Hey
Here's my TTT build. Inspired by the Alien films again.
Had a nightmare building this one. One totally scrapped PCB and a shed load of unsoldering but got there in the end. Kind of.
I wasn't getting any effected signal so poked around with my audio probe and found that the wet signal was present at pin 7 of the IC so I just soldered the out wire to the underside of the pin. No idea how it's working but remarkably it is. Although I do get some horrible clicking in certain settings. I might look to fix it in the future but I'm done with it for now. Hope you like it.
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/12/ymuvyby4.jpg)
(http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/03/12/qazeruqe.jpg)
Cheers
WOW. This is my favorite TTT build so far. Really great aesthetic.
I LOVE YOUR STYLE
Quote from: Guybrush on March 11, 2014, 10:08:51 PMso I just soldered the out wire
Whoa whoa whoa, please tell me you ALSO soldered a capacitor to that wire?
If you didn't DO SO IMMEDIATELY. You can kill some amps with 4.5DC on its input. Very dangerous. Even if you don't own an amp without an input cap, one of your friends might.
By the way, incredible looking build.
Sorry I should have said, I soldered a 1uF cap to the wire. You can see it poking out of the right side of the board. Will that be sufficient? Nice catch Jon!
Forgot to say but thanks to Jacob for help with debugging.
Cheers for the kind words all.
I LOVE to be a fly on the wall when you did that enclosure. Glops and you have this style down pat and it just always comes out looking awesome. Is there anything you can say on the process?
Cody
You're killing it with the enclosure designs lately, GB.
That's awesome. Is it an etch? A decal? Faceplate?
Cheers guys!
The design was done in photoshop then printed onto transparent sticky paper. The grey areas (the text and boarders) are actually see through.
I really enjoy the design process. I seem to have more luck with that than I do with the soldering!
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Really nice look to this one dude!
Nice work.
The graphics are awesome! Incredible!
Love the style! You killed it.
Josh
wow, I friggin love that :o
I am both inspired and depressed.
by the way.....
How do you like the transparent sticker paper compared to waterslide decals? I have been wanting to try the sticker paper.
I've never tried waterslide decals. I just got a local print shop to print the graphic onto A4 transparent sticker, cut it to size, stuck it on then carefully with a ruler and scalpel trimmed the edge down so there were no overhangs that could be accidently accidentally caught.
You've just got to be careful to get it on straight and ensure the holes for the pots etc line up.
Glad you like it!
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This is great! I love the Alien Line you are doing. Although I have to admit it I saw Pulse Rifle and thought Dead Space. Love the art.
same here, I though it said "Pulse Rifle" and that it was a take from the Fallout video game
so cool
wow...very nice. In the middle of '80 here in Hungary was a magazine - called Galaktika (Galaxy). The design of cover was absolutely same like this. The characters, colors... :D
Looks great. I have my eye on this project too. So, what's the verdict after all your trepidation and troubles... build or no build?
Amazing graphics on this man. Killer aesthetic. I've built two or three of these... hmm, maybe four... and all but one had ticking on certain settings.
Quote from: das234 on April 14, 2014, 12:10:18 AM
Looks great. I have my eye on this project too. So, what's the verdict after all your trepidation and troubles... build or no build?
Cheers man! To be honest I'm not happy with it. The amount of ticking has made it pretty unuseable. Of course this is probably beacuse of the botched 'fix' that I made to it as I wasn't getting any sound from the circuit at first (it can be found here if you're interested http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=14389.msg133816#msg133816). I've since got the pedal back on my bench with the hope of fixing it properly.
Quote from: eldanko on April 14, 2014, 02:04:46 AM
Amazing graphics on this man. Killer aesthetic. I've built two or three of these... hmm, maybe four... and all but one had ticking on certain settings.
Thanks! Can I ask how much ticking you generally get? Mine seems to tick in most settings then randomly in settings that have previously not had ticking. So frustrating!
yeah, I have already commented on this build but I still have to say....
...this is still one of my favorite builds. I want to rip it off :o ;) ...I am just not sure how just yet!
Quote from: peAk on April 15, 2014, 11:23:54 AM
yeah, I have already commented on this build but I still have to say....
...this is still one of my favorite builds. I want to rip it off :o ;) ...I am just not sure how just yet!
Just familiarise yourself with the rectangle and circle tool in photoshop and you'll be halfway there.
Quick question, how to you readjust the sticker paper on the box to center it correctly?
That's the beauty of waterslide is that it can slide around pretty easy.
I have some of this transparent sticker paper but I wanted to know how easy (or hard) it is to readjust?
With difficulty.
My process is to cut the sticker to size. Lay it on the enclosure (sticker backing still in place) to check it definitely fits accurately. Then peel off the backing from one of the shorter sides and line it up carefully with the edge of the enclosure and slowly peel the backing away whilst simultaneously sticking the sticker to the box.
You can tell pretty quickly if you have gone off track. I knew it would take me a couple of goes to get it spot-on so I printed the image a few times so I had backups.
After it was in place I took an exacto knife and a ruler and carfully trimmed a tiny bit off the edges. This is to ensure that there are no slight overhangs which could cause the sticker to peel when caught by a stray boot.
Hope that makes sense.
TL;DR - Take your time and be careful. ;)
Quote from: Guybrush on April 15, 2014, 01:07:51 PM
With difficulty.
My process is to cut the sticker to size. Lay it on the enclosure (sticker backing still in place) to check it definitely fits accurately. Then peel off the backing from one of the shorter sides and line it up carefully with the edge of the enclosure and slowly peel the backing away whilst simultaneously sticking the sticker to the box.
You can tell pretty quickly if you have gone off track. I knew it would take me a couple of goes to get it spot-on so I printed the image a few times so I had backups.
After it was in place I took an exacto knife and a ruler and carfully trimmed a tiny bit off the edges. This is to ensure that there are no slight overhangs which could cause the sticker to peel when caught by a stray boot.
Hope that makes sense.
TL;DR - Take your time and be careful. ;)
yeah, ooh...that sounds difficult.
that being said, I think the result could be better than waterslide. There are things about waterslide I hate. The best thing about waterslide is the "slide" until it's right.
Another question about this type of decal.
Have you tried light colors on darker encosures? That's one of the pitfalls of waterslide that's it's so transparent that you really can't do lighter fonts on darker enclosures unless you get white waterslide decals.
Same goes for transparent stickers I'm afraid. I printed the design on this pedal lighter than it appears as the grey aluminium darkens the colours. I personally wouldn't use transparent sticker on anything darker than this.