Trembling Loon

[DailyDovetails]

Build Rating

5.00 star(s)

Here is the Trembling Loon I build. The hardest part was probably getting the LED to line up correctly with the eye. The first gain pot I used in this build had an issue and was seemingly full on all the time after replacing it worked fine. I’m running it in the effects loop before my Unicab.

I’m still figuring out all the sounds this thing can make but I am enjoying the contrast it adds to my clean playing and I think some of the lighter throb settings sound awesome with higher gain.

I took an upclose photo of the LDR-LED coupler I printed. It is basically a tiny film canister that the components slide into with small holes for the leads to come out. It took a bit to get the holes to print small without closing up but it seems to work pretty well assembled. It seems to function correctly and is dark enough I can test it in the light outside the enclosure.

I ordered 6 more boards from PPCB seabed, thermonic, hydra, abyss, arche, and chaos machine. I’m having a lot of fun putting these together they are kind of a sweet spot for me between design, engineering and learning.

 

[Alan W]

I have a build of this from many years ago, on perfboard, and it has the best wave controls of any tremolo pedal I've run across. I think you're doing the nicest printed enclosures I've seen! Yes—this is an addictive hobby.

 

[BuddytheReow]

I like how the actual knobs are labelled. Awesome job!

 

[dawson]

Impressive models and impressive printing!

 

[Feral Feline]

I like how the actual knobs are labelled. Awesome job!

That's my favourite part; when I first saw it on DD's Unicab build it just made so much sense!

And now here the LDR-LED vactrol!

I've got some small plastic bike-parts that I want to use for making a vactrol-case. I'd still have to seal with some black epoxy-goo, so nowhere near as tidy as the 3D-print in the OP.