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Very interested now.

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Zork wrote:Thank you for the warm welcome! :!!!:

I use cheap spray cans to paint them white, then I design the grafics in Illustrator and print them on white self adhesive foil in a good copy shop with decent print quality. After applying the print I cover it all in a thick layer of duplicolor clear, that's all. Most of my pedals went through different versions of design work and got makeovers quite often. Anyway, this style makes me really happy and I think I found my visual language in pedal designs by now. :thumb:
Hey do you have a link for the foil you use? The pedals look great.
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It's simply the stuff they have in the copyshop. Nothing special I guess.
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I got lucky I had all the parts in stock already so I ordered up a pcb. I probably should have taken the scope out from the sine so I can check the distortion and volume before I use it. right now the scope out is the square so I can count the frequency easy. there is a switch for tri I can use to test wave shapers. it goes 140Hz to 14KHz.

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Here's another one I made some time ago: Vox Repeat Percussion in a japanese Fuzz-Wah enclosure. Ratecontrol is switchable and can either be controlled via the pedal or fix with the rate knob.

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No fancy designs on this one… ;-)
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that's hot
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A concoction of my own, I call it the Doom Face!

It’s a COT50 (acting as a sort of pre gain/boost) going into a silicon Fuzz Face (Q1 - MPSA13 Darlington / Q2 - BC108) that then goes into a Stratoblaster to push the amp input stage harder.

Also put a rotary input tone cap switch on the FF to dial in extra low end (goes up to 10u) and also more gain. Big caps all round for max low end. The result is a massive saturated wall of fuzz, perfect for dooming up!

Heavily inspired by Nick @Dunwich Amps who also gave me some tips on how to doom out a Fuzz Face, nice one!

All Fuzz Dog boards, box etched with Caustic as per norm. I also used the font from the game Doom for extra doom. Doom.

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Saw this on tumblr, so in awe man. absolutely excellent.
I want to hear some sound clips!
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Hexjibber wrote:Doom Face!
I love it!
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Hexjibber wrote:A concoction of my own, I call it the Doom Face!

It’s a COT50 (acting as a sort of pre gain/boost) going into a silicon Fuzz Face (Q1 - MPSA13 Darlington / Q2 - BC108) that then goes into a Stratoblaster to push the amp input stage harder.

Also put a rotary input tone cap switch on the FF to dial in extra low end (goes up to 10u) and also more gain. Big caps all round for max low end. The result is a massive saturated wall of fuzz, perfect for dooming up!

Heavily inspired by Nick @Dunwich Amps who also gave me some tips on how to doom out a Fuzz Face, nice one!

All Fuzz Dog boards, box etched with Caustic as per norm. I also used the font from the game Doom for extra doom. Doom.

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Hexjibber wrote: Doom !
doom!

doom!

Doom for extra doom. Doom.
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Need demos.
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Just whipped this destroyer up for a guy who runs a pretty interesting rig.
No bass player in his band so he cops all the responsibility for low end!
Needless to say, I sorted him out with a boosted Sonic Violence.
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wildebelor wrote:Saw this on tumblr, so in awe man. absolutely excellent.
I want to hear some sound clips!
totes clips.
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Demo of the doom face por favor cabron! I want to hear it in all its glory!
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Here is my fourth take on the MusicPCB Tap Tempo Tremolo / Gigatrem

This was a bitch to get rid of the tick, dont think ive totally managed it to be frank.
It only affects the ramp, which you can avoid by selecting triangle and wave distort it for the same sound, the square wave and random

I decided this time to do the "resistor string on rotary dial"
If I were to do this again Id probably skip a few modes with the correct resistor values for convenience sake.
I have no plans for this other than to probably pass it to my cousins husband who was asking me about trems a while ago.
He likes classic sine wave trem, so the tick on teh square and ramps wouldnt bother him as I doubt he would use those modes

The other thing I did new for this build was add a small momentary multiplier step switch which skips the rate set by the tap tempo through various subdivisions. neat!

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