Show your pedal guts!

[bogey]

This is the future.

[Zanius]

It's been a while since I posted something so here is a darkglass I really liked





Really nice overdrive, pretty different than anything else I've heard.

[MAO]

Zanius, If it sounds half as good as it looks, it must be fantastic.

Well done!

[Sensei Tim]

Boss ce-2 with intensity switch

[GHFS]

Hi Fellas!

My second post. Introductions already made on the thread!

My first build on a vero. H&K Red Box Classic, aka Green Box by GHFS
Works like a charm, great 4x12 sim, and a fantastic DI.

Hope ya like

Cheers








The box is an ordinary aluminum electrical floor box.

Cheers

Gustavo

[Sensei Tim]

Madbean zero point mini

Only after I epoxied it did I realize I mixed up the labeling on the tone and rate knobs :-/

[squirrels]

I After a bit of a break from building and never having any good gut shots, here is my first build in a few months, Skreddy Mayonaise with BC550C transistors. Wrong album cover but one of my favorite.

[Marbles]

Love it!
Both albums are timeless. Whatever you think about that man, those albums did not follow any trend and still sound fresh. On heavy rotation at least every month.

Those gold knobs finish it beautifully. Awesome job. How does it sound?

[squirrels]

I play through an Orange OR15 and a 1x12 can and it hates Muffs with a passion but for some reason, this one works really well with the amp set dirty or clean. It sounds best with the amps gain around 1:00 and the pedal with low gain and high volume. It’s definitely the neatest wiring I’ve done for sure. Maybe it’s the new tubes I put it or something is out of spec on the pedal but it sounds great. Usually most Muffs lose all definition with my amp, especially on the middle of the tone control but this one is definitely a keeper. I was going to try to sell it to make a little cash for some other builds (based on the artwork) but it’s staying on my board. I have other pedals I like much more but I’m actually kind of proud of this build.

[SteveF]

Hi all, new here, just did my intro in the other thread :) Here's a 4-knob compressor I made using the layout from this site. Didn't have a couple of the correct pots, so used a resistor in parallel to get close to the correct value.  The sweep is a bit off, but nothing too noticeable.  Also tried out an optical bypass from FuzzDog.  

[MAO]

Well done Steve!

There is a nice workaround to create 150k pots using 2 dual pots, posted in one of the 4 knob, 5 knob or Keeley threads.(sorry, don't recall which one)

In a nutshell, get a 100k dual linear pot and a 50k dual linear from Tayda, and swap the top wafers, then wire each of the dual pots in series with itself giving 2 150k pots.

Works great and very easy to do.

But again, pedal looks great, inside and out.

[SteveF]

Thanks :) I'll look into that pot workaround :)

[Travis]

Nice suggestion on the dual pots Mao, I like that idea

squirrels wrote

I play through an Orange OR15 and a 1x12 can and it hates Muffs with a passion but for some reason, this one works really well with the amp set dirty or clean. It sounds best with the amps gain around 1:00 and the pedal with low gain and high volume. It’s definitely the neatest wiring I’ve done for sure. Maybe it’s the new tubes I put it or something is out of spec on the pedal but it sounds great. Usually most Muffs lose all definition with my amp, especially on the middle of the tone control but this one is definitely a keeper. I was going to try to sell it to make a little cash for some other builds (based on the artwork) but it’s staying on my board. I have other pedals I like much more but I’m actually kind of proud of this build.

I was using an ac30 before which was the same way.

What I found was that the amp was basically out of headroom at the settings I would use, and adding a highly saturated and compressed distortion tended to sound really blown out and undefined.

It tended to sound best for me with less “saturated” and compressed pedals, which IMO the Pharoah is compared to normal muffs.

I usually opted for something like an FZ-1A or Rangemaster instead of a Muff with that amp

[squirrels]

The OR15 has very little headroom and I’m not big on squeaky clean guitar tone so it’s perfect for my base tone. The volume knob is usually my clean channel. Usually the gain, treble and bass are set to around 1:00 and the mods Stephens 11:00. I’m trying to coax as many tones out of this amp as I can and since it’s so fickle, it meant a lot of failures with pedals. The Overdriver/Black Forest, Pharaoh, Sonic Titan and Klon have been my favorites.

The Pharaoh does a pretty good job of getting that Smashing Pumpkins type tone with my amp but it’s a little too bass heavy. It’s a doom machine though. The Mayonaise surprisingly works well considering I’ve tried it in the past along with other Muff variants and they usually die out on the low E. Rolling the guitar volume back helps a lot too. The OR can get be dialed in pretty but I’m not a fan of it really.

I did record a sound clip on GarageBand on my iPhone but I can’t upload it to Soundcloud.

[PMowdes]

Here's some things I've been working on lately

First up a jhs bun runner I've been doing with Aisha, what a ripper this is, especially the hyperion side with the gate switch




And some others in progress.  Finally got around to making the Lovetone flanger and tremolo. Along with a brassmaster, big cheese and a Guyatone PS01

The flanger is great, everything from chorus to flanger to trem to pseudo ring mod.  The trem is disappointing but I haven't tried it in stereo yet.

[insidecircles]

I visited my parents recently and was digging around in their loft through some of my old stuff (that I never threw away). I found a pair of AC128s I must have ordered... 15 years ago. So I made a Fuzz Face.

[squirrels]

DAM Sonic Titan with a 2N5457, LM386N-4 and the 4.7nf caps bumped up to 6.8nf and 10nf. The artwork was from a Sleep skateboard deck that found on Google.

[Sensei Tim]

Dunlop zw-44 Zakk Wylde od

Added stock/led clipping diodes and a presence circuit.

[bogey]

It's been quite a while since I've actually boxed anything up, but I got a bit of free time over the weekend and finished this.


The Hudson Electronics Broadcast.





I'm a bit out of practise and made quite a few mistakes, but after a bit of debugging it came together quite nicely. And it sounds real nice.

[Travis]

Lookin great as usual Bogey!!

What Ge tranny did you use there? Looks like it could be a cool Newmarket or Philips