MichaelW
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Another double dip report day. The Ample Alpaca was technically yesterday's build.
This is another "quickie" build I had lined up and I knocked it out in a couple of sessions during work breaks today.
I also just got my COVID Booster/Flu shot double whammy today and given my history of how I respond to these, I'm probably not going to be doing much
building this weekend (but you never know
Actually, first time in my life I've ever gotten a flu vaccine. (4th Covid booster though....)
I've been intrigued by this pedal as well, it's been around for a long time it seems and as I understand it, there's quite a few revisions of this pedal.
I'm not sure which version the "Waffle" represents.
Interesting in that it's kinda in the same vein as the Llama that I just built but a much more useful pedal for me personally. I really like how it sounds and it seems to work well with all the different pickups I've tried with it. Totally KILLS with my Strat bridge pickup. Both the ZhangBucker and Lollar neck P90's sound good with it albeit a little woofy with the volume at 10. Back the volume down to about 7 and it's magic. Surprisingly it sounds really great with a bridge Filtertron too.
Reacts very well to riding the guitar volume knob and there's lots of different tones just using that alone.
Also likes being pushed with a booster, whether a pure clean boost like the Katana or a dirty boost like the Katana with the dirt switch on.
It's a fizzy kind of distortion pedal that reminds me a bit like a DOD250 without the clipping diodes.....which it kinda is I guess.
Super simple build, low parts count yet very rewarding outcome!
I goofed on the input jack drilling a little bit. Maybe 1.5mm off. With these top jacks on a 1590B there's not a lot of room for error.
But with these GLS mono jacks that I've been using, the fiber wafers extend past the metal collar so you can really crank them up against the enclosure like I did here and not worry about grounding out. The only negative thing I have to say about these GLS jacks is that with the plating they use, the lugs really don't take solder well.
I'm still working on coming up with some prep method that will make them solder more easily. Today I tried some light sanding with some 320grit then dipped them in flux paste. I think I may try a "flux pen". Seems like it would a neater way to apply flux.
The other idea I had, which I may try on my next build, is to flux and pre-heat the lugs first before trying to solder the wires. That would let the flux cook off a bit and not apply as much heat to the wire insulation. Other than that I have yet to find anything wrong with these jacks and at less than 1/2 the cost of a Switchraft, very much worth the effort for me.
This is another "quickie" build I had lined up and I knocked it out in a couple of sessions during work breaks today.
I also just got my COVID Booster/Flu shot double whammy today and given my history of how I respond to these, I'm probably not going to be doing much
building this weekend (but you never know
Actually, first time in my life I've ever gotten a flu vaccine. (4th Covid booster though....)I've been intrigued by this pedal as well, it's been around for a long time it seems and as I understand it, there's quite a few revisions of this pedal.
I'm not sure which version the "Waffle" represents.
Interesting in that it's kinda in the same vein as the Llama that I just built but a much more useful pedal for me personally. I really like how it sounds and it seems to work well with all the different pickups I've tried with it. Totally KILLS with my Strat bridge pickup. Both the ZhangBucker and Lollar neck P90's sound good with it albeit a little woofy with the volume at 10. Back the volume down to about 7 and it's magic. Surprisingly it sounds really great with a bridge Filtertron too.
Reacts very well to riding the guitar volume knob and there's lots of different tones just using that alone.
Also likes being pushed with a booster, whether a pure clean boost like the Katana or a dirty boost like the Katana with the dirt switch on.
It's a fizzy kind of distortion pedal that reminds me a bit like a DOD250 without the clipping diodes.....which it kinda is I guess.
Super simple build, low parts count yet very rewarding outcome!
I goofed on the input jack drilling a little bit. Maybe 1.5mm off. With these top jacks on a 1590B there's not a lot of room for error.
But with these GLS mono jacks that I've been using, the fiber wafers extend past the metal collar so you can really crank them up against the enclosure like I did here and not worry about grounding out. The only negative thing I have to say about these GLS jacks is that with the plating they use, the lugs really don't take solder well.
I'm still working on coming up with some prep method that will make them solder more easily. Today I tried some light sanding with some 320grit then dipped them in flux paste. I think I may try a "flux pen". Seems like it would a neater way to apply flux.
The other idea I had, which I may try on my next build, is to flux and pre-heat the lugs first before trying to solder the wires. That would let the flux cook off a bit and not apply as much heat to the wire insulation. Other than that I have yet to find anything wrong with these jacks and at less than 1/2 the cost of a Switchraft, very much worth the effort for me.
