JAM on vero: EFE XB-70

[Fuzzonaut]

I don't like vero, but I love muffs, so here we go, just another muff, the Emanating Fist Electronics XB-70, with tone/mids switch.
Q1-4 are BC549C, all around 490-500 hFe. Then some Nichicon caps and a Gorva footswitch, to fancy things up a bit.
Cable managment is prett meh, I know, but at least, it worked right away, so I just closed it up.

The sound is great. It's a muff, sure, but it's pretty focused and with the switch, you can fine tune things to actually be present and muffy. Put Sustain on zero and you have a slightly dirty boost.
Recommended as a nice addition to your muff stash, eh.

 

[cdwillis]

Nice! I built one of those along with the EFE Dope Priest. Both very distinctive and cool muff variants.

 

[Fuzzonaut]

Nice! I built one of those along with the EFE Dope Priest. Both very distinctive and cool muff variants.

Oh yeah, I've got an OG Dope Priest, the bass heavy #7 Sovtek style version, looooove that thing, it has been bolted to my pedal board since I got it in ...
lemmy see
.... Damn, that was almost 9 years ago, for a whopping £111, through ebay.

 

[drgonzo1969]

I don't like vero, but I love muffs, so here we go, just another muff, the Emanating Fist Electronics XB-70, with tone/mids switch.
Q1-4 are BC549C, all around 490-500 hFe. Then some Nichicon caps and a Gorva footswitch, to fancy things up a bit.
Cable managment is prett meh, I know, but at least, it worked right away, so I just closed it up.

The sound is great. It's a muff, sure, but it's pretty focused and with the switch, you can fine tune things to actually be present and muffy. Put Sustain on zero and you have a slightly dirty boost.
Recommended as a nice addition to your muff stash, eh.

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Hell ya! That’s pretty clean for a Vero layout. Nice work!

 

[jessenator]

very nice! Is that UV or waterslide? Either way, that's killer.

 

[Fuzzonaut]

Hell ya! That’s pretty clean for a Vero layout. Nice work!

View attachment 60822 very nice! Is that UV or waterslide? Either way, that's killer.

Thanks, guys.

It's not UV, it's not waterslide either, but close. I print on good quality self adhesive foil, works better for me than waterslide, that stuff is too thin for me.

 

[drgonzo1969]

Woah! I’ve never heard of that technique. What type of self adhesive foil? What kind of printer?

 

[Fuzzonaut]

Woah! I’ve never heard of that technique. What type of self adhesive foil? What kind of printer?

I use this paper, and prefer the transparent type on plain enclosures. I also spray 2 coats of some sort of fancy varnish meant for oil paintings on there.


And for the printer: I can use the printer of a friend, don't know what kind or type, but it's big, has a cartridge for every color and prints very slowly ... Probably a "good one", as she works in graphics/photography/... . I could ask her what model.

 

[Feral Feline]

Nip Slip!

Your graphics are always great, superb, and this one's such a tease!

XB-70 on my Muff list...