Double SHO Crackle Boost

Jeds Peds Double SHO Crackle Boost is a take on the ZVex Super Hard-On pedal. The Super Hard-On is a boost pedal that's been taken from a popular (as we understand the case) Neve mixing console fader control. The in the mixing console the control would be the sliding fader. On a pedal, it uses 1 knob. The control simply controls the amount of signal going through a single BS170 transistor.

The thing that's so disappointing about the ZVex Super Hard-On pedal is that it's doesn't work well, or whatever, it's that ZVex charges something crazy like $275.00 for a pedal made of literally, 8 electronic components. Having sourced the electronic parts for our Double SHO Crackle Boost pedals, it's less than $5 for all the electronic parts. Then there's $5.00 for the enclosure, and $5.00 for the necessary hardware (jacks, knobs to affix to the potentiometer, button footswitches, etc...) and you have a functional pedal. $5.00, let's be generous and pay $10.00 for 10 minutes of work to the person soldering up the pcb, and $10.00 for the person assembling the pedal. Triple your costs for your profit margin, and the pedal should cost no more than $105. What's ZVex charging the extra $170 for?

Anyway, the Double SHO Crackle Boost pedal is TWO Super Hard-Ons in one pedal. Plus we offer a few more features on our Double SHO Crackle Boost pedals that you won't find on the Super Hard-On, or even just working on a Super- or Double SHO pedal from the raw PCBs from the Jeds Peds.

Thermionic Studios has 2 Double SHO Crackle Boost pedals.

Controls

• Knob 1 - "Crackle Boost 1":
• Knob 2 - "Crackle Boost 2":
• Switch 1 - "Series / Parallel":
• Knob 3 - "Volume":
• Footswitch 1 - "Boost 1 On/Off":
• Footswitch 2 - "Boost 2 On/Off":

There's a "standard" way that Jeds Peds recommends setting up the SHO Crackle Boost. That simply consists of feeding one boost into the other. We decided we'd like for our pedals to have a good bit more versatility. So we also included additional "in" and "out" jacks and built in some additional enhanced functionality so the pedals can be more flexible.

Jacks

• Jack 1 - "Boost 1 In Serial & Parallel":
• Jack 2 - "Boost 2 In Parallel Only":
• Jack 3 - "Boost 1 Out Parallel Only":
• Jack 4 - "Boost 2 Out Parallel Only and Boost 1 Out Serial Only":

Parallel

When the switch is toggled to "Parallel", the two boosts are independent of each other:

• Plug two different signals into Boost 1 and Boost 2, and they will be boosted independent of each other
• Volume knob is bypassed / turned off.

Serial

When the switch is toggled to "Serial", a few things happen:

• Signal from Boost 1 is cascaded into Boost 2
• Jack #2 (in) is bypassed
• Jack #3 (out) remains active
• Volume knob is enabled to assist in taming a signal put through 2 boosters.

Here's a quick explanation chart:

Function	Routing	In	Out	Function	Volume Knob	Footswitch 1	Footswitch 2
Boost channel 1	Serial	Jack 1	Jack 4	Boost 1 cascaded into Boost 2	Active	Active	Bypassed
Boost channel 1	Parallel	Jack 1	Jack 3	Boost 1 only	Bypassed	Active	Active
Boost channel 2	Serial	Jack 2	Jack 3	Jack "In" inactive	Active	Active	Bypassed
Boost channel 2	Parallel	Jack 2	Jack 4	Boost 2 only	Bypassed	Active	Active

Bypass:True

The JedsPeds Double SHO Crackle Boost is true bypass.

General Information

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xrBGitOIc4

Artists

We are currently unaware of any artists actively using the pedal now, or who have in the past.

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