The Dobsky is inspired by our personal favourite Sovtek Big Muff, staying true to the heritage while adding useful versatility. The addition of a mids or scoop control allows you to dial in the classic mid scooped sounds through flat mids at 11 o'clock through massively boosted mids fully clockwise allowing you to cut through any mix. Adding the three way toggle to this you can push or scoop lower mids or super low mids depending on toggle position. Centre of toggle is traditional setting with up being lower and down being lowest heavy low mid boost. The Hi/Lo Tone Control itself consists of combination of low pass and high pass filters allowing you to cut bass and boost treble clockwise from noon and cut treble and boost bass anti clockwise. The combination of the tone control, mids control and mids toggle switch gives almost endless tonal variations.
The gain or fuzz control sets the amount of Fuzz, in the Dosbky we use a Logarithmic control instead of the traditional linear which gives much more control over lower gain settings without sacrificing the higher gain region - perfect for driving valve amps. The pedal is powered using gain selected KT3102EM transistors. I recommend starting with the fuzz control at noon and dialling it in to your desired level of fuzz from there. In addition to the gain control there is a three-way clipping toggle for varying levels of compression and dynamics. NOS Russian Silicon diodes will give the most compressed tone and gain. No diodes or “The Open Setting” will give the most headroom and dynamics and lastly LEDs for a crunchy and punchier tone.
The Jfet Powered Clean Blend with a Low Pass Filter is used to preserve your clean low end fundamentals. Although the low end loss is extremely low here it allows clean low end through giving you the option of driving the tone control much higher so you get a really cutting fuzz without sacrificing low end. In addition to the clean blend there is a low pass filter to cut high end on the clean signal removing any unwanted string noises etc. There are three settings on the toggle with centre being the least high end cut, up next and down for even more high cut giving the clean an almost sub bass quality.
The pedal graphics are hand pulled screen prints on powder coated or hand sprayed cases. Colours can vary from run to run, feel free to get in touch for more info.
All pedals are true bypass as standard and powered by the industry standard (boss style) negative tip 9V DC power supply. For best results use a reputable regulated pedal power supply.