Moonn Cuddles

[Mentaltossflycoon]

Build Rating

5.00 star(s)

Bass oriented pedal builderfolk have been blessed by many of the vendors recently and it is greatly appreciated. This one's a take on the Dwarfcraft Big Distortion Sound Machine their first original pedal using Devi Ever circuits after their weird little merger. It's a parallel fuzz where one side is a Ruiner which is a gated bass fuzz and the other a Torn's Peaker with a knob that gradually changes it to an Aenima. The "worse" switch sends you into chaotic oscillation land on the TP/AE side which is great fun. I can tune that oscillation to a low E pretty easily and consistently. If I play my guitar lightly at this setting it becomes the glitchiest octaver ever. Like an mxr blue box that tracks 10 times worse and always returns to the low E oscillation.

I've built many Devi pedals and have considered the TP to be among my least favorite of her circuits. Still not great for bass on its own imho but parallel blended with the ruiner you can get some really interesting almost 3D seeming sounds.

A long time ago @Betty Wont suggested that with my distaste for the TP I try a different parallel combination. That led me down yet another fuzz rabbit hole where I never actually found a combo that I liked with Devi circuits as planned and that effort ended with a tall font muff in parallel with a DAM dark meathead. So when moonn dropped this project I thought, "why not?" but I'm so glad I did.

 

[Fuzzonaut]

 

[Feral Feline]

Thanks for this build-report/write-up, I'm going to have to pick up this PCB.

Should be noted, the BDSM is a creation by Dwarfcraft (based on Devi Ever circuits) rather than a Devi Ever (the person) effort;
Comes from a time when DE, the brand, was owned by Ben and Louise ie Dwarfcraft. The BDSM was the first pedal released by DE's new owners under that brand-banner.

I'd slap a Dwarfcraft sticker on my BDSM if I could get one, but alas Dwarfcraft is shuttered now, too.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

Thanks for this build-report/write-up, I'm going to have to pick up this PCB.

Should be noted, the BDSM is a creation by Dwarfcraft (based on Devi Ever circuits) rather than a Devi Ever (the person) effort;
Comes from a time when DE, the brand, was owned by Ben and Louise ie Dwarfcraft. The BDSM was the first pedal released by DE's new owners under that brand-banner.

I'd slap a Dwarfcraft sticker on my BDSM if I could get one, but alas Dwarfcraft is shuttered now, too.

Right, I forgot about the dwarfcraft thing. Can't keep track of all these shuttered pedal companies.