The one that got away!

[carlinb17]

I was thinking about pedals I’ve built and sold or given away. There is one still that haunts me. It was in the first handful I made when I was falling into the building trap. It was a byoc kit octave fuzz with a blank enclosure that I painted and I did the artwork for. I sold it locally and with a handful of other pedals.

Here’s a picture of it.

Is there a pedal you’ve built, no longer have and it haunts you?

 

[thesmokingman]

grindcustoms fx de profundis delay ... definitely miss it but it makes a bassist friend of mine happy

also built a saffron squeeze spec'd dyna comp (including the metal can mojo) ... idiot I sold it to blew it up powering it with a power supply from a NES

 

[Harry Klippton]

I built my first pedal about ten years ago. It was a BYOC Leeds fuzz. After I was done, I played it and thought "k, now what do I do with it?" I wanted to build more pedals but I didn't use pedals at the time, so I sold it to a friend, and built a couple more pedals. A few years ago, after I got back into building pedals, I thought it would be cool to have the first pedal I ever built and got it back from my friend, so it never really got away

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

I traded the very first pedal I made, a mammoth clone, to a dude on Craigslist for a zvex mastotron which I ended up not bonding with. Gave that to a band mate (still on his pedal board over 10 yrs later) and made another mammoth. It haunted me for a couple weeks tops. I felt so cool for a day having traded 20 dollars worth of parts in an unlabeled bare 1590bb for authentic gear but that wore off quickly as I struggled to find something useful in that mastotron.

To be honest, until reading this thread I had forgotten that my oldest pedal is not in fact my first.

 

[peccary]

I have given away at least as many pedals as I have kept, and I have sold a handful of others (mostly because people felt the need to pay, which I understand). The only pedal I have built that I see myself using regularly so far on bass is the Mercurial Boost, and I've actually given multiple of them away, including the first one I built for myself. But they are so simple with easy to come by parts that I can build myself one in an afternoon since I already have the artwork. Everyone needs a Mercurial on their board, IMO, and I'm doing my part to make it happen.

Now that I have a guitar to experiment with I suspect I will keep more and expand the kind of pedals I build (not as many drives ).

 

[thesmokingman]

oh man ... the byoc tri-boost ... I'd like that back

 

[jimilee]

I had a BYOC opticomp that I traded, along with a box full of other pedals, for a guitar I never got. This was a "Friend." I have no desire to get in touch with him to ask for them back. See, he was a professional musician who had sponsorships with various companies. Always talking about, if you need anything, let me know. Well, I did and offered some stuff in trade, to which he agreed. I'd like to have that stuff back though.

 

[Betty Wont]

Grind Customs FluffGirl. It was an EHX Bass Balls with external filter controls and a mixer. I miss all of the Grind stuff.

 

[Diynot]

@Betty Wont hell yeah on the Bass Balls. I have modded/rehoused 2 of those and let both go and kind of regret it.


The black box one got porch pirated from the guy I sold it too which kind of made me sick.

 

[thesmokingman]

man ... had one of those sovtek bass balls, while not diy I do kinda want that and my sovtek small stone back (definitely want my early v1 small stone back too)

 

[Diynot]

Used to be able to grab the Sovtek BassBalls for less than $75 on Reverb, but those are fewer and farther between these days. I did almost all the Mark Hammer mods on the Sovtek.

 

[carlinb17]

I had a BYOC opticomp that I traded, along with a box full of other pedals, for a guitar I never got. This was a "Friend." I have no desire to get in touch with him to ask for them back. See, he was a professional musician who had sponsorships with various companies. Always talking about, if you need anything, let me know. Well, I did and offered some stuff in trade, to which he agreed. I'd like to have that stuff back though.

That’s a kick… sorry

 

[HamishR]

oh man ... the byoc tri-boost ... I'd like that back

I built one of those and liked it too. Trouble was that I ended up only using the Ge setting and that was the one which inexplicably stopped working. This was before I knew anything about how things worked. Now I know a tiny bit more so may have been able to fix it - or maybe not!