I posted this on the Projects page a few days ago but here are more details:
Dreamtime: FV-1 in a 1590A. Includes the Dreamtime delay patch and one internal FV-1 patch (chorus/reverb).
Headtrip: FV-1 in a 1590B. Includes three of my patches, Choirsaw (mono version), Starfield (delay with phaser) and Parallax (an approximation of the forthcoming tremolo/phaser FFX pedal). The focus of this one is on trippy/ambient sounds. It also has a switch for three internal FV-1 programs.
Wavelord: I'm still working on this one but I think I can get it together in time. Tap Tempo tremolo using the new TAPLFO3 chip. Has 16 different waveforms.
Also, I'll be getting some new stickers and every order will get one. Plus, there will be another giveaway. Most likely it will be a buffered bypass board. It's a little 3pdt mounted board you can stick in any 1590B or above enclosure. Plus, it has an on-board switch to choose between either buffered or true bypass!
I've started back on the Timelapse and I will update as I make progress. A few people asked about the Rustbucket and I will work on that towards the end of the month. Maybe I can pull it together for October.
Finally, the PLR Kickstarter will not start (realistically) until October, I think. I still have quite a few prototypes to get through. So we might be looking at late October or early November for those. I haven't decided whether to try and release 10 at once or do them piecemeal (a couple a month). We'll see how the remaining prototype boards go.
That's it!
Quote from: madbean on September 03, 2018, 10:33:38 AM
I posted this on the Projects page a few days ago but here are more details:
Dreamtime: FV-1 in a 1590A. Includes the Dreamtime delay patch and one internal FV-1 patch (chorus/reverb).
Headtrip: FV-1 in a 1590B. Includes three of my patches, Choirsaw (mono version), Starfield (delay with phaser) and Parallax (an approximation of the forthcoming tremolo/phaser FFX pedal). The focus of this one is on trippy/ambient sounds. It also has a switch for three internal FV-1 programs.
Wavelord: I'm still working on this one but I think I can get it together in time. Tap Tempo tremolo using the new TAPLFO3 chip. Has 16 different waveforms.
Also, I'll be getting some new stickers and every order will get one. Plus, there will be another giveaway. Most likely it will be a buffered bypass board. It's a little 3pdt mounted board you can stick in any 1590B or above enclosure. Plus, it has an on-board switch to choose between either buffered or true bypass!
I've started back on the Timelapse and I will update as I make progress. A few people asked about the Rustbucket and I will work on that towards the end of the month. Maybe I can pull it together for October.
Finally, the PLR Kickstarter will not start (realistically) until October, I think. I still have quite a few prototypes to get through. So we might be looking at late October or early November for those. I haven't decided whether to try and release 10 at once or do them piecemeal (a couple a month). We'll see how the remaining prototype boards go.
That's it!
Great news. Can you shed some light into differences between TapLFO2 and 3? Do you plan on including the TapLFO chip?
Despite the higher shipping costs to non-US, I vote for 1-by-1 release of the PLR boards. Those are supposed to be "rare" I guess. If you'd release them at once, one could just grab every single one at a time... No collecting obsession.
Gotta catch 'em all!
definitely keen to check out a 1590B FV-1 pcb! been on my wish / to do list for a while now
Quote from: oip on September 03, 2018, 06:40:21 PM
definitely keen to check out a 1590B FV-1 pcb! been on my wish / to do list for a while now
No joke: the patches I've come up with for the Headtrip are friggin' outstanding. I love them! I think you guys will be pleased.
The Dreamtime assembly is turning out to be challenging. Four pots and a switch in a 1590A is a lot. So, I've decided to re-do it as a series of breakout boards. This should make assembly a snap. There will be quite a bit of wiring but this way everything will drop right in.
I think I will also ask PPP about offering pre-drilled enclosures for this one.
Holy mudder 'a gahd :o
Break out boards...a snap....(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180904/8d9e3aeb272f89d0c383bde93a91ca6e.jpg)
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WOW. Looks like some really fun projects coming up!
For those of us that have not soldered SMD chips and are reluctant to try with a $20 chip, is there likely to be an option to buy the board with the FV-1 already soldered in place?
