p_wats
Well-known member
This might be the most complex circuit I've done on vero in a while. It barely fit in a 125B!
VFE Old School tremolo in a glow-in-the-dark enclosure from Tayda (more on that later, argh).
Bit of spaghetti inside, but this one is for me and I was excited to get it boxed up (took the photos before I used zip-ties to clean up the wire runs a bit).
I've been searching for a dynamic tremolo to build for a while and tried the JMK Blue Warbler 2 first, but it's a bit too quirky and inconsistent (Jon Patton himself said it's sort of a novelty circuit).
I love that it responds to picking dynamics to lower the depth (or increase the speed, depending on the setting). This will likely be an "always on" pedal for me, as I've been rehearsing with it in my test rig and it just fits so well.
For the art, I was going to draw a school house, but that looked lame, so I took inspiration from one of the iterations of the actual VFE pedal and taped off a sort of brick wall. I had just bought a new can of purple spray and decided to use that, which made it look a bit too much like an Easter castle, so I went with brown knobs to dull it down a bit. I wanted to write on the brick wall as a sort of graffiti that incorporated the LEDs, but it was too bumpy, so I chickened-out.
Unfortunately, Tayda's quality control strikes again, as it seems only 2 of the 4 screw holes are threaded properly, so I can't use 2 of the screws (one will go in about half-way, the other less than that). I've reached out to them to see what they want to say. I don't know how to fix it, so for now it's on my board as-is, but I'm open to suggestions!
VFE Old School tremolo in a glow-in-the-dark enclosure from Tayda (more on that later, argh).
Bit of spaghetti inside, but this one is for me and I was excited to get it boxed up (took the photos before I used zip-ties to clean up the wire runs a bit).
I've been searching for a dynamic tremolo to build for a while and tried the JMK Blue Warbler 2 first, but it's a bit too quirky and inconsistent (Jon Patton himself said it's sort of a novelty circuit).
I love that it responds to picking dynamics to lower the depth (or increase the speed, depending on the setting). This will likely be an "always on" pedal for me, as I've been rehearsing with it in my test rig and it just fits so well.
For the art, I was going to draw a school house, but that looked lame, so I took inspiration from one of the iterations of the actual VFE pedal and taped off a sort of brick wall. I had just bought a new can of purple spray and decided to use that, which made it look a bit too much like an Easter castle, so I went with brown knobs to dull it down a bit. I wanted to write on the brick wall as a sort of graffiti that incorporated the LEDs, but it was too bumpy, so I chickened-out.
Unfortunately, Tayda's quality control strikes again, as it seems only 2 of the 4 screw holes are threaded properly, so I can't use 2 of the screws (one will go in about half-way, the other less than that). I've reached out to them to see what they want to say. I don't know how to fix it, so for now it's on my board as-is, but I'm open to suggestions!
