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It's got 6 Knobs and a 3-way selectable switch!
Top Row (EQ): High (L), Mid (C), Low (R)
Bottom Row: Volume (L), Saturation (C), Drive (R)
3-way Toggle Switch: LED Clipping (C), Asymm Clipping (Up), Combo Clipping (Down)
This pedal took me a while to get around to building, mostly because I was worried I wouldn't like it. Well let's put that worry to rest right now. It rocks.
The build went really smoothly, I wired up all of the pots and switch outside the enclosure, and then soldered in the in/out wires from the board to the on/off switch - that made it really easy to get everything connected. It worked the first time I fired it up, all except for the down position of the toggle switch. I quickly realized that the way I had originally wired it, I was grounding out the signal, so I made a quick fix and it worked marvelously!
The toggle switch toggles between three clipping settings. The first is the LED post gain stage setting. It's the loudest because LED's clip at a higher voltage than the other diodes I used, and they also clip "harder" so the sound is edgier. The Assymetrical Silicon Diodes post gain stage is the next, and it sounds awesome, but clips a LOT more, and is softer because it clips at a lower voltage. The final setting is BOTH the LED's clipping and asymmetrical clipping diodes in the gain stage of the pedal. This makes for a crazy combination, and sounds really hard.
This pedal in general sounds really hard, but with the 3-band EQ it's easy to get the sound you're looking for.
Sound Samples:
1 - Drivenstein Volume, Sustain and Drive knob Demo
2 - Drivenstein 3-band EQ Demo
3 - Drivenstein Clipping Switch Demo
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