misterstomach wrote:whoismarykelly wrote:misterstomach wrote:This probably does exist, but a pedal that was just the preamp from the DMM would be cool.
Here is that part of the DMM. Super easy to build but not really worth it because the specialness of that circuit is that its driving a delay line. I guess you could build one with no bypass to give the same effect as a DMM since you no longer get a 'dry' signal but the boost on its own isn't any different from other clean boosts on the market.
It helps to have smart people around who can help me understand why my ideas are pointless. The idea was because I just think that pedal has a bit of grittiness that I really like and sometimes wish you could get without the delay. Or that you could put in front of other effects. Like other delays or reverbs. Or chorus. But I don't really know what I'm talking about, so maybe it would be fairly boring or not special once it was separated from the rest of the circuit.
Somehow once it gets referred to as a clean boost I find that I totally lose interest in the idea anyway.
I think a lot of our perception of those minor features of pedals is tied up in the fact that they're part of something else cool. A clean boost is pretty boring. The clean boost built into an SDD3000 or a DMM or an Echoplex or whatever is sexy because its part of those pedals. It would be funny if EHX made the pedal in one of the old-style big enclosures with just the one knob in the top corner.