When I originally started Braindead Audio Designs, I had 2 guitar players I wanted to endorse more than anything, Zac Tew of World Burns to Death/Kegcharge/Smash Detox/Rituals, and Brad Boatright of World Burns to Death/From Ashes Rise/Lebanon/Deathreat and a ton more bands. Zacs pedal has been in the works since the summer of 2011, I went through countless designs before I made this one work. Zacs pedal is the black one on the left, It is based off of a Fulltone OCD, but wired up in a far better and more usable fashion. The transistors are socketed as well as the IC chip so he can choose what sound he likes best, considering there are almost 300 different transistors that will work in this pedal, and 8 different IC chips, I think this was a smart idea on my end. Souichi Hisatake of FORWARD and Smash Detox is another player I have looked at as one of the best. His pedal is a highly modded TS808 tube screamer style circuit. The clipping diodes are socketed to be swappped out if he ever wants a tighter sound, or a looser sound. It currently has 2 3mm hi brightness blue LEDs, 1n914 diodes and a single BAT41 clipping diode in series with the 1n914. I thought this gave it a meaner sound for him to run through his JCM800. These 2 were an absolute blast, and honor to make for these guys. I cant wait to hear how they like them, and hopefully some things recorded using them!
i saw these guys last night and that ocd clone sounded awesome
ReplyDeleteThanks! Zacs pedal is more or less inspired by the OCD design than a clone though, The HP/LP filter is there, but I use different transistors and diodes for clipping, as well as a different IC chip. Stacked capacitors in series, and the gain pot has a wider range of usability than the OCD's which lost any kind of interactivity with the circuit after 12 o clock I found. It goes from an overdrive into a real serious distortion type territory when pushed which is what I thought Zac would want and hes happy with it.
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