Chris420
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Ok sorry, I moved the post into troubleshooting.
Face Melter (P**** Melter) graphics
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xefned
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Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
What a %$&^ joke. Half of that opamp isn't even being used. CA3140 is a single version of the CA3240, is easy to come by, but alas is not pin-compatible. Sometimes PedalPCB is a little too faithful in duplicating the commercial pedal.
OR, you could install a socket and plug in a TL072 until the magic CA3240 arrives. I'll wager it sounds the same.
OR, you could install a socket and plug in a TL072 until the magic CA3240 arrives. I'll wager it sounds the same.
fig
Village Idiot
I think you would need to change your name to C. D. Boner to make substantive comments about this pedal.
Chuck D. Bones
Circuit Wizard
How about Apuhl M'diq Oud?
One of these days I'll breadboard the \(?)/ Melter.
One of these days I'll breadboard the \(?)/ Melter.
xefned
Well-known member
Very interesting. Mouser has 3500 of the single amp version in stock. I'm not afraid to dead-bug a chip and wire it with some jumpers.
OR….I have 12 in my inventory @xefned .
Hmm. I might take you up on buying 1 of your 12. Especially if you're not planning to build 12 Apuhl M'diq Ouds.
Although I should probably reserve my goodwill with you on some unobtainium germanium. This will do. My urgency is mainly to help Chris420 troubleshoot his non-working unit.
Also, it would be fun to do a comparison video: can you hear the difference between a $1 TL072 and a $3.50 CA3240??
fig
Village Idiot
Hmm. I might take you up on buying 1 of your 12. Especially if you're not planning to build 12 Apuhl M'diq Ouds.
It’s free (the Fig Labs way). Shoot me your address in DM, and what you need in germanium and I’ll see what I’ve got. No worries I always keep a reserve for internal pleasure-only.
PS: If you‘d like some other duals to add to the shootout I’ve got several samples I can include. I too appreciate the power of auditioning for audibles.
Is there any data in the colour? I am trying to get this printed on Tayda’s site and it is asking if there is any data in the colour, whites and gloss. If you could help me out I’d greatly appreciate it.So i decided to make one last attempt at the custom drilled enclosure. Crossing my fingers hoping I got everything lined up right and the I can finally start building my pedal. This will be enclosure attempt #5
P_melter_hopefully_final_lol
Drill template
Chris420
Active member
Hey yes there is a bottom layer of white and top layer of gloss if you have the most updates version of my file it should have the layers already setup.
I don’t think I have the most updated I just saw the photos.
xefned
Well-known member
I forgot to follow up! Everyone I know wanted one, so I built 3 beautiful snatch melters for friends.
It's all thanks for the hard work of @Chris420 and the great @fig for sharing his op-amps with me.
After trying every compatible op-amp, I'm confident there's no reason to spend big money on a CA3240. This is a noisy, gnarley pedal. A fancy op-amp makes no odds.
To emulate the original with this drill template, the pots must be wired off-board.
I also hot-glued 2 pink LEDs internally, like so…
I always meant to revise the drill template and graphic to work with Robert's PCB, but I ran out of steam.
Got tired of building them for people and moved on…But I could revive that project. It would still look very close the original because the pots are only 4.32 mm off.
Update: I built a modified drill template and graphic file based on Chris's near-perfect copy, which I uploaded to Tayda in Nov. 2022, but I never ordered and can't guarantee that it's perfect. The pots are 8.64mm farther apart which gives them a wider stance:
Summary: Looks less like a perfect copy, but allows for PCB-mounted pots.
It's all thanks for the hard work of @Chris420 and the great @fig for sharing his op-amps with me.
After trying every compatible op-amp, I'm confident there's no reason to spend big money on a CA3240. This is a noisy, gnarley pedal. A fancy op-amp makes no odds.
To emulate the original with this drill template, the pots must be wired off-board.
I also hot-glued 2 pink LEDs internally, like so…
I always meant to revise the drill template and graphic to work with Robert's PCB, but I ran out of steam.
Got tired of building them for people and moved on…But I could revive that project. It would still look very close the original because the pots are only 4.32 mm off.
Update: I built a modified drill template and graphic file based on Chris's near-perfect copy, which I uploaded to Tayda in Nov. 2022, but I never ordered and can't guarantee that it's perfect. The pots are 8.64mm farther apart which gives them a wider stance:
Summary: Looks less like a perfect copy, but allows for PCB-mounted pots.
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CrustyD3mon
New member
Hi guys,
I'm building two of this pedals, one for me and another for a friend, and i found this thread. I'm from EU (Portugal) and i will love to get my hands in two cases like those ones that you designed.
- I never ordered from tayda (neither know how it works)
- For my experience i would love to get my hands in "ready to mount" boxes, what i mean with that is...drilled and painted.
Anyone wants to guide me on an easy/and not so expensive way to made that possible?
Thanks
I'm building two of this pedals, one for me and another for a friend, and i found this thread. I'm from EU (Portugal) and i will love to get my hands in two cases like those ones that you designed.
- I never ordered from tayda (neither know how it works)
- For my experience i would love to get my hands in "ready to mount" boxes, what i mean with that is...drilled and painted.
Anyone wants to guide me on an easy/and not so expensive way to made that possible?
Thanks
fontoponto
Well-known member
Well… Not that easy to get everything ready to build. Tayda would be the best guess.
You could buy the kit and predrilled enclosure (blank aluminum) from musikding.de and spraypaint it pink.
Or buy the kit and get a pink enclosure from https://www.uk-electronic.de/onlineshop/product_info.php?products_id=4324 and drill it yourself.
Print the graphic on a vinyl sticker sheet.
You could buy the kit and predrilled enclosure (blank aluminum) from musikding.de and spraypaint it pink.
Or buy the kit and get a pink enclosure from https://www.uk-electronic.de/onlineshop/product_info.php?products_id=4324 and drill it yourself.
Print the graphic on a vinyl sticker sheet.
CrustyD3mon
New member
I definetly can do that, never tried the vinyl sticker option, but maybe i can try that...from what i saw i will need to adapt some of the labels because of the holes position of this kit compared to the original...where i can find the graphics in vector format you know?
fontoponto
Well-known member
In this thread are various formats but you could ask @Chris420 (offline for a while) or @jeffwhitfield if they can share an svg with you if you use Inkscape etc.
