CONTEST Hey Buddy, Built Anything Lately?
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CONTEST
Every now and then someone asks: "hey can you build me a ***?" This one was for an Ampeg Scrambler and as MadBean had just released a new "Standard" series version of his Eggsploder I thought it would be a good fit. The fading LED SSABP was just to be cool and I'm up to my eyeballs in Tayda disconnects so I use them whether I need them or not. This layout lends itself well. I auditioned a bag of trannies in the EGG socketed position till I found one that was the best combination of nasty/usable so the finished pedal transistor is still socketed but looks nice.
Tayda metallic silver enclosure, waterslide. The layout was moved to a 125b to allow top jacks (customer's request).
Not entirely my cup of tea but a cool sounding pedal and if I were in a Vanilla Fudge cover band this would do it.
Tayda metallic silver enclosure, waterslide. The layout was moved to a 125b to allow top jacks (customer's request).
Not entirely my cup of tea but a cool sounding pedal and if I were in a Vanilla Fudge cover band this would do it.
tegendemuur
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Love it when the DIY community turns a classic obsolete.
This is an Electric Canary Iridescent delay that I finished in April. PT2399 with tap tempo and modulation supplied by the Bontempo chip that came with the board. I've been having a gas finding all the shades of delay and modulation in this thing. I'm using the tap function a lot less than expected though... Maybe I just don't play in time enough!
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GizzWizzKing
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Cool to see everyone's creations. Most recently was the Brown Betty Distortion
Nostradoomus
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Gonna submit twice cause damn the man (JK @Robert I love you). This was going to be my last entry into the one knob contest but the timing didn’t work because, surprisingly, it’s a very temperamental circuit and my first layout didn’t work.
It’s a fuzz—>envelope filter—> lofi delay. I wanted to capture the lead sound of the song “Transmigration” by the Far East Family Band, because it’s the exact way I have aural hallucinations when I am on Dr Hoffman’s prescription. Filtered echoey whooshes. I hear more phaser in real life, if you can call it that, but a phaser is a bit more complicated to jam in a 125B with two other circuits unless I stack them.
EQ Exciter—-Dr Q ish (dano french fries) —-Allesz Crap Fi Delay. I have the pot disconnected as I was trying different dirt circuits by patching them to Vol 2.
It’s a fuzz—>envelope filter—> lofi delay. I wanted to capture the lead sound of the song “Transmigration” by the Far East Family Band, because it’s the exact way I have aural hallucinations when I am on Dr Hoffman’s prescription. Filtered echoey whooshes. I hear more phaser in real life, if you can call it that, but a phaser is a bit more complicated to jam in a 125B with two other circuits unless I stack them.
EQ Exciter—-Dr Q ish (dano french fries) —-Allesz Crap Fi Delay. I have the pot disconnected as I was trying different dirt circuits by patching them to Vol 2.
Fama
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Here's the Dragon Hound I built ~2 weeks ago - I also have a Circulator that is just missing the offboard wiring.
I've had some time to play with it now, although I haven't dug very deep into the low gain sounds yet (I've been working on a song with the higher gain setting so didn't want to mess with it yet).
So it's a TS and a RAT in one box with a blend control and the RAT filter control (although turning up means more treble, so the naming is arguably wrong here). The way I have it set up is that the RAT gives it some oomph, while the TS gives it clarity. The end result (with my strat) is sort of... an agile metal tone? Quite tight, but still with nice heft, very nicely balanced in my opinion.
As for downsides, VFE pedals are famous for being tight builds, and I did scorch one ceramic cap a little here (plus some of the pots have so-so soldering because I did them very quickly to avoid burning anything else - but no bad connections at least so far. I guess you could also say that it's a little complicated for a pedal just to end up with a standard metal tone in the end, but I'm pretty sure the low gain sounds are also nice.
(run into the Quad Cortex on the Friedman BE model, so keep in mind that it plays a big part in the tone and distortion, although it is clean-ish without the pedal)
LCFR/Revel for a friend.
Still chasing some noise in it, but I built it.
was hoping boxing it would fix it(after I found that a PSU I have been using for 2 years was inducing noise). Wondering if it's the solid Al cap. Will probe later. It's late/early.Trying out some new shielded Teflon wire for the IO too.
Edit-found the issue, I forgot something simple(it's 2AM) I'll let you find it.
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SurfaceDweller
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My last build was a 2-knob Carbon Black fuzz (Tonebender-y). The volume knob is ridiculously powerful, and all the fuzz is at the very end of the fuzz knob -but it sounds good!
fontoponto
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Does it count to just link my recent build report?
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Btw here are so many awesome pedals, why don’t you guys write a report?
