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Any DIY pedal builders on TB? Strut your stuff!

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Fuzzonaut said:
So, I bought the latest LP by A Place To Bury Strangers, as I like that band. It's a great album by the way! Also, it's the band of the guy behind Death by Audio, so getting an LP sized circuit board with the LP seemed very promising. It lets you build a 3 oscillator synth with 2 delay lines and some other stuff (knobs and switches everywhere!)

It's a very cool synth alright, it can make all sorts of drones and noises and the two delays offer a lot of potential to go wild.
But even cooler is that it has an instrument input, so that you can use it as a pedal, which kinda qualifies it for this thread, I'd say.
Anyway, here are some notes on bass through the synth. There are tons of different sounds to be had, this is just a taste.



And the synth.

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That is beyond cool. It is better than wicked cool. Words fail me for how beyond cool that is.
 
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Mesa Boogie Subway DI copy:
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My first full pedal build, a big fuzzy distortion - really just a modified electra with 2nd gain stage and basic tone, plus a blending circuit (the buff & blend mini board).
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It works well except that i'm getting hum when the bass volume is anywhere between fully on or off. I've had this before when breadboarding circuits (specifically while tying in the buff & blend board), and at that time i was missing a ground, but every ground point is connected and i've reflowed every ground connection and no improvement. Is there another way to track that down?
 
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wjcstp said:
My first full pedal build, a big fuzzy distortion - really just a modified electra with 2nd gain stage and basic tone, plus a blending circuit (the buff & blend mini board).
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It works well except that i'm getting hum when the bass volume is anywhere between fully on or off. I've had this before when breadboarding circuits (specifically while tying in the buff & blend board), and at that time i was missing a ground, but every ground point is connected and i've reflowed every ground connection and no improvement. Is there another way to track that down?
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Usually a hum in a pedal indicates an open ground, as it's acting as an antenna for 60Hz noise. Make sure all your necessary ground points are tied to a common point or reference.
 
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#2,630
VFE Klein Bottle

I've always been intrigued by this pedal and when I got the chance to buy this pcb with all the smd chips already installed and also the special dual pots it requieres (C10K / C100K), I jumped on it.

I made a drill template based on measurements of the PCB itself. But oh boy, there are sooooo many holes and I drill by hand ....
Luckily, I wasn't too far off, giving the pots an extra millimeter wiggle room also helped.

It was a bit of a surprise to find out that it actually works as intended. I tested it according to this walkthrough of the man himself.
The routing possibilites are still boggling my mind a bit, but it will be fun to explore it more.

Graphics = Relativity by M.C. Escher. The color coding should help my brain getting along.

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Probably not quite the right type of pedals, but I built this recently...
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Took a lot of troubleshooting to get the Doepfer MBP25 midi controller to make nice with the Fatar keys. Unfortunately, Fatar would not respond to request for a wiring diagram for their keys, and Doepfer did not have documentation for them either. After a lot of time I was able to figuring out all the correct connections between the two and ordered a PCB adapter. So the core of it is a Behringer Toro, that I've modified to pair directly into a Doepfer MBP25, with MIDI in/out on the front panel, and all powered off mains plugging into the face of the unit with the power switch turning on all components.


Next on the drawing board: dual Ashly SC-40, dual DOD Milkbox, modded DOD Bifet Boost.
 
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Feral Feline said:
Nice T-bird!

Going to help a friend wet-sand his tomorrow, but it's not a drop-top, a '64 IIRC, though a shade of red similar to yours.

Oh, and neatobandito pedal project, too.
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Thanks! It fits in with my T-Bird basses! It's a Rangoon Red '62 Sports Roadster with an M code, needs a lot of body work and electrical repair, but it runs strong! My dad and I will get it all fixed up one day, time and $$ allowing! I like those '64 Fourth Gens too, remind me of a super-sized Mustang.
 
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