Not built it yet, but it will be this one. I'm trying to get some enclosures done as I have run out of solder and I can knock out the circuits themselves fairly quickly whilst the enclosures are the bottleneck. Working through my build list, I have couple of these to do, a Keeley 4 Knob compressor, an Earthquaker Disaster Transport Jr Delay, a ZW44 OD/Distortion, a RAT, A Suhr Riot, that Fuzz you sent me the link to and many others! I mainly struggle with inspiration for the artwork to be honest, or I'd do them much quicker.
When it came to do the artwork and theme I wasn't getting any inspiration from elephants or suchlike. A few happy accidents later I came up with The Scotoma (see Scintillating Scotoma, something which I get from time to time):
It was a bit of a squeeze getting it all into a 1590B which meant that the toggle switch is too close to the stomp switch, but as I'm not going to gig with it, will be OK.
Ooh, I like that! Looks great. Love that you're set for maximum relax! Looking at that wiki, I also get something similar from time to time - never knew that was what it was called.
Thanks, @SteveF. :-) I like this pedal going through an octaver, gives me that quirky St. Vincent sound. With ZVex fuxzz pedals, one should expect whacky sounds not straight up rock. Cheap to make, and fun to use!
Next pedal is drying...something green is coming...(not a Tube Screamer )
BTW - I hate those big chunky toggle switches from Tayda/Bitsbox (SPDT, DPDT, etc), even if they call them "miniature". I can't find really small ones anywhere.
Yeah I just had a fruitless 10 mins searching too. I did find quite a lot of moaning online about their reliability though. Both the teeny-toggles and the soft press footswitches TC use. Although to be fair, I have 2 TC pedals and have had no issues. I abuse the flashback a bit too as I use it as a looper more often than not.
While we’re on the subject of switches... @Adam_MD what footswitch do you use? I seem to remember you saying you rarely used 3PDT. Are you using a DPDT with a buffer bypass system or some other (optical?) switching?
Yes I use optical switching with an optocoupler and an alpha dpdt. Depending on space I either use the board from 1776 or fuzzdog. It looks like this when installed
No I just buy the boards and install my own parts. I usually already have the resistor, cap and led in my parts drawers so just buy the optocoupler, pcb and switch.
1776 optotron uses a H11F1 which I get from RS or rapid depending on who’s cheaper and the fuzzdog board uses a TLP222G.
I also buy my dpdt in bulk from rapid so they end up costing just under £2 a switch.
If you’re buying in bulk it’s a bit cheaper to get your own parts approx £5 all in but if you only need a few I just looked at fuzzdogs site and his kits are £6.60 which is very reasonable.
I already had a load of DPDT switches and the resistors and caps so just ordered the boards and optocouplers. Managed to just buy the boards from 1776 for the relay switching too and got the transistor and relays from Mouser.
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SPST on-on SW02454
SPDT on-off-on SW02458
DPST on-on SW02449
DPDT on-off-on SW02452
DPDT on-on-on SW04070
I said maybe.....
I've yet to find anything smaller!
I said maybe.....
http://1776effects.com/product/opto-tron-optical-bypass/
https://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/OptoPuss_-_Optical_True_Bypass_PCB/p847124_17567616.aspx
They feel nicer to use and are more reliable than a standard 3pdt.
1776 optotron uses a H11F1 which I get from RS or rapid depending on who’s cheaper and the fuzzdog board uses a TLP222G.
I also buy my dpdt in bulk from rapid so they end up costing just under £2 a switch.
If you’re buying in bulk it’s a bit cheaper to get your own parts approx £5 all in but if you only need a few I just looked at fuzzdogs site and his kits are £6.60 which is very reasonable.
I've heard of NOS but this is just ridiculous.
If it's a USA model, it will be revolutionary.