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Hey There! I'm interested in buying a Animated pedal. Are you still making them/have them for sale? Thanks.

Hello! I only just saw this, no clue when you sent this so I apologise if it is very, very late.Shoot me an email at [email protected] and I will put you on the early sale list, they should be available in about a month’s time, just in the building process now.

I have a Tumblr?

Yeah, it shocks me too. Maybe later on when I have time I’ll work something with it.

Almost there!

Yep. Cases are in Australia! Not here, but that will be Monday or Tuesday provided customs let them through quickly. Basically, the idea is pre-orders will all be out by Friday. I have all the time now that exams are done (hence the extended quiet period the past few weeks). I’ll also be able to get the site moved back this week too, now I have more than half an hour a night to try and fix it up. One last thing I do need to do is print the manuals. This is a little tougher this time around because of the box size. I’ll have to get creative. It’s all written but it’s a matter of making it look more presentable. Lessons have been learned here. Manufacturing errors happen. I can now see why major delays happen at other companies. :(

No ETA on cases

I thought I’d just make this very brief announcement. I have no clue when the cases are arriving. I have tried to make contact to see what is happening. I am not exactly sure what is going down on that side. Also just some brief information that within the next two weeks, I am sitting exams. I can manage to do a bit of work and get pedals out during that time if they arrive but please do expect delays if that is the case. Not the best news to give. I assure you they are on the way, otherwise I have spent a hell of a lot of time on soldering 50 boards for no reason.

What is time?

I really do apologise that the site is still down. This is getting beyond frustrating for me and I might have to pull an all nighter tonight to do it. I have had no time to do it since my other business has been a priority to the point where I sleep, wake up, go to work, get home, shower, bed. Eek. I’ve had quite a few good comments about the reverb. I’m glad people like the look of the mock up. I have also had a lot of people ask for me to keep the gold bar across each of the pedals. Initially, I was going to change the colour of that bar to go with each pedal but I will have to see at this rate whether I should or not. I do like the original colour scheme but at the same time, I need to make sure pedals are able to be differentiated easily. At least I can update this page from work in the mean time. If this looks like a mess, my eyes are barely open, I need a pipe line directed to my shop for coffee. Also, no ETA yet on the cases. I assume they will be finished some time this week. Must remember that when they replied, they had to fix some storm damage, so the manufacturer is doing the best they can. At the moment, it is sad to look in the drawer and see all the boards ready to in. :(

Mock up of a rack unit I am planning on making for our vocalist and myself. Going to be a pretty versatile little unit. Granted, I want to really push the FV-1 to do more but I will have to rely on analog circuits for a bit of the filter stuff, not that it is by any means a bad thing. Doing the 240V to 18V and 5V conversions may be a little scary. Have to learn somewhere.

Reverberation Fun

Not much done today because uni and life but I seem to be getting somewhere with the reverb chip and programming. Thank goodness for some Java programs that have been made to make it more accessible to programmers. Been messing around with the swell in. Finding a way to extending the swell time is proving rather difficult. I can increase the sampling size but I don’t really want to reduce the bandwidth on offer. It’s going to be a case of figuring out how to split the envelopes up to extend them. Maybe use a bit of logic work will be the trick here. If you want some idea to what I am doing, think of the Strymon Big Sky in swell mode. You have the option of swelling the dry or swelling the wet. As far as I know, the dry setting affects the input volume and the wet affects the reverb volume. Both bring subtle differences, mainly because you get to hear the tails of the attack sound on the wet setting whilst the dry kind of gets a pad sound. One trick I’ve used is to use a single note feedback delay to act as the pre-delay which triggers the volume envelope for the input signal. This is where filtering the highs might help add to the pad sound. I am having a lot of fun with this, quite clearly. There’s going to be a huge amount of stuff to add to it and I might start off by building a prototype into a rack unit. I’m working on active filters for the front section that will most likely be analog where possible. Finding ways to “simulate” high and low frequency damping. Almost thinking using the extra few chips to work on the delay and filtering and using the chips in serial might not be a bad idea. Should note by no means am I ditching the animated. It is still so popular that I am getting emails and messages about it still. I am just stuck waiting for cases. All the boards are populated so I can’t do anything more but wait until I can assemble.

Website still down

Blame me for that. I got sidetracked by the FV-1 today with learning how to reverb and “Slow Gear”. Sadly haven’t figured how to do both at once just yet, unless I dual chip or start making less code. It is however, becoming uncontrollably fun to work on. I can say this: If you are going for a DIY reverb, go to Tonepad, get the FV-1 and do that. You can obviously go the whole programming route too but it’s a fantastic little unit that’s exceeded my expectations so I’m more than happy to go nuts with it. Website will be up whenever I remember how to Apache and configure my virtual domain... You can email me as usual.

This time I decided to do some envelope filtering. Slow attack, long release. Getting a real synth pad/string sound. Soothing.

Longevity. The code name for a reverb pedal I am working on. Hoping to make it as expansive as possible without over blowing the price. Lots to work on still. This is just a mono clip with a large reverb with maxed out bass and treble filters. Granted, I should lower my pickup a touch since it’s a tad hot but I like this sound so far considering it’s not mixed in with the dry signal.

We got a website down

Yeah, unfortunately, due to a system shuffle at home, the website is currenty down. I should mention it doesn’t affect any orders or any other personal data. It is just simply us at home combining our two servers into one and relocating it into another room. My site was clearly on the server that lost that battle. I will put up the original site within the next 24 hours or so, whenever I can remember how to use Apache so in the mean time, enjoy the passive agressive message on the home page and the broken image links on this Tumblr page. I did have plans to make the new site similar to this one but we will get there at a later point. Bit of research into a good shopping cart system, even though PayPal does pretty well. There may also be future outages depending on when we upgrade our home internet to fibre, which will be essential for the site but that is a while off. This is all part of an upgrade to develop a gaming/development studio. Yeah, I program too, hence the FV-1 being something I am looking into. Pedals aren’t going to stop. My role is simply algorithm design as well as music composition so it’s not another job, just a helping role.

#website #pedals

A few days ago this fell into my possession. This is a development board for the Spin Semiconductor FV-1. It’s labelled as a reverb DSP chip but it can do quite a lot more. Had a few attempts at programming it and have come up with a stutter/freeze pedal so there’s a lot to exploit here. Got a few boards to develop around it, such as a mixer to blend the clean signal in as well as some external controls and other modifying pots.

#fv-1 #pedals #develop

Oh no, not Tumblr!?!

Yeah it is. I thought it might be best to use Tumblr as my "blog" for pedals and pedal related posts.

Might take me a while to get everything running smoothly. Got a bit to do between this, the site and the actual pedals. Might do a test run of the wiring setup tomorrow just to see if I can make the final build step a little quicker.

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