Angry Andy Plus in a 1590bb

[falco_femoralis]

Hi all, here I put together an Angry Andy Plus. I had the retail version of this pedal and it sounded great, but I sold it when I got into this hobby. I wanted to make another one, but put it in a bigger enclosure so the second footswitch was easier to manage.

Starting with the enclosure drilled and I'm placing the pots. Two of them went in like normal and I'm trying to get a third to fit as well, the center one


I bent the legs like this so the pot would fit with where I placed its mounting hole

Beginning the populate the wires. Two pots were mounted off board. It would have been just one but I ran out of PCB mount b100ks.

Locating things inside the enclosure

Building the LED. I removed the CLR's and put them where the LEDs go in the PCB so that the CLR's would be on the switch side and I'd be able to use a common anode bicolor LED. I also played around with resistors to make the composite color come out nice.

Mounting the diode switch. I don't have any SPDT on-off-on switches so I did it like this. I also got the audio jacks in there.

Wiring up the feetswitch. I stepped up my game with color coded wire

And we're done!

Indicator for the boost side, which can be operated independently of the gain side

And when you have both going that is indicated as well

The Air control does more here than I remember it doing on my original pedal, but the boost here is much more subtle. It seems to be dependent on the diode switch. I'll have to investigate further and see if I messed something up or maybe there's something I can improve. But I like the 2 knob EQ controls and the layout is much more feet friendly than the original in a 125b

 

[MichaelW]

Hi all, here I put together an Angry Andy Plus. I had the retail version of this pedal and it sounded great, but I sold it when I got into this hobby. I wanted to make another one, but put it in a bigger enclosure so the second footswitch was easier to manage.

Starting with the enclosure drilled and I'm placing the pots. Two of them went in like normal and I'm trying to get a third to fit as well, the center one

I bent the legs like this so the pot would fit with where I placed its mounting hole

Beginning the populate the wires. Two pots were mounted off board. It would have been just one but I ran out of PCB mount b100ks.

Locating things inside the enclosure

Building the LED. I removed the CLR's and put them where the LEDs go in the PCB so that the CLR's would be on the switch side and I'd be able to use a common anode bicolor LED. I also played around with resistors to make the composite color come out nice.

Mounting the diode switch. I don't have any SPDT on-off-on switches so I did it like this. I also got the audio jacks in there.

Wiring up the feetswitch. I stepped up my game with color coded wire

And we're done!

Indicator for the boost side, which can be operated independently of the gain side

And when you have both going that is indicated as well

The Air control does more here than I remember it doing on my original pedal, but the boost here is much more subtle. It seems to be dependent on the diode switch. I'll have to investigate further and see if I messed something up or maybe there's something I can improve. But I like the 2 knob EQ controls and the layout is much more feet friendly than the original in a 125b

That's a great idea putting it in a 1590BB. How's the squeal/oscillation when the boost gain is turned up?

 

[Erik S]

You're killing it with the custom knob layouts!

 

[falco_femoralis]

Thanks Eric!

Michael, I'll keep a look out for the squeal you're talking about. After playing around with the pedal, I realized the boost goes into the main circuit, which saturates it, and I thought it wasn't working because I had the diode switch on the silicon setting so the saturation was getting buried.

 

[falco_femoralis]

That's a great idea putting it in a 1590BB. How's the squeal/oscillation when the boost gain is turned up?

I don't get squeal or oscillation, even when both the boost control and gain control are maxed. Same on any of the diode settings. Maybe it was a thing with your amp setup?

 

[MichaelW]

I don't get squeal or oscillation, even when both the boost control and gain control are maxed. Same on any of the diode settings. Maybe it was a thing with your amp setup?

Nah, it's the pedal. I'm not the only one that has had this issue. If I have the gain anywhere above noon and the boost also around noon it screams. I've built 3 of them, all 3 do it heh. I've tried shielded cable, etc. It's academic though, I don't use that much gain anyway.

 

[Nic]

I don't get squeal or oscillation, even when both the boost control and gain control are maxed. Same on any of the diode settings. Maybe it was a thing with your amp setup?

Same as @MichaelW here, I built one in a 1590BB and it was squealing like hell. Tried everything to get it to work and could never find the problem. It was my first build, so I could have missed something.

 

[falco_femoralis]

^ huh, I'm not sure. I built mine exactly to spec, even using RC4558 instead of JRC4558. I used MLCC's instead of disc caps. Disc caps might be a source of oscillation