Sound quality and comparison

[inktrap]

I read through some reddit posts about pedal-pi and some people mention that the sound quality is not very good and that it feels more like a toy: Low-fi (which I personally think is very nice), but also very noisy/stuttery. I'll include some links/videos here to give newbies some details for orientation.

• https://www.reddit.com/r/diypedals/comments/cn1yli/electrosmash_pedal_pi/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/guitarpedals/comments/9mspob/npd_built_a_pedalpi_over_the_weekend/

I also found this, and am pretty happy that she likes the effects and sounds: https://youtu.be/3-Kah1JnDEE?t=407 She also mentions that a trim pod would be better: https://youtu.be/3-Kah1JnDEE?t=643 which might be something to consider.

Here you can hear some glitches/stutters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Y0HitBXH0

I am wondering how this compares to pisound + modas, which needs a raspi 3 or 4 and a pisound shield (100$):

• https://blokas.io/modep/docs/modep-and-pisound/
• https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Turn-Your-Raspberry-Pi-Into-a-Powerful-Effe/
• https://blokas.io/modep/docs/

[thawney]

The pedal pi definitely does have a lower fidelity sound and some stuttering as it only has 12-bit ADCs and DACs but I wanted that lofi sound. My design has a trim pot for gain if that's what you mean, as does the OG pedal Pi (but mine is a different component as the og is discontinued, you've just reminded me that I need to add a part list to this repository.). I've personally never used modep but I've heard good things, it's definitely a higher fidelity sound, similar to a zoom multi-effect pedal. It may be worth seeing if you can find a pisound alternative or just use a USB audio interface as IMO the pisound is massively overpriced

If you are more interested in a project like this id recommend researching the Pedalshield DUE also by electro smash as that's 24-bit which is very good. I haven't found any files etc for this though.

[inktrap]

You mean these resources? https://github.com/inktrap/pedalshield

[thawney]

Omg that's so cool I did not come across that!!

[thawney]

Ty very much imma look at that :))) Ty for making that repo!