My board of tone.
My board of tone.
This is my travel board of tone. I mainly stick to plugins for effects.
The Nano Cortex is there just so I can capture and share tones I have nailed down, to give me a few effects when need a little something, to give me headphones out, and to act as a digital interface. I still haven't decided if it is a keeper.
The Notaklön is there for tone and volume boost more so than distortion.
29 EUNA magic box of mystery.
The Enigmatic's tones and a thing of absolute beauty.
Don't sleep on the Lion's clean tones.
The Woodrow is just a cool vibe sometimes.
How do you like the Notaklon? Was building it fun?
It was fun to build, just like a small LEGO set. It is a replica so the sound is nice and warm, just like the original.
That is a Dumble on your board!
I am currently obsessed with one of the tones I am getting from it. It is one of the 50w (almost) clean presets plus the 29 (always on), the Notaklön set clean, and just a touch of reverb on the Cortex.
Dumble was a genius and I can't thank UA enough for giving me the chance to play with one before I die. I know it is just a model, but a UAFX is as close as I'll ever get. The same goes for the Marshalls in the Lion 68.
What’s the 29?
It's a buffer with a charge pump and three switches that drop different passive EQ filters into the circuit.
From what I can tell from the reverse engineered schematics it's a dual sided op-amp buffer (as opposed to something like a transistor based jfet buffer), kind of like what a klon uses, three passive tone filters built around dropping different cap/resistor combos into the circuit, an "effects loop" aka a buffer bypass for anything that misbehaves when the guitars output impedance is changed before the effect (range master, germanium fuzzes), and an overbuilt power section with an unusual amount of power filtering (there are so many electrolytic caps in this part).
I will not comment on whether I think it's worth the pricetag.
The best way to understand the 29 EUNA is to watch some YouTube videos about it with headphones on.
This community is called guitar pedals - does that mean you use your feet for all of these different knobs?
The peg toggles (aka 'stomp switch') towards the bottom of each are designed to turn them on and off (or load a preset) with your foot on the fly. The dials are adjusted before the performance.
Interesting. Thanks for the explanation!
This community is called guitar pedals - that's why this picture of guitar pedals was posted to this community.