Thermionic deluxe

[DailyDovetails]

This thing is great. I like the added mid control over the standard Thermionic and the tight pot seems like an improvement over the production pedal. Using this into the clean channel of my Marshall DSL effectively gives me 3 channels, clean, chug style rhythm and high gain lead. It’s easy to dial in the sounds I image in my head with this and don’t feel inclined to use a parametric with it like I do with a lot of other distortion pedals.

The build was relatively easy and worked right off. Ran out of TL072 so I used 5532 on the top channel.



My friend Bon-bon even likes it.

 

[owlexifry]

clean work
kudos on the shielded I/O

am i the only one that sees pac man ghosts?

 

[DailyDovetails]

clean work
kudos on the shielded I/O

am i the only one that sees pac man ghosts?

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I have done a few pedals with these controls and I for whatever reason find the colors more intuitive than the labels. White-volume, blue-bass, red-mid, yellow-treble, black-gain. Haven’t figured out the colors that click for everything else yet.

 

[lowpitch]

What are those spacers under the foot switches?

 

[DailyDovetails]

What are those spacers under the foot switches?

I 3d print them, they set the height of the switch where I like it and hold the LED in place also. The design is here https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6630505 . I usually put a small piece of foil tape between them and the box as sometimes they make a funny connection to ground otherwise.