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Title: Moodring Build Complete!
Post by: DPTX on February 16, 2017, 03:37:33 AM
I just finished my moodring.  If you look closely you'll see an extra black wire, that's because I installed the voltage regulator backward and when I flipped it I couldn't make a great connection for V(in).  So I tapped off the resistor connection to make it work.

It's a very sweet reverb.  I modded the tone control for a flat response.  The dwell control doesn't do too much that I notice, and I had to sub a 50k trimmer because that's all I had.  I'm very happy with the build.

Artwork is by me, as usual, with envirotex on top.  I messed up the ET coating the first time and had to start over from scratch.  This is the 9th or so ET-coated pedal, first mistake I've made with the stuff.

The art is in keeping with an underwater theme I've been doing for a while.  My phaser is the only non-aquatic themed pedal, for some reason.  My original art was different and my wife (and pedal art model) recommended I go with another underwater girl.

The top:
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/646/32802659911_433798f8ed_z.jpg)

The guts (note extra black wire across board...grr):
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2893/32083332004_29847cb22e_z.jpg)

And sitting on the pedalboards with the others.  All of the non-commerical pedal art is by my except for the first one I ever did, which I used an Arthur Adams picture (the green tremulus lune).
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/664/32926455825_6c492b2ca7_z.jpg)
Title: Re: Moodring Build Complete!
Post by: bluescage on February 16, 2017, 09:04:03 AM
Nice job!
Title: Re: Moodring Build Complete!
Post by: Boba7 on February 16, 2017, 09:12:08 AM
Wow, very very nice build, love the art!
Title: Re: Moodring Build Complete!
Post by: bcalla on February 16, 2017, 01:49:19 PM
That came out great!
Title: Re: Moodring Build Complete!
Post by: stringsthings on February 16, 2017, 01:51:49 PM
Great artwork!  Excellent theme going with the pedalboard.
"Real" artists always impress me.  And I love comic books.

The guts look very tidy.  The xtra wire just makes it looks more complex in a good way.

( I'll have to subtract a point for the solder iron burn on the green wire.  ;)  I've done that too many times to count )
Title: Re: Moodring Build Complete!
Post by: DPTX on February 16, 2017, 03:54:45 PM
Thanks!  I was so ticked when I burned that wire.  When I do the switches I'm in "hurry and play it" mode.

Title: Re: Moodring Build Complete!
Post by: blearyeyes on February 16, 2017, 11:30:08 PM
How do you do your art?
Title: Re: Moodring Build Complete!
Post by: DPTX on February 17, 2017, 12:30:05 AM
I'm old school.  I draw it and ink with a sable brush.  When I do my own art I paint with watercolor after the ink cures.  For pedals I color my scanned inks in photoshop or Procreate.  Then I resize the file to match my drilling guide.  For the final art I print on t-shirt transfer and iron it onto the before before envirotex.
Title: Re: Moodring Build Complete!
Post by: Lubdar on February 17, 2017, 06:52:57 AM
love that artwork!!!