Rochambeau Musical Apparatus Dirty Doper

[crochambeau]

I have the same thing! Amp breaux! I'll have to be careful though, holy crap.

Indeed. Here's a tip - don't throw some old 1960s MaggotBox speaker into your cab. NO MATTER HOW GOOD IT SOUNDS, it will not take the punishment. Damn thing sounded like thunder too.

[univalve]

They look sooooo good!

[jrmy]

I don't know how I missed out on this thread for so long, but DAMN these look sweet. Awaiting more clips with bated breath!

[UglyCasanova]

So, those who have gotten one; please give us a short review. I'm so psyched on mine, but it's still so far off. Gimme the scoooooop!!

[lordgalvar]

Tommorrow..great expectations


Sorry I stole your joke

[crochambeau]

but it's still so far off.

I'm eagerly awaiting a first hand report as well, for all I know, my tastes sound like ABSOLUTE SHIT to you people and I'm about to be lead out of town on a tired donkey under the rain of thrown stones.

It'll seem like longer than it really is.. I do need to confirm/finalize the TRS CV circuit, as it is *critical* that said circuit does not bomb the power rail (or torch the buffer) when a standard "mono" instrument cable is plugged into it.. and that WILL happen eventually.

FWIW, there have been concerns raised about standard postal transit overseas. It's been over ten years since my day job was coordinating exports, so there's a bit or a re-learn curve going on, but I think this is a matter of *the more work done by shipper the less fees passed on by shipping company*. UPS & Fedex are both off the charts in terms of realistic fees. I'm digging into the quagmire that is DHL currently, so with any luck I'll be able to offer a more reasonable & secure transit option soon.

I can report that the Harmonized Tariff Schedule for these things is 8543.70.9620..

Egads, my past, it comes to haunt me..

[D.o.S.]

First impressions: Jesus fuck.

Annotated Clip coming shortly.

[crochambeau]

Jesus fuck.

[jrmy]

First impressions: Jesus fuck.

That's a solid start!

[D.o.S.]

Ok, so, what you're hearing is my first time with the unit, even though it sat on my desk all day yesterday telling me to do terrible things to sounds. Apologies for using a pretty basic input source to anyone that doesn't like that sort of stuff.


Basic timeline:
00-:54 dry signal
:54-5:30 running through knobs
5:30-6:00 tweaking with impunity (and input source)
6:00-8:00 no input
8:00-10:45 top 40 hits live and direct.

Annotations/info:

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Signal Chain: Korg Monotribe>RMA Dirty Doper> Focusrite 2i2
No post processing.

Rough annotations:
0:00 Dry Signal only

:54 Doper Engaged: All Knobs at Noon, all dip switches up (save CV):

Right to left Dip Switch Adjustment:
Output mode > Standard (last dip switch center from top [feedback])
Branch polarity down
Voicing Switch center
Voicing Switch Down
Branch B Fuzz Select Down
LF Emphasis Dip Switch Down
Branch A Fuzz Bypass Down
A-B Balance Test, all dip switches Down (from Center to A then B)
Stability (Center > full left, full right)
Backing off Initial Gain (center, Full left, full right)

Fun Sounds At 5:30

No input SIgnal 6:00

Input reintroduced @ 8:00

Input tweaked @ 8:30

In conclusion.

[resincum]

[Strange Tales]

I'm really bummed I missed out on this preorder now. Moreso than before.

[crochambeau]

Excellent, thanks! Sounds like it made the trip intact.

I find the initial gain to be something of an odd duck, as there are certain input signals/settings in which it does not seem to do a lot, and others where it's a bit more forthcoming. Something of a shy control at times.. sometimes it likes rolling the volume down on a guitar (obviously not applicable with line sources).

I forgot to mention on the cut-sheet, the LF emphasis is situated on the A branch.

I know some switch movements cause an infill rush/interrupt of signal, but some of the transitional drop-outs on your file seemed a touch extreme, was this a compiled cut up of select bits or do I need to scrutinize the circuitry a bit more?

Finally, I know that the output volume has a steep climb (the larger knobs make this less of an issue), that is intentional to act as additional recovery volume for some of the lossier corners (for example, voicing switch down, stability full CW). It can be something of a rough ride as a live tweaking pedal.

[D.o.S.]

There were 1-2 drops in the file that were the result of flipping the CV on and off (exact times started to get rough once I started to tweak the pedal + input in real time, rather than going through each switch + knob), but none of those occur before 5:30. What you're hearing is a single take, no edits involved.

[crochambeau]

Oh yeah, CV will tank everything if you're not already feeding it. That makes more sense, I was worried that it might be an always on type control.

Love the listen, gave it another play over lunch.