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Custom built pedals from Dunners

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Just wanted to share my great experience with a chap by the name of Bob Fields, he's on TM but I'm sure he mainly does it for the love of it.

Long story short I bought an A/B pedal from him so I could run my two favourite amps. Worked exactly as it should, although after about a week I got back in touch with him asking how easy it would be for him to alter the pedal. As well as bouncing between the two amps I wanted the option of being able to run them at the same time and ideally having volume controls for each amp. He said to give him a couple of weeks to design the circuit and build the pedal. Then this turned up in the post this morning...

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He told me it's a protptype, to have a play and see what I think. Sweeeeet 8)

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Very nice, so I assume one switch is A/B and the other is Y?
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jeremyb wrote:Very nice, so I assume one switch is A/B and the other is Y?
Possibly, haven't had a chance to try it out yet!

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It's bloody good. Loving being able to hear my two favourite go-to amps running in tandem, and it's quieter than the original A/B pedal.

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Comic sans :silent:

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Comic Sans is indeed a bit of a turn off. But looks like this guy builds some cool stuff. He had a couple of valve reverb units on TradeMe that looked pretty nice.

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twangnsnarl wrote:Comic Sans is indeed a bit of a turn off. But looks like this guy builds some cool stuff. He had a couple of valve reverb units on TradeMe that looked pretty nice.
Absolutely ~ you should see the inside of it. No wonder it took him three weeks and numerous attempts to build it.

I'd love post a photo of the guts of it but I don't know how easy it would be for someone to copy it. Seeing as this is a one-off prototype that Bob has obviously spent a lot of hours on I don't think that would be very fair. But take my word it's pretty intricate and the components all seem to be of high quality.

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Mini Forklift Ⓥ wrote:Just wanted to share my great experience with a chap by the name of Bob Fields, he's on TM but I'm sure he mainly does it for the love of it.

Long story short I bought an A/B pedal from him so I could run my two favourite amps. Worked exactly as it should, although after about a week I got back in touch with him asking how easy it would be for him to alter the pedal. As well as bouncing between the two amps I wanted the option of being able to run them at the same time and ideally having volume controls for each amp. He said to give him a couple of weeks to design the circuit and build the pedal. Then this turned up in the post this morning...
He told me it's a protptype, to have a play and see what I think. Sweeeeet 8)
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mttn3 wrote:Comic sans :silent:[/quote
mttn3 wrote:Comic sans :silent:
Wouldn't give a flying f*"# if it was Wingdings so long as it works. It's a box you stand on.

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StrummersOfThunder wrote:
mttn3 wrote:Comic sans :silent:
Wouldn't give a flying f*"# if it was Wingdings so long as it works. It's a box you stand on.
Haha it wouldn't stop me buying it either, I'd just put a bit of tape over it or something, but it's funny how that font keeps coming up on pedals. :thumbup:

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Post by Conway »

When it says Gain 1/2, are there boost circuits inside or are they actually just passive volume controls?
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Conway wrote:When it says Gain 1/2, are there boost circuits inside or are they actually just passive volume controls?
Circuits from what I can make out.

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Well, do they work as a boost or do they only reduce the volume?
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Conway wrote:Well, do they work as a boost or do they only reduce the volume?
They work as a boost as well as volume. So if I have my amp set on the clean channel and I increase the gain on the pedal it gets louder and starts to break up, much the same as you would apply a boost pedal I imagine.

Hope that makes sense as I am about as tecnically-minded as a banana.

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Post by sirvill »

So volume on full is louder (and more distorted I guess) that going straight into the amp? That'd definitely point to a boost, obviously :)

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