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Hi peoples,

I've just come back to doing a few builds I never got around to but have lost my Hipster Fuzz (2014) Build Doc Instructions.

Is anybody able to direct me to where I might find Instructions for the 2014 version?
I might be able to get by without but my OCD will drive me nuts.

Any links or leads would be much appreciated.
Thanks folks.

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Hi peoples,

Haven't posted in a while. Been pulled out of retirement to for one last pedal build (sorta like Rambo), and wanna build my own too
A mate wants me to build a Bit Crusher.  I've decided on a Heliotrope Clone (part bit crush / ring mod + dist) analog BC emulator.

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Question: How accurate would trannie specs for a bit crusher have to be?
I'm hoping maybe not too accurate because of the nature of the effect. Maybe something close will do yes / no?
And if so, what might be a good substitute for 2n5457 be?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Great story 

Now your friend will get to experience the "joy" of screwing up a build all on his own!

Ah yes. I've learnt much from screwing up myself.

It'd also be fun to see the look on his face when learns rule 101 after getting his first parts order and realising that all those 1 watt resistors and gigantic high tolerance caps aren't going to fit on the board.

That's funny, but I hope he doesn't end up joining the forum and seeing this!

Jacob

Oh yeah. Good point. I think I'm safe though. He's moving onto bigger things now.

Haha. Yeah I was kind of disappointed when it worked.

Now he figures he's ready to build a tube Amp.

He's on his own with that one. He's likely to kill himself trying

A friend asked me to show him how to build pedals.
I thought it would be cool to share the knowledge.

But No, NEVER AGAIN!!

Nice guy. Cluey. No trouble with catching on. But he was convinced that he knew better from the get go.

No Tom, You can't solder the pots straight to the board if they're not mounted pots. No, don't try. Just don't.
No Tom, we can't build it in a couple of hours. it's your first build. You WILL ruin it. be patient.

Yes Tom, I know you have an I.T background, but this isn't programming. It's analog. It's different.

No Tom, you can't go rummaging through all my drawers to find stuff. We'll get to it later. Just get the resistors done first.
Yes, there is a reason for doing it that way.
Tom, stop rummaging through all of my shit!!

Okay Tom. The other bits are in my wives panty drawer, wrapped in the frilly pink ones.
Yes Tom, I'm joking. Just come back and finish the resistors first.

So anyways, against all advice, he solders the tall caps before diodes, and then gets why you don't do it.

At this point, he starts to figure maybe there's a reason for why I'm showing him things the way I am.

But he insists on trying to solder unmountable pots straight to the board. Surprisingly, it doesn't end well.

I tell him "Tom you are way too I.T for this shit. Every time you fix something, 2 things break.
"Why don't you try turning it off and then turning it back on again".

Anyways, after much de-soldering and re-wiring, it actually fucking worked.

I was even more shocked than he was.

But never again. NEVER!!!

I'm looking into building some phono valve pre-amps, 'coz I've just gotten into the whole vinyl thing.

What I've done in the past is replace the input cap and the output cap. Socket them and see what you like. If the input cap is a 1n, I've replaced it with a 100n. I've even put them on a with and made them bass or guitar pedals. Hope that helps.

Thanks Jim. That's exactly what I'll do. Maybe a switch for each in and out caps or just one for whichever makes the most difference.

Howdy peoples.

Thanks in advance for any assistance people might have. I haven't been here in a while, so a big hello to everyone.

Just getting back into doing a few builds, and teaching a Bassist friend to build pedals.

We're both building Timmy clones from FuzzDog Candyman PCB's. One for guitar, one for my Bass player friend
I've read that Timmys are Bass Modable, but haven't found any bass mods for them.
I'm guessung it's largly to do with swapping out caps that favour lower frequencies, but it's something I know little about.

Can anybody suggest any Timmy Bass Mods?
Whether the Timmy is already Bass freindly as the stock version?
Any info on which Caps in the circuit relate to filtering frequencies, and what caps I might sppliment them with?
What cap values generally favour bass frequencies?

Thanks again to anybody who might have some advice on this

[The FENDER factory is in Corona, 1 hour drive from LA.]

Thanks for the tips everyone. I had decided to do a Bus tour because I'm not really an experienced traveller but looking at everybodys suggestions, I might have to go with a hire car so I can get off the beaten track a bit more.

1) The Redwood National Forest in northern California
2) Multnomah Falls in northern Oregon (second tallest waterfall in North America)
3) Basically the entire Oregon coast along Highway 101 (lots of great scenic views)
4) "The Trading Musician" guitar shop in Seattle (vintage stuff and oddball parts)

Agree with the redwoods and Multnomah Falls. Let me know when you're rolling through the Portland area and I'll show you the falls. It's pretty sweet as is the whole Columbia River Gorge. It's my stomping grounds.

Thanks LeeVibe. Portland is definitely on the agenda. A workmate of mine says it's a must see. I'll get in touch with you for some tips once I'm there.

Drive Hwy 1 north from LA to the Monterey Peninsula. It's fuckin' magestic.
Climb down a cliff in Big Sur to some private beach for an hour or so. 

Hang out in Monterey itself, it's one of my favorite cities in the world.
Caffe Trieste on Alvarado street has good coffee and breakfasts.  Pretty cheap for the area too. 
Eat at the Fish Hopper on Cannery Row.  Have the cioppino. Sit at a table where you can overlook the bay.
Home Plate on Lombard street has really good chorizo.

The Disney Family Museum on the Presidio of San Francisco is neat if you are into Disney.
The Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center north of San Francisco is a better museum whether or not you like Snoopy.

