DIY Effects

[ColinB]

The SHO only crackles when you set the level, apart from that I like it on bass. FuzzDog's [url="http://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/Quiet_Boost/p847124_11255314.aspx"]Quiet Boost[/url] is a SHO without the crackle. If you look at the instruction pdf then there's a circuit diagram for it.

[Johnny Wishbone]

[quote name='ColinB' timestamp='1478699385' post='3171022']
The SHO only crackles when you set the level, apart from that I like it on bass. FuzzDog's [url="http://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/Quiet_Boost/p847124_11255314.aspx"]Quiet Boost[/url] is a SHO without the crackle. If you look at the instruction pdf then there's a circuit diagram for it.
[/quote] Ah right, that'll teach me to read things properly! So only crackles when you move the pot? Sweet, that sounds like a winner - I'll be "setting and forgetting" the level anyway. Thanks!

[Rich]

Has anyone built an isolating hum-free ABY switcher? I've found this schematic and am wondering about putting one together. Anyone made one?
[url]http://www.geofex.com/FX_images/humfree2.gif[/url]
I've seen the thread on diystompboxes and was wondering if anyone has had the same problems?

[pete.young]

Not having this thread as a sticky is a right pain!

Allt his talk of soldering surface mount components for the B3K/Vintage clones has me wondering if it's possible to socket the ICs for these designs. Anyone tried this?

[Sibob]

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1482230295' post='3198578']
Not having this thread as a sticky is a right pain!

Allt his talk of soldering surface mount components for the B3K/Vintage clones has me wondering if it's possible to socket the ICs for these designs. Anyone tried this?
[/quote]

There's no sockets for SMC to my knowledge, however some will have them on a daughter board and then (using header pins) insert the daughter board into a standard through-hole IC socket. Still means you have to solder the SMC, but allows you to use either through-hole or SMC with your board depending on what's available.

Si

[Sibob]

Finished my Guma Antique.
Fair warning....the enclosure contains swears, but are quotes from the South Park film.....so morally we're cool.

Sounds good! Happy with it

[url=https://postimg.org/image/h9eedwmr3/][/url]

[url=https://postimg.org/image/uetwk0gmn/][/url]

Si

[danbowskill]

[quote name='Sibob' timestamp='1483133301' post='3205017']
Finished my Guma Antique.
Fair warning....the enclosure contains swears, but are quotes from the South Park film.....so morally we're cool.

Sounds good! Happy with it

[url="https://postimg.org/image/h9eedwmr3/"][/url]

[url="https://postimg.org/image/uetwk0gmn/"][/url]

Si
[/quote] looks great. i see they are out of stock now..... wouldn't mind having a butchers at one

[pete.young]

About time this thread had a bump. Came across this conduit cutter in my local CEF yesterday, looks like just the job if you have a lot of enclosures to drill. Screwfix have them too.

http://www.screwfix.com/p/armeg-pro-step-drill-bit-4-22mm/8662R?kpid=8662R&cm_mmc=Google-_-Product%20Listing%20Ads-_-Sales%20Tracking-_-sales%20tracking%20url&gclid=CIaDt4D21dECFQEL0wodThANPQ

[paul_5]

Just finished a couple of Fuzz Dog pedals. Usually I do them on stripboard, but I'd run out and I reckon my building phase is drawing to a close as I've got all of the bases covered (for now at least).

Phase 90 clone (Faze 90) is awesome, but with a tiny drop in volume when engaged (added a small booster on the FX return of the switch)

and their Ampegulator (Catalinbread SFT clone), which sounds great going into the DHA VT1EQ. Essentially I'm using it as a 'more dirt' channel on the board, and it's doing really well. Costly in parts, as it takes 8 (eight) JFETs, but I had them lying around after buying a job lot for the Faze 90 and getting 2 matched pairs.

[paul_5]

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1485093957' post='3221036']
About time this thread had a bump. Came across this conduit cutter in my local CEF yesterday, looks like just the job if you have a lot of enclosures to drill. Screwfix have them too.

[url="http://www.screwfix.com/p/armeg-pro-step-drill-bit-4-22mm/8662R?kpid=8662R&cm_mmc=Google-_-Product%20Listing%20Ads-_-Sales%20Tracking-_-sales%20tracking%20url&gclid=CIaDt4D21dECFQEL0wodThANPQ"]http://www.screwfix....CFQEL0wodThANPQ[/url]
[/quote]

I use a stepper bit for all of my enclosures - saves so much time (and not so easy to lose!)

