What should I get?

Harry Klippton

Harry Klippton

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I have become the victim beneficiary of a pedalpcb gift card from the forum's favorite sugar daddy @fig so I thought I'd entertain some suggestions on what I should get when I redeem my gift card.

Here's what I'd like you to do: give me an elevator pitch on what project you think I should check out. Don't just list the name, lemme know what you like about it, hit me with some sound samples etc. Like @Big Monk I probably won't listen to anything you say and do my own thing, but I'm constantly surprised at build reports for pedals I've never even heard of so this might be fun. I love a little context, like with music recommendations where someone tells me why they like something or where it's coming from.

I'll probably get a hydra, and I wanted to pick up the unison double tracker but it's not in stock AND I already own a strymon deco but ya know, cool is cool. I'll give extra consideration to stuff that's interesting to build too. So let's hear it. Give me your best recommendation!
 
Get 4 XC phase boards.

Wire them in parallel in one box— 1 in, four outs.

Quadraphonic Phase

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QUADRAPHONIC PHASE!

QUADRAPHONIC PHASE!
QUADRAPHONIC PHASE!
QUADRAPHONIC PHASE!
QUADRAPHONIC PHASE!
QUADRAPHONIC PHASE!

 
Start at the top and get as many as you can. 50 bought me three, so you may have to throw in some cash.
 
My next PPCB build is going to be the Muffin Factory. I feel like everyone needs to have a Muff of some kind on their board. The problem is that there are 72390457234098 variations of that circuit out there. This allows you to have many variations in one enclosure.

So, yea. Muffin Factory.
 
The Pendulum ranks pretty high in my list of PedalPCB builds.

If you don't have a Harmonic Tremolo, then I recommend it. It's pretty trippy, because it adds a phaser or uni-vibe like effect. I have a "regular" tremolo and find I don't have much need for the choppy sound it gives, but the harmonic tremolo can substitute for a different flavor of phaser.
 
It's a super easy build requiring parts you likely already have, but I have to recommend the Mercurial Boost. I have built one for everyone who has borrowed mine because they all fell in love with it.

I know there's a good chance you've already built one, but I just had to mention it because it really is that good.
 
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Muffin factory and chop shop are solid choices, the chop shop being my current favorite light dirt for bass. I'm going to throw in the roboto, ocelot, and the quarantine fuzz. All three for different reasons.

Roboto is super unique and one of my all time favorite circuits, borderline unusable as it is. While it's 95% fun toy it's a very very fun toy.

Ocelot. OC2 style circuits should need no explanation. I play with a lot of octave sounds and this one just behaves really well. The articulation is big and round. Sounds good before most of my dirt. I actually disliked oc2s for years, preferring the "new fangled" EHX octavers but I've come around to needing both on my board. I just wasn't using it right. The oc2 is the king of 1 octave down(no dry). I have mine housed in a box that goes roboto>ocelot>arcadiator and it rules. Roboto into the ocelot can be a lot of fun/nausea inducing. I was messing with this combination last night into the hydra.

Quarantine fuzz. The sounds found here are awesome, but really I just look at it as more of a cathartic part of processing the last couple years. Though shits been bleak, there's been a lot of positivity too and my quarantine fuzz helps to keep that in mind. It was also my first ppcb project so maybe I'm just being sentimental. It just happens to also be an excellent sounding dirt box. More for guitar than bass but I play both.

Honorable mentions: polar cap(versatile), cream pie(thick), death cap(nasty) fuzzes. Just some filthiness that I keep coming back to and won't be giving away any time soon.
 
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Harry Klippton said:
Oh yeah I wanted to check out the chop shop
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You should, it's a great circuit. Been pretty much on my board since I picked up the guitar again some 4 years ago.
Great for light dirt and the dynamics are really nice. I actually have a Modèle B on my board, but the Chop Shop was one of the first circuit I built, for a good friend, and he loves it (he uses it on guitar and bass).
If you do, pick up a couple of trimmit adapter board to properly bias the jfets.
 
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I searched your post history and didn’t see any mention of this one but apologies if I missed it.

What if I told you that one fuzz board could get more fuzz tones than most people would know what to do with, and that it only used silicon transistors?

The Fuzz Aldrin is mind boggingly good. Versatile in a “you’ll ACTUALLY use those tones” instead of versatile in the “interesting sound I’ll never set this pedal to again after I dime the fuzz.”

I have yet to hear a demo of it that captures the tone bender mkii like fuzz thunder that I love dialing in with mine. “Dark side fuzz” is accurate, but the most buried lede of the century.

I can’t shut the fuck up about this pedal. Every other word out of my mouth since boxing it up is just “skreddy.” I’m even more insufferable than usual.

If you could toggle/dial in an octave fuzz ala super/hyper fuzz I’d want to be buried with it.

I think everyone should build one. If not several. I ordered a 3rd pcb earlier today to do a screwdriver (2nd will be a hybrid fuzz)
 
If you don’t have a gate the muzzle is pretty nice, not sure how well it would play with a fuzz might be counterproductive.. but it doesn’t have to be about cleaning up a distortion cranked to 11, I find it can make a clean signal sparkle if you set on the lower end so it doesn’t chop the sustain.
 
Daydream - I'm biased, so what? It's a one-trick pony but it's a trick not too many other ponies can pull off.
https://soundcloud.com/buggfxpedals%2Fdaydream-soma

Golden Falk - Yeah, another MIAB, but this one blew me away and I don't get blown away too often. This is hands down my absolute favorite right now, I've been telling everyone about it. Burgs has a demo on YouTube, it sounds every bit as good in person.

Modus Operandi - Very nice boost, if you're into that sort of thing... one of those "always on" type of pedals that makes me frown at my amp when I switch it off. Not much to listen to here in terms of clips...
 
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