Madbean Sludgehammer

Mentaltossflycoon

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Build Rating
5.00 star(s)
I was supremely unmotivated to build this up. Months ago, I was going nuts trying to eliminate some noise in my rig that only occurs at my drummer's place. I began to suspect my radial tonebone bassbone so I ordered this to try and make my own preamp/ instrument switcher/di with a unicab. I successfully got rid of said noise (a buffer issue elsewhere) before I got around to that project so this just sat.

I still don't have a specific need for it right now but I figured it'll never become handy if it's in my queue and I was sick of looking at that little spring in a baggie floating around my sack of pcbs.

No curve balls here, the build was easy and satisfying. The pedal sounds great, @bean Says himself in the docs that he has no use for diming the gain and yeah... no need for that last lil bit o gain but at most/modest settings it provides tasty useful grunty sounds. I can see why these were so popular in their heyday. I'll probably be cramming this in my cable bag or putting it on the underside of my pedalboard to have as a back up plan. I labeled it sideways just so I could use this sticker that I had already printed. It was just begging to go on the sludgehammer.

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Good stuff man. I have one of these that I've not built as well. I had an original back in the early 2000's that I sold and wish I hadn't. I have the Behringer clone now so I'm in no hurry, but, like you, that little spring in my box-o-builds is driving me nuts 😂
 
I built one and like it but it's barely used for anything other than the DI.

Now if Bean would put out a VTDI I would be in heaven.
 
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