Earthquaker Plumes Teardown! See what's inside!

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10 ай бұрын

Today's teardown is EQD's popular take on the classic tubescreamer, the Plumes.
Enjoy!
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@rutger4131 10 ай бұрын

Pro tip: heat the solder pad and stick a tooth pick through it. Will open them up, no desoldering gun required. Solder doesn't stick to wood.

@dustystarr2297 7 ай бұрын

I'm loving your vids! Would have been cool to hear the before and after.

@james9789 9 ай бұрын

Very interesting,so glad theres people who understand all this cos I dont have a scooby doo.

@rutger4131 10 ай бұрын

The W taper has an S shape (confusing, I know). Pot value changes slowly at the ~10% beginning and end and quickly / linearly in the middle of the pots turn. It smoothes out the tone circuit, which isn't linear (at least not to our hearing).

@alfredoayala5370 10 ай бұрын

when a pedal has no surface mount components it is very satisfying to watch

@10100rsn 6 ай бұрын

Desoldering braid works a lot better with a bit of flux and high heat. You can even clear those holes without a desoldering gun with flux and enough heat.

@ComeInAlone00000 10 ай бұрын

very cool...was looking for this type of video specifically. subbed!

@BM-qc9rl 9 ай бұрын

Excellent series, thanks for putting these together

@markferguson3745 5 ай бұрын

I've found that LED's are sometimes an acceptable option; what I do generally avoid or replace are the Silicon stages.My first experience with this was way back with the Swollen Pickle, which offered an internal trimpot to choose between LED and Si.Pretty cool circuit, with an arguably nsg sound ( better for bass).

@johnnyphoney5669 10 ай бұрын

Hi, thanks for the video! I would really like to see a teardown of Electro Harmonix “Germanium 4 Big Muff Pi”!

@jesseyasaitis9036 10 ай бұрын

I'm curious to see how a Horizon Devices Precision Drive is put together.

@skyviewdesign 10 ай бұрын

Not silkscreen graphics. That's UV printed in-house at EarthQuaker in Akron. Much more durable than silkscreen.

@graybenchelec 10 ай бұрын

Good info thanks!

@DougMayer 10 ай бұрын

Had it in my head that Plumes was when they moved to SMD, I stand corrected.

@graybenchelec 10 ай бұрын

Oh it has, this pedal was from 2019. It's now SMD.

@Spewbag 10 ай бұрын

Next time add a lil bit of solder to the via’s and tap out the solder. Works like a charm …. Then use the braid to clean up the holes.

@graybenchelec 10 ай бұрын

Good tip thanks!

@onewireman 10 ай бұрын

Try some 9V zener diodes as clippers/ The sound amazing!

@craighillrich5438 10 ай бұрын

Replace the momentary switch with a latching to get rid of the goofy flex switch function

@fraenkiboii 10 ай бұрын

How could you not answer the most important question about the mod: how does it sound with the hitachi diodes??? It’s like your favorite show, season finale and it ends with a massive cliffhanger 🙈😂

@graybenchelec 10 ай бұрын

Haha maybe you’ll just have to buy a plumes and try it yourself! I did sound test it off camera, I don’t really understand putting Ge diodes in the plumes. The point of the plumes is like a high headroom TS, but you’re going to squash that all down with ge diodes. Just my opinion.

@jesseyasaitis9036 10 ай бұрын

Did the LED's have any attenuation with them to make them the same volume as the other diodes?

@vcsuwar6126 6 ай бұрын

Great segment. I've got a basic question; why would a builder use a TRS input when guitar cables are mostly TS. Wouldn't that add to the cost? Wouldn't they have to jumper the Sleeve and Ring so their customers don't require special TRS cables to make a connection. (told you it was basic, ha)

@pfg_pedals 6 ай бұрын

At some point they switched to SMD construction by the time I got one in October of 2023.

@MatzeMaulwurf 6 ай бұрын

Makes sense. I am electronics engineer and SMD is so much better in every way. There is no reason not to use it if the components are available as SMD.

@brettclark8020 5 ай бұрын

@@MatzeMaulwurf Yep, SMT works as well or better than TH, except where people cheap out and use high-k MLCC caps instead of film.

@MatzeMaulwurf 5 ай бұрын

@@brettclark8020 indeed. Component specs have to fit the application. Good PP-Caps are mostly TH.

@waynegram8907 10 ай бұрын

GRAY BENCH, Adding in the Voltage Inverter TC1044 will give more Op amp Headroom using the Op amps at +9vdc and at -9vdc compared to an Ibanez Tube Screamer they use the Op amp at +9vdc and Ground 0 volts for the headroom?

@BlakeC27 10 ай бұрын

Won't the headroom of the op amps outside of the buffers and the tone circuit be limited by the clipping diodes?

@ajmaxx1793 2 ай бұрын

What’s the deal with most of these pedal manufacturers always using the red color Panasonic film capacitors? They don’t seem to be in production anymore and no longer available of Mouser, Digikey etc. Is there something about this red Panasonic film capacitors?