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Just thought that it might intrest one or two guys here what it is I am doing
Not meant as spam or promotion, just sharing with my guitarcrazy bro's!
Well took a picture of one of my homebased Plexitone's, this is an unmodded one.
And for those who wonders about the switches and pots, we never had one pedal coming home with a broken PCB. And that is 10 years now
Well guys have a nice weekend, I am off to a wedding and work this weekend.
Niels

Seems like a whole bunch of views
Had a wonderful weekend and got myself an APS-2 while I was at it

Rid i saw it. also visited your website. you got quite an arsenal there!!
in summer holidays(after my exams)i plan to play abit with pedals. dont mind if i ask u for pointers do you?

RID, I don't know if you've done this before, but I wish you'd give us your opinions on some of the lesser known Carl Martin pedals, like the Crunchdrive, Rockdrive, Heavydrive, and the differences between the Hot Drive'n'Boost 1,2,amp;3. Thanks!

but I wish you'd give us your opinions on some of the lesser known Carl Martin pedals, like the Crunchdrive, Rockdrive, Heavydrive, and the differences between the Hot Drive'n'Boost 1,2,amp;3. Thanks!

Well the old 9v line is not my fave stuff for sure, I like the Boostkick best of them, but the three 9v drives I think that the rockdrive is the most useful for most people, the differences are too small to really justify the two others, but I am not the one who decides what goes and stays, but I would kill off the whole line if it was me.
And make a whole new od and stuff it into one of the new pedal boxes, and I am actually just doing that along with another guy at work.
The HDB's, hehe yeah the first and original one is quite a good overdrive, very British in style, quite transperant a typical 90's overdrive sound, delicate and crispy, does not have alot of lowend to it, it has lots of drive compared to a TS-style od and the cleanbooster as well, through a good amp this is my fave of them all.
The MKII has more bottomend and a harder more American tubby sound to it, Mesa like to me, my least favorite HDB, it also likes an good amp.
The MK3 I made with Thomas, so that one I like alot on vintage fat amps, gives a good warm drive and has the same amount of bottom end as the MKII, it just sounds better to me, it uses 4 3mm LED's instead of the usual IN4448 diodes we use.
But the whole line is about to get revamped, perhaps down to only two types of overdrive.
Got a few very good designs in the works there, primary thing was to make them more fat and lively, they will blend in a very different way from what they do now, I use the big Hiwatt set on a very clean sound for this, that ensures that they can drive a big amp and still produce lots of harmonic fun stuff without playing loud, I set out to make them useful with both singlecoils and humbuckers, make them less dependant on a good amp, in other words they colour the sound a great deal more than their ancestors
Transparent drives are only useful for a very few amps!
On the rest they simply become buzzy and raspy because the amp is not up and working the tubes, or simply is to thinsounding in its nature.
The times are changing back to pedals having a life on their own, and I think it is a good thing, that is why I like effect pedals so much, they ought to colour sound in my opinion.

Interesting stuff, Rid.

Well I do like our new line of 9v stuff, eventhough they don't have that extra that the 12v delivers, some are -12v as well, that makes 24v to deal with, lots of clarity and headroom.

cool stuff

Thanks Scott

Thanks for the breakdown. I think it would be a good idea for Carl Martin to streamline the product line, so there's fewer choices, but better ones. I've always been confused about which ones are worth buying, and which one's aren't. I'd like to have a Plexitone and Delayla, tho.

Yeah I feel quite the same about it, but ultimatly it is the boss who decides on that, but it would be good to break it down into fewer and more refined products.
When I look at our stuff I sometimes think that I have accidentilly open up a Boss catalouge
Choices and then some hehe.
Well and now we have one more delay in the works...like we need one more
We have the Delayla, the XL, The Red Repeat, one in the Quattro, plus one more with added delay lenght and options, I think it will replace the XL in the end.
Because it will have features like tap-tempo, or using and old fashioned knob, or an expression pedal, and actually use the knobsetting as an analouge preset...which is quite nifty.