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I just completed the Moodring. What a cool pedal! I was worried because the components are tightly spaced and there is almost no room in the box for error. Thanks to Brian's awesome photoshop drill templates (...why don't all PCB sellers do that?), however, I nailed it with no errors. If you knew my record with boxing pedals you'd be as amazed as I am.

Thanks Brian!

**I posted this previously on the Tech Help forum, but I didn't get responses and thought maybe it should havegone in the general questions forum. Please LMK if this belongs somewhere else**

Hello, I am building the moodring pedal and wanted to add some cool mods. The one that I really would like is a momentary switch to max out the feedback for some spooky sounds. I found a thread below that describes a "slam switch". Would that do the trick? To do the mod it says "I also added a slam switch that shorts pin 2 and 3 of both the feedback and the depth pots"--so would you run a DPDT normally off momentary to short those pins when the switch is on? I couldn't pull up the figures so that'd really help. Thanks!

If anyone knows of other cool, easy mods, please post! Thanks!

Hey, so I've just built a modded Moodring and even though it's not exactly finished, I got so excited playing it that I couldn't not share it!

I changed the tone section a bit to get a flatter response in the mids (I prefer the sound, and find the feedback pot reacts better that way).

I also added a slam switch that shorts pin 2 and 3 of both the feedback and the depth pots. The level trimpot helps get the desired amount of slam effect.

I boxed it and played it for a while. It's such a GREAT circuit!!

Then I let it sleep and while I was away I had an idea... I've wanted a reverb with modulation controls for a while (like the Keeley vibe-o-verb), and it occurred to me I could modulate the predelay to get that effect. Since the feedback loop includes the PT2399, even the tails should be modulated with the feedback pot cranked.
So I built a GrindCustoms modulation board on vero, with a B2K depth pot and C250k rate pot (also omitted the 1K in parallel with the led) and it worked!
There was just enough room to add the two pots and one switch. It would have been nice to use mini 9mm plastic pots for the modulation section, but it seemed just impossible.

The modulation is very interactive with the feedback pot, which is not surprising. There's a bit of a learning curve, but all in all it's still quite simple to operate. And man do I LOVE the sounds I can get with this reverb now! Straight up pseudo spring reverb, cavernous feedbacks, haunting vibrato verb, slightly modulated subtle reverb.

The wiring is quite messy... it was much cleaner before adding the modulation board... (FYI the noise was present from the beginning, and isn't a consequence of my poor wiring).
I still want to polish the enclosure a bit more and then stamp the controls, but I feel too lazy to take it apart again...

From left to right the controls are:
Modulation rate / depth / switch (on-off)
Predelay / Feedback / Tone
Reverb
On-off / Slam

Hello, I am building the moodring pedal and wanted to add some cool mods. The one that I really would like is a momentary switch to max out the feedback for some spooky sounds. I found a thread below that describes a "slam switch". Would that do the trick? To do the mod it says "I also added a slam switch that shorts pin 2 and 3 of both the feedback and the depth pots"--so would you run a DPDT normally off momentary to short those pins when the switch is on? I couldn't pull up the figures so that'd really help. Thanks!

If anyone knows of other cool, easy mods, please post! Thanks!

Hey, so I've just built a modded Moodring and even though it's not exactly finished, I got so excited playing it that I couldn't not share it!

I changed the tone section a bit to get a flatter response in the mids (I prefer the sound, and find the feedback pot reacts better that way).

I also added a slam switch that shorts pin 2 and 3 of both the feedback and the depth pots. The level trimpot helps get the desired amount of slam effect.

I boxed it and played it for a while. It's such a GREAT circuit!!

Then I let it sleep and while I was away I had an idea... I've wanted a reverb with modulation controls for a while (like the Keeley vibe-o-verb), and it occurred to me I could modulate the predelay to get that effect. Since the feedback loop includes the PT2399, even the tails should be modulated with the feedback pot cranked.
So I built a GrindCustoms modulation board on vero, with a B2K depth pot and C250k rate pot (also omitted the 1K in parallel with the led) and it worked!
There was just enough room to add the two pots and one switch. It would have been nice to use mini 9mm plastic pots for the modulation section, but it seemed just impossible.

The modulation is very interactive with the feedback pot, which is not surprising. There's a bit of a learning curve, but all in all it's still quite simple to operate. And man do I LOVE the sounds I can get with this reverb now! Straight up pseudo spring reverb, cavernous feedbacks, haunting vibrato verb, slightly modulated subtle reverb.

The wiring is quite messy... it was much cleaner before adding the modulation board... (FYI the noise was present from the beginning, and isn't a consequence of my poor wiring).
I still want to polish the enclosure a bit more and then stamp the controls, but I feel too lazy to take it apart again...

From left to right the controls are:
Modulation rate / depth / switch (on-off)
Predelay / Feedback / Tone
Reverb
On-off / Slam

Hello, I just ordered the Tapanatorator PCB and I'm writing to see if it could be used to control the Cardinal Harmonic Tremolo:
http://1776effects.com/product/cardinal-tremolo-v2/

If it'd be easier to do part of the Cardinal circuit from scratch on vero, that'd be fine, I'm just not sure where to start. Thanks!

Hello, I built the Kingslayer--had some trouble fitting it in the 1590B because my 1uF pot is tall, but eventually worked out the bugs.

I've built a couple of GuitarPCB klones, and this sounds very different. On the GPCB pedals, the gain  (I mean amplification, not clipping...I know the Klon isn't a distortion machine) is so ferocious that I can get a big boost with volume at 40%. With this one I get unity volume at about 60%. Also, the clipping switch doesn't seem to have much effect (not necessarily surprising from what I've heard). It still sounds great, but I wanted to make sure that something isn't going wrong. As I said, that 1590B is packed and it's certainly possible that something could be shorting b/w the pots or under the dual gang pot.

Please let me know what you think, thanks!

Hello, I'm relatively new to Madbean boards, and happy with the quality and docs! I'm dying to find out more about the Uber Tuber and Supering. Is there info on them and anticipated release dates?
Is the uber tuber a variant of the valvecaster?
Is the supering much different from the 2017 moodring?
Thanks for humoring me.

Hi, I'm building a Slow Loris Rat and short on a couple of parts. Need to know:
1. Can I substitute a: 2n5458, MPF102, or J201 for the 2n5457 transistor in the output buffer?
2. I'm out of 22n caps. Can I substitute a different value like 27n or will that mess with the tone. I like the Rat tone so don't want to change too much. Per the instructions: "C12 is a coupling cap between the tone and output buffer section. It also forms a very low HP
filter with the R8 resistor"

Separate question:
3. Clipping diode section. To get asymmetric clipping, I assume I'd wire one diode normal and two in series across the companion pads, right? Does it matter which pads (i.e., orientation of the diodes) I go with?

Hi, I'm currently building a Baby-10 sequencer to go with my atari punk console. This got me thinking about out the DigDug2 project so that I could put it on my guitar pedalboard. I'd really like to be able to use this to get an arpeggiator or pitch sequencer effect. Is there a straightforward circuit that this could be paired with in order to get that effect?

Also, is it possible to get a CV out in addition to the optical output? Apologies if this is a dumb question, I'm still relatively new to the game and I really don't know much about synthy stuff.

Thanks!