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Title: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: Cortexturizer on August 16, 2016, 11:17:37 AM
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Sounds amazing! Thank you Jon for a fantastic project and for all your help. I thank all of you for getting me through this build. I've had so many difficulties with this build, mainly to do with parts, so the build spanned through a couple of months but it's finally here!

This time I went for a bit more adventurous look with the faceplate, it's not 100% symetrical, lol, but I am not bothered by it. Since everybody always praises my ability to "etch" immediately after I post a build report, Imma just say it right away - noooo, it's not etched :D it's laser engraved by a local shop, I only do the design in Inkscape.

Jon, I don't know what kind of 1590Bs Banzai sells but the board got in comfortably, I do have it a bit to the side and not completely parallel to the enclosure but had the concetric pots been a bit lower it wouldn't have to stand like that. But yeah, you know how it is, it's always a balance between the positioning of the knobs and overall aesthetics and how you manage to pull it off inside.

I noticed ticking just this morning. So what I did was to wrap the entire output jack in copper adhesive tape and I wrapped a thick shielding cable inside the jack, that cable then went to the TH Custom Nope Relay little pcb so the output ended up being shielded throughout it's path through the enclosure. That solved it completely. Silent as it could be. I felt such relief.

That's it! I definitely needed some tremolo in my life. After some time I started distancing myself from the kinds of effects that overtake a guitar's sound completely and turned to effect types that build on top of what you already have and can be stacked together. So now I am into Univibe, vibrato, tremolo that sorta stuff. I used to be a major phaser guy, but now just find them to be too obscuring of the guitar sound, so what I like are the more mild variants like the PS-1A that I am still to fully debug although it's fully functional just distorts a little.

Cheers guys!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: Droogie on August 16, 2016, 11:28:20 AM
That is boss! Glad you got it sorted!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: m-Kresol on August 16, 2016, 11:55:29 AM
amazing build. Concentric pots! Genius!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: Cortexturizer on August 16, 2016, 12:02:09 PM
thanks gents!

not so genius though, Jon did it a few times with his, I just copied him doing it! the concentric pots are f-in fantastic, really really save space and just look bithin don't they!?!

Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: playpunk on August 16, 2016, 12:11:48 PM
Wow!!!! I love this build - your style is on point.
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: daleykd on August 16, 2016, 12:31:03 PM
Where does one obtain concentric pots?
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: Cortexturizer on August 16, 2016, 12:36:36 PM
Thanks playpunk!

Concentric pots? I got mine from Banzai Music and I believe Jon regularly gets his from Smallbear
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: jprizz on August 16, 2016, 12:48:37 PM
That is an amazing looking pedal - I really dig it. Nice work!!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: Boba7 on August 16, 2016, 01:14:57 PM
Awesome! Very impressive!!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: Martan on August 16, 2016, 02:27:48 PM
Beautiful as always! Great job sticking to it!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: BrianS on August 16, 2016, 03:13:58 PM
Faceplate looks Phenonminal as with the rest of the build.
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: bcalla on August 16, 2016, 03:19:04 PM
Looks perfect to me!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: storyboardist on August 16, 2016, 03:50:28 PM
Holy crap that looks amazing!

(http://stream1.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/59854_o.gif)
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: selfdestroyer on August 16, 2016, 03:52:30 PM
This is beautiful. That face plate, color and knobs looks so awesome together.

On a side note, I am in the middle of building one of these for a friend and your gut shots made me more scared than I already was! lol

Cody
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: jubal81 on August 16, 2016, 04:15:27 PM
Amazing build! really inspiring.
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: monkeyssj1 on August 16, 2016, 04:15:38 PM
Wow this is one of the builds i think i've seen coming from the community. Such a beautiful/top tier job!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: midwayfair on August 16, 2016, 04:19:46 PM
I am flaberghasted and humbled. That looks perfect.

I have once again been taught that it's not a good idea to say someone "can't" do something.
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: hylandren on August 16, 2016, 04:41:23 PM
You should be very proud for both this build and for sticking with this!
Impressive in every way.

(http://jnoeding.com/holy_cow.jpg)
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: beneharris on August 16, 2016, 04:41:46 PM
That looks really awesome. Build of the year material right there!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: Tremster on August 16, 2016, 04:53:10 PM
Amazing! Beautiful! Wow!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: mshuptar on August 16, 2016, 06:02:31 PM
SWEEEET!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: gtr2 on August 16, 2016, 06:51:50 PM
Awesome!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: Coda-effects on August 16, 2016, 08:00:09 PM
Awesome build!
I really like the double potentiometers, what a gain of space!

Ticking is annoying with the TAPLFO (well I guess it is the same for every LFO digital ship), especially with square waves, I had the same issue, and removing the power supply resistor (100R), and adding a huge capacitor between the voltage regulator and ground (470uF) solved it too.
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: Aleph Null on August 16, 2016, 09:56:55 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/gbVjq.gif)

That's beautiful! I'm glad you got this thing working.
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: Cortexturizer on August 17, 2016, 07:54:17 AM
You guys... thank you so much!

Last night I rehearsed with the pedal and it worked flawlessly and the sounds was fantastic. I've tried all the three modes, with clean and dirt coming into the pedal and it handles everything too well! Just a fantastic little pedal, thank you Jon!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: chuckbuick on August 17, 2016, 01:28:28 PM
Beautiful all the way around, man.  Knobs, faceplate design, everything.  You killed it!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: Cortexturizer on August 17, 2016, 01:41:08 PM
Thanks chuck! means a lot coming from you, I love your builds to death!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: lincolnic on August 18, 2016, 05:03:54 AM
Everything about this build is incredible. Build of the year contender for sure.
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: Stomptown on August 20, 2016, 08:36:11 AM
Damn! You should be really proud of this one.  Over the top awesome in every way!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: 29palms on August 20, 2016, 12:17:25 PM
very cool, I like the knobs, impressed you got all that stuff in there too!
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: juansolo on August 23, 2016, 07:56:15 AM
 8) Massively cool  8)
Title: Re: Tap tempo Cardinal Tremolo - finally, after a long road paved with difficulties!
Post by: Leevibe on August 23, 2016, 01:36:52 PM
I love your stuff, and this is no exception. That faceplate is the coolest! And this is such a fantastic circuit. Really awesome job man.