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Video Demo of a RonSonic Pedal

Reply from: RonSonic
Date: 17 Feb 2007, 23:15
Video Demo of a RonSonic Pedal


Hey guys, here's a brief demo of one of my pedals. This one combines the
Electric Guru treble booster and the Hero overdrive. The Guru's a one transistor
booster with a three position selector for the frequency range that goes from
extreme bite to almost full range. The Hero is an opamp based overdrive with
selection for symmetric or asymmetric clipping and clipping point with Courage
and Caution controls.

The video is by a fellow named Donner who's done a lot of interesting,
informative and often quirky pedal demo's. What really interests me is how
similar his guitar is to my main Tele, but how different he sounds. Still good,
but not the way this same pedal works for me. To me that's an accomplishment,
building something that works differently but well for different players and
styles.

http :// www .youtube,com /watch?v=X1BgSbDgNGM

And here's the pedal discussion site that Donner hosts. Nice site, registration
required to post - and being a civilized human being with a sense of decency
required to post again.

http :// www .pedalpost,com /forum/


Ron

Reply from: The Repair Guy
Date: 18 Feb 2007, 01:51
Re: Video Demo of a RonSonic Pedal

RonSonic <ronsonic@tampabay.rr,com > wrote:

>Hey guys, here's a brief demo of one of my pedals.
> http :// www .youtube,com /watch?v=X1BgSbDgNGM

I was impressed. How much $ are these going for?

The Repair Guy
repairguy1993 dot netfirms dot com

Reply from: RonSonic
Date: 18 Feb 2007, 02:45
Re: Video Demo of a RonSonic Pedal

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:51:42 -0600, The Repair Guy <repairguy1993@yahooo,com >
wrote:

>RonSonic <ronsonic@tampabay.rr,com > wrote:
>
>>Hey guys, here's a brief demo of one of my pedals.
>> http :// www .youtube,com /watch?v=X1BgSbDgNGM
>
>I was impressed. How much $ are these going for?

As seperates, the Electric Guru treble booster goes $110, Hero's $160 and the
combo box is $210. A bargain for handwired goodness.

There's now another clip of this pedal by our own Don Evans over at his myspace
page that shows another aspect. He was extremely humble about the qualities of
it, but we should be going to listen to this man play anyway. Check out the
other tunes while you're there. Those are album quality and give a more fair
example of his playing - the man can throw it down. The pedal demo is "Sonic
Blue" and has just the clean amp chording in the middle, a bit of the Hero OD on
the right channel riffage and both effects on the lead work. Each chorus he
takes is with a different switch setting on the booster.
http :// profile.myspace,com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=18842405

One of the things that gets lost around here is the talent and ingenuity of so
many of the people here. Just one more reason to focus on that and ignore the
goobers and turdslingers.

Enjoy and thank you for checking it out.

Ron

Reply from: The Repair Guy
Date: 18 Feb 2007, 05:24
Re: Video Demo of a RonSonic Pedal

RonSonic <ronsonic@tampabay.rr,com > wrote:

> The Repair Guy wrote:

>>>Hey guys, here's a brief demo of one of my pedals.
>>> http :// www .youtube,com /watch?v=X1BgSbDgNGM
>>
>>I was impressed. How much $ are these going for?
>
>As seperates, the Electric Guru treble booster goes
>$110, Hero's $160 and the combo box is $210. A
>bargain for handwired goodness.

Sounds reasonable. I wish I could try one with
my amp & guitar.
I've been trying out a few distortion pedals, trying
to make up my mind... I've been waffling between
an Ibanez Tube King (Chandler clone) and an old
original Sansamp. Your combo box, from what I
could tell, sounds a little like 2 Sansamp pedals
you can switch between. Am I hearing things? :-P
Are you familiar with the Sansamp? Do you have
an opinion on it?

>The pedal demo is "Sonic Blue" and has just
>the clean amp chording in the middle, a bit of
>the Hero OD on the right channel riffage and
>both effects on the lead work. Each chorus he
>takes is with a different switch setting on the
>booster.
> http :// profile.myspace,com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=18842405
>
>One of the things that gets lost around here is
>the talent and ingenuity of so many of the
>people here. Just one more reason to focus
>on that and ignore the goobers and
>turdslingers.
>Enjoy and thank you for checking it out.

Very little effort on my part :-)

The Repair Guy
repairguy1993 dot netfirms dot com

Reply from: RonSonic
Date: 18 Feb 2007, 18:00
Re: Video Demo of a RonSonic Pedal

On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:24:44 -0600, The Repair Guy <repairguy1993@yahooo,com >
wrote:

>RonSonic <ronsonic@tampabay.rr,com > wrote:
>
>> The Repair Guy wrote:
>
>>>>Hey guys, here's a brief demo of one of my pedals.
>>>> http :// www .youtube,com /watch?v=X1BgSbDgNGM
>>>
>>>I was impressed. How much $ are these going for?
>>
>>As seperates, the Electric Guru treble booster goes
>>$110, Hero's $160 and the combo box is $210. A
>>bargain for handwired goodness.
>
>Sounds reasonable. I wish I could try one with
>my amp & guitar.

