zero's various pedal builds

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My HX Stomp has been in the shop getting a footswitch returned for ...checks... 8 fucking weeks with no sign of being returned. I basically live on headphones and amp sims because i like peace and quiet, and dont own any amps anyway.
So to allow me to do so I have built
Headphone Amp & Unicab together


It has a bit of a hum, and the wiring inside is a mess and may be part of the problem. I'll come back to it.

I also have just made a clean preamp to go with this just this morning
PPCB Doxie preamp




As well as this I've tried to round out most of my bass board with an
Obsidius Preamp


The obsidius is in Tayda's Black Hammer - It looks basically identical to my Hydra in Silver Hammer.

 

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Rehoused my lowtide in 1590bb2, gave me room for a relay...mmm soft touch.

Has tape underneath and a piece of plastic on the back cover to shield.

Also made a Moonn dromtydning


The drill measure was a bit off, had to bend the pots

And I got a soic chip for it on stilts

 

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Pics or it's a ds1.


It's a ds1


I also built an Aion Cirrus legacy with SD 1 specs from owlexifry. I am excited to one day have the time to play my guitar and test it. If anyone wants to paint my handrails for me so I can play guitar please let me know.

 

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Arkhaim Fuzz. Surprised I quite like this. Knocked the Cream Pie fuzz off my board for a slow down tuned powerchord pedal.
I had to switch the footswitches and lights, couldn't handle the on/off being on left. And i find the heavy largely useless.

 

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Moonn Good Vibes. Didn't like this one much, couldn't get enough volume out of it and it was very subtle for me on anything other than dimmed. Hacked it apart and reusing the enclosure.

 

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Paragon w/ 1s1588 & ba282. I had fully intended to do all the court jester mods to this one, but I had the drill template in my Tayda order to *check before sending * and naturally I didn't so the drill was stock, and I couldn't add on the switches for the front. I decided that Id build it stock, see if I liked it and then sell this one, and build another. It was alright but I didn't see much use for both sides, so it sold and I built a pauper instead. The guy I sold it to said that apparently it would work if both sides were engaged, but if the right side only was engaged, there was no sound and if the left was engaged it did pass sound. Not sure if that's how it's meant to be

 

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Muroidea. First pedal I've breadboarded before building, lm308 from Pedalpcb (thanksagain @Robert)
I preferred stock clipping so did that instead of building a triad distortion with a switch. I still think a HM-2 does everything the rat does better, but now I have both I guess.

 

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Uberdrive built stock. My favourite boost but that doesn't stop me building more because shopping addiction

 

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Dwarven hammer. Again, no idea why I keep building boosts. Felt this didn't do anything the uberdrive didn't do.

 

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Equilux Mini. I am too dumb for EQ

 

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The bass board.

It's replacement

 

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Low tide mini. Apparently I deleted the gutshot. Trust me it was beautiful

 

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Adeph Null tape delay Mk2. I love tails on a delay so I wanted to build one, I really needed more volume out of my mix though.

 

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Special K. I'm calling it my Soviet Cranker. D9e and 2n503b. Not a massive difference between the two tbh

 

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Simulcast - I really liked my duocast but like relay switching and prefer not to have 1590bb horizontal so figured I'd build the simulcast. MP20a at 61hfe and 70uA leakage.

 

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Adeph Null Troglodyte reverb. Took a big risk on this one, AU$50 for the brick and I'm not really the biggest reverb guy. I don't love the small slapback delay even with onset at minimum but it is actually a nice sound with the sway at around 11oclock.

 

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Little Green Scream machine
Led, stock 4148 and asymmetrical 914...well it will be after I fix up the asymmetrical side since they're currently just three diodes facing different ways.

 

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Pauper w/ ba282. Only just built this so will see if it makes the cut

 

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Twinface with bc108 and gt402e, 50hfe 192ua and 94hfe 103ua. Those are some BARTs. Sounds good but also yeh it sounds a lot like the Arkhaim.
Struggled hard to build this on breadboard beforehand, I am not good at electronics.

 

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I'm trying to build a Kewpie for the second time, I tested the finished PCB on the auditorium and it was working, then boxed it and with relay it's busted again. When turned on it passes a clean signal, the tone, volume and sustain controls affect the clean sound, but it has no gain with the sustain control. No photos as I'm on a train uploading all of these updates...to come.