

[Chankgeez]

HOLMES!

Nice, Dino, I've been wondering what these sound like.

[LaoWiz]

Beautiful, Dino. Will you be furnishing us with the customary HTC video for our pleasure?

[BitchPudding]

Interesting. I wanna hear what it sounds like. Colored knobbys are good.

[IG88]

I have one of these but it was built by Sanox. Pretty neat approach to an EQ/Filter, it's in storage somewhere so it probably didn't make much of an impression when I first got it. Should probably give it another whirl.

[digi2t]

Beautiful, Dino. Will you be furnishing us with the customary HTC video for our pleasure?

Yup. Try to get that out sometime today, or tomorrow. I have a hybrid germanium BMP board waiting to box up, so I might do that first, and then use it to demo the Holmes with.

For those that are curious, my latest BMP creation;



But I digress...

[Jero]

It's beautiful. Thanks for sharing the Spectrum.