The Spires was born from my need to have my big old Rosac Nu Fuzz and our now discontinued Dream Crusher on my pedalboard without taking up all the space. The green channel features a cranked fuzz inspired by the Rosac Electronic Nu-Fuzz, which, for all the unacquainted fuzz seekers, was released in 1968- decades prior to the dreaded “nü” prefix ever being uttered. The original schematic for Rosac Nu Fuzz is somewhat of a mystery so I used my original to make a “sonic copy” that is pretty much dead on. It is full-on fuzz all the time and uses crude wide range tone control to change the character from big and warm to sizzling and blown out. The original was slightly below unity at max so I gave this one plenty of output volume while retaining the original tone. The Red channel is a silicon version of the now discontinued Dream Crusher. There's no need to mourn the loss anymore. Dreams will still be crushed with walls of classic two transistor fuzz, only this time the crushing will be much more stable and less temperature sensitive. It features a very usable, dynamic Fuzz control and tons of output volume, just like the original. Each Spires is hand made one at a time by a white gloved team of professional experts in the dirty, dusty canyon of Akron, Ohio.
I'm sure I'm missing some forum nonsense here but if you are implying that I have somehow copied the reissue for the spires you are wrong. I own every version of the nu fuzz available, including the distortion blender which I'll be listing soon. This is my least favorite so it's off to a new home.
I thought you were like gone man! Good to have you post on here.
The Spires sounds killer! Stop making stuff I want btw. It's bs.
"I do not have the ability to think rationally 90% of the time and I also change my mind at the drop of a hat".
The original schematic for Rosac Nu Fuzz is somewhat of a mystery so I used my original to make a “sonic copy” that is pretty much dead on.
He could very well own both an original and a reissue, so the sale isn't really proof of anything except that he's demoed a modern reissue. Theoretically he could've ordered that pedal last week after 5 years of beta-testing his own clone. I've bought pedals and clones of pedals before, even though I already owned a DIY version, just because I wanted to see how they stacked up side-by-side. Having said that I really don't want to be in some figurative tug of war over the ethics of pedal cloning/tweaking. It's so tedious and circuitous.
earthdevice wrote:I'm sure I'm missing some forum nonsense here but if you are implying that I have somehow copied the reissue for the spires you are wrong. I own every version of the nu fuzz available, including the distortion blender which I'll be listing soon. This is my least favorite so it's off to a new home.
I fucking hate these ebay ads where the seller can't be bothered to plug shit in and fiddlefuck with it for a second to get a rough idea if it works, it doesn't work, something kinda works...etc. There are so many of these where the seller says 'i haven't plugged it in so I don't know' ...which probably means its broken but ya never know...
Funny, I can think of like a million good reasons for another 303 clone
D.o.S. wrote:Hello, this is your captain speaking, our altitude has set to bleep so lets sit back and get ready to bloop. Ladies and Gentlemen, we are floating in space.
Jero wrote:That's an actual synth right, not a controller?
Yeah, it has its own internal sounds plus software for editing more advanced settings. It has a lot of aggressive dance sounds, but you can do interesting things with the drum arpeggiators and stuff like that. There are some sci-fi and exotic sounds as well, but it's not an ideal synth for strings/pads. The keys feel fairly cheap, but I've never had any problems with mine. I actually sold a drum machine to the designer, and he was a pretty cool guy to chat with.
