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I've just added this beauty to my collection. I agonized over a single cut and a custom 24 about 6-7 years ago and the Custom 24 won. Given that I'm entering the 40's later this month, I figured it was high time stop my inner turmoil and get a single cut for my 40th. It's a Tremonti Sig but with 59/09 pickups. I've since re applied the Tremonti truss rod cover  and may consider putting the original pickups back in but have to say the 59/09's sound amazing.




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Hi All,

I've just finished up a 2015 Current Lover and am having some issues calibrating it. I've listed my voltages below. All appear to be ball park to the build doc with the exception of IC5 LM324 Pin 7 and pins 12 & 13 on IC4 CD4013 appear to be backward ( Build doc is Pin 12 - 9v, Pin 13 - 0v. My reading are Pin 12 - 0v & Pin 13 - 8.75v. Any ways. I have calibrated it as per the document and have a really nice flange happening but for the life of me cannot get rid of the chirp at the extremes of the sweep. Any advice would be hugely appreciated. here are my Voltages

IC1
1 - 4.41
2 - 4.41
3 - 2.20
4 - 0
5 - 3.98
6 - 4.39
7 - 4.39
8 - 0

IC 2
1 - 8.79
2 - 4.35
3 - 3.79
4 - 0.13
5 - 0
6 - 4.35
7 - 4.35
8 - 0

IC3
1 - 8.79
2 - 4.36
3 - 4.36
4 - 4.36
5 - 4.36
6 - 4.36
7 - 4.36
8 - 0
9 -4.36
10 - 4.36
11 - 4.36
12 - 4.36
13 - 0
14 - 4.36
15 - 4.36
16 - 0

IC4

1 - 4.33
2 - 4.33
3 - Varies
4 - 0
5 - 4.36
6 - 0
7 - 0
8 - 0
9 - 0
10 - 0
11 - 0
12 - 0
13 - 8.75
14 - 8.79

IC5
1 - Varies
2 - 3.9
3 - Varies
4 - 8.7
5 - 0
6 - 0
7 - 0.02
8 - Varies
9 - Varies
10 - Varies
11 - 0
12 - 3.96
13 - 3.96
14 - Varies

IC6
1 - 0
2 - Varies
3 - Varies
4 - 0
5 - 8.79
6 - 8.79
7 - Varies
8 - 8.79

IC7
1 - 4.39
2 - 4.39
3 - 4.39
4 - 0
5 - 3.99
6 - 4.39
7 - 4.39
8 - 8.79

Thanks again in advance

TD

In honor of the eh big muff.....here the....ahhh....'Map of Tassie'





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Welp! I've been a bit inactive of late. (Baby's and sleep deprivation tend to do that) but finally.... FINALLY, got around to getting my mitts into this one. As always the madbean build doc was great and the calibrating tips were a huge help.





Had a minor issue drilling the enclosure so I had to reroute the feedback trimmer. Apart from that it was a really smooth build

Keen to hear your thoughts.

Tommy


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Just finished this one up last night. Not my cleanest off board work. I salvaged the stomp switch from a failed 3PDT board I experimented with. Im going to sweep through and clean it up a little but hey, I got it fired up.

Super easy build (Thanks Brian for great boards and build documents) Looking forward to putting this in front of a Marshall and get some pissed off tones Hahaha.

I took a punt on some of the pre finished enclosures from Tayda. Gotta say, for $5.50 each the quality pretty damn good. Defiantly worth checking out.

Check out the pics and keen to hear your feedback.

Cheers

Tommy








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Ok so a short back story on this build. I grew to love the sound of the pedal this is based off. Last year I went looking for a CE-2 only to find they have a ridiculous price tag against them these days. (I now wish I'd picked one up 15-20 years ago when they litters the second hand sections of music stores)
Any way, in my googling I stumbled across the madbean site along with a number of others.

I've wired plenty of guitars and countless cables so I figured I'd try to build a clone of a CE-2 rather than forking out 100s. In a way you could say that this build was indirectly the catalyst for a new hobby. I attempted a couple of other simpler builds before tackling this one and when I got round to ordering a board the terrible twos had arrived in my wife and I's lives and decided to present its own set of life challenges.

I started this is November 2016 and after some troubles with myself putting the wrong transistors on the board and an Unshielded dc input, finally buttoned it up tonight! It sounds great and am really happy with the final result.

The etched enclosure was a bit of fun after rewatching Sin City

Love to hear your thoughts

Cheers Tommy






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Ok so a short back story on this build. I grew to love the sound of the pedal this is based off. Last year I went looking for a CE-2 only to find they have a ridiculous price tag against them these days. (I now wish I'd picked one up 15-20 years ago when they litters the second hand sections of music stores)
Any way, in my googling I stumbled across the madbean site along with a number of others.

I've wired plenty of guitars and countless cables so I figured I'd try to build a clone of a CE-2 rather than forking out 100s. In a way you could say that this build was indirectly the catalyst for a new hobby. I attempted a couple of other simpler builds before tackling this one and when I got round to ordering a board the terrible twos decided to come to our household and present its own set of life challenges.

I started this is November 2016 and after some troubles with myself putting the wrong transistors on the board and an Unshielded dc input, finally buttoned it up tonight! It sounds great and am really happy with the final result.

The etched enclosure was a bit of fun after rewatching Sin City

Love to hear your thoughts

Cheers Tommy






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Hey all.

Here's the Rullywow "Queen of Bone" build I've finally completed. Gotta say the build document was a huge help being that I think this one was my 3rd or 4th build.

I managed to get some "unobtanium" diodes for it too. Side A is 1S1588 and side B is MA856.

Thanks to Paul at http://www.diyguitarpedals.com.au for the 1S1588's

As with my last build report, the enclosure is etched. Another move theme.....

Check out the pics!

Cheers

Tommy






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Hey all.

So here's a couple of pics of one of my 1st builds. I've only briefly tested it and all seems to be working as expected. Pretty cool sounding delay! All parts (except the board obviously) are from Tayda. Also after researching some etching techniques I've etched the enclosure.

Love to hear people's thoughts.

Cheers

Tommy.


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Hi All

I'm looking to buy a Pork Barrel PCB. it seems Madbean are out of stock on their website. Would anyone have one they're willing to part with?

Thanks

Tommy