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I'm working on a few builds right now, so I will have new stuff up soon!

My recent day off

Finally got a day off after a couple weeks, so it was time to build something! 

A long time friend, Paul, painted an enclosure for me many months ago. I had it sitting around forever waiting for the right circuit to match it with. Decided on the AMZ Jfet Splitter, by Jack Orman. Takes your input signal and splits it into 2 (or more) equal outputs.

Something like this can be very useful with some planning. For instance, I've been using it to run modulation to the effect channel (trem & verb) on my silvertone, while the other out runs dirt to my "clean" channel. Makes it easy to set things in the mix. With both channels running together, you can EQ them slightly different, which makes for some great, full tone. Of course you could also make any effect stereo...think of the possibilities with things like delays that are already stereo...

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This here is an Electra type circuit designed by Renegadrian. Gives more gain to the original. The Lovepedal Woodrow can be built with the same layout. I have everything socketed (good thing too), so I'm still tweaking to my liking. As it was, way too loud and trebly. The toggle switch will be for swapping clipping diodes most likely, or maybe cap values for treb/bass.

The enclosure is from a walco boost type pedal, that I actually had a diff boost built into for a while. There was an extra hole on the bottom front from the orig layout, so I decided to make this a "window" for the LED. I glued in some foggy vinyl material to diffuse it and seal the opening.

Filler

While I'm in between projects I figure I could fill some space with more earlier builds, that were forgotten about. Just random stuff from the past year or two.

Here's a modified Crybaby Wah (JH-1).

Don't remember exactly all that I did...obviously painted the top. Removed it entirely, along with the rubber grip prior to. Changed the tone voicing slightly for a better match with bass. The jh1 is set stock in between the normal crybaby and bass version. There's a wah voice control now, that really makes the pedal much more musical. The toggle switch removes a cap to change from wah to volume. Pretty neat, but not the greatest sweep for a volume pedal.
I believe some/most of the mods can be found at Stinkfoot's page.

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Next up, a custom job for CBA713 of ILoveFuzz that I apparently did in August. It's a voltage starve, a la Beavis Audio's Devolt, that C' dubbed, "Jervolt."

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Some of you may recognize this one. It's a Melx2 from Mellowtone. Similar to the Electra Distortion of yesteryear, it's a great dirt box that I will always have. Mine is only slightly different from the ones you'd normally see. I added a switch to change between clipping diode pairs...1n914?(stock, silicon) & some germanium ones I got out of an old busted walco pedal.