Analogue Electronics Lab 11
1) Here are the 3 pedals that I looked at:
https://www.alexanderpedals.com/shop/space-race
1a) The pedals I picked were primarily visually appealing to me. But each pedal I picked is from a different type of effect. The “holy wahcamoly” is a wah/gate effect, “golem” is a drive effect, and “space race” is a reverb effect.
1b) The larger pedal companies seem like they are oriented towards making more standard, all encompassing pedals. But the smaller companies seem to be oriented towards more unique and specific effect pedals.
1c) A really cool pedal I found was Frazz Dazzler by Dr Scientist. This pedal has 5 parameters that you can change: three-band EQ, Mix, Gain, Volts and Volume. The uniqe feature of this pedal is the volts knob. The Volts knob allows you to glitch the circuit and get blips and gated fuzz tones.
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3) The difference is that a momentary switch won’t remain active when the connection is broken, whereas a latching switch will. Latching switches are good for turning FX/effects on or off, whereas momentary switches are good for effects that work when the pedal or button to activate it is held down.
Analogue Electronics Lab Spring 2020 