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[bean]

New reverb project. Very happy with this one...except for sanding off the edges of the artwork and my normal crappily-planned drilling.

[deadastronaut]

my latest creation..

[smurfedelic smurfberry]

Dang, I want some of thosse 120B/1590BBish enclosures taht are out of stock, great stuff!

[smurfedelic smurfberry]

O and Tremshifter is unbelievable.

here's my latest one, Uglyface




Uglyface pcb from musicpcb and 3pdt pcb from blms

[robrhy]

I just finished assembling this nifty little effect pedal. What we have here is what started a rehouse job that kind of mutated into it's own thing. Years ago, I built a clone of an old MXR Envelope Filter from Tonepad. I'd modded it for bass by adding a "Deep" switch that added a couple of larger capacitors to lower the range of the sweep. Additionally, I'd added a couple of other mods recommended by Mark Hammer on DIYStompboxes.com.

Of course as with all bass effects, there was a loss of attack and low end which made using the filter onstage in a band situation a little uninspiring. I had decided to add a blend feature which would mix a little of my dry signal with the wet signal. Initially, I'd opted for a B.Blender circuit, but there wasn't a pre-made PCB available. Looking around at some other options out there, I discovered the Paramix on GuitarPCB.com. The Paramix is a really cool pedal that would allow me not only to blend my dry signal with any effect in the effect loop, but would allow me to blend two separate effects independently of one another. Realizing that the Paramix was indeed a very powerful tool by itself I decided it would be best for me to make a box that would serve both the Paramix and the EF together.

Realizing that this would be a fairly cumbersome set of circuits, I came to the conclusion that I would need a larger enclosure. I found a really nice sloped steel enclosure over at EffectsEnclosures.com. David make these custom enclosures himself and they come in standard sizes. However, he happened to have had this extra large one laying around and he sold it to me at a very reasonable price. I gave it a little design that was my attempt at paying homage to some of the really cool looking old effects pedals of yesteryear such as units produced by Maestro and Mutron.



The Paramix was a bear of build, mostly due to my ineptitude. Thanks to the guys over at GuitarPCB.com I was able to troubleshoot and get it working. They were a tremendous help. After a really specific round of troubleshooting instructions, I was able to find that one of the pins on the IC socket would not make contact with the circuit board. They advised me to stick a little jumper in there to make the pins make better contact.

In the end, the pedal works and sounds great. I put the two side by side as separate effects, mainly so I could place Envelope Filter anywhere in the effects loop chain. The Paramix does a brilliant job blending the wet and dry signals together and really brings out the low end in my filter. I can pretty much dial in the Isley's Fight the Power tone instantaneously. Even better, it also unlocks the awesomely funky potential of the otherwise useless reverse sweep mod. Yay!





Great build.Where did you get the enclosure?

[Freekmagnet]

Great build.Where did you get the enclosure?

I bought the enclosure from David Giandiletti. He makes them and had s posting here on this forum in the For Sale section. He generally has 125B and 1590BB sized boxes as well as stainless Big Muff boxes. He also has a website, http://www.effectsenclosures.com. He does great work. If you're looking for a steel enclosure, he's the man.

Best,

J

[davent]

To put some low gain Russian Ge's into use built up Steve Daniels Ge Darlington Rangemaster using a couple GT308b's (PNP's) gains ~30.

https://www.smallbearelec.com/HowTos/BreadboardGeDarlingtonRMs/BreadboardGeDarlingtonRMs.htm

Used the Geofex power-switch circuit.  http://www.geofex.com/FX_images/PNP_power_switching.pdf

Did a layout in ExpressPCB, tweaked with Inkscape, photoresist pcb.




Cut a battery sock from a bike inner tube and velcro it to the enclosure to help lock the battery down.






And one of Mac Walkers great wedge enclosures to button it up. Mostly acrylic paints, but tons of other stuff too, toner transfers, stencils, stamps, pencil crayons, collage...

Full Build report posted over at Madbean' Forum. http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=17058.0;topicseen

Cheers! dave

[Luke51411]

Dave- Wow!!! A true work of art.

[italianguy63]

That is awesome dave.  Innovative!

I love the fake traces on the top!  LOL

If anybody needs low gain Russians, feel free to PM me.  I have quite a selection of spares...  MC

[bloxstompboxes]

Here are a couple that will probably be put on the bay before long. A Guild 3 Knob Foxey Lady and a variant on the Violet Ram's Head Big Muff Pi that I am calling my purple edition, lol. Anyone think I'll have trouble with the ram and the graphics on ebay? The board is the one in the Foxey Lady but is the same for both. It is my own layout.

[Freekmagnet]

To put some low gain Russian Ge's into use built up Steve Daniels Ge Darlington Rangemaster using a couple GT308b's (PNP's) gains ~30.

https://www.smallbearelec.com/HowTos/BreadboardGeDarlingtonRMs/BreadboardGeDarlingtonRMs.htm

Used the Geofex power-switch circuit.  http://www.geofex.com/FX_images/PNP_power_switching.pdf

Did a layout in ExpressPCB, tweaked with Inkscape, photoresist pcb.




Cut a battery sock from a bike inner tube and velcro it to the enclosure to help lock the battery down.






And one of Mac Walkers great wedge enclosures to button it up. Mostly acrylic paints, but tons of other stuff too, toner transfers, stencils, stamps, pencil crayons, collage...

Full Build report posted over at Madbean' Forum. http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=17058.0;topicseen

Cheers! dave

Woah! This is cool.

[peterg]

dave. You outdo yourself every time. Nice work!

[davent]

Thank you for the feedback and kind words guys, always appreciated!

Take care!
dave

[duck_arse]

@blox - no of your little pictures showed, blox. why is that? it looks nice, though.

[Kyurie]

Some words about the laser engraved PCB 



This is for bass mixer/selector pedal

[bloxstompboxes]

@blox - no of your little pictures showed, blox. why is that? it looks nice, though.

I don't know duck. I tried a couple of different hosting sites that I have always had good luck with, but for some reason, the pics either wouldn't show up at all, gave the forbidden error, or would only supply a link and no thumbnail. I'll have to try photobucket I suppose.

[Frances Rhodes]

Some words about the laser engraved PCB 



This is for bass mixer/selector pedal

is it just me or is there something wrong with this one...? like... is it "reversed"?!

[duck_arse]

@ blox - yr hosting is alright, I dug the url's outta the source code to see (but only the smalls). I think it just a matter of how you "<a href>'ed" and "<img src>'ed" em. maybe a trip to the testing pages?

[Ripdivot]

Some words about the laser engraved PCB 



This is for bass mixer/selector pedal

is it just me or is there something wrong with this one...? like... is it "reversed"?!

I was thinking the same thing

[~arph]

Still needs etching...