New Uglyface sound clips

[tcobretti]

I built the Uglyface using mydementia's pcb layout.  It is pretty cool.  The fuzz itself would be pretty bland, but all the craziness makes it a pretty versatile pedal.  The freq pot is not unlike a mutated wah pedal, so it allows major tone modification.  I ran the Freq pot to an expression pedal which allows for lots of crazy stuff.  I plan to make the Threshold pot into a switch, because on mine it basically just turns on and off oscillation.  The sensitivity pot acts like a very weird autowah, and worked better when I backed off the guitar's volume control a bit. Overall this pedal is pretty cool, and since I just realized that Radio Shack sells CMOS 555s, it should be easy to find the necessary parts.

The sound clips are my Burns Brian May (very similar to a Strat) into my Line 6 set for the amps specified in the clip's name. "Filter" is the Autowah, and the other clips are the "wah" thru a couple of different amps.  In the second two clips I crank up the threshold so it starts oscillating and I play the oscillation with the pedal.

http://aronnelson.com/gallery/albums/album72/Brian_May_Fender_Blackface_Uglyface_Filter.mp3

http://aronnelson.com/gallery/albums/album72/Brian_May_Marshall_Plexi_Uglyface_Wah.mp3

http://aronnelson.com/gallery/albums/album72/Brian_May_Fender_Blackface_Uglyface_Wah.mp3

Overall, very cool!  Thanks to Tim E and Mydementia for the entertaining build!

[John Lyons]

Fun stuff. There are some nice tones in there. One thing that might be helpfull is to have an expression pedal with two pots. A control pot and a pot as a trimmer across the control pot that sets the limit of the frequency or the range of the frequency. So with the toe down position of the rocker pedal you can get to the sweet spot but not over shoot it all the way to the supper high frequency stuff. (unless you want to that is)

John

[tcobretti]

Yeah, with mine, I tweaked it to reach that far when I was demoing it on my SS workbench test amp because I could still hear the effect no matter how high it got.  But when I ran it into my real amp, the high end cuts off at the extreme top end.  A trim pot or maybe just a pot so you can tweak the range is a very good idea!

[John Lyons]

I'm not sure of the exact scheme used in the Ugly Face but  In a color sound wah I made I had a panel pot as a fine tune of sorts that would set the range of the wah. With toe down you could get super highs or back down the fine tune pot so toe down was just the right amount of "quack" but all usable...  Helps when you have a hair trigger rocker sweep where a small amount of play over the threshold sounds not so good and you want to get the range just right.

John