LukeFRC

well the new caps went in and the whole thing stopped working and now more or less sounds it's pulsing...... something's gone wrong.... but figure it's me rather than the parts....

ahh the wee gap may have something to do with it... and the 33nF not 33pf at the entry too... off to maplin....

yes, lots of people saying what a great build it is and how they managed first time....

Thing is it works, just with the buzz which would make me think it could only be one or two components. I had the same problem with the SFT and found it was just one cap grounding in too early... testing time i think!

sooo... I bought the circuit board from tonepad for the small clone and stuck everyhting on (populated the board?)
wired it up to test. tip to in, out to tip, ground to sleave of in, link to sleave of out.... (that right yeah?)

and it works... but not right. something is sucking a lot of the volume and bottom end out, and there is a lot of hiss.
There is a micro pentometer on the board which you set to find the effect. The volume issue is unchanged by this but the hiss goes if the effect is off.
two problems i think.

I'm going to sit down and check everything tomorrow, does anyone have any advice of where to look?

open it up and have a look, it'll be something obvious i guess.
probe it with a multimeter if you need


also reread your initial post. it did used to work?

[quote name='7string' post='762422' date='Mar 2 2010, 11:57 PM']When I shared a flat in Glasgow one of my flatmates had a 6ft Scots flag in her room.

Not to be outdone, I bought a St George Cross the same size. I still have it as well [/quote]

imperalist bawb..... wait, i bet scottish swearwords can get through the filter!

[quote name='steve' post='762381' date='Mar 2 2010, 11:17 PM']as an englishman living in scotland, it should have a st georges cross headstock, strap, case and plectrum [/quote]

as an englishman living in [i]glasgow[/i], it should have a st georges cross headstock, strap, case and plectrum and stab-proof vest

interesting... i was playing with the SFT circuit earlier and one of the things i noticed was that it was very loud and boosted the signal a fair bit.

Now I had intended to wire the thing up

inst--> SFT ---> Big muff ----> chorus ---> out to amp

I wonder if it would make more sense to wire it up

inst--> Big muff ----> chorus ---> SFT ---> out to amp

what you think guys?

okay, next question. what do you want it for? at the moment if that cuircuit works (and I don't know enough about electronics to kknow if it does) when the input signal gets above a certain level the lights go on. There is no way of setting the level.
depending on what you want it for would [url="http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=26071"]this kit work[/url]? it may be easy to modify the mic input into a jack input.... and if it worked it would flash according to volume...

so the transistor lets through the current when it gets a signal from the guitar? to flash the lights on?
Is it compensated for a guitar level input?

eh? it's a wee bit tae english that

in fact.... i have a load of these in cream, 19mm for 6.3mm shafts


need 3/4 more knobs of some kind. anybody got any spare i could have off you? (should prob put this in the items wanted bit but think wil get more views here from ppl who build things)

I ordered a few weeks back and got worried they still existed! The guy emailed back to confirm for me!
Yeah is it £12 or more and you have to start paying VAT?

Going back to my drill dillemas, my local DIY store didn't have any cone step drill bit things. A 12 mm bit was £13! In the sale a Bosch 100 bit set of bits and screw driver heads was only £14. I bought that,used a 10mm and wiggled!

All holes drilled, painted red, all parts in way. Im just short two resistors and one cap for rigging up the power supply inside. Oh and I forgot to order knobs.

[quote name='bass5' post='760189' date='Feb 28 2010, 09:42 PM']Me, none except for a compressor. (pictured below)

frankly speaking unless you are Doug Wimbish, or Stuart Hamm, if you play in a band doing covers or playing a particular style you'll find you'll hardly use effects. We are not guitarists after all we don't need any of that w@nking stuff

I've gone through a lot of effects pedals and ended up selling them all back because to me they just add unwanted noise to the otherwise beautiful natural sound of a bass going through a decent amp.

When you play in a band your singer and your drummer need to rely on your fundamental backbone, not your echo, chorus flairs, or wah wah sweeps, no Sir.

This is all I take with me.

(photo of mark bass compressor, I took it out as it would just make the page long!)[/quote]

I agree to an extent. I think it depends on how much space the particular band has to fill. Sometimes some effects can be used nicely if done sensitively. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog"]An extream example, the guy from muse is given so much space in the sound he can fill it with effects. [/url]
Me, I can't seem to get on with any kind of compression and like a bit of OD when i dig in on some songs. For some of the stuff I play currently at church the chorus would be usefull.

just found this thread.
I have to say that that is possibly the first ever single cut ive liked the shape of.
I like the indent for the jack to go in.

The only thing I don't really like the the slabby-ness of it, it would be nice if the edges were not as harsh. although you said how you were carving it a few pages ago and looking at the tools you said you're using I understand why! Whenever I've had to similar I've had access to a big version of one of these

[quote name='JackLondon' post='759492' date='Feb 27 2010, 10:29 PM']I'm "attempting" to build : Small Clone Chorus, Rebote 2 Delay and MXR Envelope Filter all of them based on tonepad.com projects! I'm just ordering parts and stuff but couldn't find those capacitors anywhere![/quote]

Impressive stuff you're making! Im having a go at the small clone from tonepad. Buying a board from them. I'll keep up with how your build is going!

try....

[url="http://www.justradios.com/uFnFpF.html"]http://www.justradios.com/uFnFpF.html[/url]

to convert cap values.

try mouser.com they have a bewildering range of stuff.

hehe I'm learning! I recognised what that was from looking at the schematic sometime!

yep, ive been trawling those.
I'm changing all the resistor and cap values to match those of a green russian big muff. also think there may be a coulple of componants in a different order on torchies layout.

anyway, parts ordered, Forgot the knobs so and a couple of componants for the power supply so the will have to maplin it up for them

well due to me buying a larger enclosure that I needed, and the fact I'll have to wait a wee while for the circuit board to turn up I've modified my plans slightly back to the original idea.....

now it will be (based on)

Overdrive ---- Fuzz ---- chorus.
catalinbread SFT Sovtek Green Muff EH Small CLone.....

Here's to it working!

that is just what i wanted! thanks nick!

anyone know of a good veroboard layout for a big muff? (not the one with the ICs)

[quote name='mancunianfox' post='757553' date='Feb 25 2010, 08:44 PM']Which circuit is it that you have built for that side of the pedal?[/quote]

Catlinbread SFT clone

So I've just had it working with the P bass through it.

Amazed.
-Firstly with the gain right down the tone controls are very powerful. But in a musical way, I think it's a 'Baxandall' tone stack whatever that is. Sometimes when playing it feels like I've just got a guitar an octave down, just not enough bass, and the Eq on the amp doesn't seem to solve this... I've just found the solution.

-secondly.... it overdrives when I dig in. yay! I could set it to my playing style. Flat out sounds pretty good and the tone of the OD is quite well effected by the tone controls.

This thing sounds like I want a bass to sound! Very very impressed.

Looks like a nice little build. I think it was this one that made me go "i could make that!" and so I did. Very tempted to stick a Big muff type fuzz circuit in my pedal too!