Posting this here rather than the making and modding section as it's not just for the builders - if it needs moving, let me know.
As a bit of a pastime, I like to build effects pedals. Clones of well known pedals with circuits available online. The bit I always have trouble with to the point it halts a lot of my builds is the name/design/graphics bit. I'm handy enough with photoshop and the like, but it's the initial ideas that leave me stumped. I'm planning on spending a bit of time working on these over the next couple of weeks while I'm off work.
So here's the deal. If I'm building a pedal, I usually make an extra or two for mates etc. I'll put a list of my upcoming builds here and if someone suggests a name/design idea that I go with, I will make that person one too and send it to them as a thank you for lending me some of their creativity.
To get the juices flowing, here's a Hudson Broadcast and Klon clone I made:
Ideas most welcome for the following on my upcoming build list:
Boss CE-2
MXR Phase 90
ZVex Fuzzolo
ZVex Fuzz Factory
ZVex Fuzzolo/EQD Tentacles dual pedal
ProCo RAT
Compressor (basically a Keeley 4 knob comp with an extra blend).
These are next up, will add more later if I run out.
Cheers,
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Not the best photoshop job is it, but i think this design could work on a smaller enclosure as well, maybe with the whale approaching the ship directly from below: https://i.postimg.cc/k5mVnbnh/moby-dick.jpg
Great stuff thanks
Picture of 2 boring choristers
Boss CE-2 - Chorvid-19
MXR Phase 90 - pictures of a gang of chavs and call it Phazin' Squad
ZVex Fuzzolo - The Fuzzter Keaton
ZVex Fuzz Factory - The Fuzzter Bloodvessel
ZVex Fuzzolo/EQD Tentacles dual pedal - Fuzzter Hattesley (ran out of famous Busters at this point)
ProCo RAT - Splinter (as in the rat from Tennage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Compressor - Self Isolator
They are pretty dire, ideas are harder than they look aren't they
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EDIT: Never mind, he doesn't need cartoon eyes. https://www.loudersound.com/features/ian-anderson-the-10-records-that-changed-my-life
There's got to be something you can do with "The (E)QE2"…?
Hard to beat Edward the Compressor for the, er, compressor. But I feel something doing with needle (as in limiter...). Needle in a Marshall Stack? Needle in a (hay)stack but the haystack is shaped like a 4x12 and head? I dunno.
Perhaps I should have quit at Bhorus...
This idea is cool as fuck!
You win, you win....!!
compressor - the crusher with the enclosure made to look like a cubed scrap car
Rat - Mighty Mouse
Face 90, A-team theme
Based on “Quid Pro Quo” = defined as a favour or advantage given in return for something.
Witness protection was quid pro quo for the names the mobsters gave the police
Design - Mobster wacked for snitching
or alternatively some play on the script and block theme - actor reading from a script ?
Chorus _ Come as you are, ocean wave, black beard (pirate so sort of water linked) like a waterfall, hydrogen bomb. ariel, artagatis (old mermaid myth)
Phaser _ set phasers to stun. Just a phase. Have a Cigar.
the fuzz , hot fuzz (my favourite Simon pegg movie) caught by the fuzz. Rage against the fuzz, muse
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