Let's see your finished DIY projects!

[skullservant]

Had put this Madbean Egghead Overdrive board together AGES ago but never actually put the pedal together.
I fucking HATE overdrive, but this one is actually really awesome and sounds pretty natural.
Dime the gain and the tone all the way up, really awesome grind to it.

[Officer Bukowski]

Demeter Tremulator clone

[skullservant]

cool!

[ARC Effects]

I try to refrain from posting here so as to not be spammy but I had a ton of fun with one...



A custom build I just finished. I'm calling this one the "GMT" or "Gamut Meet Tonebender". It's a Tonebender MK II into a Gamut with external biases for both circuits, a bi-color LED, and a knob and graphic layout that happened to work in my favor. Lots of fun and a LOT of germanium transistors

[skullservant]

SO GOOD

[stripes]

I try to refrain from posting here so as to not be spammy but I had a ton of fun with one...



A custom build I just finished. I'm calling this one the "GMT" or "Gamut Meet Tonebender". It's a Tonebender MK II into a Gamut with external biases for both circuits, a bi-color LED, and a knob and graphic layout that happened to work in my favor. Lots of fun and a LOT of germanium transistors

do you screen print on those enclosures yourself or get them made?

[Josh Pelican]

Dude... what in the fuck?!

That thing looks/sounds awesome. I want a pedal that has a keyhole.

EDIT: I want to get into pedal building. I really don't know where to start. My hands are kind of shaky so I need to start off with easier projects.

[phantasmagorovich]

Maybe it's time to get some ARC in my life.

[skullservant]

Here are shots of Delta's Fuzz Face. As close as I could get to Emanating Fist/Black Acid Specs. Mojo caps and resistors where I could.
BC109 silcon transistors, socketed for good measure. Also put the focus/pregain control on it too, it's a nice way to clean up how filthy this thing gets.

[ARC Effects]

Badass! I dig the enclosure.

I tackled a FF tonight myself



Not sure why but I wanted to give PTP another shot

[skullservant]

That's awesome!!

Hey Aaron, can you shoot me a sketch of the layout you used for PTP'ing that rangemaster you did? I'm about to make one myself and make sure I get the layout correct.

[ARC Effects]

I just followed the schematic - same with that fuzz face. Best place to start is input and output caps and work your way in. With the FF it was nice because I had a ground rail as well so it made those connections super easy.

[skullservant]

Gotcha. I've been using the Pidgeon FX layout but I've been getting a little confused. Might just look at a vero layout and translate it on paper a little better for myself.

What are the 4 controls on the FF? Volume/Fuzz/Tone/Bias?

[ARC Effects]

Pre-gain/Volume/Fuzz/Bias

[skullservant]

Ah! Awesome. I think the pre-gain really comes in handy with FF's. Still fuzzy as hell, but more cutting and tight!