EisengesisFX
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THE SOUND
Among the couple of extra goodies Nils of Moonn Electronics threw in with my order was this clone of the Mellowtone Wolf Computer. I'd never played one, but had faint ~2011 memories of lurking ilovefuzz witnessing major salivation over them. I also had no idea how few components were required, nor the possible range of sounds. It does velcroey stuff, it adds strange artifacts with the voltage starve turned down, and it can even even tamper down its wildness enough to be a great sounding dirt/OD. The Gate (Choke) knob can clean things up quite a bit or let the gain run rampant. Goddamn magnificent. Took me all of 30 minutes to solder, wire up and fall in love with the board.
THE BUILD
Uncomplicated electronically, but a slight tightrope walk with the spacing the pot layout requires. I swung it well enough (and overdrilled the 5mm LED hole, ah well) and there was ample room in the enclosure to wire things a bit more cleanly than I usually manage to.
THE PEDAL
I wanted to keep the wolf theme in there somehow, and with most of my buddies in a group chat either playing Dark Souls for the first time or starting a new character to join up, I was reminded of the Great Gray Wolf Sif, whose striking visage and tragic lore are among some of the best in that game. Problem was, the only unspoken for 125B I had available was violet. "Gray" would be an obvious misnomer. Hence the name change, which is no less accurate given Sif's lore/location/purpose.
I used and vectorized (and credited) fan art of the character by MenasLG for Sif. The crest of Artorias, her beloved fallen master, proved a bit more tricky: the in-game graphic, at least through some Google Image searching, was only available in very low resolution. However, a seller on Etsy makes cast metal versions, so I copped a photo, cropped it and worked some desaturation and vectorizing on it.
Standard Photopea/Maco transparency paper/Rustoleum clear gloss enamel methods were implemented, and thankfully no underpainting was necessary. I really like the purple and black look!
Aside from needing FOUR attempts to apply the main decal, and some slight crookedness/closeness between the knobs and their respective text, the final application and clearcoating turned out nicely, I think. Almost none of the inevitable, many airbubbles are egregiously noticeable save for the aforementioned overdrilled LED.
Thanks for reading my novel. Praise the Sun
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