The Silver Darlings Overdriver

[nzCdog]

Hey guys... so many cool builds going on here...

This is my latest project:



The name 'The Silver Darlings' comes from the picture which is a painting by my wife inspired by a book of the same name...  I was going to get her to paint the enclosure, but fell in love with this pic whe I saw it.



The overdrive side of this pedal is a 'Big Box'Clark Gainster clone, 'Handwired' using a turretboard, NOS/High Mojo caps etc etc...  Also hidden away in the enclosure is  Roadrage and a Slambox boost section.  Such a sweet sounding and transparent overdrive, I really fell in love with this circuit when prototyping it on 17V, the Slambox runs into the overdrive so it can really make it sit up and bark if required.


My turret layout is a modified version from here http://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=8193&p=86809&hilit=clark+gainster#p86809 Thanks to IVIark of FSB for the inspiration to make it a pedal! 

[night-B]

I really enjoyed working with tag and turret boards, I'm sure you had fun too!
Congratulate your wife for such a nice painting 

[cjkbug]

you packed a ton of stuff in there. well planned!

[gtr2]

Really Epic pedal!

josh

[Haberdasher]

Very nice!

[bigmufffuzzwizz]

That's a very sweet looking pedal. You really crammed it all in there! I really like the blue and red/orange LED combo. And the painting is really visually pleasant. 

[slimtriggers]

   Incredible work!

[Myramyd]

Sweet job man!

Too bad they don't make extra large "mojo" ICs to go with the turretboard!

But it looks like a little brain that is controlling the whole thing, which is cool.

J

[nzCdog]

Wow, thanks for all your kind words guys 

I really enjoyed working with tag and turret boards, I'm sure you had fun too!
Congratulate your wife for such a nice painting 

Yeah it was great fun to build, had to rework the original layout a tad to spread it out better... and thanks my wife is sooo talented (I a huge fan )  The name 'Silver Darlings' is a very old nickname from the British Isles for Herring fish, hence the fishing boat...

Sweet job man!

Too bad they don't make extra large "mojo" ICs to go with the turretboard!

But it looks like a little brain that is controlling the whole thing, which is cool.

J

Thanks man... yeah totally, having a huge IC would be so awesome

[redbean]

Wow!  Impressive!!

[nzCdog]

  so kind! 

[stecykmi]

great work, i've never seen a IC/tagboard combo like that.

[cjkbug]

can you fill us in on your capacitor choices.

[nzCdog]

can you fill us in on your capacitor choices.

Sure thing... The green one is input cap, NOS 'Paper in Oil' from russia, tests within 1%...  The 2n2 is a NOS Philips Mustard cap measures about 2n3... the other yellow one is a silvered mica from smallbear.  All the red ones are polypropylene film, mostly panasonic brand which I got from effectsconnection.  Electrolytes are generic brands...

The 'Clark Gainster' that this is based on uses NOS PIO caps, so I'm 'cheating' by using so much film...  my feeble attempt to compensate for this mojo deficiency is with a touch of mustard 

Thanks for your interest guys

[jstbrowsin]

such an awesome build  and a fellow kiwi too, now you really upped the anti eh 

well done mate