Here it is, the Hooke Reverb! I was looking into making a spring tank driver and then this board was announced and made my life a lot simpler. It is a cool build and went together really smoothly, albeit waiting for parts in the covid era. This video is actually the latest video I shot and am still working out the kinks with the talking head audio, I have eight others like this ready and in the meantime am switching to large diaphragm condensers to hopefully get better talking audio. Since this is Halloween month I will be putting out a video/build report every week that is Halloween themed, the following two weeks are going to be some fuzzy times.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdbXgfz1EsM&feature=youtu.be
Sounds awesome! I love mine, amazing reverb (but like you said, the box is huge :) ). I want to learn to make professional looking videos like that, you did a great job on it (and your boy did too!)
Quote from: dan.schumaker on October 14, 2020, 02:42:03 PM
Sounds awesome! I love mine, amazing reverb (but like you said, the box is huge :) ). I want to learn to make professional looking videos like that, you did a great job on it (and your boy did too!)
Thank You! We had the opportunity of spending a lot of time together with a covid lockdown, he will be in a bunch more videos as he loves the camera.
For the videos I was unsure if I was going to enjoy doing this so I have the worlds cheapest set up. I use my iPhone 7 as the pedal cam and a ten year old digital camcorder as my main camera. I bought a light set up from amazon for fifty bucks and film everything in my office. My audio setup is more expensive because I have been recording for a long time. Currently I have been using a Cascade fathead into a seventh circle audio preamp to a compressor to a focusrite interface.
For this demo, I wrote the guitar parts and recorded the drums bass and scratch guitars and then get behind the camera with my amp micd up to film. Then i reposition the camera for the taking head part, everything gets dumped to my computer, audio gets mixed and mastered and then everything is cut together using resolve.
It is a time consuming process but I really enjoy it, well mainly the writing songs and recording. If you get started and need help, I would gladly do my best to help. Too bad I gave away my lone wolf/beef pedal, i would have filmed the song I wrote with it.
Thanks for the build report, I've wanted to make one of these for a while now. DEFX has reasonable prices for their boards but when ordering multiple boards from the USA (they're in Canada) the shipping gets outrageous very quickly. Too bad because I love their projects.
BTW, I LOVE the enclosure design and drawings!
Quote from: danfrank on October 14, 2020, 06:00:43 PM
Thanks for the build report, I've wanted to make one of these for a while now. DEFX has reasonable prices for their boards but when ordering multiple boards from the USA (they're in Canada) the shipping gets outrageous very quickly. Too bad because I love their projects.
BTW, I LOVE the enclosure design and drawings!
Thank you very much! I want to say mine shipped out of California, I could be wrong though.
No it definitely shipped out of Canada 😁
Yeah i have no idea what i was thinking. I actually went back in my emails to find the reciept.
Excellent! Love me some sprng reverb and the video is great!
Quote from: cooder on October 15, 2020, 08:52:27 PM
Excellent! Love me some sprng reverb and the video is great!
Thank you very much!
This is excellent all around Dan. The pedal looks and sounds great, and the video shows what a great reverb it is. Tasty playing too! I primarily use it like the outboard tube reverb I used to have. I run mine into the front end of my tungsten buckwheat for surf, rockabilly and west coast blues type of tones.
Great build and a fun demo! Thanks for sharing it, pedal sounds awesome.
Rad pedal and I really enjoyed seeing you with your son. That's the absolute coolest. Great video!
Thank you all very much! It is a great pedal and I highly recommend it.
Quote from: Leevibe on October 17, 2020, 04:59:11 PM
Rad pedal and I really enjoyed seeing you with your son. That's the absolute coolest. Great video!
My son loves filming with me and will be a constant figure on my channel, he contributes vocals to next Wednesdays video and in a month he makes a pop up appearance during my Aion Astra video. He has to be apart of it, he is the one who makes the suggestions for a lot of the pedal graphics.
I think I'm sold. Gonna have to order a pcb.
Quote from: tcpoint on October 21, 2020, 07:12:44 PM
I think I'm sold. Gonna have to order a pcb.
Thanks for watching and you will not regret it!
I have one on the bench just need to source a box
good inspiration to get 'er done
Quote from: LaceSensor on October 22, 2020, 02:38:48 PM
I have one on the bench just need to source a box
good inspiration to get 'er done
I recommend Hawke electronics, thats where I have been getting my hammonds from.
HI
I built one of these, barely hear any real change in the rotation of the DWELL control.
Can you comment on how you find it?
