SILVER FUCKING ROSE - PRE ORDER IS LIVE!
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2015 5:53 pm
You into a story? I have a story.
*edit again*
Pre-order is live here: http://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/pro ... -rose-fuzz
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Fuck a story. watch a video.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuyQutXAifM[/youtube]
When we bought Devi Ever FX in 2013 I was excited for a lot of reasons. The main one was that apparently I can't live without some huge dangerous adventure in my life, but the other pull was the Soda Mesier, VFM, and Ruiner. These are circuits I have loved for a long time, and I was excited to work with them closely.
And yeah, I knew the silver rose was out there, but I also knew there were problems with parts blowing out, and maybe some kind of Billy Corgan drama? And it was a combo of a couple classic circuits. Truth be told, I was not really interested in working on it at first.
But after lots of encouragement from folks in the community and a whole lot more from Louise (AKA Aen's wife) I relented and said "OK we'll look into it." Or something like that. We borrowed an original SR from someone, and I think I played with it for at least one whole damn day and then off and on as the days passed. Holy shit. I loved it. I still love it. So we began the arduous process of bringing the fucker back.
We had no schematics, and no part numbers. We eventually got the basic schematics that the SR was based off of from Infanem, and went to town. Tom (our resident nerd) worked up a "testing board" just to make sure our plans would work out.
Well, good thing he did. The IC muff we incorporated proved to be VERY problematic, making all kinds of oscillation whenever you stopped playing. Also, it seemed to have pretty much one tone in it. Granted, it was a great sound, but there was always another circuit in the back of my mind. The Eau Claire Thunder. The ECT, as you may know is based on another classic, the "Green Russian." But even a simplified version provided more sounds and tonal variation than the SR's IC muff, so we went ahead and plugged it into the SR tester boards. Worked like a charm. To my ears, it nails the IC tone and provides more. It can also be dialed in to a much more bass-heavy place, which pleases me and may do so for many of my other bass loving brothers and sisters.
Surprisingly enough, the Superfuzz portion turned out just about right on the first try. We had to fiddle with some resistor values and try a few diodes, but today it sounds (to my ears) just like the SF section in the original 'Rose. And it's nasty as fuck. Oh, I suppose, there's some calmer, even keeled tones in it too.
Tom also had to take a few cracks at an EQ circuit to get it dialed in, but as it stands we have one I'm very proud of. Tom reports it provides 10db boost or cut in the treble and bass. This means you can easily dial in TOO MUCH. Which is exactly where I wanted this pedal to end up. I guess the whole philosophy on this re-birth is "MORE." All the original tones and controls minus the master volume are maintained, and we crammed in MORE!
As you may recall, the original SR had a clean blend in it. In my opinion, it wasn't quite right, nor was the mixing scheme. We've implemented a pretty big boost on the clean signal, and each circuit (EC fuzz, Super, and Clean) has it's own volume pot, allowing precise mixing, and very tactile and visual illustration.
Oh, and it should all fit into a 1790 (same size as the Eau Claire Thunder, smaller than the old SR.)
The plan right now is to do this build SMD as well, partly to save on labor in the shop (therefore keeping it under one skrillion dollars retail) and partly to cram it all in the 1790.
There are a few things to work out still, as I have a crazy switching concept in mind, and we haven't gotten our final boards or enclosures made yet, but the circuits are GOOD. The mixing is GOOD. The sound is FUCKING IMMENSE AND I LOVE IT.
We're talking to dealers about who gets first crack at it (pre order type things) so I will keep you updated. Feel free to axe us some questions and we'll do our best to answer without spoiling or promising anything we aren't 110% sure of.
*edit again*
Pre-order is live here: http://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/pro ... -rose-fuzz
*edit*
Fuck a story. watch a video.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuyQutXAifM[/youtube]
When we bought Devi Ever FX in 2013 I was excited for a lot of reasons. The main one was that apparently I can't live without some huge dangerous adventure in my life, but the other pull was the Soda Mesier, VFM, and Ruiner. These are circuits I have loved for a long time, and I was excited to work with them closely.
And yeah, I knew the silver rose was out there, but I also knew there were problems with parts blowing out, and maybe some kind of Billy Corgan drama? And it was a combo of a couple classic circuits. Truth be told, I was not really interested in working on it at first.
But after lots of encouragement from folks in the community and a whole lot more from Louise (AKA Aen's wife) I relented and said "OK we'll look into it." Or something like that. We borrowed an original SR from someone, and I think I played with it for at least one whole damn day and then off and on as the days passed. Holy shit. I loved it. I still love it. So we began the arduous process of bringing the fucker back.
We had no schematics, and no part numbers. We eventually got the basic schematics that the SR was based off of from Infanem, and went to town. Tom (our resident nerd) worked up a "testing board" just to make sure our plans would work out.
Well, good thing he did. The IC muff we incorporated proved to be VERY problematic, making all kinds of oscillation whenever you stopped playing. Also, it seemed to have pretty much one tone in it. Granted, it was a great sound, but there was always another circuit in the back of my mind. The Eau Claire Thunder. The ECT, as you may know is based on another classic, the "Green Russian." But even a simplified version provided more sounds and tonal variation than the SR's IC muff, so we went ahead and plugged it into the SR tester boards. Worked like a charm. To my ears, it nails the IC tone and provides more. It can also be dialed in to a much more bass-heavy place, which pleases me and may do so for many of my other bass loving brothers and sisters.
Surprisingly enough, the Superfuzz portion turned out just about right on the first try. We had to fiddle with some resistor values and try a few diodes, but today it sounds (to my ears) just like the SF section in the original 'Rose. And it's nasty as fuck. Oh, I suppose, there's some calmer, even keeled tones in it too.
Tom also had to take a few cracks at an EQ circuit to get it dialed in, but as it stands we have one I'm very proud of. Tom reports it provides 10db boost or cut in the treble and bass. This means you can easily dial in TOO MUCH. Which is exactly where I wanted this pedal to end up. I guess the whole philosophy on this re-birth is "MORE." All the original tones and controls minus the master volume are maintained, and we crammed in MORE!
As you may recall, the original SR had a clean blend in it. In my opinion, it wasn't quite right, nor was the mixing scheme. We've implemented a pretty big boost on the clean signal, and each circuit (EC fuzz, Super, and Clean) has it's own volume pot, allowing precise mixing, and very tactile and visual illustration.
Oh, and it should all fit into a 1790 (same size as the Eau Claire Thunder, smaller than the old SR.)
The plan right now is to do this build SMD as well, partly to save on labor in the shop (therefore keeping it under one skrillion dollars retail) and partly to cram it all in the 1790.
There are a few things to work out still, as I have a crazy switching concept in mind, and we haven't gotten our final boards or enclosures made yet, but the circuits are GOOD. The mixing is GOOD. The sound is FUCKING IMMENSE AND I LOVE IT.
We're talking to dealers about who gets first crack at it (pre order type things) so I will keep you updated. Feel free to axe us some questions and we'll do our best to answer without spoiling or promising anything we aren't 110% sure of.
