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The Monsterplex was going to be my fall contest submission, but I ran into a few technical issues and had to slow down to make sure all the switching/signal routing was right. After many hours of wiring, it wasn't! So many hours of rewiring later it is ALIVE!
The pedal features a Multiplex with modulation daughterboard, a Zero-Point DD, and a Galacticon Deluxe Phase 45. The Phase 45 can be standalone or assigned to the repeats of the ZPDD, and the ZPDD can be standalone or assigned to the repeats of the Multiplex. Both delays feature dedicated slam controls, and adjustable ramps on the MP. Both also have FX loops after the assignable onboard effects and expression control jacks for the mix controls one either delay so you can fade into them. Both delays also have trails bypass. Demo to follow.
That's flat out incredible. :o
... and I have no idea how it works. We're gonna have to hear it!
Friggin' unbelievable!
Any second thoughts on single colour wiring?
dave
Quote from: davent on December 10, 2014, 07:12:15 PM
Any second thoughts on single colour wiring?
dave
Wow, no kidding. That was my first thought as well. I'm guessing there was a lot of time with the DMM on the continuity setting.
Great job. Amazing build.
... .... .... gasp... speechless.
That's Monsterbuild :D
No words......... :o
Can we get a recount for the contest ;)
Quote from: davent on December 10, 2014, 07:12:15 PM
Any second thoughts on single colour wiring?
dave
It's not single color... You missed the orange/white striped wire on the LEDs. ;D
Holy crap that's impressive!!
Absolutely amazing :o you've outdone yourself, Tim, and that means a lot!
Congrats! 8)
Wow.
Jacob
Oh dear.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I spy with my little eye, something that begins with Cth.
This looks like it was ... maddening to build.
It took quite awhile to get right, but not really because of the single color (aside from the orange/white on +9v) wiring so much as just getting everything to play nice assigning things to the repeats and also some issues with the loops. But it was slow and tedious work. Nice that after reworking it everything fired right up. It sounds really nice, and I am looking forward to sending it off to Mat, the buyer. He created the graphics, and has been lurking here so if you guys dig the aesthetic, all credit goes to him on that one.
I was going to mention, the enclosure looks great!!!
"There's a monster on the loose..."
That's just stunning! I use multi-coloured wire on simple single builds, so I'm finding all that orange pretty scary. Well done it's superb and the artwork is amazing.
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Wow, that came out great! The etch is super impressive, as are the guts considering all the routing going on in there. Imagining myself doing all that offboard wiring even gave me a little panic attack. Any plans for a demo clip? :D
Tim, this is some next level stuff right here. Super impressive and that wiring.. man it looks scary but you make it looks so easy. I LOVE that artwork and your etch is so spot on. Great job, I'm sure your customer will be super happy with it. I look forward to the demo.
Cody
Hi everyone,
This is my first post here, as Tim said I have been lurking here for some months. Sorry for the length of the post, but, well, you don't really have to read it, do you?
Tim just emailed me he completed the Monsterplex, so I think it was time for me to post anyway and share the story...
I'm Mat, from France (so pardon my English). I have been considering building pedals for some years and discovered the very cool 1776's multiplex. After some googling I bumped into a few Youtube videos, among which my favorite (by far) were from Tim. I then stalked him followed his trail down to his blog and what I discovered was an incredible community here on Madbean. This had both positive and negative effects... Positive ones: I contacted Tim and asked if he could build me a Multiplex, learned a lot about guts, enclosures, etching and other magic... Negative ones: how could I start building something now that I know what can be done by the incredibly talented people roaming this board (the Fall contest is just filled with jawdropping builds).
Long story short, Tim and I discussed about my (mostly silly) wants for the pedal, which were fuelled by his great demos of his Multiplex and Love Infinity pedals, and he finally proposed to make a three in one pedal with the crazy routing options he described above in this thread.
This pedal has everything I wanted, including 2 effect loops, expression inputs for delay parameters, ramps, slams... Can't wait to hear Tim demoing it, and then to put it on my pedalboard!
The "art"work idea started when I mentioned wanting to do a Cthulhu themed something (deep echoes and sounds...) and wanted to name it (somewhat pretentiously) "De Profundis Clamavi", after a poem from Charles Baudelaire. Then Tim proposed the simple, great, incredibly cool and adapted "Monsterplex", and I was immediately sold (and jealous of his naming talent additionally to his building skills). He also very kindly accepted to let me do the artwork. I used as a centerpiece the round Cthulhu badge (I attached my design to this post), which has been designed more than 5 years ago by a guy named Tim Collier, he seemed to have granted use to some small scale business activities on Etsy, I could not find any more information about, or contact for, him apart from that. As I haven't been able to ask use permission, I guess using it for a one shot product for myself can be considered fair-use... Thanks to a layout provided by Tim, I could work something out which I felt would look good and match Tim's etched enclosures style.
