Re: HAO Sole Pressure

Posted by rocket88 on Jan 10, 2015; 6:18pm
URL: http://guitar-fx-layouts.238.s1.nabble.com/HAO-Sole-Pressure-tp5725p16422.html

Actually I did answer you're question. You want more "brightness" or treble to come through and less bass in the "bright" setting of the switch. The way the switch works is by changing between 2 different output caps, one that let's more bass through, 2.2uF, and one that cuts the amount of bass that comes through, 1uF.

By changing these values you will alter the frequencies that you will hear in the different positions of the switch. The lower the cap the more bass is cut, ie the "brighter" it will seem, while the larger the cap the more bass comes through, ie the "warmer/darker" it will seem.

So, as I said to you before, if you want it the be "brighter" in the bright setting the lower the value of the 1uF cap. If you want to change the overall "brightness" of the effect you will have to make more changes to circuit.

Now, in the bright setting on the effect completely removes the output cap from the circuit. So, if you really want the "bright" setting to be brighter you're going to have to make changes in the tone section of the effect, or apply the same concept I explained to the input cap. If you lower the input cap you will block more bass from entering the effect, larger allows more. The problem is that you're going to run the risk of making it very trebley and ice picky since the output cap is removed in the bright setting. My 2cents.

Btw, this is part of the whole argument for buying expensive low capacitance guitar cables, and using shorter cables.

You might want to do some reading on moding effects, there's a thread with resources posted here on the forum, to help you further.