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Sounds like a fuzz or dirt through a tremolo. Listen to the Smiths How Soon Is Now and it's similar. I suspect some delay or reverb is involved too.

It's funny - I have a degree in design but can't be bothered to do graphics for my pedals. I have no graphic software for one thing. Almost all of my builds are dirt pedals so I put the knobs in the same places every time so I don't have to remember what they are. I have one pedal with...

Oh I got your point! That's why I said I don't think you have to worry. I was just trying to express how unnecessarily complex a Tubescreamer is for what it does. I agree with you about the lack of originality in a lot of commercially available pedals. And there are loads of boutique builders...

Oops! - good catch! I must have been looking at the wrong schematic! No I meant C3. I like 1nF there.

If I try to think of the most "metal" bird it would probably be the cassowary. It's one bird I hope never to see in the wild. I've seen them in a zoo and that was fine. I just googled it to make sure I spelled it right and CNN have labelled it "the only animal Australians are afraid of." And...

I don't think you have to worry! :p Actually IMO the Tubescreamer is unnecessarily complicated for something so bland. There are many pedals with a more complex sound and which have better control which have way fewer parts. And the JCM800 2203 and 2204 are actually very simple amps. A lot of...

It's not difficult to add a bass control to a Tube Screamer and man does it make a difference!

Well it was a while ago, but if I look at the schematic I believe you would delete C5 and C6 and replace C7 with a 1µF. Then replace R5 with a C1M pot. The spot where C2 meets R5 goes to Bass 3 (lug 3 of the Bass pot) and Bass 2 goes to the other end of R5, where it joins the gate of Q2. So you...

Actually I think it was HousTom who wanted the demos! I don't mind - I know what these things sound like. :-) And I bet yours sounds spectacular. How could it not?

I have built it with a bass pot rather than a bass switch.

Fair enough too! Dylan's Narrowcast isn't bad either but you gotta give the buyer what they want. :)

Beautiful build as always. And after all the troubleshooting you had to do I'm not sure if I should mention that the transformer doesn't really do anything - at least not in my experience! But you got it working so full credit to you. :cool:

A trick to help shooting chrome or very reflective surfaces is to use white card or paper as reflectors. And avoid hard light sources. You have to shoot at an angle or else you'll see yourself reflected in the thing you're photographing. One way around that is to either use a light tent or shoot...

Couldn't believe it last week when I went to the lake with my coffee and croissant and went to see if the turtle was around - and saw two! And not only that but when I got my phone out to get a pic they both swam into the light. Otherwise I would have struggled to get a decent pic.

FWIW I now use a magnifying glass to check solder pads after soldering all the parts to the board. I have always had excellent eyesight and now wear glasses but still have excellent eyesight. And yet some joints which look good to the naked eye reveal themselves as not so good when seen under a...

Fender jewel lamps have a bent sheet metal holder for the little lightbulb and the holder is attached to the chassis with a circular bezel which is threaded for a nut. The jewel screws into the bezel at the left in this pic (no jewel shown). It looks like this jewel is either threaded into the...

I used to have a rule of red LEDs for OD and Blue for fuzz. But since then I have been building dual OD pedals so that has gone out the window and I rarely use fuzz anyway! Maybe using skinnier wire may have left more space? But super impressive! I think I would have gone crazy trying to keep...

This is why I never use sockets for transistors. I AWAYS have problems with socketed transistors. Never have problems with socketed ICs. I have no idea if the OP socketed transistors but whenever I did it caused problems. Those circular sockets for Ge transistors are the exception. Never had a...

Phew - not cheap! Antique Electronics have a good range of knobs. Might be worth a look.

We squeeze limes (often grown on our lime tree) and make ice cubes from the juice. One margarita needs one lime cube. You don't need to add sugar because there's plenty in Cointreau already. I'll salt the rim of the glass a little ahead of time using the lime cube to moisten the rim, and then it...