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Originally Posted by marc sosnoff
the eden products are really great products i have a austin overdrive
and its a very good sounding o/d and the other products they have all seem equally as good
so many times i have mentioned eden analog pedals here and nobody has responded i think they are sleepers and as soon as a big name is seen or heard using one they will become a must have pedal mark my words
marc
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Still new here, so I hope that no one minds my resurrecting something a few weeks old.
I own two Nashville pedals as I liked the first one so much, that I thought that I could use a second on the rack shelf in my interminable rack project. (That's a whole
'nother story...)
I too was intrigued by the soundclips on the Eden Analog website. I'd run across the link in a post on a different message board while researching a different overdrive pedal. I'd never heard of Eden Analog. In any case, I liked what I heard so much, that I forgot all about that other pedal and ordered the Nashville right away.
I'd say that the clips are rather accurate. It would seem to me that they were done with a very clean and neutral sounding amp.
I'd definitely agree that these Nashville pedals are real sleepers. Someone famous is going to come up with one of these in his rig and then it'll be like the Zendrive or Timmy all over again...
I saw the review at
http://www.countrystarsonline.com/re...hootout_JM.htm in which the reviewer asked if the circuit utilizes the JRC4558 chip. It does not. Instead, it's centered around the Texas Instruments RC4558P chip, which to my ears are grittier, have slightly less gain and something of an upper mid peak.
I tried out a 1981 JRC4558D chip with it as the circuit card has a socket and the pedal sounded more like a mundane overdrive with the JRC chip. I'd long been ambivalent about the TI chip, but this circuit really makes it shine.
Clipping is from a pair of LEDs, which make for higher headroom before clipping. This doubtlessly accounts for the clean sound before clipping. Punching it up with a Maxon or Keeley compressor in front of it gets it to clip a little more readily. I don't have to run the Drive control up nearly as high that way.
Resistors are metal film and the caps are Panasonic film caps. This makes for a quieter and sweeter sound in my opinion.
The circuit is something like a tweaked TS circuit. The 10uF electrolytic in the audio path at the output buffer is an Elna cap, a high quality cap. The two buffer transistors are MPSA18s, a low-noise transistor.
I replaced the chip with a '70s TI RC4558P, but the difference is minimal. I don't believe there is the degree of sonic difference that one might hear with JRC chips from the '80s as compared with now.
I also recently ordered the Austin pedal on the strength of the Nashville pedal. I'm very interested to try it out and to also see what they've done to obtain its tones.
Don't have much use for the high-gain Detroit, as I get high gain sounds from say, an overdrive or boost pedal like the HAO Rust Booster II in front of a Lee Jackson GP-1000, which suits me fine.
Good stuff.