![]() ![]() Only a little more care has to be taken in dialling it in, because both sections of the pedal has become louder and wilder. This quality lives on in the Evil Twin mk II. It's like the octave fuzz circuit becomes much more alive in combination with the distortion - which adds interesting overtones to the artificial, synth-like octave-down tones. One of the things I believe has contributed to the RSH pedal's continued succes through ten years, is that the two effects in the pedals stacks so incredibly well. ![]() No clipping (makes it a very loud clean boost).Ge/MOSFET hybrid clipping (Evil Twin mk II default).Ge/Si hybrid clipping (first generation Reuss Old Black Shoe / Wine & Roses clipping).Germanium diode clipping (RSH / Distortion+).The distortion section of the Evil Twin mk II can be preset to six different clipping configurations via switches inside the pedal: Turned all the way up, the tone control has no effect (no filtering), making the tone similar to the original, tone control-less vintage distortion+ circuit. ![]() In the distortion circuit the tone control is a treble filter, bleeding off the high frequencies. In the octave fuzz circuit it serves as substitute for the 'C11 mod' switch inside the RSH-03 pedal, covering the range between the dark and muffled sounding unmodded circuit and the bright 'C11' mod. We also added a tone control to each circuit. But we fixed the loudness issue in the Evil Twin mk II by adding a recovery gain stage to both circuits, so now they are VERY loud. Howard pedal being too weak in output level, and it is true that they are not very loud, because that's how the vintage circuits are designed. ![]() I always got complaints about the effects of the Rowland S. I am pretty sure we are the first ever to have succesfully done this modification to the blue box circuit.Īpart from adding this key-feature, we did not mess a lot with the old blue box, because I think it looses its primitive lo-fi charm, if you attempt to clean it up too much and improve tracking and gating etc. With the Evil Twin mk II you can back down the fuzz and still have the octave-down tone, with all it's glitchy goodness. With less fuzz intensity, the tracking would fail.īut in collaboration with my brilliant Danish engineering partner, I found a way. In the original pedal, and in the RSH pedals, it is always maxed out, and it has to be this way for the primitive circuit to divide down the frequency and generate the weird monophonic octave-down tone. My first goal when designing the Evil Twin mk II was to make the fuzz intensity of the blue box based octave fuzz adjustable. It was the pedal that started Reuss Musical Instruments back in 2012. Howard's 1970s MXR Distortion+ and Blue Box pedals. Howard is tragically not around to ask for approval For those not familiar to the concept, the RSH is a two-in-one pedal featuring accurate recreations of late Australian guitar genius Rowland S. These pedals are available to preorder now ( limited quantity incoming) The Evil Twin mk II is everything I have wanted to do, to improve the Reuss RSH-03 pedal, but sadly can't do because Rowland S. We are building more pedals, and the next little batch is expected ready for shipment in April 2023. ![]()
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