[ChunkyMunky]

Having a crack at some Sabrotone stuff. I love the idea of doing a clone of a pedal to then give it a funky looking housing. Here goes!

[Passinwind]

Just a heads-up: my open source onboard preamp project is now live and the circuit boards are available directly from the fabricator via a share arrangement on their website. I haven't really looked into parts sourcing outside of the US, but most of the parts I've spec'ed are very common over here. This is strictly a non-commercial truly open source project BTW.

https://www.talkbass.com/threads/the-passinwind-open-source-preamp.1259692/#post-19535550

[Saved]

Hey Charlie!!
Nice to see you here man

[Passinwind]

[quote name='Saved' timestamp='1488572700' post='3250244']
Hey Charlie!!
Nice to see you here man
[/quote]

Likewise Dimitris.

[pete.young]

Can anyone point me to a circuit for a dual channel high impedance preamp with a gain control on at least one channel? I am looking for something to blend a double bass bridge and fingerboard piezoelectric pickups, without spending K&K Sound amounts.

[Passinwind]

[quote name='pete.young' timestamp='1488658690' post='3250913']
Can anyone point me to a circuit for a dual channel high impedance preamp with a gain control on at least one channel? I am looking for something to blend a double bass bridge and fingerboard piezoelectric pickups, without spending K&K Sound amounts.
[/quote]

You could use a pair of the Tillman or Kreuzer FET front ends into one of Rod Elliot's ESP mixer modules and build a pretty nice sounding widget fairly inexpensively.

There are also a few possibilities on Francis Deck's site, including this one: http://personalpages.tds.net/~fdeck/bass/bbbb.jpg

Edited March 5, 2017 by Passinwind

[pete.young]

Thanks Charlie, I will check those out.

[Sibob]

Just spoken to Julian over at Schalltechnik04 and he mentioned that the Guma Drive & Guma Antique are back in stock now.
All found here:

http://schalltechnik04.de/en/kits

Si

[Sibob]

Anyone know of any artists or builders who are doing cool etched enclosures in the UK?

Si

[PeteWalbass]

[color=#34495E][font=Lato, sans-serif][size=4]Hi all on Basschat,[/size][/font][/color]

[color=#34495E][font=Lato, sans-serif][size=4]I am doing some research in the form of a survey in order to ascertain the potential of an educational device that I am developing which could potentially help thousands of musicians to improve their timekeeping abilities. I hope that you can help.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#34495E][font=Lato, sans-serif][size=4]If anyone would like more information on this device and would like to have a go at this short (and I mean short!) survey, please contact me at - [b][email protected][/b][/size][/font][/color]
[color=#34495E][font=Lato, sans-serif][size=4]This device (Accunome®) will measure and visually feedback a musician's timing whilst playing any instrument, thus helping musicians worldwide to accelerate the skill acquisition needed to play an instrument in time.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#34495E][font=Lato, sans-serif][size=4]Patent pending and still at the prototype stage, I will hopefully be able to produce the device in this country, which I think would be better for Britain than taking the idea to a Japanese company e.g. Roland or Yamaha. Any advice on that would also be helpful.[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#34495E][font=Lato, sans-serif][size=4]There is nothing similar on the market that offers the versatility of this device, which feeds back a musicians timing in such a visual way, or that has the option of projecting a timing display onto a large screen. [/size][/font][/color]
[color=#34495E][font=Lato, sans-serif][size=4][b]Below is a copy of the features [/b][/size][/font][/color]
[color=#34495E][font=Lato, sans-serif][size=4]Thanks again – Peter Lindemere Bmus PGCE[/size][/font][/color]
[b]Accunome[/b]® [b]Features[/b]

