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Yesterday the triplet was assembly with no issues, today is not going well at all.

When I plug in the Alpha Dog, the led lights up and does not go off. All audio goes through it but it never actually goes to the circuit, it is just clean.

I have checked all values and double checked wiring and solder joints, before mess around with removing the relay and the transistors is there anywhere i should start looking?

Surprisingly I was able to drill two enclosures with no issues, so at least there is a high point.

Here is a pretty little ballad showing off the different modes of each pedal. I tried to keep this short and to the point without a lot of noodling. Everything was recorded in one pass with a Stratocaster going into a PedalPCb.com Sunflower with low gain trannies from Timbo_93631, into a 50 watt plexi with the pedals in the effects loops.

Main rhythm guitar is just straight into the amp with the mod delay setting and the spring reverb setting, there is another guitar doing octaves using the space delay setting and the tremolo spring. Once the first over driven guitar comes in it has the tape delay and the harmonic trem on it and the lead guitar carries on with that also.

Here is the board I used.


[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/dan-keclik/pedalpcbcom-d3lay-and-radium-springs-demo[/soundcloud]

These two pedals from PedalPCB.com are my first foray into SMD soldering with the fv-1 chip. These two characters sound pretty good, the D3lay is really great the tape delay and mod delay are fantastic and the space delay is weird in all of the right ways. The radium springs reverb is really good the two tremolo settings are subtle and the mix has to be turned up quite high to really feel the effect of them. As usual the board layout and everything is super easy, even for me.....

Guys I was born in 1984, all of my pedals will be painted with cartoons, video games and comedy/movie references, that's what it is.

Here is the D3lay, Autobots roll out!



Here is the Radium Springs, sporting the autobots matrix of leadership.



YOU GOT THE TOUCH, YOU GOT THE POWER, YEAH!

The not so shy guy build, I built this to just audition transistors for other fuzzes and it is pretty great. Your somewhat standard fuzz face except for the switch to choose between silicon and germanium and the ability to be powered from a standard power supply. The trannies have already changed since the picture was taken a couple of days ago....anyone surprised?

I used acrylic paints and did a rough outline and then colored in the face and eyes, another entry into the Super Mario series of pedals.

Time for another demo......

You will chuckle if you listen.

For this demo I am using the ProfessorPoopyPedalProjectsPanorama.com Simulcast and Twinface with the D3lay and Radium springs in the effects loop. For the rhythm guitar track it is a fender stratocaster into the simulcast into a 50 watt plexi into a Two Notes Torpedo with delay and reverb in the mix. When it gets to the chorus I just move to position two and play a little softer.

For the solo I am running a strat into the Twinface on the silicon side with BC108 transistors, Hfe 174 on Q1 and 203 on Q2, into the simulcast with the gain switch in the middle position using the bass cut to trim the woofiness. From there is into a screamingly loud JTM45 miced with a E906 into a Neve style preamp into the audio interface. There is delay and reverb courtesy from the D3lay and Radium Springs.

I hope you can mind some of the flubs, I have been posting demos of songs I have always wanted to learn but am way to lazy unless I have a reason. Pedal demo-ish things is making my fingers hurt and doing David Gilmour bends was just brutal, I did three takes of the solo and just picked my favorite.

[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/dan-keclik/pedalpcbcom-simulcast-and-twinface-demo[/soundcloud]

Here is a build report for an upcoming demo I will be posting. This thing is pretty great, easy build and just has this thing about it. It cuts through in a mix really well and has a ton of gain on tap. That's why it has the bullet bill on it, like a hot knife through butter.

Here is some better pictures for the MBP 1590G pedals I put a demo up for in the demo section. I like them a lot and hope you all dig them too. I kept everything stock (as usual) and do not see a reason to change them. The finishes were done using acrylic paint and a shakey coffee fueled hand.

The 4:1 is a product of my son picking the enclosure color and wanting his favorite animal on there.



The mimik was the start of me drawing my favorite characters from Super mario from the SNES. More of those to follow......



The moar was painted while watching Thor, yes besides guitar playing I totally nerd out on retro video games and comics.



And finally the stank, a heavy metal, hard riffin' mothafrogger. It had to be a skull, and when it is on it looks crazy. Kinda like a crazy pirate thing

Here is a fairly stock Multiplex, I added the mod board and a switch to select which heads the modulation goes to. I have the detune rate set really low and have decided that it needs to be changed to an oscillation switch to better suit my needs. I will be doing a demo for this in the future but am way too excited with how this painting turned out to not post it right away. I have determined that it takes me way longer to paint these things then build them. Here it is, the best villain in all of history, Lord Vader.

I have been painting like crazy lately to get all caught up, only three left! Here is a ProfessorPoopyPedalProjectsPanorama.com Tommy built to stock specs except i used a different IC a JRC4558 instead. I used this for the demo I put up a couple weeks ago and absolutely love this little guy. Bomb omb Baby!

Here is two tracks showcasing the incredible 1590G pedals, I wanted to show the subtly of the effects with a clean demo and then how great they are for rock.
[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/dan-keclik/mbp-1590g-clean-demo[/soundcloud]

This track was recorded with a strat into a Mesa TA-30 on the clean channel into a Two Notes Torpedo Live with a Celestion Blue IR. The signal path was 4:1 Compressor into the Moar into the amp with the Mimik in the effects loop. There is three guitars on here, the main rhythm which is using just compression and a little delay, and then the first solo where i turn up the delay and compression, once the second lead guitar part comes in i stomp on the moar.

[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/dan-keclik/mbp-1590g-rock-demo[/soundcloud]

This track was recorded using a Gibson SG with Lindy Fralin 90s into the Mesa TA-30 on channel two into the Two Notes with a 4x12 cab loaded. On the right side is the moar on the left is the stank and for the solo I ran the compressor into the moar into the mimik into the front of the amp. Also there is a little delay on the left side during some of the bridge area.

As for how this was made I wrote the drums and then just layer on top, only plugins are ezdrummer and mix buss compression, here it is warts and all sort of thing.

I am thinking about putting out the tracks with out my shitty lead playing so others can riff on them if anyone is interested.

From Left to right Mimik, Stank, Moar, 4:1


The mighty SG!

Here is my first post of what I hope to be many more going forward, I have way too many diy pedals and I thought it would be great to start demoing them one by one. First up is my most recent build, this is a ProfessorPoopyPedalProjectsPanorama.com Tommy. It is a great over drive pedal and I loved using it with its great eq abilities.

For the demo I start off playing a "D" chord and you will hear two clicks, one is me turning on the D3lay that is in the effects loop of the Mesa RA-100 and the next is the Tommy. My pedal board was setting next to the microphone and picked up both clicks.

Every guitar track is my Warmoth VIP with two humbuckers into a Mesa RA-100 on 50 watt mode recorded with a Sennheiser e906. I did not move the mic once, i never actually left my chair just adjusted the Tommy.

For the strummed rhythm i used middle position on the guitar with the Tommy in the middle position no gain and just dialed out a bunch of low mids to get that jangly clean sound. The solo was the bridge pickup with the Tommy in the bottom position using the gain at about 11 o'clock, guitar 3 was bridge again with the Tommy in the up position running pretty saturated.

Let me know what you think, also the mix isn't 100% perfect I am still working out the kinks with the Faderport and reaper.

[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/dan-keclik/pedalpcbcom-tommy-demo[/soundcloud]