Pictures!

[John Lyons]

Aged Tweed

[MikeH]

BSAIB based distortion with added boost

so basically a box of rock
hows it sound???

I built the BOR a while back and the bsiab recently, and I gotta say, the bsiab wins hands down.  For open chords and single notes, they sound pretty similar, but the bsiab can get some serious crunch on for palm mutes etc.

[davent]

Aged Tweed

Beautiful job there John! The corner miter looks great, everythings lined up perfectly. What type of glue did you use to glue down the tweed, contact cement or is there something better suited for use here?

dave

[John Lyons]

I used 5 Minute epoxy. I did not want this to come off ever!
It's also sealed with 4 heavy coats of brush on tinted polyurethane and a final coat of satin spray lacquer.
For wood I yellow wood glue.

john

[arawn]

Aged Tweed

Looks awesome, Just needs a strip of chrome and some chicken heads!!

[John Lyons]

Chicken heads won't fit but I was planing on having the bottom buffed aluminum...close enough to chrome. 

[andrew_k]

That looks great John 
What's in there?

[ambulancevoice]

BSAIB based distortion with added boost

so basically a box of rock
hows it sound???

I built the BOR a while back and the bsiab recently, and I gotta say, the bsiab wins hands down.  For open chords and single notes, they sound pretty similar, but the bsiab can get some serious crunch on for palm mutes etc.

just a joke, ive read that the bsiab and bor are similar circuits, plus that added output boost, you know...
well, to me the bor is nothing that special (after seeing the schematic), the brown sound, after i heard the samples on John's website, more than enough to grab my attention

Chicken heads won't fit but I was planing on having the bottom buffed aluminum...close enough to chrome. 

this calls for someone to make some mini chicken heads
how cool would they be?

[davent]

this calls for someone to make some mini chicken heads
how cool would they be?

They're available but at more then five times the cost of the vintage Fenders (from SmallBear?) that John has on there now.

http://qparts.com/index.php?cPath=20_97

dave

[John Lyons]

$5, yikes!

I'll stick with the "cupcake" knobs
If someone wanted them bad enough I guess...

The boax is empty right now.
$45 and it's yours!

john

[AzzR]

We (my wife and I) finalized the artwork for my A/B channel switcher, The Switch, and here it is in all its hand-painted glory:

They look awesome. What kind of paint do you use, what about clearcaoting?

Nice Work

-Azza

[g.]

6ak5 tube distortion, based on metasonix's Scrotum smasher.

[ianmgull]

6ak5 tube distortion, based on metasonix's Scrotum smasher.

Sweet!!!!!! Where did you find schems for the metasonix stuff???

[g.]

just 2 stages pentode dist, and a feedback loop,
you can find the schem here :
http://www.notbreathing.com

http://www.notbreathing.com/img/SIMPLEPREAMPS.pdf

mine is a mini scrotum smasher, it don't have the 6BN6 tube at the output, and no cv input

http://www.metasonix.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=35&Itemid=66

[ambulancevoice]

6ak5 tube distortion, based on metasonix's Scrotum smasher.

wow thats really damn cool
id love to have some metasonix gear, specially that tube synth

[g.]

Thanks !
plate voltage is about 65V, inside there's a voltage multiplier (to boost the 9V AC into 65V DC),
other shots :

[petemoore]

  These are some great lookin' pedals !
  Tube pedal...nice look and layout, perhaps fix a handle for over-round the exposed glass.
  Tweed...that worked outstandingly !
  I tried chickenheads on an amp.
  All my amps have chickenhead knobs now.
 

[railhead]

We (my wife and I) finalized the artwork for my A/B channel switcher, The Switch, and here it is in all its hand-painted glory:

They look awesome. What kind of paint do you use, what about clearcaoting?

Nice Work

-Azza

Thanks. We use enamel base paint with acrylic detail. I then clear with poly or auto enamel.

[Renegadrian]

A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine asked me to take all my boosters to his basement...
He tried them all. LPB, Rocket, Sparkle, and the others in my sign....
He tried the Valvy too...He really liked this last one, you really have a transparent booster with the gain at its min.
And liked the Tillman a lot...
After some A/B he chose to order a Tillman, he tought it's the best for his needs...

So here it is, the FAB BOOSTER made for Fabio Taddeo of Four Vegas (a great local rock and roll/oldies band)
http://www.fourvegas.it
http://www.myspace.com/fourvegas

[The French connection]

A couple of weeks ago a friend of mine asked me to take all my boosters to his basement...
He tried them all. LPB, Rocket, Sparkle, and the others in my sign....
He tried the Valvy too...He really liked this last one, you really have a transparent booster with the gain at its min.
And liked the Tillman a lot...
After some A/B he chose to order a Tillman, he tought it's the best for his needs...

So here it is, the FAB BOOSTER made for Fabio Taddeo of Four Vegas (a great local rock and roll/oldies band)
http://www.fourvegas.it
http://www.myspace.com/fourvegas

Splendido Adriano! Buon lavoro! Is it a decal or a clear sticky paper? Nice paint too!
Dan