Building Custom 1176 for a short run

[rcb4t2]

Better check the agreement/terms on whatever board you use - a lot of them are non-commercial use/resale.

[George Necola]

build a clone that is not distorting linear over the whole turn of the input/output knob. and dont squash the signal too much. that's the most common problem with clones.

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[mexicola]

Add a threshold knob so that you can achieve input transformer saturation without high gain reduction levels.

[docdj112]

Originally Posted by rcb4t2

Better check the agreement/terms on whatever board you use - a lot of them are non-commercial use/resale.

Absolutely! Anything we do will be 100% legal and will not infringe or use others work in products unless granted explicit permission by them.

Originally Posted by George Necola

build a clone that is not distorting linear over the whole turn of the input/output knob. and dont squash the signal too much. that's the most common problem with clones.

Thats a very good point…I do want to color the sound in a certain way but sometimes this stuff can go overboard

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Originally Posted by mexicola

Add a threshold knob so that you can achieve input transformer saturation without high gain reduction levels.

That would be really cool and it would make it VERY flexible




Thanks everyone for your input.

Some of the other ideas we came up with are

1. A parallel button to be able to parallel compress without additional signal routing outside the box

2. Switchable Transformers to change the sound depending on what the user is looking for.

[Scott003]

Mix knob would be awesome, I find myself doing parallel a lot with 1176's. I'd say make the ratio buttons push jaunts so you could literally mash em haha

[jrp]

feed forward
more ratios
personally i like the design using switches for matched threshold/ratios rather than having independant controlls.
The more flexibility you include the more unusable settings you will get.

[docdj112]

Originally Posted by Scott003

Mix knob would be awesome, I find myself doing parallel a lot with 1176's. I'd say make the ratio buttons push jaunts so you could literally mash em haha

we can definitely do a mix knob!!

Originally Posted by jrp

feed forward
more ratios
personally i like the design using switches for matched threshold/ratios rather than having independant controlls.
The more flexibility you include the more unusable settings you will get.

Yeah. That is a good point...if we put in another bank of switches that had fixed ratio's it would give it the flexibility or do you still think that's still going too far?

[Scott003]

would it be possible to put on the original 2 4 8 20 buttons plus a knob that could trim the ratio +/- 50%? I'm only an amateur geekslut so I don't really know the particulars of doing that, but how awesome would it be?

[docdj112]

Originally Posted by Scott003

would it be possible to put on the original 2 4 8 20 buttons plus a knob that could trim the ratio +/- 50%? I'm only an amateur geekslut so I don't really know the particulars of doing that, but how awesome would it be?

I don't see why not anything is possible!!!!

[Radiance]

Originally Posted by docdj112

I don't see why not anything is possible!!!!

In theory yes...
But did you look at the schematic?
It will take 1 dual pot per position with different value resistances per deck.
Four pots in total, all different values.
If you want to do it with 1 pot you'll need to have an 8 deck pot, from which all decks have different value resistance.
Now try to find THAT ;-)

[S2udio]

And good luck if you manage to ...build it !
And make it worth the hassle.
Its an 1176.....period, good clones do what it was intended to do.
Otherwise its not.

[docdj112]

Originally Posted by Radiance

In theory yes...
But did you look at the schematic?
It will take 1 dual pot per position with different value resistances per deck.
Four pots in total, all different values.
If you want to do it with 1 pot you'll need to have an 8 deck pot, from which all decks have different value resistance.
Now try to find THAT ;-)

Yeah...I took a look... Maybe a better option would be to have a second bank of ratios that would be selectable instead of a variable pot

Originally Posted by S2udio

And good luck if you manage to ...build it !
And make it worth the hassle.
Its an 1176.....period, good clones do what it was intended to do.
Otherwise its not.

Agreed...but if it was a clone that would be simple...don't really want to clone the 1176 I want to give it a different flair that being sad I've never been afraid of the challenge but a variable knob would make it an insanely complicated build

[ray_subsonic]

Originally Posted by Scott003

Mix knob would be awesome, I find myself doing parallel a lot with 1176's. I'd say make the ratio buttons push jaunts so you could literally mash em haha

Whatever else you do, this one thing alone would be great.