This build report is 180° from my last one. aesthetically bare bones, but a beast of a board/circuit. This is only the second Lovetone clone I have built, the first being the PPCB Cheesemonger fuzz which is a considerably easier build. This is Aion’s clone of the Ring Stinger, a tricked out ring mod/octave pedal with LFO modulation. I had no sonic baseline for this pedal, but holy cannoli this thing is freaking awesome! The ring mod is good and clangy with a very usable interval/freq range. The Timbre/tone control is very useful for taming the shrillness of the higher frequencies. The drive control is the bees knees adding dirty grimy tones to the robot clank. There is a lot going on in the LFO section. sometimes LFO modulation seems nice in theory, but gets old fast, especially if it is an always on part of the circuit. Lovetone made the LFO bypassable with the lock footswitch so you can have tremolo sounds straight from the Autobots home planet, or lock the LFO and get straight ring/octave.
As far as the build itself……well…..it’s pretty balls. A dense board with some specialty parts (I squandered some D9ks when I could have gone schotky…meh). A very tight drilling template (I had to get creative when the in/out jacks were too close to the corners). All. The. Damn. Wiring. Also has some calibration, but having done multiple BBD projects it was tame. Anyways, here’s the robot porn for my WORM compatriots.
Of all my ring mods, this is the most feature packed and does things the others don’t so glad I gritted my teeth and got this one in the books. That said, if you are looking to take your first dabble into ring mod territory, let me suggest the Cordyceps, it’s an excellent bang for the buck.
As far as the build itself……well…..it’s pretty balls. A dense board with some specialty parts (I squandered some D9ks when I could have gone schotky…meh). A very tight drilling template (I had to get creative when the in/out jacks were too close to the corners). All. The. Damn. Wiring. Also has some calibration, but having done multiple BBD projects it was tame. Anyways, here’s the robot porn for my WORM compatriots.
Of all my ring mods, this is the most feature packed and does things the others don’t so glad I gritted my teeth and got this one in the books. That said, if you are looking to take your first dabble into ring mod territory, let me suggest the Cordyceps, it’s an excellent bang for the buck.
