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

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a sneaky peek preview of the spitfire v3..it'll have 3mm red/orange eyes like the original too... .

Man that is off all the following:
The Chain
The Hook
The Charts

CHAD

[deadastronaut]

 

i had detuning and standard tuning in mind with this from the beginning, its great drop tuned....in my video near the end its drop c#...

thats why i kept the higher end tone...so its a good all-rounder...

[J0K3RX]

good one chad....

the version 3 just has 1 switch now...

2n5457's eh!...less gain?.

yeah its a good idea to breadboard it, to get it to set it to suit your 'style' taste'.....cool.

I didn't realize they had less gain than the j201... I'm a latecomer to the pedal-building party, but assumed since your schematic says 'J201 & 2N5457', that meant  they were similar.  But, still- great circuit.  Certainly doesn't need any more gain!  Oh, I also ended up removing the 680K R6 resistor, which perhaps added back some of the lost gain.

I have this pedal in mind for a hardcore 7-string friend.

CHAD

Chad, I am very curious as to how this will sound with a 7 or 8 string? It has a very tight low end so I am expecting it to do very well...

~ Jim

Well, I'm not the 7-string player.  I did try it with dropped B and it growls nicely.  I was reading my post again and noticed a few other things I ended up changing.  Removed R14, R7, C18, C11 in favor of a .001uF strapped across the volume pot.  C6 and C2 are .05uF.  And then I played more and changed C7 again to .68uF, but added a 100uF cap in place of C3.  C8 / C10 is a .001uF.  Now the tone knob goes from 4x12 boom on one side to tight 10" sealed on the other side.

I totally understand why you put the switches !  I like just about everything.  Now to get my bud to come over and try it out. to see if it needs anything in the frequency range that bass guitarists hate.

CHAD

Seems like you have made quite a few changes... Got any sound clips?

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Seems like you have made quite a few changes... Got any sound clips?

I'll put one up, but it will be embarrassing.  Other clips are made by genuine players- I'm generally a 'color' guy over basic chord progressions, so sweet or fast licks aren't on tap.

CHAD

[J0K3RX]

Here's a couple boards I made.. A few flaws but they are fixable. Now for the fun part, drilling

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good one chad....

the version 3 just has 1 switch now...

2n5457's eh!...less gain?.

yeah its a good idea to breadboard it, to get it to set it to suit your 'style' taste'.....cool.

I didn't realize they had less gain than the j201... I'm a latecomer to the pedal-building party, but assumed since your schematic says 'J201 & 2N5457', that meant  they were similar.  But, still- great circuit.  Certainly doesn't need any more gain!  Oh, I also ended up removing the 680K R6 resistor, which perhaps added back some of the lost gain.

I have this pedal in mind for a hardcore 7-string friend.

CHAD

Chad, I am very curious as to how this will sound with a 7 or 8 string? It has a very tight low end so I am expecting it to do very well...

~ Jim

Well, I'm not the 7-string player.  I did try it with dropped B and it growls nicely.  I was reading my post again and noticed a few other things I ended up changing.  Removed R14, R7, C18, C11 in favor of a .001uF strapped across the volume pot.  C6 and C2 are .05uF.  And then I played more and changed C7 again to .68uF, but added a 100uF cap in place of C3.  C8 / C10 is a .001uF.  Now the tone knob goes from 4x12 boom on one side to tight 10" sealed on the other side.

I totally understand why you put the switches !  I like just about everything.  Now to get my bud to come over and try it out. to see if it needs anything in the frequency range that bass guitarists hate.

CHAD

Seems like you have made quite a few changes... Got any sound clips?

No skills>
Parker fly deluxe bridge humbucker>
radioshack project board>
champ clone>
eminence wizard sealed>
sm57>
>iphone diy mic adapter

I think all the changes are correct.  I'll delete this schematic as fast as I can if you don't want it posted deadastronaut (or mods remove).



CHAD

[J0K3RX]

Parker Fly Deluxe!? You Suck!!! That was great man!!! You are like some kinda mad metal scientist in that room with all that sh!t I gotta get me one of those Radio Shack electronics learning labs! That was a really good demo and it sounded pretty damn good also..! Thanks for posting all this and great job man! I will PM you with my address so you can send me that Parker Fly

Diggin your coffee vids too! 

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Parker Fly Deluxe!? You Suck!!! That was great man!!! You are like some kinda mad metal scientist in that room with all that sh!t I gotta get me one of those Radio Shack electronics learning labs! That was a really good demo and it sounded pretty damn good also..! Thanks for posting all this and great job man! I will PM you with my address so you can send me that Parker Fly

If you read about the deluxe you'll find it's only for country music... ...whatever. I did roll the guitar tone back just a wee bit because it is a bright guitar and the EMI Wizard is bright too.  You did add a lot of smileys, but I'll take the compliment anyway.  I figured if I stayed on D how bad could I screw up a demo?  Got that learning lab for the boy like 6 years ago when he was 9.  We made a light sensitive buzzer and put it in the bathroom to surprise sister.  It worked, then went back in the box till a few months ago when I remembered we had it and I wanted to make a pedal.

OH, I got a deal on the FLY.... essentially I bought it for the money I made selling my prized LTD EC-1000 w/EMGs.  Um... worked out well for me.

CHAD

*edit: Pfft!  Coffee is my other geek hobby 

[Maik]

Hey Chad, check out Reeves Gabrels with Bowie. That is no country...

[deadastronaut]

@jok3rx: looking good...

@chad:  sounds cool man....no worries on the schemo ok...its all about tweaking ok..!!!!!...

those lab things are handy eh!!!...

finishing my build today, have had to do stuff for my bro the last few days...been frustrating the @#$% out of me not being able to get it done....

should be done by this afternoon...without interuptions ...

[deadastronaut]

da da...

[WGTP]

Great Stuff. 

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CHAD

[deadastronaut]

 

[iccaros]

hay is that an etch or transfer?

[deadastronaut]

etch....

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This pedal will probably be my first attempt at etching.  I'm thinking something like this:


CHAD

[deadastronaut]

 

[Jorge_S]

Amazing! I love how it can go from a warm crunch to mean & spit-firing

This design has to be one of the best distortions in the diy world, thanks for sharing!

[iccaros]

ok..ok ..ok... I hate you, I will have no time to get my homework done and this pedal...... masters degree, pedal... master.. pedal.....  PEDAL.............