MrDinsdale Posted January 1 Posted January 1 I’ve always wanted to try Airbrushing, I’ve had a book on it for about 20 years 🤣 Maybe this would be a good opportunity to grab one. Quote
LukeFRC Posted January 1 Posted January 1 14 minutes ago, MrDinsdale said: @LukeFRC What stamps do you use? Cheap 2 or 3mm ones from eBay - mole grips to hold and a lump of steel as an anvil. Welcome to come borrow. 1 Quote
MrDinsdale Posted January 1 Posted January 1 2 hours ago, LukeFRC said: Cheap 2 or 3mm ones from eBay - mole grips to hold and a lump of steel as an anvil. Welcome to come borrow. Nice! Where you based? Quote
LukeFRC Posted January 1 Posted January 1 2 hours ago, MrDinsdale said: Nice! Where you based? Farsley, so not a million miles from you! Quote
MrDinsdale Posted January 1 Posted January 1 1 hour ago, LukeFRC said: Farsley, so not a million miles from you! Oooo nice! Yeah I might hit you up when I’ve got something together! Quote
MrDinsdale Posted January 1 Posted January 1 So far these are the 3 that stand out as potential builds that would be super handy for me. The Euna is a definite. I’d probably grab one more while I’m there. The Compressor is tempting because it looks pretty easy and my Accountant is ace but noisy. The Muzzle noise gate looks a little more faffy but a noise gate would be extremely handy for me, particularly with the sidechain option. Quote
LukeFRC Posted January 1 Posted January 1 Don't forget knobs! If I won the lottery and could go on a pedal building bender - these are what I would be thinking about for bass... PCPB Frequency interchange - awesome sounding high pass/low pass -made one Drebbel Bass Preamp/EQ - clone of Southampton Pedals Ictineo Preamp/EQ Capsize Preamp - Broughton Fliptop Mofeta Preamp is EAE modelFet - I think you have the real thing? Scabbard Overdrive - EAE dagger Byzantium Flanger - BF2 Chop shop -Barbershop, made one, you have to use the right spec J201 for the circuit so not sure about Musikding kits for this. SS/BS mini is similar and IMO better. Curds and Whey Distortion - prunes and custard ... made a load of these on my own PCB, love it! Fornicus Overdrive - SS/BS f- overdrive Obsidius Preamp - DG B3k Simulcast or duocast- hudsonbroadcast Parentheses Mini Fuzz - EQD life Desolate Fuzz - Fairfield unpleasant surprise CheeseMonger Fuzz - love tone big cheese - I built the Aion version... Kewpie Fuzz - Japanese muff varient - probably build one this year Nein Fuzz - Fairfield 900 Phase II/ Duo-Phase - mutron phasers Deflector Reverb - EQD afterneath AION Quartz Optical Compressor - Diamond compressor Spectron - Meatball TS-50 bass preamp Acoustic 360 bass preamp Binary - DG duiality Lab series L4 bass preamp - Pearce sounding thing, it's good, but cheaper to buy mine I'm selling! Neurotron - Lovetone ring stinger Quadratron - Lovetone doppleganger Xenotron - flange with no name Conspiracy to Commit Electronics (sushi box's diy stuff) Bassdude - fender bassman Nobelium - Nobel preamp Particle Accelerator - F2B preamp. Delyk - Up down daddy - Pearl OC7 octave Electric druid - Flangelicious Parasit for drunken guitar synth stuff No PCB that can be bothered to find... but schematics ... Phat Phuk B JPTR Jive/SHO Brassmaster 1 Quote
MrDinsdale Posted January 1 Posted January 1 I’ve got an EAE Model FeT and Dagger but I’d still love to build them 🤣 That’s a very handy list, there’s a bunch there which sound really tempting! Quote
Homatron Posted January 4 Posted January 4 (edited) That's quite the list @LukeFRC! I might have to do some digging into some of those. In case you hadn't seen it, Five Cats Pedals do a JPTR Jive clone PCB. I previously built up their SHO clone and added my own diodes to emulate the Jive, but they released this fairly recently: https://www.five-cats-pedals.co.uk/product/jive-by-shooter-jptr-fx-jive-clone/ Edited January 4 by Homatron 1 Quote
MrDinsdale Posted January 4 Posted January 4 The more I’ve been digging around and I think I’m gonna build the Euna kit as a warm up. I decided I do wanna get a DIY breadboard and a bunch of components I need to try out a few designs. There’s a Harmonic Percolator someone shared which I’d like to play around with. Maybe make a few tweaks here and there and learn as I go. I really wanna learn more about what I’m building and I’m not gonna get that just from putting together kits. Might even make some use out of the videos I watched on KiCad when I was looking at doing my own split mech keyboard layout. 2 Quote
