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About the Firemen and the ADG-1 Artwork
Our pedal artwork, drawn by artist Geoff Sebesta, is homage to
Hawker
’s
past pedals and old modular synthesizers. The lines and boxes around
function blocks lend themselves to classic modular synthesizer layouts,
which were organized by function. You may notice the use of synthesizer
terms such as “LFO, VCO, CV” and very literal function knob names
rather than the more sonic based names of guitar pedals (FEEDBACK and
TIME rather than Regeneration and Manual for example). This helps the
user see the logical function blocks, signal flow and understand what is
happening without obscuring the meaning.
Our firemen
, also drawn by Geoff, have a historical background. In the
1990s Panasonic released an applications note and data sheet book for their
BBDs (and Digikey used in their marketing). On the cover and back of this
book was a picture of firemen in a bucket brigade line. This represents the
BBDs function of passing the sound from one capacitor or “bucket” to
another 4096 times before it goes out (8192 times for us) by varying the
clock, thus delaying the sound.
Panasonic drew the men inspired by how the core of the product behaves.
Alas, I do not have that manual anymore and I cannot find it on the
internet, but I did scan it once as shown below. Note the distortion where
the book was damaged.
I used this on the back of the PCB of a certain well-known analog delay
previously designed by myself. I felt it would be a nice tribute to use a re-
drawn version here for our BBD based delay.