Email an address and I'll get you in on the personal appearance tour. There's a
few guys ahead of you... We'll see what we can do.

>I've been trying out a few distortion pedals, trying
>to make up my mind... I've been waffling between
>an Ibanez Tube King (Chandler clone) and an old
>original Sansamp. Your combo box, from what I
>could tell, sounds a little like 2 Sansamp pedals
>you can switch between. Am I hearing things? :-P
>Are you familiar with the Sansamp? Do you have
>an opinion on it?

I've had some sansamp stuff. Nice, well made analog gear. As far as I know my
pedal doesn't share any technology with them. Might fall into a similar
ecological niche. It's funny how often very similar technologies sound nothing
alike and very different technologies can be used to achieve the same purposes.

>>The pedal demo is "Sonic Blue" and has just
>>the clean amp chording in the middle, a bit of
>>the Hero OD on the right channel riffage and
>>both effects on the lead work. Each chorus he
>>takes is with a different switch setting on the
>>booster.
>> http :// profile.myspace,com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=18842405
>>
>>One of the things that gets lost around here is
>>the talent and ingenuity of so many of the
>>people here. Just one more reason to focus
>>on that and ignore the goobers and
>>turdslingers.
>>Enjoy and thank you for checking it out.
>
>Very little effort on my part :-)

Good for you.

Ron

Reply from: Don Evans
Date: 18 Feb 2007, 06:22
Re: Video Demo of a RonSonic Pedal



RonSonic wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:51:42 -0600, The Repair Guy
> <repairguy1993@yahooo,com > wrote:
>
>> RonSonic <ronsonic@tampabay.rr,com > wrote:
>>
>>> Hey guys, here's a brief demo of one of my pedals.
>>> http :// www .youtube,com /watch?v=X1BgSbDgNGM
>>
>> I was impressed. How much $ are these going for?
>
> As seperates, the Electric Guru treble booster goes $110, Hero's $160
> and the combo box is $210. A bargain for handwired goodness.
>
> There's now another clip of this pedal by our own Don Evans over at
> his myspace page that shows another aspect. He was extremely humble
> about the qualities of it, but we should be going to listen to this
> man play anyway. Check out the other tunes while you're there. Those
> are album quality and give a more fair example of his playing - the
> man can throw it down. The pedal demo is "Sonic Blue" and has just
> the clean amp chording in the middle, a bit of the Hero OD on the
> right channel riffage and both effects on the lead work. Each chorus
> he takes is with a different switch setting on the booster.
> http :// profile.myspace,com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=18842405
>
> One of the things that gets lost around here is the talent and
> ingenuity of so many of the people here. Just one more reason to
> focus on that and ignore the goobers and turdslingers.
>
> Enjoy and thank you for checking it out.
>
> Ron

Thanks for the kind words, Ron. I gotta say that I only scratched the
surface of the many faces of that pedal. On it's tamer settings, the Hero
side has a way of sounding like the amp you use it with, just more
overdriven, and when you turn up the gain, even a Vibro Champ becomes a
monster. I kinda wish I'd done the demo with that, just so you could hear
it roar.

I like the treble booster (Electric Guru) alone, but with the Hero it brings
out a whole other set of voices. The demo shows how I normally would use
it, but you can go way into fuzz world as well, complete with violin sustain
and effortless controllable feedback. I hope someone goes nuts in a demo,
or if it comes by me on the way home, I'll do one like that. And, the final
thing ... crucial for me since I tend to set up and walk away from my
pedals, is the guitar cleans up real well when you turn it down. You can
tailor the clean up point by playing with the gains ... you have the booster
gain, the distortion gain and the final output level.

Between the three switchable boost settings and the three distortion modes,
you pretty much can make this thing your own. Passing it along was not
easy, I can tell you. I'm looking forward to hearing more demos.

Don



Reply from: PRS Geek
Date: 18 Feb 2007, 17:24
Re: Video Demo of a RonSonic Pedal


"Don Evans" <gtrdonevans@aol,com > wrote in message
news:v6edna10EtIMf0rYnZ2dnUVZ_rylnZ2d@comcast,com ...
>
>
> RonSonic wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:51:42 -0600, The Repair Guy
>> <repairguy1993@yahooo,com > wrote:
>>
>>> RonSonic <ronsonic@tampabay.rr,com > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey guys, here's a brief demo of one of my pedals.
>>>> http :// www .youtube,com /watch?v=X1BgSbDgNGM
>>>
>>> I was impressed. How much $ are these going for?

Yikes.. That dude has a ton a vids but his playing doesn't do any justice to
this pedal or any other pedal IMO.

Thank god for Dons clip... He saved my opinion.

Ron... You need to get this pedal off the ground by having other "quality"
players put demos up.

http :// profile.myspace,com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=18842405


--
Jeff

http :// tinyurl,com /8sz9r







Reply from: Smak!
Date: 18 Feb 2007, 12:59
Re: Video Demo of a RonSonic Pedal

RonSonic wrote:
> Hey guys, here's a brief demo of one of my pedals.
>
> http :// www .youtube,com /watch?v=X1BgSbDgNGM

Your pedal sounds cool Ron.. Nice demo vid. Is this the pedal making the
rounds?

