Headtrip build

[gordo]

This is a very cool pedal.  All kinds of usable stuff here both on the normal and not-so-normal scale.  I'm a big fan of the FV-1 chip so this was a no brainer.  Even considering the FV-1 this is an easy build.  I went with 1/8 watt resistors because I had them all in stock.  FV-1 and Xtal from SB.  There was enough room in this to include my version of the Coda bypass (which is my default bypass these days...I love not having a click) although I had to spin it 180 to get it to fit.  The inclusion of 3 of the stock sounds is cool because they're workhorse settings: nice reverb, nice chorus, nice pitch transpose.



The real fun begins with the MB patches.  Atmospheric phasey delay is really cool.  I can see using the choir setting for ambient swells (I do a lot of this stuff in my church band) and I'd add another delay to spread it out a bit.  And having an approximation of the Parallax is icing on the cake.



Kind of a gushy review but I spent an hour fiddling with it after getting it boxed up and had a blast.   My wife cut it short by telling me to wrap it up so we could get out to dinner.

[cooder]

Most excellent...! I have to check out those latest offerings, I've been a few days away and there's great stuff to catch up to...!
Great build, tasty review, time for dinner!

[jjjimi84]

Awesome work, Looks really nice.

[mjg]

Nice work.

Where's the relay on the bypass?  Have you put that on the underside of the board?

[Rockhorst]

Waiting for my package to arrive, very stoked about this thing. Yours looks very nice, extremely clean inside and out. Digging the purple

[peAk]

Sweet!

[gordo]

The relay and the 10uF cap hang off the bottom of the board.  If I'd put more thought into this I'd have moved the switch back a fraction of an inch and the jacks forward just a bit and I'd be able to run the board in it's normal orientation.  But hey, it works.

I don't use reverb very much.  I think in a band mix in a big room it's too easy for a reverby guitar to get lost.  What I DO use it for is a real "effected" sound and pads/swells where I'm usually out in the open in a mix.  So this sized pedal will work nicely behind my normal delay (TC Nova).  The cool delays the Headtrip does will be a nice change of pace on their own or add all kinds of texture to pads and swells.

[Invertiguy]

Looks great, dude! All the more reason to clear out my backlog and get started on mine!