This is slowly coming together. I had bad luck with the enclosure twice - it broke where I drilled the last hole (last picture, bottom left) and it had a "belly", so the toner for the lion did not stick to the enclosure (I realized before etching and covered that area with tape). Anyway, first time I did a (partly) reverse etch. This one will be treated hard, so I use it as it is.
The PCB is my take on a tillman booster, ROG Condor Cab Sim, a ROG ruby amp, a MXR MicroAmp, and a mixer all in one. I will use it to practice with headphones, blend in backing tracks, slave-power other effects, blend two cell phones for small parties, record with cab sim, drive a 1x12" cabinet (actually gets quite loud!) etc. It will work with a battery as well. The footswitch can shut off one channel (e.g. if I blend in a metronome and want to mute it temporarily).
If you dig it, I still have sample PCBs and a build documentation available...
Nice build mate! :)
I wanna build something similar for a friend of mine, but I'm going to use another Cab Sim circuit, maybe the Marshall one. How does your combo sound?
Hector
The cab sim uses the values from the marshall circuit (Details: http://www.runoffgroove.com/condor.html (http://www.runoffgroove.com/condor.html)).
It sounds well with headphones, I added an additional Hi-cut for less noise/hiss (cuts off high enough to not influence the guitar signal too much but prevent ear fatigue). Switching the Cab-Sim on and off produces a clicking noise (only once, so I can live with that). It can be loud on a cab, at very high settings (beyond living room level) it gets noisy / oscillates. It is perfect for the use cases I intended it for.
Thats really cool!
always nice build mfunky
the lion make me remember simba lion king, maybe the first cartoon movie i watch in theatre with my own money when i kids, under 10 :D
Very cool and very handy tool!
Dude you can totally fix that with some JB Weld I'm sure of it. That stuff is strong as hell.
Quote from: jtaormina on February 05, 2016, 07:43:41 PM
Dude you can totally fix that with some JB Weld I'm sure of it. That stuff is strong as hell.
Never heard of that - cool, I will try that, thanks!
Build instruction attached
my vacation setup: Zendrive into HOF reverb into Leo Cab Sim Amp into Headphone. Blended with a great youtube backing track (Robben Ford "Help the Poor"). I used to use positive grid, but this is way better (especially with youtube backing tracks, which was never possible with positive grid).
:) :) :)
I'm so glad this project is back on. I was worried it had disappeared in the Great Forum Crash.
do you still have some pcbs??
What is the guitar? Couldn't quiet place it. Tele with hummbucker bridge, single coil neck and deluxe pickgaurd?
Quote from: copachino on February 08, 2016, 06:57:41 AM
do you still have some pcbs??
yes - please send me a personal message for details.
Quote from: Matmosphere on February 08, 2016, 07:09:49 AM
What is the guitar? Couldn't quiet place it. Tele with hummbucker bridge, single coil neck and deluxe pickgaurd?
The guitar is a partscaster: Sunburst Strat body with humbucker tele bridge, the creamery wide range humbucker, tonerider tele neck single coil, 5-way switch with Jerry-Donahue half-out-of-phase wiring, tele one piece maple neck.
It went through various iterations, with the current wiring (http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-technical/509479-fat-telecaster-wiring.html#post5988315 (http://www.tdpri.com/forum/tele-technical/509479-fat-telecaster-wiring.html#post5988315)) it is perfect for me.
The HOF looks a bit too much standard in this picture, I agree ;-)
That looks like is versatile as hell. I love wide range pickups. I have a set of Novak wide range in my jazzmaster. Soundsfantastic, and he's a super nice guy. I'll have to look into the creamery ones, they look very nice, wonder if they have any dealers in the states.
I'm going to build a danelectro soon, and add much as I want to stick with lipstick pickups I might have to put at least one wide range in. They just sounds so damn good.
It is, indeed. The pickguard is custom-made. With the 5-way switch, I have widerange HB (1), Split widerange (2), half-out-of-phase (strat-like, 3), Neck/Bridge parallel (4), Neck (5). All I could ask for. I think that the creamery makes custom-orders only, the one I have (obviously) is a humbucker-sized widerange and sounds just lovely.
Here it is in full beauty.
Quote from: Matmosphere on February 08, 2016, 01:12:47 PM
That looks like is versatile as hell. I love wide range pickups. I have a set of Novak wide range in my jazzmaster. Soundsfantastic, and he's a super nice guy. I'll have to look into the creamery ones, they look very nice, wonder if they have any dealers in the states.
I'm going to build a danelectro soon, and add much as I want to stick with lipstick pickups I might have to put at least one wide range in. They just sounds so damn good.
BTW: a fantastic article bout widerange pickups: http://offsetguitars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12610
I just updated the documentation in the original post - the offboard wiring was missing!
http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=21629.msg213755#msg213755
Hi,
this thing works perfect, only thing that bugs me is a brief but loud "squealing" sound when switching it on or off - most likely a cap charging/discharging. I dont want to add a relay before the output and I guess there is a standard solution to this issue - any suggestions?