CONTEST Get some!

[PapaBear]

I built a pedal
No flux or suction used.
But the PCB was apparently abused.
I fired it up with such spark
And I felt amused by the fire,
A tube screamer was it to be.
But it made no noise to me.
Maybe I should stick with art.
Pedal making was my start.
Still I smell the fumes.

Chongamatic back at it
don't give him no static
He's a pedal build addict!


Edit: Please don't confuse this as an entry, just and ode to a mentor

 

[andare]

I just got an MN3102 and an MN3207 yesterday. No idea if they're legit. I'll only know when I finally build my Caesar.
The matched phaser transistors are appealing but I'll sit this one out.

Sourcing parts is exhausting. It's been months and i still don't have everything I need. I just wanna solder!

 

[NickC]

https://soundcloud.com/unoraprimadellalba%2Fal-1%2Fs-iubql7nyygl

an old piece of music that I've never been able to put into any song. (I recorded it entirely with the line6 pod v1)

 

[DAJE]

There was an old lad from Australia
Who liked musical paraphernalia
So some pedals he made
And most of them played
And few of them ended in failure

 

[mybud]

Here’s a DIY haiku for Fig:

Completed my latest build.
No sound, no LED.
Perhaps I should connect the battery?

 

[Coda]

NOS Mullards,
Ge Diodes,
Tantalum,
Switchcraft,
Weller WE1010,
Push-back cloth,
Custom powder coat,
Hand painted graphics,
No bypass…

 

[Fuzzonaut]

describing why you enjoy pedal-building

Me

Them

= 42

 

[BuddytheReow]

See solder
See solder melt
Melt solder melt

 

[pcb rookie]

You guys rock with your poems. You either have more talent or inspiration for poetry then I do. But still I worked on this one late into the night until early this morning and here's what I came up with ...

Roses are red
Violets are blue
I love building pedals
and they love me too!

It made my children cry ... That is when I called it a night!

You should still bet on me ... and I promise I won't be posting poems on this forum for the next few weeks!

 

[jeffwhitfield]

My pedalboard,
My pedalboard,
How doth sound, my pedalboard?
Does it sound of syrens, screaming in tandem?
Or angels singing, sweet and melancholy?
Perhaps it resembles an axe, sharp and deadly?
Or a cathedral with high walls that echo like canyons in heaven?

 

[Pauleo1214]

There once was a pedal-builder from the Wold

Who loved drinking beer icy cold.

As he reached for his cup,

NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP!

Oooh, snap! You've been limerickrolled!

 

[Paradox916]

I’m just gonna leave this here

 

[pcb rookie]

I’m just gonna leave this here

Man of many talents! I enjoyed watching your video! Nice art work on your enclosures too!

 

[Paradox916]

Man of many talents! I enjoyed watching your video! Nice art work on your enclosures too!

Thanks!… some of the art work is the wife’s.

 

[Feral Feline]

There once was a pedal-builder named Neil
whose sonic creations always would squeal
He kept at it thanks to Fig
holding contests that would trig
Neil to build again ’til some sounds appealed


[EDIT changed "would always" to "always would"]

 

[Harry Klippton]

I’m just gonna leave this here

 

[Feral Feline]

JEEBUS thar be some STIFF competition here!

Y'all are a creative bunch beyond merely creating pedals, multitalented. I'm not sure which ones are my favourites, but I'd like to vote again several extra times — too many good entries...

 

[BuddytheReow]

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who made a pedal out of a bucket

 

[Paradox916]

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who made a pedal out of a bucket

It only worked in bypass
So he got off his ass
Grabbed that parenthesis and chucked it