DEMO The Boomstick - PCB Guitar Mania Solid Metal (AmpTweaker TightMetal)

[yazooligan]

Build Rating

5.00 star(s)

Listen up, you primitive screwheads. This, is my Boomstick.

The PCB took just over a month to arrive but given world events I’m not really complaining. Other than that the build came together pretty quick and easy. I had a TightMetal for a while and the tone is dead-on, if not better. The gate is a nice feature to have, and even at the lowest gain setting it sounds great. Having the TightRock mode on a switch is awesome and I get a lot of mileage out of that setting too. The Thrash mode is cool but I like the stock setting a bit more.

EDIT:
I got a question from another user about whether to use a 1.5k or 15k resistor for R9, and I recorded an A/B test of the two.

https://soundcloud.com/spaced83%2Fsolidmetal-resistor-test-ab-15kvs15k

 

[steviejr92]

Listen up, you primitive screwheads. This, is my Boomstick.

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The PCB took just over a month to arrive but given world events I’m not really complaining. Other than that the build came together pretty quick and easy. I had a TightMetal for a while and the tone is dead-on, if not better. The gate is a nice feature to have, and even at the lowest gain setting it sounds great. Having the TightRock mode on a switch is awesome and I get a lot of mileage out of that setting too. The Thrash mode is cool but I like the stock setting a bit more.

Its oozing awesomeness!!!!! What a build dude! But por favor gutshots please?

EDIT: Those knobs are incredible btw! Make em yourself?
Thanks for the Gutshots!

 

[fig]

Bruce!

Man that's nice!

 

[yazooligan]

Its oozing awesomeness!!!!! What a build dude! But por favor gutshots please?

EDIT: Those knobs are incredible btw! Make em yourself?
Thanks for the Gutshots!

Thanks! The fine folks at https://xentricguitars.com/

 

[steviejr92]

Thanks! The fine folks at https://xentricguitars.com/

Woah thanks for the link!

 

[szukalski]

Splendid build. There’s so much right here.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Damn. That's the second pedal I've seen here today that I want to have on my board. Nice

 

[yazooligan]

Thanks so much for the kind words!

 

[yazooligan]

I got a question from another user about whether to use a 1.5k or 15k resistor for R9, and I recorded an A/B test of the two.

https://soundcloud.com/spaced83%2Fsolidmetal-resistor-test-ab-15kvs15k

 

[GizzWizzKing]

The 15k sounds like the winner to me. Lotsa guts

 

[jimilee]

Nice! I’ve been thinking about laying one out, myself. I’m intrigued with a gate in the circuit.

 

[The Gator]

Wow! Awesome artwork! I love it!
Hard to say on the A/B test. I kibda feel like more things sound like B out there, so I would go with A.
Both sound great.
Fantastic work!

 

[Kroars]

Listen up, you primitive screwheads. This, is my Boomstick.

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The PCB took just over a month to arrive but given world events I’m not really complaining. Other than that the build came together pretty quick and easy. I had a TightMetal for a while and the tone is dead-on, if not better. The gate is a nice feature to have, and even at the lowest gain setting it sounds great. Having the TightRock mode on a switch is awesome and I get a lot of mileage out of that setting too. The Thrash mode is cool but I like the stock setting a bit more.

EDIT:
I got a question from another user about whether to use a 1.5k or 15k resistor for R9, and I recorded an A/B test of the two.

https://soundcloud.com/spaced83%2Fsolidmetal-resistor-test-ab-15kvs15k

Looks and sounds amazing! I actually built a couple of these (side by side) and was very underwhelmed with the final product on both. I tried both of the recommend resistors for R9, but just ended shelving them because I thought something was wrong with the trace. Yours sounded great! Makes me want to dust them off and revisit them. I didn’t see any revisions to the build docs and your pcb looks just like I remembered.

Edit: found a gut shot of one that I built. So strange, it sounded nothing like yours. It didn’t have really any “bite” to it at all. Almost seemed a little woofy and bassy.

 

[micmac]

On OP's pic the PCB says version 1.1. On your pic it doesn't. I boxed up a 1.1 yesterday and it shreds. Maybe ask PCB Mania for the differences between the versions? Maybe there's an easy way to fix. Or maybe to get a refund at least.