Bigwan

[quote name='Gareth Hughes' timestamp='1365331640' post='2038044'] You know you need a tester for your Meatball clone And for the SFT clone too [/quote] Once I have them boxed I'll shout you G! Jnr no. 2 arrived on Friday morning so I'll probably not get an awful lot of chance to make proper use of them for a while!

Yeah I'm all for north facing jacks. Landscape/portrait I'm undecided on. Looking at 8 controls on this thing so if they fit portrait with north facing jacks all the better. The DI is maybe a bit ott, but if there's room I'll stick it in. My only DI pedal is an mxr m80 and it's just a glorified distortion/eq at the minute as the DI has given up the ghost...

I've been mulling over an idea... Like quite a few folk here I really like the sound of my Ashdown hyperdrive, but not its size. Had looked at cloning it, but having traced out most of the circuit it seems overly complicated to me. So my thoughts turned to a work alike design. Blend/bp filter/distortion. Then my mind wandered a bit further. Why blend the distorted bandpass signal back with a totally clean signal? Why not add a nice warm valve-sounding drive option instead, like the sft I've just built but with a mid control too. Also thinking of a DI out. All in a Hammond 1590BB. Any thoughts?

[quote name='TG Flatline' timestamp='1365087492' post='2035138'] Octave and fuzz in the effects loop for a winning good time! [/quote] That's the plan once I have the thing working. Haven't wired the fx loop yet - just something else to be getting in the way at the minute! Once it's up and running there'll be a chord octave and my knobless fuzz (mastotron clone) going in there.

Gk3b and Roland v-bass is the closest you're likely to get. Like Ped of this parish, you could have the pickup installed permanently which helps the look and ergonomics of the thing, but the tracking is excellent and the v-bass sounds are pretty authentic. More a pedalboard than a stomp box but has amp models and effects on board too.

Samuel replied to my wanted ad for a micro thumpinator. Price was really good, but comms were a little lacking after payment and shipping was a little slower than what I've come to expect from a basschat transaction. Still the cheapest micro thumpinator I've seen anywhere though!

The meatball clone still didn't work due to my inability to tell anode from cathode - had the LDRs installed backwards! Hoping to make some "bow-chicka-wow-wow" and "wiki-wiki-wah" noises with it tonight though...

Productive few days. Built an SFT circuit on Monday (worked first time!), and finished off my meatball clone circuit - alas it didn't work first time! Missing 2 jumpers was the main problem, and the inverting amps on the lp and hp filters were referenced to ground instead of vref by mistake. Took some scoping to find that in work this morning! Not an easy circuit to debug, but looking forward to getting home to try it out! Now have 3 circuits to get built up into enclosures - these 2 and a knobless fuzz (mastotron done with trim pots destined for a 1590A enclosure).

Zvex sho maybe?

Weird...

So just to clarify, with the Mesa engaged, and wonderlove blend at 50/50, the volume is louder than with the blend all the way to wet (Mesa still engaged).

The wonderlove I mean, not the Mesa.

I think that's a balanced signal you're talking about, like an xlr/di where there are 2 signals, 180 degrees out of phase with each other.

It's signal and ground you're swapping in that case. I'm surprised spencer hasn't taken "inverting" pedals into account with his most recent design and added a phase switch. Ironically the crap blend implementation of the original meatball would have worked better for inverting pedals!

It's signal and ground you're swapping in that case. I'm surprised spencer hasn't taken "inverting" pedals into account with his most recent design and added a phase switch.

Easy way to tell if it's a phase issue. Turn the blend down so none of the clean signal is present. If that's louder than 50/50 blend then phase is the issue.

Just bought a 3 leaf groove regulator from Ian (in response to my wanted ad). Typically basschat transaction. Wouldn't hesitate to deal again!

Just bought a chord octave pedal from Paul. Typically brilliant basschat transaction. Wouldn't hesitate to deal again!

There's small... and then there's smaller... This is actually a wah, but you get the idea!

[quote name='steve-soar' timestamp='1363728390' post='2016793'] What does "Psycho Acoustic" mean? [/quote] Probably that it has a big peak at 100Hz and absolutely nowt below that!

That DJ5 is hotness...

That pic is maybe too compressed for you to read the text on the diagram, so: Red = output from circuit to footswitch Green = footswitch to output jack Blue = true bypass signal from input jack

YOU CARRY OUT THIS MOD AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! It's a little more awkward modifying the micro q-tron than the mini, but still perfectly achievable. Have a look at the pic attached. First thing you have to do is cut the red track on the footswitch pcb (shown in the diagram) to break the connection between the ribbon cable and the footswitch. If it were me I'd cut it more than once to be sure! Next get a potentiometer. I'd go for a 1 megaohm audio taper although I've used other values (250k, 500k). The little diagram within the pic shows looking at the pot from the back. The red wire should be connected to the ribbon cable end of the red track. The green wire should connect to the top right of the 9 footswitch pins (the other end of the red track). The 3rd pot connection should be grounded. I'd connect it to the chassis of the pot (if it's a metal case) then to an available ground on the circuit - I'd connect to the sleeve lug on the output jack). Where you drill the hole for the pot is entirely up to you. I'd be tempted to mount it on the side of the pedal on the footswitch side of the output jack, about where the battery usually sits. There's the same room on the other side of the footswitch to put the battery.

I'll throw something together tomorrow. It'll probably be on the back of a fag packet (or politically correct modern equivalent!!!).