LukeFRC Posted January 4 Posted January 4 23 minutes ago, MrDinsdale said: The more I’ve been digging around and I think I’m gonna build the Euna kit as a warm up. I decided I do wanna get a DIY breadboard and a bunch of components I need to try out a few designs. There’s a Harmonic Percolator someone shared which I’d like to play around with. Maybe make a few tweaks here and there and learn as I go. I really wanna learn more about what I’m building and I’m not gonna get that just from putting together kits. Might even make some use out of the videos I watched on KiCad when I was looking at doing my own split mech keyboard layout. PedalPCB forum is good - got its own vibe but good 1 Quote
MrDinsdale Posted January 4 Posted January 4 51 minutes ago, LukeFRC said: PedalPCB forum is good - got its own vibe but good Yeah it was this that got my attention: https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/harmonic-percolator-with-some-mods.22248/ I’d really love to take some of these circuits and simplify them, maybe play around with switching a 3-band eq for a tilt style or a Baxandall tone stack etc like on the EAE Dagger. Quote
MrDinsdale Posted January 4 Posted January 4 PS some of this is very aspirational stuff considering my current understanding but would love to learn this stuff. TBF if software development continues the trend of shifting to offshoring work and more reliance on AI producing spaghetti code it wouldn’t hurt to have some foundational understanding of a more practical trade 🫠 Quote
LukeFRC Posted January 4 Posted January 4 13 minutes ago, MrDinsdale said: TBF if software development continues the trend of shifting to offshoring work and more reliance on AI producing spaghetti code it wouldn’t hurt to have some foundational understanding of a more practical trade I think that fixing and installing the electronics around peoples houses may pay better! Quote
MrDinsdale Posted January 4 Posted January 4 57 minutes ago, LukeFRC said: I think that fixing and installing the electronics around peoples houses may pay better! Don’t ruin this for me. The way I see it this is just getting some fundamentals in, foot in the door and that. 1 Quote
rwillett Posted January 5 Posted January 5 10 hours ago, LukeFRC said: I think that fixing and installing the electronics around peoples houses may pay better! You can start with why my new replacement bathroom fan doesn't work if you want... 1 Quote
fuzzonaut Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago Here's a strange one, an old japanese "multi-effect", from 1968, the Shin-Ei ME-7. I found a vero layout on dirtboxlayouts. I don't know what they were smoking and dropping back then but somebody had an idea along the lines of "let's make a wah and volume pedal, add some white noise generators and to top it off let's throw in some siren sound that mimics air raid horns. Ok?". Well .... sure, I'm game. Here's the schematic, that was inside the pedal. Apart from the 8 tranistors and the transformer, it calls for a 4P4T rotary for the 4 modes, but as the only guy (thanks Ian!!!) who did comment to have built it mentioned - "Hurricane is pretty loud, surf is quiet, Wah isnt bad and siren is instant 'Blockbuster' - The Sweet!!" - and I couldn't seem to find a 4P4T, I decide to ditch the quiet Surf setting. As for the Wah/Volume part, I went for a potentiometer and installed a expression input for that. It works fine with my Moog. Then I also added a toogle switch that let's you choose between the potentiometer or a LDR, placed between the footswitches. When engaging the LDR, a bright white light (with a trimmer for brightness) goes on and you can use your foot to control the Wah/Vol potentiometer. Works, but the sweep is not as good as with the potentiometer or the expression pedal. What else? Ah yeah, the Siren. I put that on a momentary footswitch. It's present on all 3 modes. So, when in Wah mode, it's, well, a Wah. And in Volume mode, its a volume pedal. I kept those modes, although they are nothing special, I'd say. When in Tornado mode, the Wah/Vol potentiometer changes the pitch of the white noise. This mode is my jam. There's a short taste of this mode at the end of this post, using my "bass test loop". The "Siren" and "Tornado" knobs are volume. Finally, after some initial testing, I added a LPB-1 boost at the end. I'm not too sure, that I wired everything correctly, if it comes to rotary switches, I have switchlexia. A big part was just "try and hear". And the spaghetti inside. 1 Quote
paul_5 Posted 38 minutes ago Posted 38 minutes ago I’ve been playing about with a valvecaster circuit recently. I’m running it at 18v with an internal 12v regulator for the plates on the ecc83. Pretty nice but still playing about with a blend circuit on it too! Quote
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