DIY Pedals for Metal Distortion

[T1bbles]

Anyone know of a vero or PCB layout for the JFET Vulcan?

It's another on my build list, I've currrently got an unfinished Dirty Bomb, Crunch Box, Factory of Fuzz, Super Hard-On and EH Pulsar on the table, waiting on the extra parts I didn't already have

[gigimarga]

Anyone know of a vero or PCB layout for the JFET Vulcan?

It's another on my build list, I've currrently got an unfinished Dirty Bomb, Crunch Box, Factory of Fuzz, Super Hard-On and EH Pulsar on the table, waiting on the extra parts I didn't already have

I've sent you an email with a lot of PCBs for Joe Davisson fabulous designs

[T1bbles]

Niiiiice! Thanks matey

[Renegadrian]

Vero layout HERE

[T1bbles]

In the end I did Effdub's version of the Dirty Bomb; The F-Bomb, however I called mine the D-BOMB because an F was far to hard to make a stencil of!

Here it is,


I'll try and get sound clips up asap for anyone who's interested

(For those with a keen eye; nope, that's not a real footswitch, that's half a broken one, I didn't have any 3PDTs laying around so that one's just for show; as a result it's wired permanently on atm, a new switch is in the post though.)

[DDD]

Pedals for metal sound are not simple builds.
Usually they are more complicated than stompboxes for any other music genre.

[FiveseveN]

Well that's not entirely true. A simple clipper can sound really nice if you use the right filtering. Also, the Distortus Maximus and other 386-based distortions are really simple.
Producing lots of saturation is the easy part. Like I said (and I'm sure I'm not the only one or the 1st to say it), it's all in the filtering.

[DDD]

Surely you're right.
At the same time "metal" filtering is the most complicated filtering. ;-)

[bumblebee]

Box of metal is simple, just 5 super hard ons in series and a 3 band eq basically, and gate if you wanna add that. You can find that on the other forum.

[DougH]

The Blackfire Preamp is simple and effective.

[T1bbles]

Pedals for metal sound are not simple builds.
Usually they are more complicated than stompboxes for any other music genre.

I'm actually gonna +1 this, cuz when I was looking for a pedal with a nice chunky metal tone I found that the number of parts in these pedals was on the whole higher than those in most overdrives, boosts and fuzzes. There are a few exceptions as always, but on the whole 'metal' distortions on average require more parts than other types of distortion.

Whether that makes them more 'complicated' or not I don't know, but that's what I noticed; I'm glad I built a few treble boosters and fuzzes before I took on the F-Bomb

[caspercody]

I agree with you to a point. I have made somewhere around 20 distortion pedals over the past year. And the metal pedals do have more parts than a OD or distortion, but not always. The Krank, and Big Daddy are low in parts. Easy to make, and do not have many issues of outside noise (meaning do not have to be to carefull of external wiring).

But look at Metal Muff, and I bet MXR Fullbore Metal (love to know what makes that one work) have a lot of parts.

Also, how do you like your D-bomb? Is it what you were looking for in a distortion?

[T1bbles]

I really like it myself, it's got a real amp-like quality, and not overly distorted or fizzy like a lot of 'entry level' distortion pedals like a stock DS-1 or MT-2. Plenty of dynamic range, even cleans up with the guitar's volume knob, not a huge amount on higher gain settings, but it's a feature missing from a lot of metal distortion pedals.

Anyways you can see for yourself! I've done a little demo using a riff from 'Love' by Strapping Young Lad, a proper METAL \m/ tune for a proper METAL \m/ pedal

Link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/j2ttrwzxzzz/SYL%20D-Bomb%20Demo.mp3

Demo goes (same riffage throughout);

Vol, 5 o'clock - Gain1, 9 o'clock - Gain2, 9 o'clock
Vol, 5 o'clock - Gain1, 12 o'clock - Gain2, 12 o'clock
Vol, 5 o'clock - Gain1, 5 o'clock - Gain2, 5 o'clock

Tell me what you think

(Also, if you build one of these the first thing you'll notice is the sheer volume of the thing, even with the volume and gain controls on my amp completely closed you can still jam away and hear it coming through the speakers. Crazy amount of volume!)

[allan_belt]

Hello from Peru... iwas trying to download your demo but it seems that is no longer available ...