Well, I have now seen the Monsterplex... I am amazed.
What else can I say? Can't wait. And of course, thanks Tim, kudos to you again, the result is just incredible, and the journey to get there was (from my point of view, Tim has probably another version: silly customer requests, uselessly complicated routing, design delivery delay... etc) very nice/friendly/professionally handled by Tim.
Maybe is Cthulhu dreaming in the city of R'lyeh, but I know what my brain will be focused on tonight... I'll be dreaming of a Monsterplex.
Thanks for reading!
Thanks for the nice words on the artwork!
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Quote from: jubal81 on December 10, 2014, 06:58:11 PM
... and I have no idea how it works. We're gonna have to hear it!
+1000
You could stuck a delay in the effects loop of the delay than then is feeded to the other delay and take the output, split it, and stick it again in the other loop, and then call the Cern and tell them that they don't need to expand their hadron collider. ;D
Quote from: flanagan0718 on December 10, 2014, 08:54:50 PM
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You beat me to it.
That's amazing Tim! The single color wiring would have driven me to brink of madness! Killer job man.
Richard
that would be my winner.... one can only say amazing, its incredible
Tim, this is a masterpiece. And, Mat, you are VERY talented. Truly stunning work.
Wonderful stuff. You should see the grin on my face. Hahahahaha. I mean really, if anyone from my surroundings were to build something like this I would buy him a carton of beer and ten sandwitches.
Also, I've voted for you in the competition, so cheers Tim!
Those guts remind me of the Italian plate I had for dinner last night! 8)
Amazing build! How were you able to tame all those clocks running under the hood? :o
Woah......... Woah......... Woah.......
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Fan-f'ing-tastic! Awesome etch! Awesome design! Awesome execution!
Quote from: micromegas on December 10, 2014, 10:03:30 PMYou could stuck a delay in the effects loop of the delay than then is feeded to the other delay and take the output, split it, and stick it again in the other loop, and then call the Cern and tell them that they don't need to expand their hadron collider. ;D
:)
:o それはちょうどすばらしく見るちょうど顕著な作業である!!!! ???
Mind Blown!
Nuff Said!!!
What can I say that hasn't already been said! Seriously Tim, this is phenomenal work! Mat us one lucky guy to get his hands on this beast!!! Can't wait to hear it in action...
Good Lord in Heaven. That is ferociously complex!
The art style combined with the etching reminds me of the Moollon pedals.
Good Lord, super super sick!!!!!
What the?!?! Just stop already! This is the kind of stuff that brought me into pedal building; now I quit forever. Maybe I need to take up quilting or something. :P
Now I know why all the white knobs are on backorder.
Glorious. Can't wait to hear it. Congrats Mat!
One second....
Sorry just had to throw my soldering iron in the bin.
Amazing work on all fronts.
Holy crap! Great etch job and wiring skills man, what a behemoth!
Man, what.
What.
I can't even begin to process this.
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Colon dash oh! :o
Had a couple days to digest this and i'm still frazzled... need more time. Beginning to understand the 'Mad' part of the forum.
Absolutely epic, man... demo please!
My word.... that is one hell of a build dude!
Just got home from the hospital guys, got massively rear ended by a drunk driver who made no attempt to stop and was going about 40mph. Our car is totaled, timbo_93631 is okay. I'm thanking God for saving my life, and that all my kids were at home with mama when it happened. The demo will have to be uploaded tomorrow, I have many hurts.
Quote from: timbo_93631 on December 12, 2014, 09:53:21 AM
Just got home from the hospital guys, got massively rear ended by a drunk driver who made no attempt to stop and was going about 40mph. Our car is totaled, timbo_93631 is okay. I'm thanking God for saving my life, and that all my kids were at home with mama when it happened. The demo will have to be uploaded tomorrow, I have many hurts.
Sorry to hear man. There's people out there that shouldn't have a license.
I seriously hope you're doing great now.
Quote from: timbo_93631 on December 12, 2014, 09:53:21 AM
Just got home from the hospital guys, got massively rear ended by a drunk driver who made no attempt to stop and was going about 40mph. Our car is totaled, timbo_93631 is okay. I'm thanking God for saving my life, and that all my kids were at home with mama when it happened. The demo will have to be uploaded tomorrow, I have many hurts.
