Mentaltossflycoon
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So this is the fruit of some convoluted experimentation that if I'm being honest could've been more efficient as a breadboarding project. I picked up one of the series/parallel switchers from GCI and installed these adorable terminals.
I have a pile of functioning circuits that I've populated and function correctly but didn't like enough to put in a box so I've been seeing if there's any combinations that I enjoy in parallel that also sound good/different in series to make a $25 switcher worthwhile. This project didn't fit this category as the series sounds were meh but I have a bunch of these little moonn split'n'blend so finally this Escobedo Cinnabar found a home after much dust collecting.
The Cinnabar is a very simple fuzz, only a single resistor actually. I think the timbre control is pretty interesting but it was cast aside, like most in the pile, for robbing the lows. The timbre pot can get you normal-ish fuzz toans but with the timbre pot near zero you kind of get honky mids that... I don't want say are Knopfleresque..... let's say "Patrick Finnertyesque money for nothing" sounds.
Since it sounds cool and barky I figured something big was necessary for the other side. Creme Fluff was the winner though honestly it's also a choice of convenience since I already had the board in my stash. The second switch bypasses the Creme Fluff so there's a clean blended Cinnabar setting too.
So, do I recommend for you to go and build exactly this? No. This isn't what I'd call a refined product ready to sell to customers. It's absolute hackery but it's my hackery and I like it. I do suggest the GCI parallel series switcher and every other element of this build individually 100%.
Enclosure is the new tayda candy metallic red. Graphic is a vintage photo of the building that houses the record store I worked at in college back when it was a drug store/piggly wiggly. Due to poor planning, I used different input and output jacks.
I have a pile of functioning circuits that I've populated and function correctly but didn't like enough to put in a box so I've been seeing if there's any combinations that I enjoy in parallel that also sound good/different in series to make a $25 switcher worthwhile. This project didn't fit this category as the series sounds were meh but I have a bunch of these little moonn split'n'blend so finally this Escobedo Cinnabar found a home after much dust collecting.
The Cinnabar is a very simple fuzz, only a single resistor actually. I think the timbre control is pretty interesting but it was cast aside, like most in the pile, for robbing the lows. The timbre pot can get you normal-ish fuzz toans but with the timbre pot near zero you kind of get honky mids that... I don't want say are Knopfleresque..... let's say "Patrick Finnertyesque money for nothing" sounds.
Since it sounds cool and barky I figured something big was necessary for the other side. Creme Fluff was the winner though honestly it's also a choice of convenience since I already had the board in my stash. The second switch bypasses the Creme Fluff so there's a clean blended Cinnabar setting too.
So, do I recommend for you to go and build exactly this? No. This isn't what I'd call a refined product ready to sell to customers. It's absolute hackery but it's my hackery and I like it. I do suggest the GCI parallel series switcher and every other element of this build individually 100%.
Enclosure is the new tayda candy metallic red. Graphic is a vintage photo of the building that houses the record store I worked at in college back when it was a drug store/piggly wiggly. Due to poor planning, I used different input and output jacks.
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