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[hobo_hephew]

Hey hobo_hephew!

this old school EH/army-ish box looks really neat! Could I ask where you found that great looking enclosure?

Thanks!
I do all enclosures myself. This one is painted in "Nato"-green

[midwayfair]

hobo_hephew that looks awesome!

Here's a ROG Thor. Tried bouncing a dremel with a metal polishing attachment all over for a brushed aluminum texture.

That's a ridiculously cool effect ... Hammerite without paint.

[mwynwood]

It's not my neatest build inside... but it was the hardest one I've done, so I'm a bit chuffed
It took ages mixing and matching Transistors, and now it's working, it's crammed in the box so tight I'm scared to open it up again...
This thing sounds crazy. If you like Glitch stuff, then you'd have fun with this!

Thanks SO much to Chromesphere - your videos and posts helped HEAPS.

And yeah... that's electrical tape...

[Taylor]

Electric Druid's new VCDO a.k.a. "Waverider":

Wow. Any more info on this? Is this something that Tom will be posting about on his site, or strictly a commercial deal? Looking forward to seeing more in either case. I've wanted to build a modular digital synth for years.

[frequencycentral]

Electric Druid's new VCDO a.k.a. "Waverider":

Wow. Any more info on this? Is this something that Tom will be posting about on his site, or strictly a commercial deal? Looking forward to seeing more in either case. I've wanted to build a modular digital synth for years.

PM'ed - as these pedal freaks wouldn't be interested!

[Nikolay]

These days I finish my new 3 mosfet boosters



Niki

[Colonel Angus]

I haven't been posting in here because I'm terrified of the impending apocalypse, but damn! Nikolay, those are pristine looking! Super impressive!

[midwayfair]

These days I finish my new 3 mosfet boosters



Niki

Whoa. I love that you put the specs on the plates! These are so nice looking, great color scheme.

[Nikolay]

thanks guys

[lietuvis]

SWAW

[John Lyons]

Gnarly

[timd]

Gnarly

Great build! Where did you source that LED??

[davent]

Superbly elegant John, always puts a big smile on my face.

Great build! Where did you source that LED??

Looks to be a bezel for a regular 6 or 120v light bulb but John's epoxied an LED in there instead.

dave

[NazzTazz]

http://www.banzaimusic.com/Jewel-Light-Amber.html

[John Lyons]

Looks to be a bezel for a regular 6 or 120v light bulb but John's  epoxied and LED in there instead.
Bingo!
Thanks Dave/Timd.

[mwynwood]

The Arcade

Arpeggiating retro sounds.
Based around the PWM by Tim Escobedo.




Some sounds (not the best timed examples, but you get the idea) all reverb is coming from my amp:

http://soundcloud.com/arrfx/arcade3    -  Three layers four step, three step and 0 step modes
http://soundcloud.com/arrfx/arcade2    - Two layers

The next sample has some ticking, that's gone in the pedal (as you can hear in the examples above) This sample however shows the diffferent sounds you can do in two step mode.

http://soundcloud.com/arrfx/arkanoid    - Running through some settings.

~arph

That is very very cool.  Can you share the design?  Or can I buy a board from you, just for personal use? Or can i buy a semi-finished pedal? Or something?  PM me?

+1!
This thing sounds amazing!

[kurtlives]

thanks guys

Custom foot switches?

[bean]

This is a delay/overdrive hybrid I just worked up. Not much to look at on the outside...I'm not a big fan of multi-colored knobs but it was all I had to fit.

[midwayfair]

Madbean Fat Pants.


I made no mods whatsoever to the circuit (rare for me). I can't imagine a way of improving it. It's just great.

Sea Change Tremolo, based on the Runoff Groove Modified EA trem, yet another box for my buddy Keith (this was a trade for a partial retubing of my Imperial):


There's no volume drop in this design, so I moved the volume inside as a trim pot. My buddy Keith likes the symmetry knob on the Tremulus Lune, but prefers a simple sine wave tremolo, so I set out finding a way to to the same thing in a bias-modulated trem. It turns out that basically all speed knobs work similarly enough to the one in the Lune that you can do some asymmetry with just a pair of diodes and a pot to ground. I used a 1MB and two 1N914s. It's not perfect, but you can get some interesting waveform alterations and subtle loping/ramping, with the center of the knob being normal. I'm not sure there's another version of the circuit that has this exact control (though I'm aware of a certain famous green-blue box that has a waveform control!).

And for good measure, an almost-sock Runoff Groove Modified EA trem, shrunken to a 1590A.


I didn't have to do much shrinking, actually. Turning both of the jacks sideways left tons of room, and the board in the Sea Change would have fit even with the 1uF box caps. But it's more fun to make it as small as possible. At one point I had the mosfet backward - turns out I had used a 2N7000 in the Sea Change and not a BS170 as here, so when I was just going off that for orienting the transistors, I didn't remember it was a different pinout. Alwayscheckthedatasheet.

Originally this box was going to be for Solderman's Little Red Rooster tremolo, but I didn't like that it took time to recover from a speed/depth change and that the lowest depth settings messed up the pedal's function. So I built and boxed this instead.

This was also the final piece of my planned all-DIY mini pedal board. I'll probably be saying goodbye to my Malekko Omicron soon and I see a trip to Ikea for a Gorm shelf in my future.

[Nikolay]

thanks guys

Custom foot switches?

No. I use small double sided pcb. From the one side this pcb is designed for millenium true bypass and from other side for swiching for loopers and other units where relay are used.
If I need for true bypass, I cut 2 traces. If I need for looper with relay control, I cut one trace on the back side

EDIT: Here are these double sided pcb's: