LAST ONE AVAILABLE! Aotearoa Intermodulator - A very small wavefolding diode ladder distortion inspired by a Prunes and Custard and made lovingly by me... - *SOLD* £85 Leeds/Bradford

[LukeFRC]

TLDR version: 

It's my clone of a Prunes and Custard in a really small case, it's a DIY pedal I made myself but to a fairly high standard.
It sounds amazing! 

The last three I'll ever do... 

 

Long version: 
I like making pedals, and have made quite a few for myself - often of things, like this, that seem to be unavailable to buy new. 

 

@lee650  convinced me to try a Prunes and custard. But I didn't have space on my board - so wondered if I could fit it all in a mini (1590a) size enclosure... 
Then I saw the fancy Gorva M45 which is 5mm or so wider ... but crucially if you use the right Lumberg jacks, you can get top jacks into it! 

The PCB is a combination of SMD parts (resistors, a couple of ceramic caps, most diodes and IC) and through hole for capacitors and one diode. 

Mini 3PDT footswitch is low activation pressure and nice. 

The Gorva M45 is the most expensive part of the build in matt black - and I designed a fern leaf design for it printed in gloss on black by Gojira here in the UK. 

The original Prunes and Custard being made in New Zealand, and the fern leaf and er... All Black design influenced by the country of origin and watching the All blacks as my kiwi uncle introduced me to rugby...

Importantly the LED is green. This is the kind of detail that matters. 

 

But making a small batch it meant I could get the SMD parts of PCB assembled and it made the unit price on the printing make sense. I had 10 PCB and bulked a bit at the cost to build them all up (plus that gets out of hand!) so made 6. 

Seems quite a few of you wanted and sold. Then someone messaged me asking if I was going to make more, I wasn't but due to being in the country for only a short time, they took mine - so I guess I had to build the rest up.

These are the same as the last batch - with the following changes... 

• I made a breakout board for the footswitch. 
• Lumberg seem to have stopped doing their power jacks - this has a multi comp pro one (ie not a no-brand cheap one)
• I used CPC's own brand jacks, they are Japanese made so high quality.

One of them I'm keeping but there were three more I made up

Like before I offer the final three here for £85. Which will be £89 including first class postage here in the UK. 

There's one where I scratched the finish slightly - so there's a discount - which will be £75 or 79 including postage.  SOLD

 

ONE LEFT!

 

Controls are gain, mix and volume, high cut is guitar/bass on the original (I think) and ... cuts the top end, low cut is contour on the original and in the down position adds clean lows back in. 
It sounds like a prunes and custard. It's very small. 

Did I mention how small it is? 
NOTE: compact jacks, like EBS, needed. 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by LukeFRC

[LukeFRC]

 (blemished is the one with the masking tape so I can tell which it is...)  you can just about see the scratch above the switch on the blemished one. 

[LukeFRC]

Inside…

[LukeFRC]

Trade offers listened too... including with ££ going your way if needed... 
Things that have caught my eye recently…
MXR bass synth (like that will happen)
FI4 

Source Audio Artifakt

dunlop mini vol/exp pedal
Fender Japan sunburst 57ri serial R003045
Microkorg2

A telecaster

 

 

oh and a wee bit about me. I’m a bass player with a day job in design and set myself the challenge of building something that looked great, sounded great and was really tiny, I only wanted to make one for me and one for Lee, but the way the economics of PCB assembly worked I ended up with ten boards - so I made up six, and then these as the last. Making them so small made them fairly intricate to put together - and took a while - someone asked me if I was going to make small runs of anything else … and it’s not for me. I’m amazingly impressed with the way folk like @Goliath_FX (try his hornburg) make a business out of pedal making, with electrical and mechanical design and business planning and so on. Hats off to them.

i realise that I’m going utterly off topic in my old sale thread, but hey ho

Edited September 21 by LukeFRC

[Goliath_FX]

Like I said the other day mate, thats awesome work! 

[LukeFRC]

1x on hold 

[LukeFRC]

Here’s what the pedal it’s based on it sounds like 

 

[lee650]

I absolutely adore mine! I owned a P&C for a long time and this sounds identical. I use it with an OC2 and its synth heaven. Heres it on a board.

Edited September 30 by lee650

[LukeFRC]

any pedal trades listened too! I have a space on my board!  

[basexperience]

I am literally building a board right now with nothing but interesting filter pedals on it to plug into the stomp loop of my main board. This thing looks like it'd be a hoot to include on the board (which has space for it!)

 

One question - where do you get hold of these compact jacks? I make my own cables, but I'll need to source a couple from somewhere.

 

Put me down for one, happy to take the slightly imperfect one - drop me a DM with details on payment, etc

 

Super sweet, love the video demo, if it's a clone of that, I wants it, I does!

Edited October 8 by basexperience

[basexperience]

Got my order in! Looking forward to completing my new filter extension board with it. 

[LukeFRC]

hope you enjoy. 
One left, one on hold for a friend to try. 

[basexperience]

Delivered! The pictures don’t do it justice wrt size - this thing is tiny!!! Solid build though, love it. I should be able to get it hooked up a little later on, can’t wait to include it in the Filter Monster Board. Whoop whoop happy birthday to me 😁👍🏻👍🏻
 

I’m going to immortalise the instructions here in case they go awol at any point. I know I can always search the forums and find them again. 
 

we should start a BassChat instructions thread somewhere and archive PDFs of everything. Cool resource. 

Edited October 11 by basexperience

[LukeFRC]

Haha - glad it got there! That wasn’t really instructions as much as “I’ll stick something in the parcel with it! 
enjoy

[pantherairsoft]

Oh go on, I'll take the last one. I've not used a Prunes and Custard in ages, but I always loved how they sounded. PM me the payment details!

[basexperience]

Yeasssss it’s a sell out

[Quatschmacher]

Can confirm this is great. Luke came for a visit today and I got to have a play on one. 

[pantherairsoft]

Mine arrived and got a good run this afternoon. Very good! Super impressed.

[LukeFRC]

Thanks for the kind words! 

They are all gone except the one that a friendly bass chatter is trying out - they asked to try one right in the first batch - and they all went - so it was a priority to let him try it. (and he obv has first dibs) 
So potentially one more and thats it! 

(if anyone's feeling really masocistic I'll share the Gerbers) 

[LukeFRC]

So vet bills means the one that was being tried out will be available...

 

So one more left and thats it! 

[Ruiner]

PM'd

[LukeFRC]

And the last one sold - 9 lovely little things spread out across the world (plus mine). And it's nice to know that they are being enjoyed.

 I only made more than one of them because there was a minimum where enclosure printing didn't make sense and I wanted to make something visually nice. 

 

I said before I would post the gerbers - I could but I wouldn't recommend it actually - the Gorva enclosures aren't cheap, the 9mm pots aren't cheap and small and good quality connectors aren't either! 

What I would do is buy the Musikding kit of PedalPCB's version here https://www.musikding.de/Curds-and-Whey-Distortion-kit, and build it yourself in a 125b with top jacks (Broughton, Walrus size). Bigger but a lot easier and more forgiving. don't forget to order the knobs! 
Fuzz dog do a version too called Dirt desert https://shop.pedalparts.co.uk/product/dirtdessert which will fit in a smaller 1590b but with side jacks (MRX size). 

 

It's been fun, not sure I'll do another wee batch of things as there's a lot of people doing awesome stuff really well.