DIRGE ELECTRONICS: Progress/Protos/Puppies

[skullservant]

Super rough layout of Wes' Fuzz, for kicks:

[goroth]

That's a lot of dicks in a fuzz pedal.

[goroth]

[skullservant]

Heh. It'll make all of them HARD when the fuzzes are engaged. OH GOD

[skullservant]

Excane's been a patient saint. Finally finished up his delay after about a month of waiting for PCB's. Really excited with how it came out, its beautiful and sounds AMAZING.

Video demo soon



Also got a lot of the initial wiring of Wes' fuzz done, just need to get board standoffs and I can wire the rest of it up!



Finally, got all the holes drilled and the hardware mounted for WeHuntKings' Mega Muff

[DannDubbleEwe]

OHMAIGAWDBONNNRRRZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!

[DannDubbleEwe]

And you ain't kiddin, dassssome clean wirin' right errr

[skullservant]

Thanks buddy! Here are two more shots of Excane's delay. I think I spoke too soon about the neat wiring. But in my defense, the first clean blend circuit I put into the pedal didn't work and I had to do an impromptu replace.




AND A VIDEO DEMO:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56kLRUw4Pd0[/youtube]

[goroth]

What sort of wire are you using there dude? I've only just started building stuff and have used some stuff that came with a breadboard, but I don't really know what to buy.

[skullservant]

I'd been using copper wire from Radioshack for the longest time, but then a guy had sent me 2 spools of teflon hookup wire and I've been 'hooked' ever since hahaha

It's just a little easier to work with in my opinion!

[excane]

[WeHuntKings]

can't wait to stomp on it with my dirty leather boots

[goroth]

Cool, will look for teh teflonz. Thanks dude.

[skullservant]

No problem dude!

So last night I packed up Excane's delay, cut out some covers for a cassette that I'm putting out, and was going to go to bed before it urked me that the Bass Rat I had tried putting together didn't work correctly. But it urked me so much that I tried to fix it again and I think there is just something wrong with the board. I resoldered every single joint on the board and it still had a weak output, even after replacing the 1k pot with the 47 ohm resistor to see if it was a grounding issue. I had rehoused the rat into an old enclosure, but since it still didn't work I gutted it and tossed the board to the side. I didn't want to get too engrossed in anything because it was late and I've got WeHuntKing's Big Muff and Wes' fuzz to do, but I had a spare Stampede board laying around so I wired it up into the enclsoure I had all the Rat hardware in and put together a mini-stampede with just volume/oscillation/starve controls. I used a 100k pot for the starve which takes a lot of the 'bit' and 'square' and 'snap' out of the fuzz sound with bass and instead makes it more wooly which I prefer. It only took about 20 minutes to put the board together and wire it up, but the footswitch I used for oscillation failed (it took me 3 different wiring arangements to realize it was a bad switch) so I swapped that out and was left with this:



I'm going to be getting board standoffs for Wes' fuzz tomorrow after work since tonight I've got a few errands to run, but after I pickup the standoffs I'll have the last parts needed to wire up his entire fuzz. I realized yesterday after wiring up the LEDs to the starve pots that I don't think that 10k is going to cut it for starve- instead of fading to nothing the LEDs just dim, so I'm going to bump it up to 100k to see if that will do more good.

I was a bit hesitant to remove all the wires from WeHuntKings Muff, the board, the pots, and the switch, because I was affraid I wouldn't be able to recall what went where, but I found a diagram in my searches that actually shows the values of each resistor and capacitor along with all wiring so this will really save me time when I go to replace all the wires and caps:



After I finish up Wes' fuzz and WeHuntKings' muff, I'd be glad to accept any custom work or mods from anyone who is interested. I'll be out of town this weekend so I'm really hoping to finish both pedals before Friday if I can help it

[skullservant]

I love side mounted everything, except its not good on a pedalboard: