SonicVI Effects Silicon MK1

[vanguard]

For those of you who missed out I do intend to do another batch soon.

Yep. Couldn't get the funds together in time for the last batch. Next batch I'm in.

[erer]

Ok, well, just got back from band practice, I think I like it better than my germanium ones.

To me, the SI sounds a tad bolder with a slightly crisper attack. But other than that it just sounds like a awesome high gain mki. Hardly any artifacts on the decay. No squish with my loud humbuckers.

[Turkish]

No squish with my loud humbuckers

Good to hear this. I had a Mk1-ish pedal that sounded perfect until I really dug in and then it gave me the squish. I tried to work around it but I couldn't deal with it.

[Dullboy]

No squish with my loud humbuckers

Good to hear this. I had a Mk1-ish pedal that sounded perfect until I really dug in and then it gave me the squish. I tried to work around it but I couldn't deal with it.

What do you mean with "squish"? Extra weird noises at high gain level? Disturbing?

[Lee]

I think he meant the Compression some MKI's have a compressed sound to them.

[sciencefriction]

I'm not a smart guitar guy or anything, there is a lot I don't know. I think compressor is the right way to describe what happens, when you're playing some fuzzes with humbuckers & you max the volume on your guitar. It's like a squishy, bloomy, compression. I experience this more often with Germanium fuzzes on my LP, but not my Strat. I experience this less with Silicon. I'm generalizing, it's so black & white of course. I'll have to get in on the second run of Silicon MKIs, I had something to deal with. Now I have bugger all.

[vanguard]

I'm not a smart guitar guy or anything, there is a lot I don't know. I think compressor is the right way to describe what happens, when you're playing some fuzzes with humbuckers & you max the volume on your guitar. It's like a squishy, bloomy, compression. I experience this more often with Germanium fuzzes on my LP, but not my Strat. I experience this less with Silicon. I'm generalizing, it's so black & white of course. I'll have to get in on the second run of Silicon MKIs, I had something to deal with. Now I have bugger all.

Yeah, it's just the phenomenon that occurs when you reach (and exceed) max headroom on any audio circuit. The input of the circuit has a fixed amount of "power" it can receive; when the incoming signal pushes the input past its threshold, it chops the signal's loudest peaks off resulting in what we hear as compression, distortion, and/or ducking. This is what makes the sounds we all love in our distortion pedals and overdriven tube amps, but the truly squared off ducking that occurs in many fuzz pedals when they are hit with powerful humbuckers can give that smeary, blooming sound that may kill a circuit's personality and make it sound like, essentially, a poorly-tuned big muff.

[erer]

[SonicVI]

I just ordered another batch of transistors, so provided I get what I need a second batch is definitely forthcoming.

[anemochore]

Yeah, it's just the phenomenon that occurs when you reach (and exceed) max headroom on any audio circuit. The input of the circuit has a fixed amount of "power" it can receive; when the incoming signal pushes the input past its threshold, it chops the signal's loudest peaks off resulting in what we hear as compression, distortion, and/or ducking. This is what makes the sounds we all love in our distortion pedals and overdriven tube amps, but the truly squared off ducking that occurs in many fuzz pedals when they are hit with powerful humbuckers can give that smeary, blooming sound that may kill a circuit's personality and make it sound like, essentially, a poorly-tuned big muff.

This
Almost ruined my first MkI experience until I figured out that you roll your volume back until it stops. No need for that kind of output