OctaMayer and Special Overdrive

[JamieJ]

I finished off two builds today which were both quite surprising, as I wasn't expecting too much from them both. Both pedals are stock with no mods. Both enclosures are bare and I was messing about with some sharpie pens and stamps on the fuzz and then coloured them in afterwards. I think it looks shit - but in a good way
I will probably leave the special blank for the moment. I was only building these out of curiosity, which is why these are design-less.

The Octa Mayer is amazing. I only have experience with the Foxx Tonemachine type of octafuzz circuits, which are useless below the twelfth fret where the octamayer is amazing all over the neck. I had a tonecity one that was pretty meh - it sort of achieved that sound but not what I wanted in my head. This one is definitely a keeper.

The Special Overdrive sounds very similar to the Zendrive clone I built, but it just sounds better (to my ears), so I think it has won a space on my board. This is with it powered at 9v and it still beats the Zendrive powered at 9 and 18v. I ran low on caps for the special build and used one rated at 16v so I will need to swap that out in future to see how it sounds at 18v.

I will probably make up some faceplates for these builds as they are probably going to be on my board for a while.

 

[fig]

All over the neck you say? You used the word amazing twice to describe this pedal. Now I must have one. Garcon!

Thanks for sharing Jamie...great assemblage!

 

[Feral Feline]

Had to add Octamayer to my PPCB "short list" because of you & Fig.


Cool builds, no need for face-plates if they were going on my board. There's enough visual interest with the knob selection on the SO and the ink on the Octa and black footsw.

 

[JamieJ]

Had to add Octamayer to my PPCB "short list" because of you & Fig.


Cool builds, no need for face-plates if they were going on my board. There's enough visual interest with the knob selection on the SO and the ink on the Octa and black footsw.

Thanks @Feral Feline and @fig - I bet the octamayer would sound cool on bass.

Maybe I should use the letter stamps and black ink to call the special The SOD.

 

[Feral Feline]

DO IT!

 

[peccary]

All over the neck you say? You used the word amazing twice to describe this pedal. Now I must have one. Garcon!

Thanks for sharing Jamie...great assemblage!

Gazuntite!

 

[ntuncer]

Hello, I just finished the Special Overdrive and I find that the pots are working differently than other pedals. If I increase the gain, I barely use volume knob at 11 o' clock, is it normal? By the way Special Overdrive is based on which Dumbloid; Dumbloid Special, Dumbloid Overdrive Special?
Cheers

 

[JamieJ]

@ntuncer I haven’t played it for a while but I remember needing to set the volume and gait pretty low. It has a huge amount of output. So I don’t think there sounds like a problem with your pedal if that’s the only concern.

I think it’s based on the Dumbloid Special Overdrive - same as this model:

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[Big Monk]

All over the neck you say? You used the word amazing twice to describe this pedal. Now I must have one. Garcon!

Thanks for sharing Jamie...great assemblage!

Think about how good it would sound if he had my socks.

 

[fig]

Think about how good it would sound if he had my socks.

You should sell soiled ones on Reverb.

 

[JamieJ]

Shall I do a demo in some white socks to see if I can replicate @Big Monk s magic?

 

[Barry]

Great looking builds, I like the look of the stamping myself

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

Nice builds. I like the stamped letters look.
You have inspired me to bust out my Octa-Mayer and play thru it again.

 

[JamieJ]

Thanks Chuck, the special hasn’t made it to my board but I absolutely love the octave-fuzz. It sounds great when clean and with the fuzz turned up.

 

[finebyfine]

This is inspiring me to take my octamayer out again too. I really like the looks of both of these pedals too! Great job