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I'm psyched too!
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dude, laowiz, your pedals look amazing, love your desgins, i want that multiplex.
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Thanks, fellas!

the Life Aquatic wrote:dude, laowiz, your pedals look amazing, love your desgins, i want that echoplex.


The Multiplex is pretty amazing. I have played around with it enough. I really love the feedback control on that one and all three modes are useful. What's really cool is the momentary switch which speeds up the delay rate (variable via trim pots). You step on it and it speeds up and as it does that the led indicator brightens. When you release the momentary, the rate slows back down to it's setting. It's really great to have that to fuck up your sound. I love my echobase but love this one more, overall. But I have both so I'm really happy with my delay world.

I thought this Dizzytone would be my end all for my "normal" monster fuzz sound but while it sounds great through my little amp at home it doesn't sound as good crank through a bigger amp. I have lots of random germanium transistors and pick the best ones that sounded the best at home but may just order a smallbear set since I put sockets on the board. My Buzzaround is pretty perfect but I was hoping that the Dizzy would come through as it's just more nasty and brutal than the Buzzaround.

Have a rub a dub that needs to be boxed, but that's it for now. I need some new projects!
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I'll play. Here's few I've recently done.

This is a Madbean Sea Urchin (similar to MP Deep Blue Delay) I built for a friend. She did the painting herself before I wired it up.
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A Klone I built. Loved the color combo (knobs are brown)
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Here's a custom Green Russian Big Muff w/ oscillation switch and tremolo 2-in-1. Trem is a Culturejam Shoot The moon board. I used trimmers in place of the wave and gain pots. The enclosure was done by me, but a more artistic person did the name.
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CabinFever47 wrote:Here's a custom Green Russian Big Muff w/ oscillation switch and tremolo 2-in-1. Trem is a Culturejam Shoot The moon board. I used trimmers in place of the wave and gain pots. The enclosure was done by me, but a more artistic person did the name.
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oh god i want this
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DIY TGD. my first build, and I'm stoked to be using this nasty fuzz.

For real LaoWiz.... the design of your boxes are just great man.
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Built a couple small pedals for my BILF 2013 entry!
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Twin reverb reverb/vib control and a Jamman controller with only two switches, reverse and undo/redo (don't need tap tempo)
Gonna be great if everything else arrives in time
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tried to box up a few of these cause its easier to program/prototype with them that way....
not really a pedal, basically 4 mic inputs, you can see the preamp board on the right of the gut shot, and a 4 channel DSP setup which is the board on the left. There is a set of clean outs, coming right off the mic pre's and a set of effected outs, post DSP.

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and the gut shot goes out to my main man mysteriousj based on his sweet tooth for off board wiring.

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^^ Wow, so epic. Whats all the DSP doing?
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mysteriousj wrote:^^ Wow, so epic. Whats all the DSP doing?

This

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the program for this one is pretty straight forward, modulated echo and then the joystick sort of 'pans' each channel accross the 4 outs.

i am making another pcb that is more suitable as a guitar pre and with some sort of bypassing scheme for 4 channels. but i will use the same dsp board. probably make a quad arpeggiator or soemthing haha. The chip does not have tons of ram so its not actually spectacular for delays (especially when you slice it over 4 cahnnesl) but ya its pretty ok for other types of effects.
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I just want to kick that bear in the nuts!

Awesome build.
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Here's my first 2 builds that aren't loopers. I have a lot to learn, but these builds confirmed that I definitely have the DIY bug.

LPB1 - Not sure why I went with a 1590A for my first build. It's a clusterfuck, but it works.
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1590A LPB1 on perf board is no easy first build. and it works too. most people can't swing that on the first try. good job.
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