zero's various pedal builds

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Another Scabbard. I had one a while back and wanted to revisit it.

 

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Cataclysm delay. I've had a crisis of delay of late, bought, built and sold a few. I think I've landed on DL4 MkII as my keeper though. This one is really nice, can really get it to sound nice and dark like the carbon copy with the tone control.

 

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CDB Circulator - Love this phaser but I wanted to rebuild it to remove the switch I wasnt using, and the rate LED which I didnt like looking at flashing when I wasnt using. I've re-added in the intelligent bypass as well.

 

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Kinetic Fuzz - MP35, around 80hfe, barely measured it, but sounds good. I have a Noctis to build and compare with, though my Double Muff may knock both off.

 

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Muffin Factory - Was a fun build! some interesting new things to try with regards to construction.
2x MP35's around 80hfe, 100 leak, 1N192 Germanium diodes from PPCB
Standoffs used from Tayda - A-1306 and A-197
Switches A-5020
Drill template https://drill.taydakits.com/box-designs/new?public_key=elR2U2lBY1hxWTBScnhSNFZBY2tEdz09Cg== (1590BB2)

swapped position for R2 and R3, rest was stock I believe.

Obviously needs some testing to get right, Im not able to get as much gain out of it as the War Scythe at the moment, but tonally its there.

 

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Arkaim fuzz in one of my favorite finishes - Tayda Champagne.
Sorry, on switches should go on the right.

 

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General Tso's compressor.

man, I do not understand compressors..

 

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Cobalt drive - Another classic- I built one, decided I didnt like it, sold it, and here I am trying it again.

Somebody please take my card details away.

 

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2 blue pedals in a row? yeh I dont understand me either.
Mach 1 with opa1678 chip - I do have a single opa2134 but I put it in the compressor. who knows why.

 

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Brown Betty with Thermonic R13 10K for extra gain. Actually quite cool this one.

 

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Fornicus Overdrive.
Wow, that does not sound good.

 

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Effects layouts Ache - No one wants a boost at the end of a life pedal anyway.

 

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Pedalpcb Carbon Black Fuzz
Dont worry, I fixed the top label.

 

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Sandspur fuzz build to DAM Meathead as per https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/fuzz-face-and-a-request-from-all-of-you.19022/
BC108C

 

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Gnat fuzz as Dizzy Elk
GT308V 57hfe 10ua
GT308V 57.1hfe 10ua
GT402E 89hfe 175ua

This was a complete rebuild after I breadboarded it, built it to PCB and it refused to work. It's actually a miracle it currently works considering how much prodding and pulling on all parts I did to it trying to work out what I'd done wrong, because I couldn't tell what I'd done wrong.
Anyway so I pulled the transistors, diode and pots, re-breadboarded it - fantastic, it's working- then rebuilt to a new PCB. In comparing the old board I worked out what it was, I'd flipped R2 and R3, so that would have done it. Classic assumptions while building a simple pedal.

Here's the mod thread

Thread 'PedalPCB Gnat mod - "The Dizzy Elk"'

Jun 26, 2021

First off: all credit for this goes to @music6000 , @thewintersoldier and everyone else who contributed to this build. You can see the original discussion here. All I did was follow their advice.

This mod allows you to use the Gnat Fuzz PCB to create an NPN Elka Dizzy Tone.

I wanted to share it here because it is a pretty simple mod to do with an existing PedalPCB board and because I didn't want to put this in the build reports because it isn't complete yet, but it does work! Credit to Music6000 for the build guide:



After building the board I then...

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I built mine with PNP because I have way more of them, there's instructions inside for NPN. It's a pretty roaring fuzz, I will have to compare it with my Carbon black and well since they're both MkIII benders.

 

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Yeh okay so the tuner actually is amazing. Extremely fast, and tracked my guitar just as easily as it did my bass low A0.

 

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Deflector reverb in glow in the dark enclosure. It does actually glow lol.


Not sure what I'm going to do with the labels for this one yet. If it's 6 knobs my usual labelmaker is kind of a struggle if the controls are more than 3 letters.

 

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Another creampie. Might keep this one.

 

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CDB bass kliche mini

 

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Cataclysm gone - sold all my delays and just went with DL4 MkII, I hate the form factor but I love having three delay presets I can select at any moment I want. Unlike the El Cap which while sounded nice, the toggle to switch between types then having to change everything to how you like it was mildly infuriating. Almost my exact same experience with the Iridium. Sounds great, but if it can do three different sounds, you should have at least three buttons to be able to select one of each preset. I know Strymon has the external fav switch but lik c'mon.

Mach 1 was a surprise, I thought I had low gain covered between a little green scream machine and the chop shop but damn it is really nice with a little crunch.

Effects Layouts Ache - I need to stop building rats. I just dont agree with them. Trying one last time with a triad distortion in the future but they just don't tickle me like the HM2 or a tone bender does.

Dizzy elk gets a lot of use but I think I'm setting the fuzz faces and the two tone to similar points. May need to do some culling there, but also I've sunk a lot of my good germanium into them too.

Had a play with the Deflector in the dark tonight to ignore the controls, it's got some pretty cool sounds in it, looking forward to using that one more but I think I need to route it after my DL4.

Still have nearly 20 pedals in the queue, it's getting a bit silly and my massive pedalboard feels a bit too much already. I hate having stuff around that I'm not using.