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Show your pedal guts.

#181
iamdenialNJ said:
I did a search and nothing turned up so I'm going to start a pedal guts thread. This is all about pedal guts...
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Living in the past

Jext Telez Dizzy Tone version 4, OC44 Gold Edition

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vintage Ross Flanger with power supply upgrade

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vintage BOSS GE-7B Bass Equalizer, upgraded

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Fulltone Bass-Drive version 2

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#191
Stellvia said:
Dave Hall Amps VT1 Mk2. First of a new batch with all new PCB's. Had it open today to swap the stock EH 12AU7 for a NOS Mullard 12AT7 for more clean headroom. Worked a treat!

DHA VT1 Guts

DHA VT1 Guts

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Love the orientation of the tube. Sure as hell beats the MOD kits and other pedal companies that stand the tube straight up, exposing it to abuse (even with 'guards').

Here's the "Persuader Deluxe" from MOD kit's website...

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And then a "Persuader" non-deluxe gut shot.

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Plenty of room to shift things around and lay down the tube if you ditch the battery. The Deluxe gut-shot is a bit tighter, maybe.

I like the MOD kits and would like to build one, but I'd have to re-orient the tube.
 
#194
rratajski said:
Woof! That looks awful :). If that ever acts up and comes in for repair, it will get rewired the tighter way we do it now.
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Ryan, it may look awful, but it sounds great. So strong. Stark and direct, or nuanced and wooly. Versatile, quirky, with an emphasis on subtraction and compensation for sound design.

Last night I dubbed this Rat King a "brutal funk machine". I'm guessing that most of your customers aren't playing much funk with your pedals. ;)

Thanks about rewiring. I like the time capsule status of this pedal, though, so I hope it never breaks.
 
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#195
My home made fuzz pedal, basically a silicon fuzz face with a one knob, big muff type tone control. The black thing on the back of one of the pots is an on/off switch, I can turn the pedal off by turning the volume all the way down, just like an old radio. The pieces of sponge are to keep the battery from rattling around inside the pedal.

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Anderton Tube Sound Fuzz/Red Llama, built from a MadBean PCB.

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Germanium transistor Fuzz Face built on a TonePad PCB.

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ProCo BRAT (aka Guitar Center "Roadkill" distortion) modded to RAT specs and re-housed in a standard Hammond stompbox. I also installed the extra components to implement the status LED. The traces are on the PCB, but curiously they did not implement the status LED on the originals.

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Years ago, I gutted this poor thing, I just rebuilt using the General Guitar Gadgets PCB artwork, a few of the original transistors and some values changed to make it better for bass:
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And my modified Runoff Groove Flipster; 2n5754 jfets, with Fetzter Valve biasing, and the tone stack values from the Ginger:
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