Recent content by Hetari Gotoh

More like twenty-fifth build. Had I attempted this as my second, this post would have been in the troubleshooting section. Perhaps I've gotten slightly better at assembling pedals, but my communication skills and my english are getting worse. Thank you so much anyway. 😄

This is actually my first graphic "design" and the second pedal I decided to build at the beginning of my journey, but I knew I needed some experience before tackling it. I used a 500K gain pot with 470K resistors between pin 1 and 3 and SMD J201 on adapter boards. It wasn't strictly necessary...

Splendid job. I love the coherence of the whole design and the purple indicator + gold aluminum in particular.

Dear diary, today I interconnected a number of components following a classic and slightly confusing recipe. But then, inspired by UtilityBeltFX, I added a clean blend because BASS and things became even more confusing. For toan and blend I used pots with solder lugs and wired them to the...

My journey into madness continues with this heroic attempt to fight my addiction and assemble something that is not a Timmy. Nauseous and sweaty from the withdrawal I popped a bunch of 2N5458 into my trusty TC1 and compared the resulting useless values, then I matched a couple of them using...

It all started with an innocent, romantic Lovepedal Eternity and it turned into a Strat-wielding naked Timmy with a dominant streak. Sounds like the schematic for a steamy summer novel. There's money to be made there. Please, do share! 🤑 The HamishR clipping arrangement seems to be working as...

Grazie! Yes, I generally use Tayda to do the UV print for my builds. It's actually cheaper than going with unpainted enclosures and doing my own drilling because it slows things down. Like, a lot. Shipping is either Thai Post + playing the customs roulette for smaller orders or DHL Express for...

Thank you so much, HamishR! And thank you MichaelW for your input (and for guiding me further down the same rabbit hole 🥲). What I learned so far is that while the timmy is useful for stacking with other pedals, the jan ray instantly loses what I perceive as its jan rayness when coupled with...

I think my addiction has an addiction. By now, for various unfortunate reasons, the number of timmy & friends I have built and given away is in the double digits. The more I research the difference between the Timmy and the Jan Ray, the less things make sense. To make things make more sense...

Thanks a lot, your suggestion led me to a ton of useful information on the subject. I will definitely try adding more diodes.

Compared to my previous Jan Ray build this Timmy sounds more "focused" and slightly less "shimmery". Feels more like a tone shaping tool than a magic harmonics-infusing artifact. Which makes no sense, obviously. I wonder why the components and pots are so spaced apart on the pcb compared to the...

Verily, the iron cast appears to be a much more logical choice being an insanely overpriced japanese pedal as well. Into the shopping cart it goes!

This time I tried my hand at drilling the holes with a step bit. An interesting experience, but doing it on a pre-painted enclosure is not optimal I guess. Despite using a center punch and pilot hole the end result is not precise enough. Relaxing build, anyway. I like the way it sounds, even...

I had great fun researching and building this one. The new board design does an even better job at fueling your ADHD by not including any documentation as an added challenge. I loved it. I decided to include R8 by flipping a coin and I used an A1M drive pot instead of an A500K, trusting the...

This is the companion to the Genmaicha Overdrive, so most of the considerations I made for that one apply in this case. On paper, this one is supposed to work better with single coils. I guess. I just know it sounds more usable out of the.. uhm.. box than the Genmaicha. The tone and tea...