I thought I would share!
This the 1st pedal I ever attempted to build and I really learned how to make solder FLOW after this one.
Unforgiving etched PCB for a noob = solder blobs! I cleaned the board up however and checked the traces with a DIMM and all is well! I have since then bought a better soldering iron with the pencil tip and know how to solder now ;D
Hot Chilicon Fuzz for those that don't know is just a modded tonebender I think from Aron Nelson or something like that - has a tone knob and fat switch - 4 transistors and this thing sings!
I have a resistor sitting in sockets so I can use a trim pot to further tweak it but it sounds good as is so I never put the bias trimmer in LOL
(http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r233/jimijam_photos/chilicon.jpg)
and the guts
(http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r233/jimijam_photos/chiligut.jpg)
I have not see any decent youtube demos of this one so I made this
I think the next tonebender I am going to make is madbean's pastyface with some russian Ge's
;)
Cheers!
Great job ;)
;)
yeah, I would have rather gotten a quality PCB from madbean than suffer with the OTHER pcb
Looking good! Thanks for the demo, sounds really nice!
I really like the playing on the demo, very tasteful. Did you get this as a kit from Mammoth? I was sceptical about the Si transistors, but they sound really nice in a Tonebender-style circuit!
Thank you everyone for the kind words!
Yeah I got that kit from mammoth and for four funky little Si transistors that cost next to nothing...
Aron Nelson's site has a vero of that one too under Ulysse's that I wish I saw before I got the kit. LOL
Pedal sounds great for what it does and side by side with my tonebender mk II it is *cough* more usable.
I love the Mk II but it is over the top and to really get everything out of the Mk II, IMO best on a cranked (insert your favorite British amp here ) amp! ;D
BTW I just ordered a weener wah with the whipple... if I get that going properly, DEMO to follow :thumbs up:
Sounds really good! I'm gonna go search for the vero layout for this one now ;)
Nice looking built! But the «OTHER» left a bad taste in my mouth.....
Quote from: slimtriggers on October 18, 2012, 02:17:40 AM
Sounds really good! I'm gonna go search for the vero layout for this one now ;)
Hot Silicon is indeed a really nice circuit, if you ever do it, try it with BC549C or BC550, it «breath» a bit more than with the 2N5089....
I am going to have to try the BC549C's or 550s in there. I always socket the transistors to I can mess around with them
thanks!
Congrats on your first and it looks great.
The single sided etches are a little different technique but nothing you can't get the hang of. I lay that iron on there a few seconds longer before I apply solder. Seems to work for me.
Nice chops too.
very nice job with your first build, and you have already made more demos than me. :)
Quote from: jalmonsalmon on October 17, 2012, 01:30:21 AMBTW I just ordered a weener wah with the whipple...
you will love the wah, it's amazing.