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Any DIY pedal builders on TB? Strut your stuff!

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G.Bisson said:
Added two more Parasit Studio pedals to my collection. Here we have the 0415 and 1985 guitar synths. 0415 is PLL based. 1985 is Attiny85 based.
I'm really liking the 0415 synth. It sounds cleaner and is easier to dial in than Parasit's other PLL synths; U235, MultiWave, Into the Unknown, and Theremin Fuzz.
The 1985 has a nice up octave, although it only works well in upper frets and is very sensitive to spitting out glitchy digital artifacts.
This pair brings me up to 200 DIY pedal builds.
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Those look awesome :) Congrats on hitting 200!

Of the Parasit Studio pedals which are your favorites? I think I'd like to try a few. I've been wanting to dip my feet into the PLL pond. That said, I did just order a bunch of PCBs from Dead End FX, mostly Lastgasp Arts stuff.
 
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Zanshin_ said:
Those look awesome :) Congrats on hitting 200!

Of the Parasit Studio pedals which are your favorites? I think I'd like to try a few. I've been wanting to dip my feet into the PLL pond. That said, I did just order a bunch of PCBs from Dead End FX, mostly Lastgasp Arts stuff.
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Arcadiator is my favorite Parasit Studio effect. It falls under the bitcrusher + octaver category. It has the most features and is easy to dial in many good sounds. If size, cost and simplicity are higher priorities I recommend the Sidescroller instead.

Into the Unknown is the most feature rich PLL pedal in the Parasit lineup (other than that monstrous C19 Databus synth). It was my first PLL synth and went over my head. I really enjoy the simplicity and octave sounds of the 0415 synth. Theremin Fuzz, U235, and Multiwave synth are decent effects, although limited in what they can do. I've built most of the Parasit Studio lineup by now with the Raygun Youth and Quantum Defrakulator being the two remaining PLL types to try in the future.
 
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Pultec trick. Similarities are purely coincidental... ;)
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Rehousing my old Phasor II build this week so that I have top jacks. Annoyingly, I tried it last week and just didn't leave enough room in the enclosure for top jacks and there's no way to fix it... hate to scrap a nice gorva, but I'm not sure I can find another use. Oh well... new one comes in tomorrow.
 
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deepestend said:
Rehousing my old Phasor II build this week so that I have top jacks. Annoyingly, I tried it last week and just didn't leave enough room in the enclosure for top jacks and there's no way to fix it... hate to scrap a nice gorva, but I'm not sure I can find another use. Oh well... new one comes in tomorrow.
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Can the mistakes be fixed by filling holes with 2-part epoxy? Epoxy has spared a few of my enclosures from becoming trash.
Also test fit different types of jacks: enclosed frame or open-frame Neutrik or Lumberg each fit into tight spaces in different ways.
 
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G.Bisson said:
Can the mistakes be fixed by filling holes with 2-part epoxy? Epoxy has spared a few of my enclosures from becoming trash.
Also test fit different types of jacks: enclosed frame or open-frame Neutrik or Lumberg each fit into tight spaces in different ways.
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This one just isn't going to be saved... for this project at least. I'm not going to toss the enclosure, but it's not worth trying to save it-- and I already tried a few things like drilling the jack holes lower.

The new gorva was $13 delivered. I'll just drill the jack holes first and go from there.
 
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after building the large box Fulltone '69 (i call mine the '67) i also completed the '70 (1970) only i added a pre-gain (gain) to it. Surprisingly, even the the '70 is silicon (using BC108's), it was just as hard to get it right.
here they are together:

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Some of my recent builds…

I built a clone of the Ramble FX Twin Bender (PPCB) and I liked the sound of the GT402 transistors so much I decided I need to make a Fuzzface with them too. I ended up using the Aion FX Solaris pcb that has the AMZ pickup simulator I liked so much on their Wooly Mammoth pcb. Both of these have become favorites.

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I finished this Devi Ever Silver Rose clone (DeadEnd FX pcb) last weekend. The parallel fuzz with clean blend sounds huge.

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Some footprints can accomodate two different component sizes of which of course only one is fitted, leaving a hole. Others are just not populated. You shoud see the other side, some parts are wired together in the air, off board. Pretty typical for SR&D/Rockman stuff. They kept tweaking their designs, often using the same board revision. PCBs were expensive back then.
 
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