What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

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Boxed up the Valhalla Distortion, fired up first try with no issues and no oscillation. Sure sounds like a VH4 to my ears, pretty powerful EQ options, although I did run it into an amp model, haven't tried it by itself yet.

A few small issues in the build itself. In and Power Out jacks were too close to the sides so I had to widen the holes a little. I used shielded wire for in/outs for the first time, and it was kind of a pain to work with (although at least no oscillation with everything dimed). Getting threaded wire through holes that barely fit it is a huge pain, I ended up tinning the wires and then cutting them at an angle so they're "sharper" and I can fit it through. And finally, the knobs are just a smidge too big, so at least the High and Mid collide a bit at certain points of the rotation. Maybe I should file them down slightly - they move, but the other knob might move slightly too.

The biggest issue is that I really didn't need to build this, but I guess it is something different and adds to my collection. But there is a VH4 model in the Quad Cortex I mainly use so... not the most useful addition in that sense.

Edit: Oh and I used C50k + 51k resistor for deep and presence, plus ICL7660SCPAZ for the charge pump, if anyone ever stumbles upon this later on.
 
Well, this is getting out of hand (especially since most of these are my own cuttings), and pissing my brother off, as we can't sit on the windowsill with two persons anymore...

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So mom will get this next week for her birthday, a precise fit to be screwed into the window frame (seen partially on the left.)

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Too bad I don't have a router bit (or bandsaw) for making the outer curves alight with the inner curves, turning the corners weirdly blobby.. I'm afraid I'll fuck things up when enlarging the outer curves by hand (but looks like I'll have to to end up satisfied...First with a large 45 degree bit and then doing the rest with low grit sandpaper on a block). If I had to do this again, I'd flip the inner curves, turning the corners into squares, but whatever.
 
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Man, goddammit. I got this functioning Alesis Quadraverb for an absolute steal, like, what they used to go for before Hainbach inevitably did a video on them and they've been $150-400 since. AND it has the Plus firmware EEPROM, which, if you're not familiar, adds new sounds like multitap delay, tunable resonators and a simple sampler. I'd read beforehand that a simple fix for the very common line hiss is replacing two 4.7uf caps with an 100uf apiece. Easy peasy, I'm gonna dive right in!

Welp, turns out I should have used a broader soldering iron tip AND it appears using a soldering wick is crucial on boards like these. Ordered me some wicks but until they arrive I have a non-functioning Quadraverb (pic taken prior to my botched surgery). I wouldn't even bother posting about this but for some reason it's really sapped my energy for the entire rest of the day today.

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Fama said:
I'm boxing up a Peachy Fran next, and I just got boards for a Warlow clone and the ROG 22/7 which is a CMOS Muff workalike so pretty much the mirror universe version of what you're up to, I guess.
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Those are all awesome circuits. I need to revisit the 22/7 at some point. I remember liking it, but something about it didn't sound good for my playing at the time

The Warlow is a a bad ass take on the opamp muff. Really like what they did with the tone switch

I love everything Fran 😻
 
Hirti said:
Sheepylove Hebridean. Wanted to play an Okko Diablo for years and finally have one. This thing slaps! Sounds soooo good! Can't wait to box this one up 😍
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Nice. It's one of my favourite amp-style pedals, along with the Frizzler (Reezafratzitz) and Hot Teacher (Sixty8). Any one of those three is always on my pedalboard!
 
xconverge said:
Starting to put together the reactive load -> daisy-> headphones box. Based on the project by @optilude https://github.com/optilude/MuleBox and the attentuator design by johnh over at https://marshallforum.com/threads/simple-attenuators-design-and-testing.98285/. There is a bypass switch on the back to go straight from head->speaker. This is a mildly fancy way of playing with headphones/IR/a little reverb/stereo spread.

The left side is for a hothouse PCB for the daisyseed, and maybe a headphone amp, maybe I need to make a new board to fit. And the top left will have the 6 knobs/3 toggles from the pcb.

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I just saw this! So happy someone else is trying this design. Let me know how it goes!
 
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