Welp, been a little over a year since my last post. I stopped building pedals for a while. The tourbox my protos went on last year worked out pretty well.

Now working on some really involved, and very cool, stuff these days...
Parallel tremolo delay
Amplitude sensitive white noise generator
OD/distortion w/3 band eq & switchable lfo controlled pwm
Bass & guitar preamp w/ overdrive
...as well as a few other unique things

My protos are on their way to tester number 1! 

Sent them out 2 days ago.

Stay tuned.

Finished 2 more prototypes yesterday/today!

These will be going out with the one a posted a couple months ago, to a small group of guys I have tested them for me. One of them already has my first pedal, though I have since reworked it, so they will be getting an updated version as well.

Videos to come, I hope.

yuck

Progress has been sooo slow, yet I've still got some good stuff underway.

I don't think you're ready for this jelly.

Forgot to post these

Low Rider aka Pearl OC-07 clone, pcb came from musicpcbs.com...

It sounds great, and tracks pretty well for an old analogue octaver. The octave up is kind of dirty, but there's a trim pot inside to adjust it. This one has been on my board for about month now! 

You may recognize this one. It's another protoboard. Sold to an ILF'er.

New Proto!

Been working on a new fuzz, and finally drew up a layout for it on turret board. Got it put together, and tested working great from the start! This is an example of a "dlx" one I guess. They will prob have less options on the finalized ones...or just be custom options.

Controls are loud/volume, tone, gain, and a 4way rotary for various clipping options (germ, zener, 2 sili, led). The +/- footswitch acts sort of like a boost, increasing the gain of the first stage. Layout, controls, graphics, etc are not a representation of the final product. Just something to give a general feel for the couple of guys I have testing these for me.

I actually had to steal the switches for this from other projects in my junk drawer. The enclosure is from a blem pack from Mammoth Electronics. 

You've been GRISTLEIZED

Had the privileged of building a Gristleizer over the holiday. Was a part of the gift I sent out for this years ILF Secret Santa. I decided to put a twist on the typical design, and built it into a treadle enclosure...a re-purposed crybaby wah for the curious. Here's a little background info on the circuit.

It's hard to explain what all the circuit does, but tremolo/ringmod/broken amp/idk? Tons of control and options. Treadle controls speed, then depth, bias, & volume are on the right. The left has a vca/vcf toggle, and a rotary switch for the waveshape.

Lots of wiring! I ripped the colorful wires from an old computer, woohoo.

Productivity boost

Here's a great sounding circuit. The pre/boost section of the old echoplex's in stompbox form. Has vol and fat control, & a 17v tap (if you need it). Thinking about building another tailored specifically for bass, though this sounds good with it, I find myself maxing the fat control. 

Pcb came from Madbean

Here's another prototyping breadboard. I'll be selling these soon, so this is the proto of sorts. I also have some stuff I didn't want to tear down on my main breadboard, so needed this.

FUZZZZ

Custom fuzz & another Big Muff. The custom has an oscillation footswitch with control (beam), texture (focus), and volume (target). The big muff has a normal/low gain switch, & two different types of clipping switches for the first and second stages. Also has a feedback stompswitch & mids control. Both pedals sounds fantastic!

I actually put sockets on the normal/low gain switch, so it can be changed to anything really. For instance, you could make both settings higher gain than the original if you wanted.

Both enclosures came from PedalPartsPlus. The turret board is made by me, and the muff pcb came from Madbean.

A new moon

This one has been a bit delayed. You may remember the enclosure I space painted a while back...

I call it Ramrod. Inside is a SuperFET boost (SHO workalike) and a Whisker Biscuit. The WB is similar to the EHX Big Muff but, with much fewer parts. It has socket'd transistors for fine tuning, & sockets for additional tone caps. They can be use independently or cascaded (boost>fuzz).



PCBs came from culturejam, who can be contacted at circuitworkshop.com or forrestwhitesides.com

Ptp Fuzzrite!

I was sent this photo from the guy I eventually sold the fuzzrite to...

Turret Boards Are The Tish!

Here are some more point to point builds. I'm running out of turret board! BTW, the layouts I've been using lately are all made by IvIark. They are verified! (If they weren't already).

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This is a clone of the DAM Meathead. I've never used the real deal, so honestly can't say how they compare, but this one sounds great.

Up next is a clone of the Devi Ever Soda Meiser. I added a momentary switch for the chaos mode! This is the coolest pedal I've made in a while.

Giant knobs from days of yore! If you look closely, you will see 2 resistors in series towards the bottom right. This is what happens when  you don't have the right value on hand; Improvise!

Now, I'll leave you with a preview of the next post...

1590a's & Bazz Fuss's

Had this chrome looking 1590a in my stock for a while. Too chrome to paint. Decided to get something made into it today, and being fuzz lover, went with the Bazz Fuss. A well worn, well known, dead simple fuzz circuit...that I had never built before. Low parts count (5), easily mod-able, and a pretty good sound. It's a good idea to socket the output capacitor.

NOS ftw

Finally got my hands on NOS components and turret board. Decided to build and Electra. Used a 2n3904(modern) for the transistor, and for diodes a 1n34a and ba100. The resistors are Allen Bradly. Expect to see more builds like this.

Layout courtesy of Forrest Whitesides

From out the junk drawer

This Logan 5 pseudo ring mod was another project that got pushed aside. Happy now that it's up and running, cause it sounds cool as hell, and one of my favorite finishes no doubt. Will try and get clips up. Here's the project page for anyone interested.

A little something different

This one was in the drawer for a while. An Electro Harmonix Pulsar, the older/original version. It didn't work right when I first put it together, so off to the side it went. Pulled this and a couple others out recently and got them all working.

A friend gave me the pcb, but it was made @ Pigeon FX. The layout used, along with more info on tweaks, fixes, etc can be found at Tonepad. I highly recommend swapping the listed rate control value of a100k with b10k. It will fix the sweep issues.

I'm still working on my etching (as if you couldn't tell). The extra switch will momentarily change to a square wave shape as long as it's held down.

New Face

In one of my earliest posts, I showed an orange Fuzz Face that I had painted (but not built). That was about 2 years ago so I decided to repaint it...it had some chips here and there and some of the labels were coming off.
Next to the FF, there is a voltage divider I made out of boredom. Had a guy ask me to build him one last month so figured why not two? A diagram of how to build your own can be found @ Beavis Audio.

Another shot of the voltage divider. I used a vintage carbon comp from a busted record player, and leads clipped from other builds.

This is the divider for the customer...love that knob!

30 down!

It's been about a month now, since I started building for another company. As of a week or so ago, there have been 30 pedals built. Waiting on some enclosures, etc, and then it's back to work.

Booyakashah

Loading up on parts. Some of these are from the guy I'm working for. Others are for my own builds.

Enclosures!

Working!

Recently started doing some building for a certain boutique pedal company (that will not be named yet). I'm really happy to be doing it, and hope it lasts! I've been a fan of this company for a couple years now so this is cool as hell, haha.