'SPITFIRE' Metal 'n' Blues Pedal...

[deadastronaut]

Yeah man...been distracted by little solar charging projects lately...as the sun rarely comes out lol...

but i should get back on it after the weekend....sounds pukka!.. 

[deadastronaut]

update: i haven't forgotten...just been really busy...anyway..

this is how it sounds so far...still on breadboard.

[Cozybuilder]

DA- Thats sounding real good! Looking forward to a schematic- I'll have to build at least 2- my kid will want one too.

[deadastronaut]

yeah its pretty cool as it is, but still tinkering, ....not far off what i want though..

[stringsthings]

sounds good DA ... looking forward to it 

[doctord02]

First time poster, long time lurker; Rob, any further developments here? Getting itchy to give this one a go, but wanting to hold out for the TMB stack and baritone/drop-tuning tweaks...

Cheers,

[deadastronaut]

Hi man, its almost there, been twuddling with cab sims lately too...

got a bit sidetracked...hold fire...

[bloxstompboxes]

I gotta say man, I am quite impressed with this thing. I drew my own layout and rocked it before boxing it today and it is pretty cool. Gotta lot of noise on full distortion, but I imagine most will go away once boxed. It has quite a bit of range in tone and grind. Now I have to come up with an enclosure design. Thanks DA!

[deadastronaut]

Cool, yeah itll squeel like a mutha till you box it it, and shield input...

but well worth it.....glad you tried it man...   


lots of gain on tap, i have mine at about 11 o clock......with tea n crumpets.

[Metaldestroyer]

I like how smooth the distortion is. Color me very interested!

[doctord02]

Rob, ever settle on the TMB stack and baritone tweaks?

[deadastronaut]

yeah, kind of...

been uber busy designing/building a preamp/amp for my son in law..(which is very cool)

but has been a right pain, changing his f.....g mind on what he wants it to do

and mostly what etch design he wants too.......arghhhhhhh...

still ill be on the ass end of it soon..thank f..

saying that, actually it has inspired me to think of a dual active eq/ clean/dirt spitty
as clean channel often gets ignored...and the eq is rather nice..

as soon as ive finished i'm back on it man...haven't forgotten,been on the backburner always

[WhiskeyMadeMeDoIt]

Rob I have been thinking of building something similar to what you are doing for the kid. Seems like you have solved or worked through many of the same ideas that i wanted to build in to my little amp project. Would you be willing to share your schematic ?

[287m]

honestly
waiting for 3band equalizer version
so have 6 knob. hahaha

build the spitfire v3, the tone so bright
so down the pot to 25K

nice circuit DeadAstro!

[deadastronaut]

wait for it.....wait for it... 

sorry guys, been busy lately, my bro had a long awaited heart op, so been down to cornwall

for a while...

just finishing up a rack, then i'm back on it...promise ok.

[WhiskeyMadeMeDoIt]

Hope the heart op went well and your brother is doing alright. Family is far more important than any of this.  We can wait.   

[deadastronaut]

cheers man, yeah its been a worry..but he's ok now.  i only have 2 bro's and thats it for my family side
so i was praying big time that he'd be ok.

i have the new version on bread anyway ok...so it wont be long guys..

[bluebunny]

^^ wot Michael said = +1

[BoogiemanX]

Wow this looks like an awsome pedal and Rob thats some awsome guitar playing! Just finished my first DIY A/B pedal and accidentally stumbled across the spitefire while looking for info on building a 10 channel pedal looper. Can't wait to get start just have to get all the parts. This will be my second pedal and my first time building with circuits. Fingers crossed.

[BoogiemanX]

Ok. Getting my parts list ready to order and I have some Cap questions. I want to build the original ver.3 with same parts if possible without substituting. Hopefully getting it right the first time. I'm trying to use the gut shot as a reference but it's not clear enough to tell exactly what some of the caps are.
My first question is on the can style c1, c7, c 16 are those polarized or non electrolytics?
Second is about the others. Correct me if I'm wrong but is c4, c7, and c 10 ceramic disk? And are c3, c5, c8, c11, c13 dipped ceramic or tantalum? And c14, c5 polyester film?
And third what is c12? A box style cap? The picture is slightly blurry but it looks like a Smurf put a Post It note on there. I'm kind of a noob at this and would like to do it right the first time and not "pop a cap!" Or fry the whole thing.
Any help will be very appreciated. Thnx