I mean it sounds good but its a bit of a one trick pony in that respect.
cheers
Quote from: LaceSensor on October 24, 2020, 03:46:46 PM
HI
I built one of these, barely hear any real change in the rotation of the DWELL control.
Can you comment on how you find it?
I mean it sounds good but its a bit of a one trick pony in that respect.
cheers
Something may be wrong with yours. Mine has full range controls and is just as versatile a fender outboard unit.
Quote from: Torgoslayer on October 24, 2020, 04:53:47 PM
Quote from: LaceSensor on October 24, 2020, 03:46:46 PM
HI
I built one of these, barely hear any real change in the rotation of the DWELL control.
Can you comment on how you find it?
I mean it sounds good but its a bit of a one trick pony in that respect.
cheers
Something may be wrong with yours. Mine has full range controls and is just as versatile a fender outboard unit.
It all works there just not much difference in the dwell
All the other controls do quite a lot
I've watched some videos of original units ands its probably correct
Seems the other controls especially the blend has the biggest impact on the sound output of the unit
to be fair watching OPs video its clear you need the blend below 9 oclock to really bring the reverb back from splashiness
So I think mine is working as expected, FTW
Quote from: LaceSensor on October 24, 2020, 06:59:24 PM
to be fair watching OPs video its clear you need the blend below 9 oclock to really bring the reverb back from splashiness
So I think mine is working as expected, FTW
Yeah its super splashy and I have the smaller tank also. For me i keep the level around 12 or 1 oclock and then every other control almost off. I will eventually look into mods to lessen the verb when I have more time.
Quote from: jjjimi84 on October 24, 2020, 11:00:29 PM
Quote from: LaceSensor on October 24, 2020, 06:59:24 PM
to be fair watching OPs video its clear you need the blend below 9 oclock to really bring the reverb back from splashiness
So I think mine is working as expected, FTW
Yeah its super splashy and I have the smaller tank also. For me i keep the level around 12 or 1 oclock and then every other control almost off. I will eventually look into mods to lessen the verb when I have more time.
Hrm. Mine is super splashy and drippy when cranked (I play surf so that's a plus), but I can can dial it all the way out, and get a subtle built-in type reverb below noon.
I used the long tank.
Mine can get splashy really above 10 o'clock or so on the dwell knob but I think I really depends on the amp settings that its running into. On my blackface set clean with headroom to spare to will be less splashy I find. Run it into my tweed that is naturally more mid focused, compressed and lower headroom and it gets dripping faster. And I'm like dan in that I keep the volume around 12-1 o'clock.
Great build and it sounds great.!
I do have a nit to pic about describing reverb "drip". I see the term used alot but it's one of those things that you have to hear to really know what it is and that "it is a very mysterious and powerful device ...and it's mystery is only exceeded by it's power."
Let's all become one with the Drip...
Quote from: Torgoslayer on October 25, 2020, 12:25:12 AM
Quote from: jjjimi84 on October 24, 2020, 11:00:29 PM
Quote from: LaceSensor on October 24, 2020, 06:59:24 PM
to be fair watching OPs video its clear you need the blend below 9 oclock to really bring the reverb back from splashiness
So I think mine is working as expected, FTW
wondering we all did differently then. Can you confirm the potentiometer values you used for the various controls, especially the DWELL?
thanks
Yeah its super splashy and I have the smaller tank also. For me i keep the level around 12 or 1 oclock and then every other control almost off. I will eventually look into mods to lessen the verb when I have more time.
Hrm. Mine is super splashy and drippy when cranked (I play surf so that's a plus), but I can can dial it all the way out, and get a subtle built-in type reverb below noon.
I used the long tank.
HI
I found out I made an error, hence the dwell control wasnt working right
I had R10 as 390r not 392k
Changed to right value, boom, working perfect.
cheers
Quote from: LaceSensor on October 29, 2020, 03:21:43 PM
HI
I found out I made an error, hence the dwell control wasnt working right
I had R10 as 390r not 392k
Changed to right value, boom, working perfect.
cheers
Sweet! I'm glad you got it sorted. enjoy!
Quote from: LaceSensor on October 29, 2020, 03:21:43 PM
HI
I found out I made an error, hence the dwell control wasnt working right
I had R10 as 390r not 392k
Changed to right value, boom, working perfect.
cheers
Awesome! What do you think of it?
It's great
Great demo, graphics and build!
Quote from: studiodunn on November 04, 2020, 12:56:42 AM
Great demo, graphics and build!
Wow, thanks! I appreciate it.