Pictures!

[oxygel]

I print Che on a A/B Box Pedal!!
Looks great!

[Taylor]

Yes, I looked at your site and was referencing that. I think selling his image is unfortunate, that's all.

[oxygel]

I am afraid that i 'm going to agree with you.
When i designed these i had this question on my mind,
i think i ''ll change it the layout of the a/b pedal

thanks anyway

[sinner]

Bit blury, and not finished yet my turretboard G-Spot Unit

[Taylor]

I am afraid that i 'm going to agree with you.
When i designed these i had this question on my mind,
i think i ''ll change it the layout of the a/b pedal

thanks anyway

I definitely don't mean to be rude or put you down, that's not my intention. I just think it's weird to put the face of an anti-commercialist revolutionary on any product. You're far from being the only person who does this - if yours was the first time I'd seen someone do that I wouldn't think anything of it.

<---May I suggest Lee Van Cleef? Cool face, makes a nice graphic, no political positions to conflict with. 

Sinner, I like that Cornish spoof. Is it based on one of his inside, or is it just a straight Big Muff?

[mikemaddux]

Peter Horny...........serial number 69

lol

[sinner]

Sinner, I like that Cornish spoof. Is it based on one of his inside, or is it just a straight Big Muff?

Yep, but will be done on tagboard in P2P style

Peter Horny...........serial number 69

lol

Yeah, and it's got the g spot

[Magnus]

Hello together,
great pedals again, very nice artworks and etchings!

@jkokura:
I had the same idea with the words "IN A BOX" instead of "SOLO HEAD"
on my Dr. Boogey-Pedal (called "Rectifier IN A BOX")  

Take a look:
http://forum.musikding.de/cpg/thumbnails.php?album=138

I hope the weather gets better, i have to paint some boxes  


Greetings from Germany
Magnus

[jkokura]

@jkokura:
I had the same idea with the words "IN A BOX" instead of "SOLO HEAD"
on my Dr. Boogey-Pedal (called "Rectifier IN A BOX")  

Take a look:
http://forum.musikding.de/cpg/thumbnails.php?album=138

I like that a lot - more than for the graphics though. I kinda borrowed from someone else and made my own adjustments to it. But your pedal inside and out is super clean. I imagine the blue things you can access from the top are external trimmers for biasing? Super clean wiring, lots of mojo.

I'm kinda wishing I had put it into a 1790NS now, but it works in the BB so I'll leave it.

Jacob

[nordine]

Nice! Mod the values of your sho any? I did something like that recently...LPB on front of a BMP. Sounds huge and throaty for bassists.

hey!

i was about to say the SHO is mod-less... but... i indeed mod it.... put a 10k instead the 5k pot... why would you ask? ..because at minimum gives you "below unity gain", which can be useful sometimes 

Goth.  Cool.  The back is great.

What's your technique?

thanksa lot... i also like the back 

technique?...well... black spray, then mixed red and black paint for a proper "blood color", then water for drippyness, painted the details, then laquer about 3 times..... thats it

[peps1]

I definitely don't mean to be rude or put you down, that's not my intention. I just think it's weird to put the face of an anti-commercialist revolutionary on any product.

Ernesto Guevara = anti-commercialism......well thats certainly up for debate!

We are talking about a man who was Finance Minister, President of the National Bank, which along with Minister of Industries, and has his face on the 3 Pesos bank note!

[azrael]

Nice! Mod the values of your sho any? I did something like that recently...LPB on front of a BMP. Sounds huge and throaty for bassists.

hey!

i was about to say the SHO is mod-less... but... i indeed mod it.... put a 10k instead the 5k pot... why would you ask? ..because at minimum gives you "below unity gain", which can be useful sometimes 

Just wondering, I like the BMP i built with the LPB, sounds amazing for bass, but I was considering using a SHO in front instead.

Do you have clips of yours, with the SHO cranked a bit?

[Taylor]

Ernesto Guevara = anti-commercialism......well thats certainly up for debate!

We are talking about a man who was Finance Minister, President of the National Bank, which along with Minister of Industries, and has his face on the 3 Pesos bank note!

