Let's see your finished DIY projects!

[Jwar]

Very cool stuff on this page!

Cloud, did you know someone would probably pay you a grand for that one off on ebay? Man...you could be making some serious side dough dude. hahahaha

[Glace_Noire]

nice! those graphics look great, what are they?

I've created the design on photoshop then printed it on some inkjet water decals, with 2 lacquer top coats
I've done a Tubescreamer TS808 clone and a Zvex Hardone clean boost too:

[cloudscapes]

Very cool stuff on this page!

Cloud, did you know someone would probably pay you a grand for that one off on ebay? Man...you could be making some serious side dough dude. hahahaha

mmmmmmmeeh, as if I'd want to provoke even more price gouging surrounding this 'brand'

[cloudscapes]

also

http://dreamdeeply.com/result/90Ag67Ww9zPtL5byRN5Jk69n

[Teej212]

nice! those graphics look great, what are they?

I've created the design on photoshop then printed it on some inkjet water decals, with 2 lacquer top coats
I've done a Tubescreamer TS808 clone and a Zvex Hardone clean boost too:

Love that aesthetic. Looks awesome

[Jero]

also

http://dreamdeeply.com/result/90Ag67Ww9zPtL5byRN5Jk69n

[Dandolin]

cloudscapes: Dat fishie.

I never asked/never knew. Do you hand draw the designs on your boxes? I sometimes spend some quality time just staring at the detail on ma Holow Earth....

[cloudscapes]

cloudscapes: Dat fishie.

I never asked/never knew. Do you hand draw the designs on your boxes? I sometimes spend some quality time just staring at the detail on ma Holow Earth....

Depends! For those I intend to sell and/or make several of, I draw them designs. Which HE version do you have?

For one-offs, I tend to be a bit lazier. I didn't draw the fish, it comes from this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Seraphinianus
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/downl ... nianus.pdf

[Dandolin]

Pretty sure it's from the first run? Mine shipped on October 14, 2009....

The fish reminds me of the style on the HE...thanks for the linky.

Edit. Wow--Serafini, where's my head been at.

[culturejam]

I didn't build this pedal, obviously. But I did do a little mod work. Popped in a rare-as-hen's-teeth MN3005 to kick up the delay time to about 650ms. This pedal is, without a doubt, the best analog delay I've ever owned, tested, tried, or seen/heard in person. You will have to pry it from my cold, dead hands.

[moose23]

Deluxe Memory Man?

[culturejam]

Deluxe Memory Man?

Yeah, an XO. I guess I should have spelled that out a bit clearer.

[truth.hz]

I'm bored, and I barely post anywhere, so here's some random DIY tube stuff I made:


maladroid is like a kinder more usable metasonix scrotum smasher. preamp by me, 6bn6 circuit from cgs synth.


this is a pentode octaver built using the theory of the suppressor grid frequency
doubling action. basically an all pentode HV green ringer.


junkbox pentagrid tremolo, with an AVR wavetable LFO, 6 waveshapes, Expression, yadda yadda



these are weird submini tube oscillating fuzzes, also very metasonix sounding. internal feedback loop patching, low voltage.


There's more but I gave them away or couldn't find/don't have pics.

As you can tell I have no patience for artwork, I need to find me some kinda wizard, what can change my boring boxes into pretty boxes.

[culturejam]

^^ Bro, we're going to need some specifics! That's awesome stuff you got there. And great PCB layouts!

[truth.hz]

^^ Bro, we're going to need some specifics! That's awesome stuff you got there. And great PCB layouts!

Thanks for the kind words.

The tremolo at least has a thread with all the relevant build info and schematic @ diystompboxes
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=110823.0
It's a novelty, a just because I can circuit. It sounds pretty good, and you'll probably never see another screen grid trem aside from a few oddities from the 50's and 60's. The AVR code to go with it is the main point of the post, I'm not a coder, and it probably shows in my code, but it works quite nicely, so no big deal. I have another solid state trem built around the same code with all the features of the tube trem, just waiting for boards, but I know it works.

The submini tube fuzzes are pretty neat. I really wanted a Metasonix F-1 or icunt but, there's no way for me to afford them, so based on the literature, I sorta speculated on how they might work, and it does. quite well. They have some good gritty boost, and drive/fuzz sounds. But by making the plate loading variable, and adding a feedback loop, they really come alive. Everything from raspy wheezy effects to huge intermodulating madness. They also use pentodes.

The octave, was a random post on ax84 by the valve wizard. I think I might be the only other person to actually attempt to build the circuit. It has some neat sounds and a pretty interesting design. I redid the whole thing with 6au6's because I have a ton of them, and redesigned parts of it, and added a preamp to it as well. I came up with some improvements to it that are just waiting for e to build them.

I built the maladroid maybe a year and a half or two years ago. I lent it out to a bunch of people and they all loved it. I'll get around to revisiting it pretty soon, there's 2 more versions of it that I haven't built yet but are ready to try out. The basic 6bn6 circuit I discovered through P Millet, and then saw again in use by Metasonix. It is VERY unusual, and sounds like nothing else. It has a cool sometimes assymetric squishing effect, which is super neat. The maladroid will go from a nice overdrive, to full out crazy fuzz. Sounds amazing on vocals, drums, keys, just about anything.

I've been building tube stuff for a long time, and I really love using pentodes, they have such an interesting character compared to triodes. Add in weird heptodes, pentagrids, and dual control pentodes, and beam tubes, there's a whole slew of stuff just ripe for misusing for audio purposes. Plus, they're always around for CHEAP.