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DIY effects; Hjart Muller Bass Drive and Red Llama clone - WITHDRAWN


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I've got a new overdrive pedal in the works, so I'm clearing out some of my older DIY builds to fund the parts. These are pedals I built for my own personal use, so they have been gigged and have proved to be reliable, even if they are not built to boutique standards of neatness. Both pedals are true-bypass, with red LED indicators, in unpainted diecast aluminium cases.
On the right is a bass overdrive built from a kit with PCB, the Hjart Muller Bass Drive from Moodysounds. Here is a link to the ready-built version;
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This is a really nice sounding, moderate gain overdrive which gets into JJ Burnel and John Wetton-esque territories, not a full-on fuzz. It's an opamp based overdrive with diode clipping, similar to an Ibanez Tubescreamer but voiced for bass. Note that this was built to go on a pedalboard, so it does not have a battery clip - it needs a power supply. £30 posted in UK.

On the left is a pedal based on the Anderton Tube Sound Fuzz and Way Huge Red Llama designs which is probably more at home with guitar than bass. It is especially good with single coil, Fender-ish guitars This is an overdrive based on a FET inverter chip, which provides a very transparent drive at lower settings with a raw grittiness about it. At higher gain settings it gets quite fuzzy. This one is built on perfboard and can be used with a battery or power supply. £25 posted in UK.
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