Cascode, Copenhagen Videos

I'm currently making a demo pedal for a new version of my AristocRat pedal. I've added a variable filter to allow for a lot more low end, as the original voicing removes most of this. I've also made provisions for choosing from a plethora of different clipping devices during assembly. After populating and mounting three sets of AristocRat circuit boards in the big 1590DD enclosure, I decided that it would be nice to have some advanced features built into the stomp switches. As you probably already know, I use a small microprocessor and a relay to do the bypass switching on all my pedal designs. This makes it relativly easy to modify the switching functionality, and after only a couple of hours work on the code, the switches behaves as demonstrated in the video I've attached to this post. First you'll see that the switches behaves as one would expect standard switches to behave. Stomp on - stomp off, what is called a latching function. But when I go on to turn on all three pedals you'll see that when I press the leftmost stomp switch, the middle pedal turns off. That functionality is called mutually exclusive switching: you can have only one of two turned on at the same time. So when I press the middle stomp again, the middle pedal is activated and the left pedal is turned off. I then demonstrate that the switch has a solo, or momentary, function too. When the switch on the left, bypassed, pedal is pressed for longer that half a second, it will activate only for as long as the switch is pressed, and go back to bypass when the switch is released. At the same time the already active pedal will go to bypass as the left pedal activates, and return to active when the switch of the left pedal is released. The last feature demonstrated is that the momentary solo function also works when the pedals are in the bypassed state. The right hand pedal is programmed to be independent of the two other pedals, I did that beforehand by pressing the stomp switch of that pedal while app