Henretta Engineering - Choad Blaster

Post by **audioguy** » 16 Nov 2009, 03:32

hands down the stupidest looking pedal I've seen in some time

culturejam · Post by **culturejam** » 16 Nov 2009, 03:36

that was fast, ibo.

Greg · Post by **Greg** » 16 Nov 2009, 03:38

Must have more tracks on the back ?
There's not much going to the opamp.

OCD'ish i wonder ?

culturejam · Post by **culturejam** » 16 Nov 2009, 04:32

Greg_G wrote:Must have more tracks on the back ?
There's not much going to the opamp.

I see a few vias, so there must be traces on the bottom.

my7of9 · Post by **my7of9** » 16 Nov 2009, 04:47

You all know what Choad is I presume?

If you don't you can look it up here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=choad

I am not sure how that relates to a pedal but probably not one I am going to buy just on name alone.

salocin · Post by **salocin** » 16 Nov 2009, 04:54

I think the person selling this needs their choad blasted.

Whoismarykelly · Post by **Whoismarykelly** » 16 Nov 2009, 07:29

Looks like some sloppy soldering technique there. Half those pads aren't even filled.

RnFR · Post by **RnFR** » 16 Nov 2009, 08:00

that is one crappy looking pcb. why are the majority of the traces on the top side? and it looks like he hasn't figured out how to make thicker traces yet. that switch looks like it's been melted to shit, too. you can see the contacts coming up through the filler. he needs a daughter board!

chicago_mike · Post by **chicago_mike** » 16 Nov 2009, 08:06

okay, thats the stupidest name ever!..Worse than what I want to come up with...

chicago_mike · Post by **chicago_mike** » 16 Nov 2009, 08:10

I say we are looking at vol. treb / mid / bass. Ala fender / marshall.

nothing fancy..and please... Mr.Choad.. finish soldering the pedal before you sell it.

Greg · Post by **Greg** » 16 Nov 2009, 08:16

Green knob: volume, which has room for use as a boost or cut

Blue knob: tone - pretty much flat at around 10:00 - 2:00, rolls off high and gives a little bass boost toward 7:00, and gives an upper mid & high boost as you get to around 3:00 or so.

Red knob: "Choad" control adds a warm, low-mid distortion that picks up some fuzzy character when cranked up. This control is particularly usefull for bright amps to add more warmth, and it just loves humbuckers.

Yellow knob: "Blast" control blends in a juicy upper-mid crunch. This control can give a dark amp some bite and can add some snotty mids to scooped single coils.

The Choad and Blast knobs work together to create a range of overdrive and distortion sounds. Both knobs all the way down is very close to your original clean sound, so the range is pretty wide.

I've been getting great feedback on the clips, so I made some more. They are all at my Soundclick Page.
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default ... ID=1001408

kevinhenretta

chicago_mike · Post by **chicago_mike** » 16 Nov 2009, 08:36

well..I'm all choaded out.

silverface · Post by **silverface** » 16 Nov 2009, 08:44

I think it sounds pretty good!

soulsonic · Post by **soulsonic** » 16 Nov 2009, 15:37

The distortion is too sloppy for my tastes.

*edit* - I mean the sound of the distortion is too sloppy. Not to be confused with the sloppy insides, which of course, it's probably easy to guess how I feel about that.

BTW, anyone remember a band from the early 90's called Choad Launcher? I remember seeing them listed in a TVT catalog... the name made me LOL.

chicago_mike · Post by **chicago_mike** » 16 Nov 2009, 15:57

I toured with a TVT group once..The Baldwin Brothers. Fun time.

back to choad. Umm..lets pretend it doesnt exist.

Dirk_Hendrik · Post by **Dirk_Hendrik** » 16 Nov 2009, 17:33

What does the "engineering" in Henretta Engineering apply to??

cpm · Post by **cpm** » 16 Nov 2009, 17:49

looks like a simple circuit for a double sided board (vias, thin traces..., autoroute abuse?)

soulsonic · Post by **soulsonic** » 16 Nov 2009, 20:23

Dirk_Hendrik wrote:

What does the "engineering" in Henretta Engineering apply to??

He's engineered a way to sell an offensively-named pedal to the uptight prudes at TGP.

telecaster · Post by **telecaster** » 16 Nov 2009, 21:16

lol

Spewbag · Post by **Spewbag** » 17 Nov 2009, 00:21

Not to be a dick or a jerk but this thing sounds like it looks....loose and sloppy.