Electric Mistress clone on one of Bean's Current Lover PCBs.
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Clean as ever! Nice work!
Another banger - love the Clegg-Tronix font 8)
That looks great. Where did you get the knobs?
Excellent as always.
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👍👍👍👍. Very nice.
Quote from: pickdropper on September 21, 2017, 03:26:05 PM
That looks great. Where did you get the knobs?
They're Cliff 14.8mm, splined 6mm shaft push on, metal outside, plastic inner jobbies from CPC. Marvellous things. Ah they were to be our signature knobs for the stillborn pedal line (upping the perceived value from the usual cheapy mixer knobs we use). As such we've got a bag of 'em left from when I reverted the pedals to our more usual style (they're £1 each vs about 50p each of the mixer knobs... I'm cheap). They get used on odd things that suit it. When it goes together in the next few days, Jason's Scarab is getting a set also ;)
http://cpc.farnell.com/cliff-electronic-components/fc7230/knob-kmr15-blk-md-6mm-spl-18t/dp/SW05311
They do a big one also that we use for BIG OMAR
http://cpc.farnell.com/cliff-electronic-components/fc7234/knob-kmr35-blk-md-6mm-spl-18t/dp/SW05314
Worship it!
Great Job! I can't begin to tell you how many times I've had to tweak one of the jack arms to get everything to fit haha. Awesome inside and out, as always.
Fantastic as always! Especially with the nicer knobs ;)
Things of note. This thing sounds WAY better running from a 12v PSU. Where on 9v it's not very tolerant of humbuckers and is prone to distortion, that all goes away. However, it REALLY doesn't like having a charge pump in there to do it. So you have to go with a real external PSU and re-bias it for it. Totally worth it though, it's the best I've heard one of these sound.
Quote from: juansolo on September 22, 2017, 11:22:40 AM
Things of note. This thing sounds WAY better running from a 12v PSU. Where on 9v it's not very tolerant of humbuckers and is prone to distortion, that all goes away. However, it REALLY doesn't like having a charge pump in there to do it. So you have to go with a real external PSU and re-bias it for it. Totally worth it though, it's the best I've heard one of these sound.
Ooh good info. I just built one, ill have to try it
I've got one of these ready to box up too just waiting on the enclosure turning up. Can this run stock with a 12 volt power supply or do I have to change anything? All my caps are rated higher than that.
Yet another super-clean build. :o
Quote from: Adam_MD on September 22, 2017, 02:43:42 PM
I've got one of these ready to box up too just waiting on the enclosure turning up. Can this run stock with a 12 volt power supply or do I have to change anything? All my caps are rated higher than that.
If your caps are up to it, you should have no probs. The BBD is designed to run at a 15v (a minimum of 10v ideally). Which is what we would have run it at had the charge pump worked. Originals ran at either 12v or 15v with a transformer on board IIRC.
Quote from: juansolo on September 22, 2017, 11:22:40 AM
Things of note. This thing sounds WAY better running from a 12v PSU. Where on 9v it's not very tolerant of humbuckers and is prone to distortion, that all goes away. However, it REALLY doesn't like having a charge pump in there to do it. So you have to go with a real external PSU and re-bias it for it. Totally worth it though, it's the best I've heard one of these sound.
I totally agree. I have two of the previous versions built with the 3007 and biased for 12v operation. Very authentic sounding. I'm curious to get one of the new ones set up for 12v. I demoed a friends a couple months ago at 9v and it was uninspiring.
Nice build, I dig the classic look!
PS: I run mine on a Voodoo Labs "Digital" power supply (regulated for 400ma at 12v). I didn't find the clock noise to be any different between the two versions. I also had to be careful of the placement of Boss pedals in the signal chain... they caused insane amounts of noise.
Very nice, I might have to steal your artwork for mine!
Looks like in shop.
Quote from: stringsthings on September 23, 2017, 06:01:33 AM
Very nice, I might have to steal your artwork for mine!
I just stole it from a photo of a real one ;)
Quote from: juansolo on September 22, 2017, 07:00:55 PM
Originals ran at either 12v or 15v with a transformer on board IIRC.
The original the current lover is based on ran on just a 9V battery or power supply, hence being known as the 9V mistress. The deluxe version which has a different audio path but much the same clock/lfo ran from 15V from a transformer and the first versions which had a totally different clock/lfo but nearly identical audio path to the 9V version ran from 12Vish from two 9V batteries or an 18V power supply.
But besides all that, nice build :)
Consider me enlightened!