Insane! If you need anything just holler, seriously, anything. I am so glad you are ok and the clan was at home.
Cody
Tim, I'm really glad you're ok. No doubt shaken up! Thank God you're still with us and that your family still has you.
Quote from: timbo_93631 on December 12, 2014, 09:53:21 AM
Just got home from the hospital guys, got massively rear ended by a drunk driver who made no attempt to stop and was going about 40mph. Our car is totaled, timbo_93631 is okay. I'm thanking God for saving my life, and that all my kids were at home with mama when it happened. The demo will have to be uploaded tomorrow, I have many hurts.
Take care of yourself. You, your family, and your collective health comes before this hobby.
Quote from: timbo_93631 on December 12, 2014, 09:53:21 AM
Just got home from the hospital guys, got massively rear ended by a drunk driver who made no attempt to stop and was going about 40mph. Our car is totaled, timbo_93631 is okay. I'm thanking God for saving my life, and that all my kids were at home with mama when it happened. The demo will have to be uploaded tomorrow, I have many hurts.
Oh man Tim that's rough, hope you are ok in all that mess!
My thoughts are with you...!
Most of all good to hear that you are by the sounds not too seriously hurt and that no one else of your family was im the car. The impact and scare will still be one to digest amongst all the hassle.
Thanks guys, the prayers and well wishes mean so much to me. Physically, yeah just beat up and sore. I'll go to my orthopedic doc next week for some advanced imaging to see if all is well in my back. My poor wife is having a really hard time with the idea that it was a close call, she is sensitive and struggles with anxiety so if any of you want to pray some more please pray for her mental healing over the ordeal. I'm shaken by what a close call it was. I think the front bumper of the truck that hit me was about a foot away from my head at the point of deepest penetration into my car as the driver seat collapsed backwards and he basically drove up into the trunk and back seat area. I'm comforted that my kids and wife were all safe, and that if I hadn't been there the guy would have blown the stop sign during rush hour and t-boned and killed someone. Hug your loved ones a little longer today folks. Life is short and I am grateful to be here right now.
Glad to hear you're ok. That was a close one and I can imagine the stress you and your wife are going through. My thoughts are with you and your loved ones. Have a nice weekend and enjoy life.
Sorry to hear about the accident Tim. Sending prayers and good vibes your way.
Richard
Amazing build! It's difficult to add to what's already been said.
Sorry about the accident.
Wow Tim! I'm glad you are okay. Things like this really put things in perspective. Saying a prayer for you and your family.
so glad you are ok, hope your wife is ok too.
Glad your alright! Sounds terrifying. I wish we had much stiffer penalties for drunk driving. I say that as a hypocrite who did plenty of dumb stuff when I was younger but I have no tolerance for it now. I hear about too many drunk driving accidents.
Your pedal is hard to fathom. Fantastic work!
Glad you came through relatively unscathed!
Up here distracted driving, ie. cellphones and texting, have surpassed drunk driving as the #1 cause of car accidents.
dave
thinking of you.
Praying for you. So glad you're alright.
The road to recovery looks like it'll be longer than I had though, but I am having more good days than bad now, physically speaking. I was able to get this recorded finally:
[soundcloud]https://soundcloud.com/timbo_93631/monsterplex[/soundcloud]
Great to hear you're getting better and yes things like that take a while...! Kia Kaha = Stand strong.
Recording sounds great! 8)
Good to know the bad days are less numerous, hope they'll disappear altogether soon. Great sounds here, fine playing too! Thanks for the time and efforts!
Mat
Sounds great Tim, you got some great soundscape sounds in there and nice subtle delays. Glad you are recovering and not degressing. If you need anything, just ask.
Cody
Yunno, I haven't revisited this thread since I posted the demo clip. Now that I am feeling much better I'd like to offer a big thanks to everyone who sent their prayers and well wishes my way. You guys are great!
:o
First time seeing this. Just amazing
Quote from: timbo_93631 on May 15, 2015, 07:42:05 PM
Yunno, I haven't revisited this thread since I posted the demo clip. Now that I am feeling much better I'd like to offer a big thanks to everyone who sent their prayers and well wishes my way. You guys are great!
Wow... sorry to hear of your accident! So glad you're ok Timbo!
Dude this pedal is unbelievably awesome, epic creation, I missed the original build report... fully awesome build!
There is so much awesome in this pedal.....WOW!
lmao, how in the world did i miss this? i don't think i ever saw it...
timbo my man, all i have to say is you have way more patience than i do to wire that monster up.
great job!
totally stunning :o
Looking at this again... and... wow... yep, still in awe.