If you go near Napa I know a girl who'll get freaky with you and the wife if you're into that sort of thing.

Thanks icecycle66. 

The Disney and Charles Schultz museums sound cool. I'm a cartoonist so that's definately an the agenda.

I do like my seafood, so the Fish Hopper sounds good. Overlooking the Bay with some Clam Chowder would be nice.

Your friend in Napa sounds like fun. Not sure how the wifey might feel about it but it's a lovely gesture. Sharing is caring.

Tacoma Monterey and Big Sur look great. Can't help but think Planet of the Apes when I see Big Sur. Might have to hire a monkey suit and get some snap shots with the Mrs.

Mr. Fandangle I'd recommend checking out San Francisco. It's cliche to say but there's no other city like it. If you plan a stop there, even for a day, let me know and I can send you some good spots (some touristy but worth going to and others far off the popular paths).

Thanks Disorder. San Fran is probably #1 on my list. I'm hoping to roam around there on on the Trams and my skateboard for a few days. It looks like it's got a really cool vibe there.

I've just returned today from an extensive US vacation. Started in San Francisco, drove around 3250 miles!! ending in Vegas and flew over to NYC for a few days. Great times.

I very, very, very much recommend the Sequoia national park. That one was probably my favorite one. Very impressive. If you decide to go there, we took the "alta trail". 

Also, the pacific coast highway. I just drove the small part between Monterey and SF, but that was beautiful. San Diego is a beautiful city if you care to drive down there. and probably most important for this forum:
The FENDER factory is in Corona, 1 hour drive from LA. They offer factory tours twice a day Monday-Friday for 10$.

Thanks m-Kresol.
Sequoia looks awesome. Reminds me of the Beastie Boys "So Whatcha Want" video clip. Will have to get some fish eye sepia photo's of me and the Mrs busting rap poses.

The Fender Factory would be great. Fender are my guitar of choice (well, Squire really, the poor mans Fender).
I do really want to buy a Jay Mascis Jazzmaster (Squire) while I'm in the States.

5th generation Californian here. Make sure you get inland a little bit too. The Sierra Nevada mountains are nice, but are 4 hours from the coast. I live in Lake Tahoe and it's amazing in September. The stratovolcanoes further north in the Cascades are all breathtaking (Shasta, Jefferson, Hood, Rainer, etc).

All the kool kids got kicked out of San Fransisco by the tech wizards and now live in Oakland, and they're sort of making Oakland into a west coast Brooklyn. Lots of great eats and music there right now (Brick & Mortar and The Independent). I loves me some Doug Fir Lounge in Portland - great stage!

Will definately do Oakland while in San Fran. Pretty sure my favourite rap group Heiroglyphics are from there.
I'm hoping to see some live music during my stay so Oakland and Portland should be good for that.
"WhiskeyTown" in Shasta sounds like my kind of place too.

Fiordland is nice

Will check it out. Thanks for the tip.

I used to love taking trips out to Mt. Rainier in the summer. Lots of great trails to hike and you can drive up and have a snowball fight in short sleeves!

Sounds nice. A large reason of why I want to do California is because of the variety of climates and sights.

1) The Redwood National Forest in northern California
2) Multnomah Falls in northern Oregon (second tallest waterfall in North America)
3) Basically the entire Oregon coast along Highway 101 (lots of great scenic views)
4) "The Trading Musician" guitar shop in Seattle (vintage stuff and oddball parts)

The Forest and Falls sounds like a definite go-er. I'm also keen to buy myself a guitar over there so Trading Musician sounds like a good place to get something unique.
I've heard that US airlines allow guitars as onboard luggage nowadays. I'd be hoping I could do this for my trip back to Australia but not sure if Qantas or whoever I travel home with will cater for it.

I am planning a West Coast L.A to Seattle holiday with my wife.
Was wondering if anyone had any ideas about interesting places to visit, food spots, nice beaches, music, history, interesting tours, etc.
Hopefully going in August, but maybe September.
Any suggestions?

if you mean the sound at 15.25, it's a DD3 on a short delay time with the feedback turned up to full. You can probably achieve this on any digital delay which has clean repeats...

DaHa! I think you're right. I'd read that it was the 'hold' setting but yeah, It's probably pretty simple really.

[Sound happens @ 15:15 on the video]

I've been looking into how to get this Boss DD-3 Jamie Hince 'machine gun' sound but am convinced there might be some secret unicorn mojo conspiracy going on.

Sound happens @ 15:15 on the video

I tried a current DD3 at my guitar shop the other day but the hold function (which he uses) only dials down to 200ms (according to the inter web) which is much slower than what is needed to get the machine gun sound which must be at least 100ms or less.

From what I've read about DD3 history, I can't find anything to suggest that the ms rate of the hold function has ever been any lower than the current model, hence my conspiracy theory.

It's such a unique and signature sound, that I'm convinced he's employed some sort of mojotologist illuminati pedal modding society to get this sound (then killed them all)

If he has modded the pedal by having the ms of the hold function reduced, how might one do this?

Also (and I could be wrong about this/and everything) he seems to activate the pedal as he strikes the guitar, but when I played the current DD3 this way, it won't register unless you've finished playing the note before activating the pedal. Maybe it's just technique, or CONSPIRACY?. How, and why is it so??

Looks great. Who cares about the guts.

That choppy decay that you're worried about is the exact sound I love about fuzz/dirt pedals that don't "sustain for days".
It's the radness factor. I love it when notes die a messy death. Just go with it, be one with the messiness.
I especially love that sound when double string bends die out.