Well, he didn't put his own face on the 3 peso note, and as Finance Minister he was against capitalism, no?

If the people using his face to sell their products said they were doing it because they've really researched it and they feel that his position against capitalism was just a front and that he really wanted this power for his own monetary gain, then I would say, go for it. We may disagree but at least someone saying that would have my respect because they actually knew something about him and made up their own mind. Instead, the overwhelming majority of people who use his image to sell merchandise have no idea who he was or what he stood for, other than that his face looks good screen printed and it has a non-specific message of "revolution", which is appealing to rich college kids.

But we shouldn't go any further with this here, I think, unless I create a pedal where the graphic is me typing more words about my opinions of things only tangentially related to pedals... 

[phector2004]

enough with the capitalism debate! this is a picture thread

behold, my first working build 



and for his guts,



not anything special compared to what the more experienced builders have made, but its roughly 100x neater than my botched FF...

any ideas on how i can label the black powdercoat?

Thanks guys, you've helped me out so much so far. hope to make more soon!

[Strategy]

Here's my latest- it's an odd one being a frankenstein's monster of both new layout (Gaussmarkov) and vintage (early 80s PAiA) parts.

Gator!!

My dad had 2 of these Gator kits- originals from the early 1980s, when he was building synth and sound kits for a college electronic music lab he taught in that was too underfunded for built synths. He'd partially built these but I couldn't get them to work.

So I had John Lyons etch up a super nice Gaussmarkov Gator PCB. I took many of the components off the original PAiA units and built this until it worked. It features a full build out of most elements that people have omitted, including the momentary cancel switch and the trigger input. Gating rhythmically from drum machine is fun with this. The vintage enclosure feat. goofy alligator is priceless. Thanks old school PAIA and thanks Dad for hooking me up with DIY that's almost as old as me.

it is featured here alongside Commodore 64 disk drive and a stack of cassette tapes for that period look.

[Gila_Crisis]

wonderfull, i was once wondering about building a gator from gaussmarkov, but since i've done a slow gear clone, i'm really happy with it, so i never thought about it again, but who knows!
btw, how does it work? is the cancel switch really necessary?

[Strategy]

It works great! The Gaussmarkov layout is friendly to work on. I like the momentary switch, it works like this: as you are playing with the effect ON, doing the backwards-tape sounding stuff, you can step the momentary switch and during the duration you are holding it down you are getting normal, non-gated signal. So if you want to switch back and forth between gated and non gated, you can do this in a very improvisational way without having to step the full bypass stomp.

The trigger input really is what takes this pedal to the next level, IMO. I do a lot of music programming with analog and modular synth equipment, old drum machines, computer, MIDI, etc. and so being able to trigger a gate in sync with the music is fantastic. For example, playing guitar along to drum machine that is triggering the gate, I could get a really funky/tight sound. Or running a drone through the Gator, I could use my Korg MS20 keyboard to trigger the gate to open and close...

If you are a guitarist in a band for example you could attach a piezo to the drummer's snare drum, and have their snare hits open and close the gate! I haven't tested the voltage range of the trigger input so some piezo based contact mics and triggers might require mild amplification to really ping the gate open.

I'll try to post audio files this weekend if there's time

- Strategy

wonderfull, i was once wondering about building a gator from gaussmarkov, but since i've done a slow gear clone, i'm really happy with it, so i never thought about it again, but who knows!
btw, how does it work? is the cancel switch really necessary?
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[Magnus]

Hello,

I like that a lot - more than for the graphics though. I kinda borrowed from someone else and made my own adjustments to it. But your pedal inside and out is super clean. I imagine the blue things you can access from the top are external trimmers for biasing? Super clean wiring, lots of mojo.

I'm kinda wishing I had put it into a 1790NS now, but it works in the BB so I'll leave it.

Jacob

Thank you  

Your pedal is also great, two channels  

Yes, those blue boxes are precision-trimmers with 24 turns...


Greetings
Magnus

[jmwreck]

pretty cool, im inspired on your works, been a long time fan on your schematics 

[bean]

Tonight's effort.