Let's see your finished DIY projects!

[SoaringTortoise]

Skip the first 5 minutes all the good stuff happens after that.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oKsld8zNlg[/youtube]

[Chankgeez]

Listening to the video now. Was disappointed to discover that there aren't any 'taters in this. Does sounds fantastic though!

[SoaringTortoise]

Listening to the video now. Was disappointed to discover that there aren't any 'taters in this. Does sounds fantastic though!

Thanks. The taters are inside. I am using them as batteries.

[Ben79]

Haha! My favourite audio electronics company and my favourite gear demo videos.

[SoaringTortoise]

Haha! My favourite audio electronics company and my favourite gear demo videos.

Thanks Ben! Did you ever get the special fun knob to work on your HP clone?

[Ben79]

Yes I did thanks John - it took a lot of tweaking with different transistors and diodes and a bigger input cap, like you said, but I got there and it's a great octave down fuzz now.

I actually got it doing something really interesting by putting a pee8 octave up in front of it. I should make a demo and show you guys.

[SoaringTortoise]

Yes I did thanks John - it took a lot of tweaking with different transistors and diodes and a bigger input cap, like you said, but I got there and it's a great octave down fuzz now.

I actually got it doing something really interesting by putting a pee8 octave up in front of it. I should make a demo and show you guys.

Man, I would love to hear and see that.

[skullservant]

Speaking of Harmonic Percolators, I just bought the parts to put another one together for myself. I always end up selling them and missing them.

Here's what I finished tonight, for myself. Devi Soda Meiser with chaos switch. In the wake of working several hours on an FM2 clone and having to debug it, it was nice to wire this up and have it working first try.

[coupleonapkins]

Sweet enclosure Mr. Dirge

[spacelordmother]

Sweet enclosure Mr. Dirge

Fuckin A.

[digi2t]

Put together a Knucklehead version of the Frantone Peachfuzz tonight.







I ran into a bit of a dilemma, because I really wanted an LED, but there was no provision for one on this PCB. I didn't want to muck around with a pull down resistor either, since I wasn't sure that it would effective in a circuit with this much gain. It got me thinking about a Millenium bypass daughterboard, but all I have is 3PDT switches...... and lots of vero.

I took this layout;



Made it 7 holes wide, to make up for the reach over the switch, and used the upper and lower lugs on the switch to secure it.

As for the switch, I cut the center (common) lug off the row holding the vero (VERY IMPORTANT that you remove this lug), and trimmed the top and bottom pins to the point that they would fit in the holes. I had to spread them apart, ever so slightly, but there's enough pin that shows to solder.



Added my components, and then wired it into the pedal;









There you go. Cheap and dirty, but it works.

[Ben79]

I love the engraving job. I haven't seen anyone else doing that.

[nieh]

Surf Green Ringer

[SoaringTortoise]

Sweet. I like it when the effects match the guitar.

[skullservant]

I love the engraving job. I haven't seen anyone else doing that.

Thanks man. I've got a little dude in the house so I don't like keeping etching chemicals around. This is my 'poor mans' etching haha