Recent content by HamishR

No - I don't have any and have forgotten to get some. I have tried a few options including BAT41s which sounded terrible! This is one of those rare occasions where a simple pair of 1N4148s sound great.

I think this will do for now! I don't want to bore you... I was surprised when I built a Vemuram Karen - The Kadundra here - at how much I liked it. It's a really good aggressive, vaguely Marshall sounding OD. And again I felt that perhaps it had too much low en oomph with no way to control it...

The Perplexed layout seemed to generate more interest than anything else I've posted so I though I might post this one. This has become a firm favourite for me. I love the sound of this fella! I had been avoiding JFET ODs for ages because of the biasing thing. But recently because of Chuck's...

I made my own. In DIYLC I use a rectangle (under SHAPES) and give it a 50% alpha. Then I use the Dot under Connectivity for the legs. Lastly I use the type tool for the value. The "Horizontal X-Small" trimpot is for a different kind of trimpot as you have probably discovered. I prefer to use the...

See this is exactly why I prefer on bass pots in my pedals. And I often switch between guitars. My 335 likes more low end dialled in compared to my 330, which has more low end already. If I set up my OD for the 335 and then plug in the 330 it can be kinda boomy.

Yeah that's it, @Einzeln ! You can connect Bass 1 lug to Bass 2; likewise you can connect Treble 3 to 2. I don't usually bother but it might be good practice. I use Volume lug 1 kind of like a star ground. I use it to connect the board ground, the jacks ground and the switch ground. I might...

On a side note - for all of you non-Aussies out there when @owlexifry says "they are an absolute c*nt to get right" he is employing specialist Australian engineering jargon. Don't be alarmed.

Probably sounds more exotic than it really is! Kiste is German for Box, and Steine means stones, or maybe even rocks. So you get where I'm going with this! As is my wont I have added a bass pot which I think really makes a difference for this one. I have also pointed out the mids cap which was...

D'oh! Completely forgot where you live! Being near the Dandenongs explains the yard. That must be a lovely lace to live. My brother was in Rowville for a while. When my son was a lot younger we went to visit my brother and as he drove us out to Rowville we went past paddocks with sheep and cows...

Oh yeah - there is only one I haven't built yet. That's the Carcosa. I have built multiples of some of these. I tend not to post them because I don't use visible graphics (only invisible). Most people find that boring. I can take some pics if you want? I just figured that seeing as I have these...

Well this is the Wampler for you! I was playing my Les Paul through it today and no mud. I don't like mud. I guess the reason I don't usually like Wampler pedals is that they are normally a bit generic sounding, a bit too pedal sounding. Instead of having a fixed 47µF bass cap this goes from...

I can't remember if I've posted this anywhere before, but I really like it! It's based very clearly on the Wampler Plexidrive which I was surprised by. It sounded better than I expected. (Sorry Brian!) I did find the cap on the source of Q2 was a bit big which for me made the bass a bit fizzy...

I use 1590B enclosures all the time and rarely have problems with end jacks. I drill the phono jacks 17mm in from the ends and 9mm from the open edge. I drill the 9V jack in the centre 9-10mm from the top of the enclosure. Everything fits fine. I use a variety of jack plugs and they all seem to...

What GOTA said! That's the Marshall sound I like! I really like the 2203/2204 sound although these days I use a 1987 with a pedal. Never really gelled with the Silver Jubilee - it uses red LEDs for clipping. Somehow it seems wrong to use LED clippers in an amp, especially a Marshall. I don't...

Part of the process of powdercoating often involves media blasting whatever you're coating first to clean it of dirt and stuff. So if it was me I'd just take it to get re-powdercoated. The places I have used here would be more expensive than a Tayda powdercoat but not crazy. Media blasting would...