Whats Next For NostalgiTone?

[Barry]

 

You may have noticed the NostalgiTone category in the Shop has received a makeover. This new, more organized layout is designed to help you find exactly what you need more easily.

Link: https://guitarpcb.com/product-category/nostalgitone-products/

 

Got requests for a new NostalgiTone Triple Combo? Share your suggestions, including the project name, proposed circuits used, and circuit order—while considering component availability and reasonable part count. Feel free to submit your idea below!

[Anonymous]

I’d love to see something with a grunge focus; though of course, that’s kind of a wide range.

But specifically, I think there’s interesting potential in a pedal where you can go from clean w/chorus, into heavily distorted a la Nirvana. Useful for Metallica etc. as well. Something where you can route to a footswitch that deactivates chorus, and activates your gain stages with one stomp.

If I were making it, it would probably look like:

1. Rat/ICBM/DS1, or some other high gain circuit that sits on the fence between fuzz and distortion.
2. Plexi-style Amp to house the stage 1 distortion
3. Chorus – probably a Small Clone, but something that could get into trippy “Black Hole Sun” territory would be dope

So if I’m basing this off existing GuitarPcb circuits, it’s probably Pi Opamp > PlexAmp > Mini Me

If I’m making circuits from scratch, I probably mess around with DS1 mods (including the one where you add some BMP-style soft clipping in the first stage, if I’m remembering correctly), and otherwise tweak until I get something that sits nicely with a low-mid gain setting on the PlexAmp.

And then I wire it up so that the third footswitch not only switches the chorus between active/bypass, but also switches the first two slots as well. This lets you do a couple cool things:

• Go from Just Chorus to No Chorus, Both Drives
• Go from Nothing On to Fuzzstortion/Amp/Chorus all on for a solo tone
• Go from PlexAmp rhythm tone to Fuzz/Chorus for a section

Stuff like that.

Note: this is probably a PITA to wire, but if I’m doing it all in a circuit board, that becomes much more appealing.

Anyway, that’s my too-long thought.

[Matt]

For the downtuned knuckle draggers

The Nihilist

DS-1 Style distortion > Boss HM-2 style distortion (ideally modded with mids knob) > Peavey Studio Pro/Bandit/Supreme preamp or a JCM 800 pre

Inspired by the Swedish Chainsaw tone of the late 80s early 90s famously Entombed used the HM-2 and Studio Pro (both dimed) to create the primary guitar tone for their record Left Hand Path. What is often forgotten is some parts were doubled with a Boss DS-1 into a Marshall combo to prevent recorded guitars from sounding too thin.

Entombed also used the DS-1 and HM-2 together into Marshalls in live settings to make the chainsaw sound more manageable. I’m torn on which pre would be best because the Studio Pro can emulate the recorded tone but the JCM probably has better live application.

There are so many HM-2 style distortions out there but using the HM-2 and making it sound good is so much harder than maxing all 4 of those orange knobs, in theory this triple would give you all the tools to dial in an awesome chainsaw tone.

As a bonus for reading all that, pairing the Rat and the Brit in a Dual Nostalgiatone could replicate the Obituary guitar tone pretty well.

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