Ruby and Amber - the bad girls

[jhaneyzz]

Meet two girls you can't take home to mother.

Ruby and Amber. The Bad Girls.

I had some happy accidents with MidJourney which handed me some cool "dangerous women" images and was itching for a way to use them.

This is a pair of Pedal PCB Special-Ks.

This is one of my current favorite "just sounds great" circuits, so I made a couple to give away or trade with friends. these 1N34As are pretty sweet and there isn't too much of a volume change between them and the silicon.

This is another one of those PCBs that easily accommodate marble modding which makes me smile.

I intentionally let the borders of the etching get "out of control" and look rough to suit the aesthetic.

I think I prefer Ruby's mini Maxon knobs to the Skinny HIFIs of Amber's on these.

 

[steviejr92]

I really like what you did here with the back plates!

Love the builds! Awesome work man!

 

[jhaneyzz]

I really like what you did here with the back plates!

Love the builds! Awesome work man!

Thanks... I really appreciate it.

I've been absolutely cranking out OD pedals lately (no pun intended) and have many in various states of production.

I spend so much of my effort on the enclosure and end up sidelining a pedal for a few weeks waiting for some special washer, super bright LED or spherical gemstone from china that I kinda forget what each pedal is...

When I etch, I let the etchant run down the sides which kinda looks cool, but when I screw on the un etched back plate it looked stupid on the "distressed" top.

So i decided to kill two birds with one stone and etch the pedal name on the bottom in negative so the rest of the base gets all scuzzy like the rest of the pedal.

I like how the look and feel has developed.

The grungy, rough etching style of the artwork really works with it as well.

 

[steviejr92]

Agree! I think it adds character to the pedal as a whole!

 

[eh là bas ma]

We all know that content and form are bound. And sometimes choices have to be made. Some would say that these choices define who we are.

I wonder what is your first priority as a stompbox builder :

Let's say you have a favorite circuit, one you really use everyday, with almost no space left inside the enclosure, like Aion's Blueshift, for exemple. Everything is tightly packed in there, you really struggled to put one of your marbles.

One day, you find on this forum an amazing mod for this effect, the kind of mod you dreamed about.
This mod would absolutely be useful to you, and it comes with a toggleswitch.

Let's say you can't get rid of the toggle and make the mod permanent, it would ruin the effect. Like a vibrato mod on a chorus for exemple. You need to be able to come back to the standard configuration, hence the toggle.

No way to find some additional space for a toggleswitch, but there is barely enough space to add a little 3mm led, the kind of 3mm led that everybody else is using...
Your only option is to take off the marble, and use its space for the toggleswitch.

Would you keep the marble despite everything ? Would you choose the marble over musical creativity ? Would you willingly and consciously discard the best things your favorite circuit has to offer, in order to keep a marble as status indicator ?

 

[jhaneyzz]

Do you really have to ask?

My answer…. 1590XX!

 

[jhaneyzz]

nah, I always make sure the circuit comes first.

But even on my “standard” LED builds I sand the lenses with 600 grit and keep them on the dim side.

 

[KR Sound]

So cool, man.

 

[HamishR]

Now all you need is a green one for GO.

 

[jhaneyzz]

Now all you need is a green one for GO.

I'd call her "Jade"

 

[Chuck D. Bones]

Most excellent.