Show your pedal guts!

[johnk]

Human Gear Animato Clone with added tilt control:





and it's a pretty wild sounding distortion pedal.

[Travis]

Great job, John! That's quite a lot to stuff in a 1590b

Did you use the schem/PCB layout from Crowella at diysb? What transistors did you use?

[johnk]

Travis wrote

Great job, John! That's quite a lot to stuff in a 1590b

Did you use the schem/PCB layout from Crowella at diysb? What transistors did you use?

I drew up my own PCB for it since Crowella's was HUGE. (more than twice as big). his PCB is a clone of the original split PCB.

for the transistors, I used an NTE102A(PNP) & NTE103A(NPN) for the germs and 2N2240's for the BJT's.

[johnk]

just finished this one yesterday. a Boss Slow Gear with a clean Jfet boost on the output:

[Travis]

^ awesome!

It would be really cool to build a Slow Gear with an effects loop. That way you can use it with dirt pedals without compromising the dirt or envelope

[Chris60601]

I built a Maxon OD808 for a friend that wanted one. My wiring has improved enough over the past few months that I can now show off the guts. Still have a long way to go especially in the decorating department.

I tried water slides but that was about as glamorous as a drunken guy stuffing his face with White Castles and farting at the same time so....

Anyways - here it is.

[rocket88]

Looks fantastic. Looks nice and neat, wiring and all. I wish my early built pedals looks that neat. If you're not happy with the wires showing try running them down the side, and under the board that's what I do and it made things much, much neater. Keep up the good work buddy.

[Travis]

I posted this to the main site already, but here goes.. DAM FZ-673

As you can see there's no real attempt at "mojo" unless you're into Japanese pedals :P  I bought x100 ac125s for this build  

[rocket88]

awesome buddy. this one's on my list. i bet it sounds killer, cause it looks great.

[Travis]

Thanks! Take a whack at it. You've got plenty of germs to throw in there so you should be set

I'm sure you already know how hard it is to make a MKI sound great. This is a hair more forgiving than usual. Still the usual balancing act between gating and noisy artifacts. My build here has that great clarity on chords, that greasy compression, and is more on the gated side with no shitty artifacts really. If anything I'll tweak it to be slightly less gated but I'm pretty happy with the sound. It really stings on those high single notes. Like the 60s :)

Also there's a little sweet spot on the fuzz control where this thing really opens up and let's the feedback go crazy. It's a very cool fuzz, you need one for your collection

[dbat69]

Travis, that is one neat and tidy build - very impressive.
I need to do a bit more practicing - and I quite like the idea of building this one
THanks buddy

[Travis]

Thanks for the kind and encouraging words dbat :)

This is a great circuit to build, but only if you have a good sized stash of extra leaky germs!

[alltrax74]

Germanium fuzz face from the dark side of the moon ;-)

[Luke51411]

Rub a Dub deluxe. I called it Winds Aloft. It is an aviation navigation map glued to the box. I "sewed" a piece of perf to the vero to allow for board mounted pots/reverb brick etc.

[Travis]

Great looking builds guys :) looks like you're using the same knobs

Hey alltrax.. What are those big germs called? I've seen them (or similar) in the smallsound/bigsound sparkle motion

[alltrax74]

They are russian GT402
HFe range on n batch of 20 was 70-180 with almost no leakage

[johnk]

Rockett WTF with single volume control (no boost pot). I etched a PCB and the enclosure for this one. this pedal gets a lot of different tones for such a simple circuit.

[rocket88]

Very nice john. How do you get the image into the enclosure for etching? I've tried what people suggest, specifically using inkjet photo paper through a laser printer, and melting it on using an iron, but the image is always really light so I don't think it will come out good.

Side note the gt402's are one of my favorites as far as the russian Ge's go. Which model did you use? I use and love gt402v's, but been curious about the others.

[johnk]

i used press & peel blue and ferric chloride etching solution.

[rocket88]

Awesome, thanks man. I have some of that floating around form when I was going to use them for pcb etching. I wish there was a way to be able to etch multiple enclosures without having to print the image multiple times.