Thoughts on the SoundSaw

Hey team,
 Glad you could join me, now let us begin.

SOUND SAW
what was the deal with that pedal anyway? Crazy awesome sounding demos on the old DBA website, but they are hard to come by and there is one schematic that has been floating around for years now.

Back in 2014-2016ish, I was helping Glass Hero screen some enclosures with the Sound Saw artwork until he disappeared (hope all is well). It was about that time that my life got complicated and I had to put a lot of things on hold and move states to a new job, now after moving to another state for another job, I feel like building pedals again. I have been ever so slowly unpacking my tools and reviewing old schematics I had drawn up to try and start being a little more efficient with my design process.

Part of this process is putting out a SOUND SAW REMAKE. I am looking at the instruction card from the original and tasking myself to recreate a pedal like this. Something that has the same functionality, but with improvements based on my knowledge thus far and what I would want, and something that adds to the original

After looking through the forums and customer reviews and feedback, I hope to incorporate those ideas and create an excellent REMAKE.  At the end of the day, I will probably email Oliver the results of my passion project and send him my REMAKE.

I have sent off for PCBs to test the backbone circuit of the pedal.

From here I will be developing the upgraded (deluxe) variant of the pedal.

I would really like to dig into some programming to make this process incorporate a challenge of a different dimension. Another reason is the relatively short foot switch lifespan of mechanical bypass pedals. With a pedal which you can toggle channels for huge variations in sound, a foot switch will most likely get plenty of use.  Once it is all used up, what is the customer left with? a dead foot switch. Let's try and avoid that from here on out.

I'll keep you all posted as I move forward with this project.

After this I can get around to....reverb pedal REMAKE.

Best regards