[font=inherit][size=4]VISUALLY DISPLAYS YOUR TIMING ON ANY INSTRUMENT[/size][/font]
[font=inherit][size=4]SHOWS IF YOU ARE PLAYING ON THE BEAT[/size][/font]
[font=inherit][size=4]INSTANTLY FEEDS BACK YOUR TIMING AND YOUR BPM[/size][/font]
[font=inherit][size=4]THREE SENSITIVITY SETTINGS – 10, 1 AND 0.2 BPM FOR INCREASED ACCURACY[/size][/font]
[font=inherit][size=4]FOR ONE OR TWO PLAYERS, OR LARGE GROUPS[/size][/font]
[font=inherit][size=4]INTERNAL MICROPHONE[/size][/font]
[font=inherit][size=4]CHROMATIC TUNER[/size][/font]
[font=inherit][size=4]PROGRAMMABLE METRONOME[/size][/font]
[color=#34495E][font=Lato, sans-serif][size=4]TWO 6.3MM JACK INPUTS[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#34495E][font=Lato, sans-serif][size=4]TWO 6.3MM STEREO JACK OUTPUTS / TWO HEADPHONES OUTPUTS[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#34495E][font=Lato, sans-serif][size=4]TWO INPUT CONTROLS AND LED LEVELS – PLUG IN AND PLAY ALONG WITH YOUR PHONE[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#34495E][font=Lato, sans-serif][size=4]USB DIGITAL / AUDIO INTERFACE[/size][/font][/color]
[color=#34495E][font=Lato, sans-serif][size=4]HDMI CONNECTION FOR LARGE SCREEN PROJECTION[/size][/font][/color]

Edited March 21, 2017 by PeteWalbass

[Guest FretNoMore]

Sounds quite useful. Do you have an approximate price in mind?

[dannybuoy]

This isn't really the right thread to post that, but my 2p:

- I would rather play to a drum beat than practice to a straight metronome.

- I would not be interested in visual feedback on my timing. I can use my ears to judge how I'm doing, I guess if I can't tell my timing is poor then nobody else can either! Also for some styles a bassist will intentionally play slightly behind or in front of the beat.

[skej21]

[quote name='dannybuoy' timestamp='1490125817' post='3262450']
This isn't really the right thread to post that, but my 2p:

- I would rather play to a drum beat than practice to a straight metronome.

- I would not be interested in visual feedback on my timing. I can use my ears to judge how I'm doing, I guess if I can't tell my timing is poor then nobody else can either! Also for some styles a bassist will intentionally play slightly behind or in front of the beat.
[/quote]

Huge plus one.

Additionally, music is either going to be strict in the nature of timing (i.e., required to follow a specific beat which you would use to judge yourself against, making the device redundant as you'd have the metronome and your ears as a reference) or there would be a natural (musical!) fluctuation in timing to the music as the instrumentalists bounce off each other (which, again, makes the device redundant as it would be more important to follow the other musicians than try to keep a strict time whilst everyone else around you doesn't).

It appears that this kind of device offers at best, a crutch to the musician who wants to solely judge their timing against a non-musical source or at worst, would create a device that discourages the development of crucial aural skills and natural communicative elements of time/feel.

IMO, This video by Victor is a great example of how time should be approached in order to develop overall musicianship rather than just a single skill without application or context;

http://youtu.be/f_LKWFvpr0o

Edited March 21, 2017 by skej21

[crompers]

Has anyone attempted one of these big muff kits?

https://www.musikding.de/Der-Muff-Green-Russian-Distortion-kit

wondering what it sounds like and how difficult it was to construct?

[Sibob]

[quote name='crompers' timestamp='1490189296' post='3263024']
Has anyone attempted one of these big muff kits?

[url="https://www.musikding.de/Der-Muff-Green-Russian-Distortion-kit"]https://www.musikdin...-Distortion-kit[/url]

wondering what it sounds like and how difficult it was to construct?
[/quote]

They say it's a Green Muff, so I would assume it sounds approximately like the old EHX Green Tall Font Muffs.
There's nothing particularly difficult about a Muff build, but they have a relatively high component count (compared to something like a Fuzz Face), so if a longer build = a little more difficult......then perhaps a 'medium' difficulty?! Really depends on how at home you are with a soldering iron and small fiddly parts.

I've not built one of these, but I have built a GGG (General Guitar Gadgets) Green Muff and it sounds great. Largely these DIY kits are just their own PCB layout, but using the same old schematic and component values that everyone else uses, so unless others are modding theirs during the build phase (quite normal to use different values to get different sounds), they'll all sound much of a much.

Si