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Title: You Dirty Rat
Post by: patrickbrose on December 20, 2012, 04:12:47 PM
This is the first pedal that I have built in about 9 months  :o  I took a bit of a building hiatus to work on a few guitars, but once the weather turned grey, it felt time to get the iron out and do a few builds. So this is the first. It is a Rat Clone (Slow Loris PCB by the bean). Did it in the mammoth textured black enclosure (very cool finish btw) Red hardware and the 2 little LEDs are clippers for the "turbo" setting (I like watching them flicker as I play). No on/off LED yet, just haven't gotten to it. I love the way this thing sounds. It does't really like my active EMG85 pickups (glitches out and sounds overloaded when the pups are up full, but when I back off the guitar volume to about 80% it works fine), but with passives it sounds great.
I was looking at the voltage on the Jfet, and I get a reading at the source of 6.75v, which seems a bit high (most references state it to be about 3v, but go on to say anything above 3v is good, so I dunno   ::)  ) At any rate it screams! Enjoy.
-P
(http://imageshack.us/a/img825/6158/img1480tp.jpg)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img846/9348/img1479va.jpg)
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Title: Re: You Dirty Rat
Post by: Ettore_M on December 20, 2012, 08:34:37 PM
Nicely done! Super tidy!  ;)

Hector
Title: Re: You Dirty Rat
Post by: hoodoo on December 20, 2012, 09:24:57 PM
Looks great mate, love the vero idea for the 2 LED's, never seen that before, all the best, Matt.
Title: Re: You Dirty Rat
Post by: fendman on December 20, 2012, 10:59:48 PM
Hey Hector, nice build glad I saw this now..this is one of the boards I got from Brian today.

I like the the idea of the leds on the outside..cool. Its always good to see builds that you are about to start..thanks
Title: Re: You Dirty Rat
Post by: wolfingsworth on December 21, 2012, 03:07:13 AM
This looks great! Very nice guts...
Title: Re: You Dirty Rat
Post by: nzCdog on December 21, 2012, 05:51:44 AM
This is great!  Nice use of red on black... I bet it looks mean with those clippers lighting up
Title: Re: You Dirty Rat
Post by: MattOcaster on December 21, 2012, 07:21:50 PM
Awesome stuff!
Simple and classy!
Really dig the red on black.