DIY Effects

[bartelby]

14 minutes ago, jetofuj said:

It's unbelievable quite here

My time recently has been spent building some modular synth modules...

[fuzzonaut]

On 21/08/2018 at 17:03, jetofuj said:

It's unbelievable quite here

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.

[jetofuj]

Excellent! I like quality kits myself and Percolator is something I always wanted to try. But I do like Shellac a lot

[Johnny Wishbone]

Clone of the FDeck HPF-Pre 2 I did a while back. Probably the single most useful ‘effect’ I’ve ever built and I’d never go back to not using it. No footswitch as obviously I never turn it off!

If I built another I’d probably omit the volume control (full volume is unity gain - I don’t need to turn it down!) and the phase switch, as that’s only useful for upright, really.

Just sits happily in my rack, doing its thing.

[fuzzonaut]

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. 

 

 

[Unknown_User]

On 15/09/2018 at 13:37, fuzzonaut said:

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.

That looks awesome.  Mind if I ask how you got the picture over the front of the enclosure like that?  I'm struggling to get the boxes I do to look anything other than daft!

[fuzzonaut]

7 hours ago, Unknown_User said:

That looks awesome.  Mind if I ask how you got the picture over the front of the enclosure like that?  I'm struggling to get the boxes I do to look anything other than daft!

Thanks. 

I use  photo transfer potch. 

[Unknown_User]

2 hours ago, fuzzonaut said:

I use  photo transfer potch.  

Thanks.  I've just checked that on You Tube and funnily enough before logging on here I'd just finished gluing a printout to a piece of scrap wood using the exact same technique but just with PVA glue.  I didn't realise you could do it onto metal too. 

I'll have to see tomorrow how the transfer onto wood turns out.

[Sibob]

Hi all,

I have an unbuilt Guma Drive kit with enclosure (https://schalltechnik04.de/en/instructions/guma-drive) that simply isn't going to get built any time soon (largely because of time and I already have a Guma-Antique that is more me).
So if you're confident enough (there's a couple of surface-mount components), I'm going to be selling it. Will list in the Effects Marketplace in a minute, but thoughts I'd heads-up here if anyone is keen. Seems to be sold out on the Schalltechnik_04 website.

Si

[bartelby]

The worst thing about DIY builds is ordering components!
It seems impossible to order everything you need from a single source!!

😫

Edited September 30, 2018 by bartelby

[itu]

Then a bigger store might be a better choice: http://www.digikey.co.uk

http://uk.farnell.com is another big one.

Edited September 30, 2018 by itu
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[bartelby]

11 minutes ago, itu said:

Then a bigger store might be a better choice: http://www.digikey.co.uk

http://uk.farnell.com is another big one.

Nope. Neither carry everything I need unless I wait 7-10 weeks for some items..

[itu]

7 - 10 weeks?! Sounds really bad. Aren't there any substitutes?

[bartelby]

There are substitute quantities. But I really don’t want to buy 5000 24k9 0805 SMD resistors, when I only need 4...

[bobbass4k]

CPC is worth a look - https://cpc.farnell.com/

Same company as Farnell but they aim more at the hobbyist so quantities can be more reasonable, though range is more restricted. FYI though at Farnell - if they're only showing full reels and you want less, it's always worth a ring to sales, if you're doing a decent sized order they might transfer them to the cut tape SKU so you can buy smaller quantities (source: I work there).

[bobbass4k]

17 hours ago, itu said:

7 - 10 weeks?! Sounds really bad. Aren't there any substitutes?

For general edification, this is an industry wide problem that's going to get worse before it gets better. Most of the big manufacturers have pushed out their lead times and all the distributors have panicked with a big rush of orders, so a lot of stuff is on allocation (orders are outstripping production). One of our manufacturers has quoted us 48 weeks on some stuff. This problem has been looming for a year or so, but as everyone is now running out of their existing and emergency stock, it's starting to hit every level. 

[fuzzonaut]

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!

 

[paul_5]

Recently I’ve been ordering from ESR.co.uk

they carry most standard components (resistors, caps, opamps and trannys etc...) but I still need to find a supplier for mojo stuff.

[jetofuj]

On 01/10/2018 at 20:53, fuzzonaut said:

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!

 

Super cool! Dead End FX PCB has got really cool stuff, wish I had more time to build

My mate recorded clips of my two builds. They are very long, so it's probably clever to skip a bit

Black Booster

Black Swan

Edited October 6, 2018 by jetofuj

[jetofuj]

Black Yak. Rangie with switchable transistors for clean and dirty.

[Sibob]

I don't suppose anyone has 2 x 270pf & 1 x 300pf ceramic caps hanging around do they?
Building a Brutalist Jr.

Cheers
Si

[bartelby]

27 minutes ago, Sibob said:

I don't suppose anyone has 2 x 270pf & 1 x 300pf ceramic caps hanging around do they?
Building a Brutalist Jr.

Cheers
Si

I may have, but I'm not home until Saturday morning.

[Sibob]

8 minutes ago, bartelby said:

I may have, but I'm not home until Saturday morning.

All good, no rush, if you remember on Saturday....let me know

Cheers
Si

[bobbass4k]

If my google sheets inventory is to be believed I do, but I'll check when I get home.

[bartelby]

5 minutes ago, bobbass4k said:

If my google sheets inventory is to be believed I do, but I'll check when I get home.

An inventory?

Now there's a good idea!