BATH SALTS

by **LaoWiz** » Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:38 am

Back in the early days of the pandemic, Champion Leccy started a contest of sorts called the End of Days Fuzz Challenge. Really just an excuse for builders to flex the most disgusting fuzz side of themselves. Luckily it’s an open ended theme as I am just finishing mine now.

Bath Salts is a filtered fuzz or octave down fuzz in parallel with a wet only one repeat fuzz delay that just drags behind the fuzz signal in a drunken fuck shit up kinda of way. Inspiration for the sound of the pedal comes from Austin band USA/Mexico, the song ‘In the Raw’ by Lubricated Goat, and the overall vibe of the Swans album, Cop.

The circuit is a disgusting stew of classic noisemaker circuits from the DIY scene including the Noise Ensemble by Anchovie, the Ugly Face by Tim Escobedo, and the Crash Sync by John Holis. After years of tweaking and trying different things out I’ve finally landed and good to get this out. The main goal was to create a slab of sludge so here we are.

If anyone is interested in getting on the list hit me up here or on instagram. Not sure how much but won’t be too outrageous. Here’s the graphics. The white areas are actually transparent so the black, red and blue will be printed on black enclosures. The white looks kinda cool so thinking about white enclosures too. Probs black though. Will add more info and some clips laters…

by **Chankgeez** » Sun Apr 14, 2024 8:57 am

by **LaoWiz** » Sun Apr 14, 2024 2:29 pm

Chankgeez wrote::love:

by **oldangelmidnight** » Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:59 pm

This is amazing.
Based on this image, it would look pretty crazy on a white enclosure.

What's the second footswitch?

by **LaoWiz** » Mon Apr 15, 2024 1:11 am

oldangelmidnight wrote:This is amazing.
Based on this image, it would look pretty crazy on a white enclosure.

What's the second footswitch?

Thank you! These graphics were pretty fun to make once I sat down and got to it. The right foot switch is bypass and the left one just turns on/off the delay. I was going to do a feedback option but didn't care for it with this circuit combo so figured it would be more useful to be able to make it less drone-y by being able to activate the delay when you want to.

I will probably chicken out on doing the print on white. But it really depends on where I do the printing. I did an early test with the colors a little more muted on black gloss. The black gloss looks really great with the fragmenting on the side and would look the same with that little bit of sheen under the laowiz and bath salts font. The only problem I have is that test was done with Tayda and their gloss enclosure scratches easily. But the great thing with Tayda is that there is no minimum and it's such a gnarly pedal it probably doesn't matter if it gets scratched up. I could probably get a more durable finish with Obscura manufacturing but I would need to order a minimum of 25 enclosures and once those are gone another 25 if I want to make more and keep them consistent. Maybe I will do 25 with Obscura and a few white ones.

Here's the tests, the fonts were punched out on these though...