Jeff

Reply from: RonSonic
Date: 18 Feb 2007, 17:29
Re: Video Demo of a RonSonic Pedal

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:59:35 -0500, "Smak!" <smakutus1@comcast,net > wrote:

>RonSonic wrote:
>> Hey guys, here's a brief demo of one of my pedals.
>>
>> http :// www .youtube,com /watch?v=X1BgSbDgNGM
>
>Your pedal sounds cool Ron.. Nice demo vid. Is this the pedal making the
>rounds?

The one going around differs in layout only, it's electronically the same. I
built the tourbox with sockets for some components and placed the PCBs where I
could get at them to tweak easily- which is why the slightly odd LED placement.
So many times you can build something and find the silliest stupidest changes
will affect what you were trying to achieve I felt the need to build something
almost identical to a "production" unit for final adjustments. The box in the
demo and all subsequent get LEDs directly above the stomp switches.

Just a general note for participants and anyone following ... The pedal's still
in New Jersey getting tested for any possible polished turd infestation and will
next be flying out to Colorado and hence into the great Midwest.

Ron

Reply from: Harrison Ford Prefect
Date: 22 Feb 2007, 06:30
Re: Video Demo of a RonSonic Pedal

New Jersey?

Gee, I wonder who'd be doing the PTI there?

I was already excited; now I'm even more excited after
hearing that youtube excerpt...

Reply from: Xtrchessreal
Date: 22 Feb 2007, 08:12
Re: Video Demo of a RonSonic Pedal

On Feb 18, 9:29 am, RonSonic <ronso...@tampabay.rr,com > wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:59:35 -0500, "Smak!" <smakut...@comcast,net > wrote:
> >RonSonic wrote:
> >> Hey guys, here's a brief demo of one of my pedals.
>
> >> http :// www .youtube,com /watch?v=X1BgSbDgNGM
>
> >Your pedal sounds cool Ron.. Nice demo vid. Is this the pedal making the
> >rounds?
>
> The one going around differs in layout only, it's electronically the same. I
> built the tourbox with sockets for some components and placed the PCBs where I
> could get at them to tweak easily- which is why the slightly odd LED placement.
> So many times you can build something and find the silliest stupidest changes
> will affect what you were trying to achieve I felt the need to build something
> almost identical to a "production" unit for final adjustments. The box in the
> demo and all subsequent get LEDs directly above the stomp switches.
>
> Just a general note for participants and anyone following ... The pedal's still
> in New Jersey getting tested for any possible polished turd infestation and will
> next be flying out to Colorado and hence into the great Midwest.
>
> Ron

Colorado!!! sweet! wait...how many people in Colorado are on the
list?

X


Reply from: RonSonic
Date: 24 Feb 2007, 06:50
Re: Video Demo of a RonSonic Pedal

On 21 Feb 2007 23:12:14 -0800, "Xtrchessreal" <XtrChessreal@gmail,com > wrote:

>On Feb 18, 9:29 am, RonSonic <ronso...@tampabay.rr,com > wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 06:59:35 -0500, "Smak!" <smakut...@comcast,net > wrote:
>> >RonSonic wrote:
>> >> Hey guys, here's a brief demo of one of my pedals.
>>
>> >> http :// www .youtube,com /watch?v=X1BgSbDgNGM
>>
>> >Your pedal sounds cool Ron.. Nice demo vid. Is this the pedal making the
>> >rounds?
>>
>> The one going around differs in layout only, it's electronically the same. I
>> built the tourbox with sockets for some components and placed the PCBs where I
>> could get at them to tweak easily- which is why the slightly odd LED placement.
>> So many times you can build something and find the silliest stupidest changes
>> will affect what you were trying to achieve I felt the need to build something
>> almost identical to a "production" unit for final adjustments. The box in the
>> demo and all subsequent get LEDs directly above the stomp switches.
>>
>> Just a general note for participants and anyone following ... The pedal's still
>> in New Jersey getting tested for any possible polished turd infestation and will
>> next be flying out to Colorado and hence into the great Midwest.
>>
>> Ron
>
>Colorado!!! sweet! wait...how many people in Colorado are on the
>list?

You're the second one on that leg.

More of a test than a Demo is the one minute, three note song on this page:

http :// soundclick,com /ronsonicpedalry

Ron

Ron

Sweet Blues pedal demo up at http :// www .myspace,com /ronsonicpedalselectromusicalgadgets


Reply from: wb
Date: 18 Feb 2007, 17:15
Re: Video Demo of a RonSonic Pedal

RonSonic wrote:

> The Guru's a one transistor
> booster with a three position selector for the frequency range that goes from
> extreme bite to almost full range. The Hero is an opamp based overdrive with
> selection for symmetric or asymmetric clipping and clipping point with Courage
> and Caution controls.
>


Hey Ron
You speak solid state ? I'm having a bit of a OP Amp
problem with a circuit I built .

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