Continuing the tradition, I thought I would post my build roundup for this year. I have a few more builds in the process but I doubt I'll get around to them before the year is out. Interestingly, I finished a few I had planned for last year. The YJM308 had no volume for whatever reason and didn't boxed, as did a few other boards, but by and large it was a good year.
Last year: http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=24443.msg238353#msg238353
In rough chronological order:
- Phatboy, a bass DI including Brenja's Bass Driver PCB and a Bassballs on vero. Bassballs distortion put on a footswitch. I later replaced that dodgy washer on the switch with a bigger one to cover the hole.
- A pair of passive dual effect loops. Just a couple of footswitches with send/return jacks. I couldn't find any switching ones, so an unused loop needs a patch lead between the jacks in case you step on the switch and kill your signal.
- Funkasaurus. After building the Bassballs into the Phatboy, I decided I needed one for myself. A tight vero fit in a 125b. Distortion again put on a footswitch.
- Circuit tester. I got sick of soldering the in/out/9v/grounds to a vero piece every time, so I built a plastic jiffy box that can be powered off a power supply. Made testing so much easier.
Continuing:
- Dark Lord: a Wampler Sovereign on vero. Boost moved to a footswitch, relatively tight due to the dark/light switch placement. Sounds fantastic on single coils, not too bad with regular humbuckers, but has a strange response with high output humbuckers.
- Direwolf: This was going to be a 7th Heaven with dual channels and boost but I decided I couldn't really gel with it or get the sound out of it I wanted, so I decided to put a JCM800 with high/low input selection on a footswitch. Fairly noisy build in comparison.
- Red 5: BSIABII on vero, with dual gain option.
- Ninja: Crunchbox on vero with presence and dual gain.
- Leviathan: My entry into the BOTY2017. Treble booster, SHO, Zendrive, English Gent, Plexidrive. Mix of vero and Tayda PCBs. http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=26825.msg259883#msg259883
Part 3:
- Endgame: Buffer, Bloviator, Ylart's Simple Cabsim, THC Line driver. It goes from the buffer, gets split to a 1/4 out and the bloviator, which then goes to the cabsim and split to separate volumes for the 1/4 and XLR Line driver outs. This is an update of my Terminus build after I found out there was something in that causing silly amounts of noise. Seems to be a very solid build.
- Space Station: Porkbarrel PCB, DBD (vero) with tap, Rubadub on vero. Basically a revamp of Stealth (which I still have), minus the Smoothie (which I never use).
- Starfighter: (Should have placed this earlier) Switchable between a stripped Fetto layout from Sabrotone and a BE-OD with dual gains. Not sold on the BE-OD as a low gain drive, so Leviathan has replaced it on the grab and go board for now.
- Noisemaker: Fairly random noise machine. Long term project.
Brilliant, what do you use to get your designs on the pedals?
Noisemakers are great! got me a backup unit but not sure jet if this is gonna be a 2017 or 2018 build ;D
Thanks. I do my layouts in photoshops and get them printed at the local printshop on a waterproof laser sticker stock (it's called "data pole" or something similar). The enclosures are done with a black etching primer, sticker applied, clear coat with spraymax 1k.
I like the graphics on the Red Five, I think that's my favourite.
Yeah, the random noisemaker is great. I've got one that is about 10 years old now. It still makes random noises. :)
Deeply impressive.
The circuit tester box is something everyone should make. We actually managed to wear out the spring-clip terminals on ours and ended up swapping it for some connector strip as it gets so much use.
Did you put a volume control on your random noisemaker? I forgot on mine (both times).....
you mean one of those?