Post-Lockdown pedal building

Keefy

Yorkie said:

stickyfiddle said:

@yorkie that looks like excellent work for a first build. It's definitely a bug that will grab you if you let it... 

Thanks! The next thing I have to build is a passive cab sim for my Marshall Class 5. Then I will try and get me some fuzz.

What circuit will you be using?

Cookiemonster

I think this one looks good. https://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/product/cabsim tempted to get one myself

Yorkie

Cookiemonster said:

I would try and shorten wires next time. It helps with noise issues. 

Oh I’m not done with this one yet! I’ll optimise everything and add some useful mods to it. It has already replaced a Keeley comp+ as it is now. Not saying that the Keeley is bad (it’s great), but this is the sound I’ve been chasing for ages. Cleans/edge of breakup sound great. 

Yorkie

Keefy said:

Yorkie said:

stickyfiddle said:

@yorkie that looks like excellent work for a first build. It's definitely a bug that will grab you if you let it... 

Thanks! The next thing I have to build is a passive cab sim for my Marshall Class 5. Then I will try and get me some fuzz.

What circuit will you be using?

I don’t know yet. I want something passive and with a large penalty, because the Class 5’s headphones out is unusably hot. 

Yorkie

Cookiemonster said:

I think this one looks good. https://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/product/cabsim tempted to get one myself

That looks sweet, but I would like to try something passive first. 

LastMantra

Yorkie said:

As advised in a separate thread, I've made my own Orange Squeezer clone using a Fuzzdog kit. It's been my first ever build, and I've enjoyed every minute of it, not least because my 11 year old daughter has helped me identify the resistors and measure them, and... she also soldered the 3PDT to the daughterboard! She was adamant that she had accumulated enough practice at her 'design & technology' lessons at school, and begged me to let her do it. So I did. I will admit that I suffered a little bit when she was doing the first two pins, but it was 'ok' in the end. What a fantastic memento of a pedal. I don't think I'll be selling this. Plus it makes my strat+Marshall sing. 
 
The main PCB:



The assembled box:



And the closed box:



Loved it. I might make more things in the near future.

Jon

My first build was an OS. Wasn't as tidy as that! Although I didn’t have any help 
It's a good pedal I use mine all the time. It can be very subtle though, took me a while to figure if it was actually working! 

It's good in front of dirt pedals to push them a bit harder for a lead sound. Amongst many other things. Very simple circuit but just right. 

Yorkie

My first build was an OS. Wasn't as tidy as that! Although I didn’t have any help 

It's a good pedal I use mine all the time. It can be very subtle though, took me a while to figure if it was actually working! 

It's good in front of dirt pedals to push them a bit harder for a lead sound. Amongst many other things. Very simple circuit but just right. 

Haha. I find the compression is much more noticeable with humbuckers than with single coils. With single coils you get that subtle tone enhancement, whereas with humbuckers the increased sustain is great and very welcome.  

I also seem to be getting a slight bit of grit when I crank the compressor - I find it pleasing. 

Jon

Cookiemonster

life pedal clone

Cookiemonster

This one is a Rat built on vero. 

roberty

It's been a while since I built anything so I ordered a Maestro MFZ-1 kit, since I like the Carcosa so much and it's based on it

I might try and incorporate this artwork

stickyfiddle

@Cookiemonster nice. I had my Life/Death plugged in for the first time in ages this week. Really good fun and instantly makes me play in weird scales for some reason. 

I also need to have a build spree again. I have a bunch of kits sitting here but haven’t built anything in at least a year

roberty

Inverted fifth chords sound monstrous through analogue octave up. Fed into a Phase 90 it is that much bigger again

Cookiemonster

roberty said:

It's been a while since I built anything so I ordered a Maestro MFZ-1 kit, since I like the Carcosa so much and it's based on it

I might try and incorporate this artwork

Nice. I would like to build one of these

Cookiemonster

stickyfiddle said:

@Cookiemonster nice. I had my Life/Death plugged in for the first time in ages this week. Really good fun and instantly makes me play in weird scales for some reason. 

I also need to have a build spree again. I have a bunch of kits sitting here but haven’t built anything in at least a year

I have a whole bunch of moon electronic ones to build. All probably crazy

Cookiemonster

Zystickyfiddle said:

@Cookiemonster nice. I had my Life/Death plugged in for the first time in ages this week. Really good fun and instantly makes me play in weird scales for some reason. 

I also need to have a build spree again. I have a bunch of kits sitting here but haven’t built anything in at least a year

Great circuit I have the mini one to build as well

UnclePsychosis

I've got a whole bunch of new things to build, including one that I'm already wondering "why did I buy the bits for that??" so need to get the soldering iron out... 

Cookiemonster

UnclePsychosis said:

I've got a whole bunch of new things to build, including one that I'm already wondering "why did I buy the bits for that??" so need to get the soldering iron out... 

Look forward to seeing them 

UnclePsychosis

Bah.

Built a Vox Repeater. 

Tested it. Seemed to work. Boxed it up. Doesn't work. Had to undo all the footswitch wiring to diagnose it. 

Now I have to rework a whole bunch. Grr. 

roberty

UnclePsychosis said:

Bah.

Built a Vox Repeater. 

Tested it. Seemed to work. Boxed it up. Doesn't work. Had to undo all the footswitch wiring to diagnose it. 

Now I have to rework a whole bunch. Grr. 

All fun and games, until it isn't

Having a break and coming back makes things a lot easier I find

Vox repeater is on my to-do list. No idea why I keep building fuzzes, I have 50 of the bastards

UnclePsychosis

roberty said:

UnclePsychosis said:

Bah.

Built a Vox Repeater. 

Tested it. Seemed to work. Boxed it up. Doesn't work. Had to undo all the footswitch wiring to diagnose it. 

Now I have to rework a whole bunch. Grr. 

All fun and games, until it isn't

Having a break and coming back makes things a lot easier I find

Vox repeater is on my to-do list. No idea why I keep building fuzzes, I have 50 of the bastards

Annoyingly, this is the first time in about 20 attempts that I've had any real problems. I'm abut 99% sure I know what the issue is but it needs me to de-solder a whole bunch of wires, a task I hate. Grr.