joelorigo
Well-known member
This is my first build report since last summer. Starting in July I was basically working 2 jobs through November, or at least a job-and-a-half most days. Sometime in October I had things in stride and realized I had time to squeeze in a bit of pedal building. Then I got hit by a car while walking in a crosswalk. I had to have knee surgery was dealing with recovering from that, which I still am.
By April I was able to start on a Aion Solaris Fuzz Face kit I had bought months before. I liked the flexibility the extra controls my Fulltone 69 had, but I liked the sound of my PedalPCB Sunflower better. I was hoping the Aion kit with the extra knobs and its pre selected Ge transistors would be a quick easy solution. And it is! Sold the 69.
Then I got to a project that @CR0SSBL4DE developed last year. I was able to provide him with photos of the inside of a XTS GE7 and he charted the differences between the various GE7 versions. That's detailed here:
I then took that information and built an Effects Layout Prismatic GE7, with substituted parts to make it a XTS version. From what I remember about the XTS I had borrowed, it seems like it is the same. I will be able to compare it to that pedal again to see how close / off my build is. My inspiration for the graphic design was the generic government food products.
Not PedalPCB projects but I have 3 on deck!
By April I was able to start on a Aion Solaris Fuzz Face kit I had bought months before. I liked the flexibility the extra controls my Fulltone 69 had, but I liked the sound of my PedalPCB Sunflower better. I was hoping the Aion kit with the extra knobs and its pre selected Ge transistors would be a quick easy solution. And it is! Sold the 69.
Then I got to a project that @CR0SSBL4DE developed last year. I was able to provide him with photos of the inside of a XTS GE7 and he charted the differences between the various GE7 versions. That's detailed here:
If I understand some posts I saw earlier, the the new Efffects Layouts EQ (Boss GE7) could be modded to be the XTS modded GE7?
xacttone.com
XTS Midrange Graphic Modded GE-7
The XTS Midrange Graphic Mod was developed with Tom Bukovac. The session ace wanted an eq pedal centered entirely on the guitar's midrange frequencies. To that end, we take a full-range Boss GE-7 graphic eq and modify the frequency bands to focus on critical midrange frequencies. With the...
xacttone.com
I then took that information and built an Effects Layout Prismatic GE7, with substituted parts to make it a XTS version. From what I remember about the XTS I had borrowed, it seems like it is the same. I will be able to compare it to that pedal again to see how close / off my build is. My inspiration for the graphic design was the generic government food products.
Not PedalPCB projects but I have 3 on deck!
