mhshizz
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I got the new covid booster and as expected, it did a real number on me, and that number is 666-420-69. But, taking the day off gave me the excuse to blast through 3 boards I've been sitting on.
A while back I sorted the overdrive section by popularity and scrolled all the way to the bottom and landed on the Blue Waffle OD. Finding out it's a clone of the super expensive Freekish Blues Alpha Drive that ended up being a rehoused Joyo with like one component changed and that the Joyo itself was a copy of the OCD made me laugh, so I bought it. I'm guessing the weird back story combined with the name referencing an old, gross internet meme kept this at the bottom of the popularity list.
I mean, it does sound good, but not phenomenal. The other two boxes I made today are better. I didn't use the highest-end parts I have available since this was sort of a gag build. And my case drilling still isn't very good lol. Also, I didn't realize the Vol and Drive controls were backwards on this, so lmao their labels are wrong. OOF
The Nobleman is dope. Used a pre-drilled Tayda box. Sounds mostly excellent, but yeah I totally get all the "too much bass" comments now. Is there something real easy that can be done to tame that? I don't want to add a whole bass control pot. Like a different cap or resistor value somewhere?
The Aion FX Fractal sounds real good too. The sweep control is neat. I almost bough the BYOC kit, but I already had most of what I needed so I just picked up a few extra things (dual-gang pot, natch) and went to town; however, I did find out I don't have any 680k resistors, so I crudely soldered together a 470k, 150k, and something else I don't remember now to get my close. I'm really lucky my drilling worked out, as I was real nervous about how much busier this one is--it's still really cramped having gone a little too far north with everything. I don't like having to do the "ground it all to the input jack" thing. The PedalPCB solution is much more elegant. Anyway, this one isn't my best work as the discomfort and Brain Scramblies (any What We Do in the Shadows fans here?) and body aches have gotten progressively worse with every passing hour. Glad they're all done!
A while back I sorted the overdrive section by popularity and scrolled all the way to the bottom and landed on the Blue Waffle OD. Finding out it's a clone of the super expensive Freekish Blues Alpha Drive that ended up being a rehoused Joyo with like one component changed and that the Joyo itself was a copy of the OCD made me laugh, so I bought it. I'm guessing the weird back story combined with the name referencing an old, gross internet meme kept this at the bottom of the popularity list.
I mean, it does sound good, but not phenomenal. The other two boxes I made today are better. I didn't use the highest-end parts I have available since this was sort of a gag build. And my case drilling still isn't very good lol. Also, I didn't realize the Vol and Drive controls were backwards on this, so lmao their labels are wrong. OOF
The Nobleman is dope. Used a pre-drilled Tayda box. Sounds mostly excellent, but yeah I totally get all the "too much bass" comments now. Is there something real easy that can be done to tame that? I don't want to add a whole bass control pot. Like a different cap or resistor value somewhere?
The Aion FX Fractal sounds real good too. The sweep control is neat. I almost bough the BYOC kit, but I already had most of what I needed so I just picked up a few extra things (dual-gang pot, natch) and went to town; however, I did find out I don't have any 680k resistors, so I crudely soldered together a 470k, 150k, and something else I don't remember now to get my close. I'm really lucky my drilling worked out, as I was real nervous about how much busier this one is--it's still really cramped having gone a little too far north with everything. I don't like having to do the "ground it all to the input jack" thing. The PedalPCB solution is much more elegant. Anyway, this one isn't my best work as the discomfort and Brain Scramblies (any What We Do in the Shadows fans here?) and body aches have gotten progressively worse with every passing hour. Glad they're all done!
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