independed clean control

Posted by rocket88 on Mar 29, 2016; 6:25pm
URL: http://guitar-fx-layouts.238.s1.nabble.com/independed-clean-control-tp29371.html

so i got to thinking today about ways of adding back your clean signal to a fuzz/od/distortion pedal. typically i've always used a traditional blend, the split n' blend to be exact, and as good as it is i've always been annoyed at how it works. since it takes away from your affected signal to add in some of your unaffected signal there by loosing output, and not allowing your clean signal to go above unity. what i really want is an independent clean control that can have the clean a 0 to being boosted to match the distorted signal, without effecting the level of the distorted signal.

not after some research i came across something that peaked my interest. taking a look at the sparkle drive



the signal is split in front of the distortion and is boosted by the 2 amp in the dual opamp. now taking a look at the rat



you see that it's basically the same effect, but without the clean boost from the 2nd opamp, since it uses a single opamp instead of a dual.

now here's my thought and question, can the clean boost section be removed from the sparkle drive and implemented in other pedals, for instance like the rat? now i've also been thinking is how to take the split n' blend have it set at a predetermined blend amount, and add a boost to the clean line with the clean boost pot external.

so thoughts?