Pictures!

[vigilante397]

I was thinking you're going for side mounted pots like mine, not top mounted pots like a stompbox, that's why I said about the pots being the size limiting factor.

Ah, that makes more sense. It would get a little cramped with side-mounted jacks. Though that does remind me, I have a bunch of nice aluminum enclosures that would be perfect for preamps and for some reason I haven't built a preamp into any of them, I just keep building stompboxes

[tubelectron]

Actually, it's because the hostingpics.net service has closed down.  The home page has a message (in French) with details.

@Bruno: you might want to move your avatar picture! 

Ah, yes Guys, you're right ! hostingpics.net is out of business, so I have been forced to change for another image hosting provider some times ago .So consequently, I think that most of the pictures I posted on the forum has vanished now... But more than this : I read that posting problems occurs with those dead links ! Génial...

I'll try to retrieve my avatar picture and reinstall it... 

That said, I also see that pedal crazyness still continues ! 

Duck_Arse is making pedals at a watchmaker's scale, covered with cloth (clever idea), some others are trying to enter a Mesa boogie preamp full enclosed in a 1590 box... Mais où va-t-on ?

I had the time these days to add a 5th item to my "Retro-Cool" collection (name given by Rob "deadastronaut") :



It's a tremolo pedal : the PICOTREM.



No real glory here for me  : it's a slightly modded kit "Surfy Trem" (model SI-SUTRKI01) from Surfy Industries AB (www.surfyindustries.com). That said, it's an excellent device giving amplitude tremolo (aka BlackFace) and harmonic tremolo (aka BrownFace) in the same box, at a flick of a FSW. There's still a little problem of FSW kliks to cure, though...

I did this in order to test if that kit sounded well for an amp integration : very convincing...

A+!

[bluebunny]

   

[tubelectron]

   

Thanks bluebunny !

Today, I re-tested the device on my Deluxe Reverb, and surprise...

1 - loud thump / throb in the speaker.

2 - switching cliks on both functions (on/off and harmonic/amplitude).

The 1st is a complete surprise since nothing appeared on my Roland MicroCube - yes, I know that it hasn't the bass extension of a DR, but.. The 2nd was heard more or less, but again, I made the test yesterday evening, at moderated volume.

Add to this that attempting to correct those issue, I killed some SMD components on the PCB while using a 47nF cap that still held for more than 6 month some high voltage coming from my tube amp tests this summer. Stupid, crazy, but true... 

Some days, it's better to be "lazy, just stay in bed"... 

That said, the Throb story makes me rewise my opinion about integrating such a device in a (moreover tube) amp project : rather inconclusive...

A+!

[duck_arse]

my last build of 2018, my first ever hammertone, my third Mosrite Fuzzrite-a-like built to replace a pedal called "Down II" [how do you get down off an elephant?], hence, the Third Down.




all hand cut and bashed and inspired by a Pettol build, built with Japanese germaniums and oversized axials, with added 'gnats' and 'releases' switches. the fuzzrite is my favourite sounding fuzz thus-far heard.




it was only some hours after I'd picked the only available flower in the yard that I realised I'd put the Germanium next to the geranium - has peppermint scented leaves.

guts, more pics and things can be seen in the bukket:
https://imgur.com/a/18lzlif

more to be said on the paintwork soon - in a different thread .....
[you don't - you get down off a duck.]

[italianguy63]

Very pretty!!

Duck, where are you getting that style battery snap?!  I used to get them from Radio Shack, which is now pretty much defunct.

I use some from "China"-- and have found some decent ones.. but, I prefer those because the gauge of the wire is a bit more robust.

MC

[EBK]

Duck, I really like that pedal too.  I'm still waiting for Bruno to give me my Like button back though. 

[duck_arse]

thanks, fellas.

gdmc - I think that is the last one I had from "I don't know". I think it might have been Jaycar, the clip is OK, but I still hate the wire - I've never seen a clip with proper decent wire AND proper connection to the clips in the same place.

[italianguy63]

thanks, fellas.

gdmc - I think that is the last one I had from "I don't know". I think it might have been Jaycar, the clip is OK, but I still hate the wire - I've never seen a clip with proper decent wire AND proper connection to the clips in the same place.

+1

I hear you... the "China" ones I get are acceptable.. but, yes, they are all somewhat shoddy...

I got rid of the "blue bag" and "tayda" varieties a long way back.

MC

[patrick398]

Really love that enclosure Duck, did you make it yourself? Looks like one of Pettol's. I'd love to use those but i don't have the tools or patience to bend one myself

[thermionix]

Duck, where are you getting that style battery snap?!

Same?

http://smallbear-electronics.mybigcommerce.com/9-volt-battery-snap-hard-shell/

[bluebunny]

Nice build, mate.  Not bad joke.  You obviously have a better class of Christmas cracker...

[tubelectron]

Another Fonky pedal, Duck_Arse ! 

You said that it is a FuzzRite-like with Ge Qs ?

AFAIK, the FuzzRite were Si, Right ?

At least, that's what I found when I built mine, many years ago :



A+!

[EBK]

Bruno, can you please update or delete your faulty profile pic link?

[pgorey]

This is for my guitar teacher from 20 years ago.  He found me on Facebook and I offered to build him a Tonebender clone of sorts.
He gave me the name he wanted.  This is what I came up with.  Best settings make for funny faces so to speak

[temol]

My last creation of the 2018 (finished 31.12) - Dual Rectifier.



And some noise - jfet DR vs VST DR.

T.

[italianguy63]

Duck, where are you getting that style battery snap?!

Same?

http://smallbear-electronics.mybigcommerce.com/9-volt-battery-snap-hard-shell/

Yep-- looks it!

[duck_arse]

Really love that enclosure Duck, did you make it yourself? Looks like one of Pettol's. I'd love to use those but i don't have the tools or patience to bend one myself

cut file sand bend swear file sand drill swear swear paint swear ...... yep. all by hand. and some blocks of wood. and I asked Pettol to see inside one of his pedals, also blue hammertone, before I measured mine up.

Duck, where are you getting that style battery snap?!

Same?

http://smallbear-electronics.mybigcommerce.com/9-volt-battery-snap-hard-shell/

indeed yes, 100%. A+!

also, yes, germanium.

[vigilante397]

Wow, it's been a while since I've actually finished a pedal I've been trying to work through my backlog of PCB's I've accumulated over the years, so here is the first of many: Pearl Octaver clone built on Madbean's fabulous Low Rider PCB.

[rankot]

My second pedal in 2019, CMOS distortion based on CD4007UBE. I accidentally bought an IC produced by now non existent factory from ex-Yugoslavia, EI Niš (famous for tube production as well).







Schematic is based on this: https://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=119510.msg1115507#msg1115507