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The day a real FSB member will come across one of these pedals, you will see the gut shots appearing right away.

I am not real FSB member, but I have something to show finally

Super Ecstasy:


and as a bonus gut shot of Pinnacle 2:

super ecstasy is a basic opamp clipper with bass boosts, from there go to a cap, diodes to ground on a switch, tone control is basically what people call the stupid wonderful tone control (IIRC - I don't remember the exact schem of mark's but it's basically the same thing). From there into a jfet gain stage and then into the volume control.

Pinnacle (i think I stated this somewhere else, but can't find the thread)... basically a jfet mu-amp (bsiab-ish) setup, into that big muff style tone control, into a variable twin t type filter for mid control (contour), into a jfet (actually, your version just goes straight out to volume here, but the newer version goes into another jfet stage then to volume).

bright switch is a normal cap to ground off of the twin t, it just lifts it off ground.

The big box ecstasy had the bass control wired like the timmy pedal, just a pot off the feedback loop.

The pinnacle gain switch just changes the resistors on the mu-amp gates. As far as building kits, (and even pedals really...) you never make money by building pedals... you make money by SELLING pedals. And honestly, more time is spent in talking to customers than building pedals. If I had to build everything myself I wouldn't sell anything.

bw

indyguitarist wrote:super ecstasy is a basic opamp clipper with bass boosts, from there go to a cap, diodes to ground on a switch, tone control is basically what people call the stupid wonderful tone control (IIRC - I don't remember the exact schem of mark's but it's basically the same thing). From there into a jfet gain stage and then into the volume control. bw

Basic you say, but it sure does sound good! Well done. I'm saving my pennies to get one.

- Care to give us any more clues what makes them sound so nice?

Guys, anyone know where can I find the layout of the building pinncle?? A link that has already helps as well.