Anybody want to show off their build collection?

Fuzzonaut said:
Good question, it's a bit of a blurry line, but crazy is rather "screaming, in your face to annoying stuff" like a PLL thing and crazy are more "huh, what was that?" sounds, ..., but in the end it probably just depends on my mood of the day where a pedal goes.
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It would be weirder to find a tube screamer than a PLL on my shelves. Yats is the weird pedal over here.
 
Personally, I build models. Remote control scale aircraft models to be specific.
So I utilize a lot of the same techniques to achieve a certain specific look.
Painting is a pain, but sometimes necessary to get the desired look.
Waterslide decals are a pain, but there are tricks to help. In the end though, UV printing would be better.
I do like making the name plates and dial plates though. Gives it that ol' school industrial look.
 
fig said:
I dig yer rig @mkstewartesq !

( and I don't go 'round sayin that to just anyone! )
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Thank you, @fig - as you may recall, two of the pedals in that setup owe their existence to you - specifically, the matched quad JFETs you supplied for my XC Phase (righthand side of the orange Nuclear Summer pedal) and the Proposition board you gifted me (the red Ultimatum Distortion pedal). So, once again, thank you.

Mike
 
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Fuzzonaut thank you!! Thank you!!
I have absolutely got to do a demo build thread on that one. I am a fuzz fanatic and I assume you are as well.
It is a modified two stick of derm. The jewel gets brighter the "MOAR" you turn the knob! I really like that circuit.
 
The Gator said:
Fuzzonaut thank you!! Thank you you!!
I have absolutely got to do a demo build thread on that one. I am a fuzz fanatic and I assume you are as well.
It is a modified two stick of derm. The jewel gets brighter the "MOAR" you turn the knob! I really like that circuit.
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Was the brightening of the jewel the mod you speak of, or was there moar mods than that?
 
Not sure if I should get into it here but, made it a bit brighter by changing caps, and most importantly for the gimmick of it, Adding a resistor in series with the volume knob to lower the top end db. with changing the pot to a double C taper. This let's it get to unity gain immediately and makes most of the "moar" positions usable. This circuit is so bloody loud in will really slam the preamp in your amplifier.
 
It really started in 2019 for me. A couple of friends showed me the ropes in 2016-2017, but i took my time before actually buying a soldering station.

I might as well show everything, with a few words of explanations. A dozen of them are missing, i lent them to some musicians friends. An other dozen builds has been sold to family and friends.

Everything looking industrial is from the used market or Thomann. Around 16% of my stompboxes, i'd say.

Here are all "not-gain" effects. Compressors (2 on the bottom right), reverbs, modulations, delays, enveloppe filters, etc. CH-1 is modded, of course.
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Here are all the rest. Fuzzes are in the top row, bass effects currently out of the pedalboard are on the left.
Vero and perfboards builds at the bottom left : DLS mk.2, BD-2, Rat, Timmy v.1, Distortion H, ZenDrive. Also 360 bass fuzz on the pedal board. I'm especially proud of these builds...real diy circuits. Kits are so easy in comparison, it feels like cheating.
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Finally, the circuits currently in use :
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It's one of these complex signal routing setup, i guess. I can count 25 circuits, 27 with the splitters at the end of the signal chain.
I've put a circuit with 2 send/return loops, switchable by foot on the floor with an other simple home-made send/return looper. I can switch the 2nd row on or off from the floor. This was bound to be complex, with many circuits...

Bass or guitars are connected to the blue loop station on the floor. It allows me to record a short loop and try things with my hands free.
Then it goes to the red compressor, up on the table (Aion's Meridian w/ bass specs).

At the end of this top row, the signal goes back on the floor to the tin can box next to the blue loop station. It's a passive loop switching circuit with a send/ return that i can turn on and off, unlike the Pro-cessor.

In this send/return, i have connected the Pro-cessor located at the second row (A/B looper, mixer, blender with 2 other send/return). The other circuits at the second row are connected to the Send/returns : 360 + Bass amuser in A, SDT-1 (bass brutalist) + duality fuzz + TS-50 in B.

From the home-made-looper-in-a-can output, the signal goes to the Cream Pie Fuzz on the 3rd row, all the way to the white Aion's Beta Preamp at the end of the 3rd row.

Finally, it goes to the GE-7 on the floor, BBW, Gravitation, Echo-DC, Lithium (EHX Small Clone chorus), Flintlock, and RC-3 loop station.
After that it goes from both RC-3 outputs to 2 splitters, into 2 guitar amps (A) and 2 bass amps (B).

Once you get the bad habit to connect many pedals together, it's difficult to go back to 5 or 6 circuits only... but i try to find the most suited locations for the sensitive circuits like the 360 fuzz, so they will work correctly.
This way i can have 1 single setup for both guitar and bass. When i'm recording guitar and keyboards i plugg the last circuit into the RC-3 input A, and B for Bass and drum track.

I'm playing bass these days, and i want to be able to change the fuzz character in action, turning the Pro-cessor mix control fully, while playing a single note...and cut the fuzz at will with my foot. There are several guitar circuits because i like to try various combinations to find a good match with the bass, without spending time connecting and unconnecting things.

I know it's not the best recording setup, i'd need a mixing console or something, but it'll do for now.
 
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