Aotearoa Intermodulator - A very small wavefolding diode ladder distortion inspired by a Prunes and Custard - SOLD
£85
Leeds

LukeFRC · Thursday at 21:32

TLDR version: It's my clone of a Prunes and Custard in a really small case, it's a DIY pedal I made myself but to a fairly high standard.
It sounds amazing!

Long version:
I like making pedals, and have made quite a few for myself - often of things, like this, that seem to be unavailable to buy new.
A few years back I laid out my own PCB and made a version of a SS/BS mini - it was amazing in a metal stamped case , and ended up making a couple for a couple of friends on here- which was a long and not massively fun experience.

I didn't have any distortions on my board and wanted to build one, in talking to @lee650 he convinced me to try a Prunes and custard. The next issue is, I've a small board so wondered if I could fit it all in a mini (1590a) size enclosure...
Then I saw the fancy Gorva M45 which is 5mm or so wider ... but crucially if you use the right Lumberg jacks, you can get top jacks into it!

The PCB is a combination of SMD parts (resistors, a couple of ceramic caps, most diodes and IC) and through hole for capacitors and one diode.

Mini 3PDT footswitch is low activation pressure and nice.

The Gorva M45 is the most expensive part of the build in matt black - and I designed a fern leaf design for it printed in gloss on black by Gojira here in the UK.

The original Prunes and Custard being made in New Zealand, and the fern leaf and er... All Black design influenced by the country of origin and watching the All blacks as my kiwi uncle introduced me to rugby...

Importantly the LED is green. This is the kind of detail that matters.

But making a small batch it meant I could get the SMD parts of PCB assembled and it made the unit price on the printing make sense. I had 10 PCB and bulked a bit at the cost to build them all up (plus that gets out of hand!) so made 6.

One is mine, one sold to Lee who inspired it, and then a couple I've friends ask to buy, one is out for testing ... which leaves me with one (maybe two) left...

so I offer it here for £85. Which will be £89 including first class postage here in the UK.

Which is cost of parts plus a bit for my time in assembly.

Controls are gain, mix and volume, high cut is guitar/bass on the original (I think) and ... cuts the top end, low cut is contour on the original and in the down position adds clean lows back in.
It sounds like a prunes and custard. It's very small.

Did I mention how small it is?
NOTE: compact jacks like EBS needed. See photo in second post.