Or maybe we should start a picture thread for folks who don’t want to write something about their pedal?
Mu-Tron Octave Divider
Based on the fine BYOC schematics I built a Mu-Tron Octave Divider. The only thing that bothered me was the bass being low in volume. In this forum I found the R16/17 mod. Other than that the stock values are just fine (in my opinion). Because of the squeezed parts one knob is almost touching...
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Btw here are so many awesome pedals, why don’t you guys write a report?
Or maybe we should start a picture thread for folks who don’t want to write something about their pedal?
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Markus Kersius
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In my build and also my original (a november 2022 GC special recipe) there is a slight pop when flicking the gain switch indeed.
More so on the original actually..
It's only present when going from low to high gain I've noticed, but it's not that loud.
It didn't bother me so to say.
I did use a 3dpdt for I wanted a led to indicate high gain "on".
The original has a mini spdt for the high/low switching
Paradox916
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Didn’t you make a post about this before? I couldn’t find it. Was this something you cook up? Or was this something you got from OSH park?
Passinwind
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I've mentioned it in a few places, mostly in the Cabintech thread. There are about half a dozen of my various utility boards in there: mixers, gain stages, and a 9V to 5V regulator. And then I used a cheap eBay sourced XR2206 sig generator board for modulation.
The OSH sticker is just covering up an unused hole or two while I work out the final control set. From there I plan to consolidate some of the sub modules into a more practical two or three board format, and look at hopefully fitting it all into a 1590BB case. I'll post a schematic and probably the PCB Gerbers eventually, but Cabintech have added some new features since the two revisions they sent me for beta testing, and I want to look at which additional ones to incorporate, or not. I'm also contemplating adding some EQ in the feedback circuit to emulate the classic BBD analog delay vibe. It already sounds really nice right now though, and I could easily just call it good at any point.
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Paradox916
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Ok at first I thought you used the dev board, but is sounded like you did something different, I forgot about the Cabintech thread.
Passinwind
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This build uses the first rev development board, but with custom firmware for the stereo soundstage that I flashed myself via the Cabintech remote app. They also sent me a second gen dev board with a slightly different stereo program, which I haven't touched yet. So I'm trying to decide what to do with that one, because it seems more sensible to just move on to the production version if I'm going to put in all the time to do my own control board layouts, revisions of those. etc. But I tend to prefer modular builds for R&D stuff, and will probably just use the rev2 dev board for something quick and easy like a simple reverb or a flanger. That huge enclosure was someone else's junkbox part that he threw in on a big package deal, it's been mighty handy for beta testing the CT board.Ok at first I thought you used the dev board, but is sounded like you did something different, I forgot about the Cabintech thread.
Paradox916
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I half wonder if the ct3680 would be a reasonable adaptation to a DC-2 type circuit with a width control, how’s the module sound in comparison to say a fv-1 based modulation circuit? Are they comparable? The cost seems quite a bit more.
Brett
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We both know that with a build like that, what you posted was not a proper gut shot
.justin.s9678
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I'm normally a lurker but for a chance at a $50 gift card...
Dual PedalPCB builds. A Pharmacist overdrive and a Unison Double Tracker. I built the Pharmacist months ago but only got around to applying the art a couple days ago while doing the double tracker. Since i have no artistic ability, all art designs shamelessly lifted from somewhere else. For the Pharmacist, a Taskmaster theme based on some fan art I saw on Reddit. I'm really enjoying the pedal and using it quite a bit into my deluxe reverb. Im a sucker for overdrives with two channels.
The Unison was my first build using the Spin FV-1 and i was a bit intimidated so bought the board with the pre-soldered chip. It went together remarkably fast. Don't have much time playing it yet but really like how it sounds. The design for the art was heavily inspired/stolen from KR Sounds build report.
No gut shots because the insides aren't good enough for compliments and not bad enough to have a laugh at. Thoroughly average C+ work.
Dual PedalPCB builds. A Pharmacist overdrive and a Unison Double Tracker. I built the Pharmacist months ago but only got around to applying the art a couple days ago while doing the double tracker. Since i have no artistic ability, all art designs shamelessly lifted from somewhere else. For the Pharmacist, a Taskmaster theme based on some fan art I saw on Reddit. I'm really enjoying the pedal and using it quite a bit into my deluxe reverb. Im a sucker for overdrives with two channels.
The Unison was my first build using the Spin FV-1 and i was a bit intimidated so bought the board with the pre-soldered chip. It went together remarkably fast. Don't have much time playing it yet but really like how it sounds. The design for the art was heavily inspired/stolen from KR Sounds build report.
No gut shots because the insides aren't good enough for compliments and not bad enough to have a laugh at. Thoroughly average C+ work.
