zero's various pedal builds

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Kliche


I took my Uberklon apart, sold the Uberdrive part of it, and re-created the Notaklon to a Chuck Bass Klon, so I re-build the klon to a regular with ge diodes. Sounds good.

 

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Amentum boost


Challenged myself to build in 1590A, worked well, I just didnt need another boost.

 

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Cobalt drive

Once I figured out the matching J201's, it worked nicely.
Didnt need another overdrive.

 

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Antithesis

Build with 2N404 from ebay, sounds alright, just not a sound I need.

 

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Aft Pre


Gotta stop ordering transistors from ebay just because I can. OC139 in this one.
The full range sounds good, treble not so much my flavor.

 

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Carcass Fuzz




Messed up my drill template so had to wire the LED to the bottom, oops.
Another sounds alright, but dont need it.

 

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Desolate Fuzz.
Had a horrible time trying to get the J201's to match. Got it there in the end, I dont really like gated fuzz apparently.

 

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Nein Fuzz
Dont mind this, I think there's a few good ways to use it.
Unfortunately, my Broadcast is so versatile, it keeps knocking pedals I build to the sell pile.
Nein is going in the closet, not ready to sell yet.

 

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Median Compressor


Built with LM833N. Sounds really good, and will be for my bass pedalboard.
I had bought the OPA1678's from Digikey, then on another order bought the adaptors.
Soldered the chips to the adaptors, then promptly lost it in my study somewhere. Fuming.

 

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Cream Pie Fuzz


Holy shit what a great pedal. Instant on the bass board, may even get a second for the guitar board
Dead simple build.

 

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Frequency Interchange


Everyone said I basically have to own one of these if I use a bass guitar. I thought it was a good candidate for building with the chargepump board as well. Still trying to dial this one in.

 

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Frajeelay Rat
Did some mods that I found to fix up the blend (turns out a useless feature)
Weight seems to be a subtle control but thats okay.
I also stole the on-off-on switch with 4148, LED and Ge diodes options. LED is by far louder but I dont mind the ge clipping actually.

 

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Aion Empyrean Deluxe Distortion

Clone of the Alpha Omega Darkglass pedal, I'm fairly sure its working but I'm not really enjoying the sounds in it so far, needs some more playing with.

 

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So basically I've built about 20 new pedals, and almost all of them I'm fairly sure are not for me after about 10mins use. I have really got to buy a breadboard.
My other life lesson is that if I think the Duocast will do a passable enough job on it, I definitely shouldnt build it. That pedal is incredible.

Next on the soldering iron are;
Aion Heliodor
Aion Azure
Aion Maelstrom (as VMT)
Muzzle Gate

 

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Bass board
Median compressor, Notakliche (bass spec), cream pie fuzz, Aion Empyrean deluxe, frequency interchange, tonex one

 

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Aion Azure chorus
built with a socket for the bass capacitor, sounds pretty good!
I made another Aion drive and on the drilling I did it down a little lower so the knobs wouldn't be so high, and then fucked myself over because then the switch board didn't fit, so it's on a massive angle lol. Oh well, it works.
I need to find some other 1uf film that aren't so massive as well.

 

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Aion Maelstrom - Vintage Microtubes spec.
Had to do some resistor tenting and some other wierd stuff for this one but it does sound good. Trying to work out if I also need to build a B3K or if this will do me. the attack switch does nothing on this which is mildly annoying but apparently by design.
I continue to be very unhappy with aions footswitch boards.

 

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Aion Heliodor
Not really that interesting I thought.