Recent content by HamishR

Before the second world war Hitler decided to have two art exhibitions. One for the kind of art he thought was superior - the stuff that was heroic, looked like stuff you would see in real life but better, like social realism. The other exhibition was for deviant art, held in a run-down...

Ist das gerade der Fall? Ich habe mein ganzes Deutsch von Derrick gelernt. "Der Mann ist tot!" "Nein! Das ist nicht möglich."

That all makes sense! And all the silver mica caps I have are 500V. I rarely use them them in pedals because they're kinda big.

Oh I know "'39". My bro was a big fan A Day At The Races and A Night At The Opera. It's funny - I do love treble booster sounds but when BM layers all the harmonies it often reminds me of that pedal steel slide sound at the beginning of the Loony Tunes fanfare!

I'm curious, and I promise I'm not being snarky or anything, but I notice you often use just a dab of solder for joints. For example where the ground wire meets the IN jack lug. I was taught to "fill the hole" with solder so that the wire had nowhere to go. Apart from a probably vastly lower...

Ever since I found the "Snap to..." thing DIYLC has been a lot more fun to use. What I like about Brian May: He has totally developed his own instantly recognisable sound in more ways than one. I admire that more than I admire Queen. I admire players who work on there sound, note choice, etc...

Degenerate I may be (Excuse the pun) but I like my wires to line up! I like BM's playing well enough, and I quite the sound. It's just in a different realm from what I usually like, and what I usually like can be quite degenerate.

That's a bit forward isn't it?

I built one following Chuck's ideas and it is a fantastic fuzz/OD. Just wonderful. It has a few more knobs but IMO they are worth it. I have built it and it works - I dislike having INPUT anywhere the 9V rail. Seems to me to be asking for problems. So while it may be off topic I can strongly...

It's never something straightforward, is it?? Thanks Chuck. I still don't understand half of what you say but the bits I have used have improved my pedals immeasurably.

Clean! It's almost as if you have done this before! If you're using 125 sized enclosures you don't really need to use Lumbergs. I try to use Switchcraft jacks wherever possible but the Lumbergs are good for 1590B builds for top jacks, which is predominantly what I do. I generally solder the hot...

MMmmm .... Sorbet. Before we had aircon I used to make a lot of lemon sorbet to try to keep us cool in summer. I used an old recipe from my mum. I reduced the amount of sugar significantly and used more lemon juice. Sooo good. The difference in sound was enough to make me think I must have done...

FWIW The specified drain voltages worked perfectly in my first build but in my second I found the sound was a little squeezed - maybe a bit too scooped. To me it sounded like the transistors were biased too high. Reducing the bias voltage a little brought the newer one to life. I assume it's...

My dad took me to see that movie when it first came out. The entire cinema was a mess during that scene. The only time I have seen an audience laugh harder was when seeing Spike Milligan live. And he has a cameo in the Life of Brian. And now I have to try this pedal.

Sorry.