Dr. Boogey easily completed!

[roofer1]

so...using GM's layout and project pdf i etched the board and finished the enclosure installation last night.  having read frightening stories about this build i honestly had no idea what i was in for.  BUT, twisted some trimpots around about midnight last night and voila, distortion.  the thing is so incredibly gain-ish that i took other's advice and switched Q1 to a lower gain transistor.  at any rate...i havnt gotten the bug to hook up a photobucket account yet, but i will and will post pictures as soon as possible.

the controls are all really easy to tweak (as opposed to something like an orange squeezer that may only have one good spot in it).  i havnt played any "metal" distortion pedals before, but this circuit definitely has the most gain i have ever heard before (yeah, even with the tamer transistor in).  the presence pot is a little tricky, but with some twisting and listening i was able to get a wide variety of sickness out of the thing.

NOISE:  the main concern i had going into the build was that i was swapping around the positions of the pots as far as GM's layout was by putting the bass, mid and treble controls at the top of the enclosure and then the volume, gain and presense controls in a row below them.  also, in the layout there arnt any wires crossing each other, in my box there are wires all over the place.  for what ever reason the stars were aligned and i havnt found this circuit to be much louder than any others i have used.  there is a tiny tiny tiny bit of white noise in the background but its even less than a vintage small clone that i just bought for christmas.

anyway...thought a good report would be in order as i have asked a million questions on this forum.  thanks gaussmarkov.  i love it.

[Renegadrian]

put some in imageshack and make us see!!!
I'll make one sooner or later...

[Hanglow]

Its my favourite od/distortion pedal at the moment. great edgy overdrive when you roll back the volume pot on the guitar, makes it really versatile.

I've been playing a lot more things in drop D though  Which I don't usually  do

[ambulancevoice]

Its my favourite od/distortion pedal at the moment. great edgy overdrive when you roll back the volume pot on the guitar, makes it really versatile.

I've been playing a lot more things in drop D though  Which I don't usually  do

just wait till you try drop c
good times...

[roofer1]

alright, i have never posted pictures so i created a photobucket account (username jnthomae) and read up on how to drop pictures into posts.  i posted some pictures of my current pedal board setup (i just made a new board), some gut shots of an tonepad orange squeezer and a gut shot of a ds-1 build from tonepad.

most importantly thought, there is a picture of my dr boogey board and a picture of the wiring cacophony too.

http://aronnelson.com/gallery/v/Schematics-etc/roofer1/dr+boogey+inside.JPG.html
http://aronnelson.com/gallery/v/Schematics-etc/roofer1/dr+boogey+wiring.JPG.html
http://aronnelson.com/gallery/v/Schematics-etc/roofer1/pedal+board+side.JPG.html

[Renegadrian]

wanna see the front of the boogey!!! 

[s.r.v.]

looks good. What kind of enclosure is that?

[Sweetalk]

That enclosure looks nice, with wood borders will be VERY nice, moogerfooger stile. Show some pics from the front!

Congrats!

[roofer1]

the front?  que?
http://s244.photobucket.com/albums/gg28/jnthomae/?action=view&current=pedalboardside.jpg

in this picture the boogey is the brown and cream pedal in the far row (in the middle).

the enclosure is a pretty handy aluminum job fro fry's electronics (an national chain combining best buy and radioshack type stuff).

[miqbal]

easily completed...hardly layout-ed. 

[roofer1]

meaning?  the wiring is pretty much all over the place?  yeah it is.  the biggest shame of this project was that i hadnt the forsight to take advantage of gaussmarkov's work in keeping the pots all straight and wiring uncrossed.  oh well.  like i said the thing is quiet.  the pedal board needs a little tweaking, i am trying to decide how i want to attach all the pedals to it and i am thinking about putting some big nickle or brushed handles on each side (like a big drawer pull or something like the zvex nano amp has but larger).

i'm totally jazzed that there has been such good response to this post.  like i said earlier, its good to be reporting something that went RIGHT for a change!

by the way, how are people embedding pictures into the posts and not just links to pictures?

[miqbal]

Just a joke, roofer1 .   I remember how hard Gauss and others had made/designed the layout for the forum, and you can complete it so....easily.
Thanks to him and others in the forum.

by the way, how are people embedding pictures into the posts and not just links to pictures?

I don't know how to do it on Internet Explorer .
But in FireFox (I love this browser), simply point the web picture you want to show, right click on it, and choose "Copy Image Location".
Click this: icon on the post editing toolbar, Paste "the image location" on your post editing window.
Center the image.

If you have an account on PhotoBucket (or maybe on other photo sharing host), there is a code on "IMG Code -  Forums & Bulletin Boards" that you can put inside your post. (I can't find this code on Aron's gallery)

Congrats on your build!

EDIT: Let me do it for you.
I've left  the last photo for you to practice