a few pics of my more recent builds....

[slotbot]

I finally got a digital camera so here are some pics of some recent and not so recent builds....



this is a 3 line mixer.



also a 3 line mixer but you can turn the lines on and off with your feet curtesy of the push buttons. very handy. (artwork by ashley wood)



this is my bazz fuss. its actually 2 in a row as suggested on run off groove or homewrecker. only i used mpsa13 (darlington) transistors for more gain. the switch picks 1 or 2 bazz fuss's.  the knob is output volume.



this is my second crash sync. the volume is pre set inside with a voltage divider to a reasonable level.



this one is probably easier heard than explained.



this was a comission for a friend after the person pictured moved to new york. its a pt2399 based echo with some extra features.

[Phorhas]

Looks great. how did you do the finish?

[MartyMart]

Great graphics, and kind of cool "chunky" boxes ... how high are they ?
Looks a bit like you would dislocate your foot turning them on/off !!   :lol:
Or ... they could be the "back row" of a pedal board ....

Marty.

[slotbot]

the boxes are all about 2 inches high. which really isn't that bad. except the bottom one. thats about 3 and a bit high id say. no complaints so far....

for the finish i make photocopies of pictures or whatever and then i take carpenters glue (im sure white glue would do but for soem reason we have a massive bottle of carpenters glue) and mix it with white paint and do sort of a base coat/adhesive deal. then i carefully as possible put the photocopy on the box. then i clear coat it 3 times with gloss in a can. it stands up ok. ive noticed on a few corners its getting a little scuffed.

also on the crash sync i didnt use the white paint. so if you look at it you can sort of see the grey metal coming through the white parts of the picture. that was the first box i tested this method on.

i used to paint all my boxes. but i couldnt get it to not chip. so i am going with the photocopy method for now. (i still spray the bottoms with black enamel)

[Paul Perry (Frostwave)]

I'm having a vision of a whole comic strip of stompboxes :wink: Nice!
Maybe there are some small 'corners' that would glue onto stompbox corners & stop scuffing a bit?

[corbs]

for the one thats easier heard than explained....



clips?

:p

[Peter Snowberg]

Very cool!  

[slotbot]

hmm well i dont actually have the unit any more. it was a comission i did. i can probably borrow it back though to make some clips.

basically the big switch on the right is a bypass switch as usual.

the other 3 switches each turn on or off a square wave generator. (so 3 seperate square waves) the height of each wave (voltage peak to peak) is different for each one. the knob above each smaller stomp switch is a frequency control for the corresponding square wave.

the waves feed into simple dc voltage mixer. the resulting voltage controls the delay time of a delay circuit. the knob above the stomp switch is the amount of feedback into the delay circuit from the output. there is no clean sound either. the output is not mixed with the original sound.

it allows you to make some really interesting background rhythms of blips and blats. or i the frequencies are higher sort of like a helicopter or a heavy chorus depending on which square wave you use. when all 3 are on you sort of get an S/H wave which is fun.

also the feedback loop at max settings has a gain of more than 1 so you can just make the pedal generate its own noise then play with the dials until you get a "sequence" of sound you like. sounds like space invaders.

[corbs]

cool - sounds lust like my kinda thing - cheers

[Melanhead]

love 'em! ...