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The FMD (Fix My Duck) is a three-in-one pedal.
- It can function as a buffer pedal converting the guitar’s output into a low-impedance signal.
- Treble booster pedal. It's absolute magic at producing clarity and presence in solos even when the guitar has a ton of bottom, or when using amps that become bloated sounding when slammed hard.
- It can function as a full-range booster pedal. This mode is used to drive the front end of an amp and push the amp into its own natural overdrive.
Background:
The FMD is a pedal designed for guitar players. It evolved from a circuit that was designed for a luthier who needed an acoustic pre-amp for his 12-sensor pick-up system. When working on this acoustic preamp circuit I was looking for something different and special, so I turned to my good friend Kevin O’Connor at London Power for some guidance on this project. I am happy to say, Kevin had some great ideas and steered me in the right direction. The basic circuit I finally settled on uses JFETs. Tuned properly, it can compress in an organic “tubish”-sounding way when pushed into clipping.
I also used a version of this circuit in my K2 buffer pedal, ideal for retaining tonal integrity when driving long instrument cables.
After some experimentation, I found that cascading several of these circuits together created a very pleasant-sounding booster pedal. After another year of building one-off prototypes to get the circuit tonally worked out, the FMD pedal was born.
How it works
Sens. – Controls the FMD’s level of gain and compression. Higher settings are brighter and more compressed, while low settings are darker with less compression.
Level – Controls the output level.
Tone – Controls the high frequency.
Boost switch – Up is full range boost mode. Middle is flat, buffer mode. Down is treble boost mode.
Thin/Thick switch - Thin position is used to cut some bottom frequencies. Thick position is full range.
Footswitch – Is a high-quality true bypass switch.
Power
Can be run off the internal 9-volt battery or an industry-standard 2.1mm 9-volt center negative regulated power supply. The FMD will run continuously from an external power supply and automatically disconnect the battery if the input jack is unplugged
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