Locrian99
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- Build Rating
- 4.00 star(s)
Another overdrive added to my growing overdrive collection.
So this was my first madbeans build. No went with this one because it had the switch on board mainly.
I get this in the mail pop it open and I’ve got Ben stiller as Zoolander looking at me.
Just kind of surprised me.
Anyways on to the build…
I didn’t feel like this build flowed as well as most of the other pcb builds I’ve done. I definitely missed having the values on the board rather than r1, c12 etc. Though I can see the value in having it that way for modding etc. Also component placement on the board seemed a bit all over the place to me.
Got it all together though. Verified it was working. Sounded pretty good, had been reading the boneyard post prior to building this so decided I should do the biasing. My 4.7k ended biasing out to a 7.5 to get the collector close to vref (ended up being 12mv, 8.2k was -18mv, decided I didn’t want to do a series and it sounded pretty good). I did notice I got some whine if I maxed out the tone knob, volume and gain at the same time. Not that I would ever do that. But was hoping it would go away once boxed but nope it’s still there.
Decided for an enclosure to just go simple. It’s blue with cheap tayda blue cupcake knobs and a purple led.
Wiring in the box was a bit of a challenge. Not a lot of room at the top, don’t think I messed up my drill template. I would for sure if I had to do this again set the pots a little lower on the face and the jacks a lower on the side to give just a little more room. But it worked was just tight!
Pedal sounds great other than that whine at the weird setting. Hoping though there’s a waza boneyard version of the cobalt in the future I’ll for sure build that to compare
So this was my first madbeans build. No went with this one because it had the switch on board mainly.
I get this in the mail pop it open and I’ve got Ben stiller as Zoolander looking at me.
Just kind of surprised me.
Anyways on to the build…
I didn’t feel like this build flowed as well as most of the other pcb builds I’ve done. I definitely missed having the values on the board rather than r1, c12 etc. Though I can see the value in having it that way for modding etc. Also component placement on the board seemed a bit all over the place to me.
Got it all together though. Verified it was working. Sounded pretty good, had been reading the boneyard post prior to building this so decided I should do the biasing. My 4.7k ended biasing out to a 7.5 to get the collector close to vref (ended up being 12mv, 8.2k was -18mv, decided I didn’t want to do a series and it sounded pretty good). I did notice I got some whine if I maxed out the tone knob, volume and gain at the same time. Not that I would ever do that. But was hoping it would go away once boxed but nope it’s still there.
Decided for an enclosure to just go simple. It’s blue with cheap tayda blue cupcake knobs and a purple led.
Wiring in the box was a bit of a challenge. Not a lot of room at the top, don’t think I messed up my drill template. I would for sure if I had to do this again set the pots a little lower on the face and the jacks a lower on the side to give just a little more room. But it worked was just tight!
Pedal sounds great other than that whine at the weird setting. Hoping though there’s a waza boneyard version of the cobalt in the future I’ll for sure build that to compare