fuzzonaut

Here's my 301. It looks a bit rough, but I don't mind.

Can I leave another one? Here's a Parallel Drive, the bass version, built on a Damnation Audio PCB. It's quite simple but very useful, two drives in parallel, each side with gain and level. The bass version has a cleanish boost and a rat style distortion, that you can mix to taste. I added clipping options on both sides: GE-none-SI for the boost and LED-none-SI for the distortion (stock is SI on both sides). There are sockets on the lugs of the clipping switches, so I'll try some more stuff in there. It's an awesome pedal, the boost is very tasty and there are many different types of dirtiness to be had.

Dark Thug - on a Fuzzdog PCB.

Yeah, the Meatbox definitely needs the right speaker(s) to live up to it's potential.

I'm using an Acoustic 301. It's a 18" folded horn. That cab handles those frequencies without any problems. Probably helps that I'm splitting. Live, I run it to the PA.

"Band" and "play" might not be the right words. I fool around and make noises in 2 projects. This is with a guitar/synth player: http://www.deepband.ch This with another guitarist. https://glimmbrand.bandcamp.com

Yes, 3 amps at the same time. Here are the 2 smaller boards and the rigs. On the main board, there are 2 fuzzes going to all 3 amps, then comes the Meatbox where I split. Wet goes through the 2 Aguilars into the rig in the middle (dry/sub). Everything else on the main, board, except the Wizard Fuzz, is on both amps left and right, then the DD7 splits again. From there each signal goes through one of the small boards into one of the amps on the side.

Here we go, my spaceship control center. This is the main board, feeding 3 amps, sort of a wet/"dry"/wet setup, with the 2 wet signals running through another smaller sideboard each. Otherwise, I'm fine.

Thanks. I tried acid etching on a few back plates so far, but the results were not that great, but still "interesting" at least. 😄

How's that bit-crusher doing? Here's my latest build, the PCB is called Fugu, but I put Fuzz Machine on there, as on the pedal that this is based on. It's the first time I tried "waterslide decal" instead of "photo transfer potch" to dress up the box.

Congrats on your first build, that looks pretty nice! You'll get it to work, don't worry. A broken wire can be fixed - basically, if you can't get it out as Unknown User suggested, try to solder the loose ends back together. It looks like it snapped off right where it goes into the footswitch board? Then, you could leave that bit there, take the loose end of the wire, making sure there is some of the wire sticking out of the plastic (got a wire stripper?) and solder that back to the board by heating up the blob of solder that is already there. If needed, apply some more solder. I just did the same to a non-working build that has been sitting on my desk for month (ColorTone Bass Fuzz). I tried to fix it back then, but all I managed was to break wires and make it worse. Now, all this "audio probe talk" made me try again and after resoldering some "dead spots" on the PCB and redoing some of the off-board wiring .... it works!

Here's a video that explains using the audio probe. I use a looper to have a signal while I'm "probing". As for the risks of electrocuting yourself, I'm pretty sure 9V (or less) won't do yo any harm - nothing happened to me so far, but yeah: don't quote me on that neither, please. You could also use this sort of cable with a battery to make sure:

I started out about a year ago - with a Bass Fuzz kit from Fuzzdog. After that, I switched to buying PCB's only and built 2 more of their "one knob fuzzes" to get a hang of it. Later on, I also built the Fuzzdog Percolator. Great circuit! You should be fine with that one - just use sockets for the transistors, so you can change them easily. And include the diode lift switch, it's worth it. Another thing I recommend is to build an "audio probe" - it lets you follow the signal through a circuit. That's helpful, if you need to find a problem with your build, but it is also very cool to follow a signal through a working effect - that gives you an idea what those components actually do to your signal. Here's my recent build - also based on a Fuzzdog PCB. Super loud, bone crushing fuzz. Big knobs and large enclosure for even more low end. 😉 And a bit of wonky drilling.

More Fuzz Dog stuff. Hype Fuzz/Destructor Drive. I went for all 3 circuits (Fuzz/Drive/Bass Drive) on the toggle and like the drive better than the fuzz. Peachy Fuzz. This one is great, big fat sounds in there.

Here's another one - a Dead End FX PCB: the Laika Fuzz. (Check out Dead End FX, they've got taste and offer PCBs of rather unobtainable pedals.) That was my most ambitious build so far, I'm still in my first year of building, and everything went pretty smoothly. I didn't mess up drilling and most important: it worked right away and sounds fantastic!

Thanks. I use photo transfer potch.

Yay! My very first attempt at drilling the enclosure myself went pretty well. Nonetheless, it was a good idea to wire the pots with short cables instead of directly onto the pcb.

Well, posting a populated Fuzzdog PCB after your works of art is hard, so I thought I'll just wait a bit .... but anyway, here we go, a Harmonic Percolator with diode lift switch.

Ha-ha, pretty obvious now!

Thanks!! Who's SOMA, though?

Here's a CODA Effects Black Hole PCB, a Model T inspired preamp (4 x J201) with a boost (LPB1) in front of it. The boost was meant to be on a DPTD switch (or footswitch) with an internal trimpot to set the level of the boost. I decided to have the boost always on and moved the potentiometer to the front. I also put C1, C2 and C7 into sockets, so that I could easily swap those caps for more bass if needed. Although, using the 3 band EQ, it can get pretty bass heavy with the stock values. The pilot light didn't function as intended via the footswitch board (from pedalparts), so I had to run more wires than planned first ... Anyway, the light works now (and is red, of course). This could have fit into a smaller enclosure, sure, but I wanted to put numbered knobs and a jewel light on there to give it a bit of an amp like appereance - and I like big pedals!

My 200s-inspired black piece of awesomeness!

I bought a pedal from Andy. Great chap to deal with, quick ([i]international![/i]) shipping, smooth deal all around. Cheers. Marco

I used to bi-amp for a while, with a Marshall IBS 3540 amp and an Ampeg Isovent cab. It was ok, but sooner or later, I wanted to have a clean-dirty setup, so I switched to dual amping, going full range into 2 bass rigs, running one signal dry (or with octaver) and the other one dirty (and/or modulated/delayed). That sounded much better to my ears, so in the meantime, I have expanded to a dry-dirty-dirty setup, hitting 3 rigs full range. I have a 18" folded horn cab for dry (and Meatbox wet/Octaver) and one dirty signal has 2x15", the other 2x15 and 2x10". I have dirt boxes going to rig 2 [i]and [/i]3, and dirt boxes going to [i]either [/i]rig 2 or 3.. To split to the 2 dirty rigs I use a Boss DD7 delay. Love it! On stage, I send the dry signal direct to the house and use only the 2 dirty rigs on stage - usually "their" bass rig (backline or other band) and one of mine. But I also brought 2 full rigs before.

[quote name='Left Foot' timestamp='1498811939' post='3327168'] You got anything recorded up on sound loud with the Pll on bass? [/quote] No I don't, at least not yet. This pedal still makes me scratch my head from time to time, thinking "cool sounds, but how and why did this happen ...?". I'll let you know, if I get around to record anything.