Quote from: zgrav on September 04, 2018, 08:33:07 AM
For those of us that have not soldered SMD chips and are reluctant to try with a $20 chip, is there likely to be an option to buy the board with the FV-1 already soldered in place?
That's not really something I have the time or funds to do. But, I do realize that there will be some people who want to build these without having soldered surface mount. So, I will be including a tutorial on how to get the right results. It's actually quite easy if you use a couple of tricks.
I just realized I have enough space on the Dreamtime board to include a "practice" board. So, anyone who wants to practice can just get a couple extra TL074 to try out before working on the actual PCB.
This should be helpful. A spot for two TL074 to practice on. Every pin is grounded and there are two ground pads in the center. So, if you want to check out how well you soldered your pins, just hook up a continuity checker between the pin and one of the ground pads!
Quote from: madbean on September 04, 2018, 09:17:45 AM
This should be helpful. A spot for two TL074 to practice on. Every pin is grounded and there are two ground pads in the center. So, if you want to check out how well you soldered your pins, just hook up a continuity checker between the pin and one of the ground pads!
With the rider that if you haven't soldered the pin, then touching it with the probe will likely cause it to press down on the pad enough for intermittent contact.
Quote from: alanp on September 04, 2018, 09:19:10 AM
With the rider that if you haven't soldered the pin, then touching it with the probe will likely cause it to press down on the pad enough for intermittent contact.
That's an excellent point, thanks. If you touch the very top part of the pin as it exits the IC casing it might have less deflection, though. In any case, the practice part is the most important.
Thanks! That sounds encouraging.
Maybe something like a buff 'n blend for a future giveaway?
This build would have been a lot easier with 24AWG but I mostly only have 22. You guys will have a much easier time since you'll have the breakout boards. For the artwork, I was going to etch the box, but after applying the PnP I realized I forgot to reverse black and white. So, I decided to just clear coat it for a pseudo silkscreen. My coat ran a little but that's fine...it's just a prototype.
Anyway, I am ready to do demos of the Dreamtime, Headtrip and UberTuber but we've had construction going on inside the house for the last ten days. Lots of hammering and noise. I'll get to them as soon as I have the house to myself (which hasn't been for 10 days, haha).
(http://www.madbeanpedals.com/builds/gallery/Dreamtime.jpg)
Ohh.. That nice smd goodness!!
Never really done any, but that makes one
Heck of a package, in a small box!
Gonna have to give it a try though
Do the FV-1 chipped pedals use a similar layout with the difference in the programming for the eprom? Or have you also designed different audio processing in the circuits as well? I ask because I saw that some other builds seem to rely on a standard pedal layout and just switch out the programming chips.
Quote from: zgrav on September 05, 2018, 12:11:47 PM
Do the FV-1 chipped pedals use a similar layout with the difference in the programming for the eprom? Or have you also designed different audio processing in the circuits as well? I ask because I saw that some other builds seem to rely on a standard pedal layout and just switch out the programming chips.
Similar in the sense that they have inputs and outputs for the FV-1, but there are different design parameters you can use for how you handle the audio through. So, some might have a blend pot for wet/dry mix and some separate controls for each. I'm designing a set of boards for different enclosure sizes from 1590A up to 12590BB full stereo and they will all be slightly different.
The EEPROMs can be switched out at will if you want to try a different one. But, they may not all be interchanglable. For instance, the PedalPCB Organ Donor wouldn't work in the Dreamtime because it uses an external feedback pot and the Dreamtime doesn't. But, some of my other designs would allow it since they will have a feedback pot.
My goal is to deliver some ready to go effects with each project but basically any of them besides the Dreamtime are very suitable for programming your own effects...IOW, open platform.
Thanks for that reply. Looking forward to the release.
I just crammed two pots and a switch into a 1590a, I have no idea how you guys get so much in there.
Quote from: Matmosphere on September 05, 2018, 04:56:37 PM
I just crammed two pots and a switch into a 1590a, I have no idea how you guys get so much in there.
Persistence of will.
A big hammer.
If the circuit works afterwards, we post a picture :)
If it doesn't, we quietly hide the evidence and ready more sacrifices for the big hammer. ;)
Dang... They sound like cool projects
I changed my mind about the Sept. giveaway. The buffer bypass board is a good idea but not necessarily something to get excited about. Let's do something else.
How about an awesome phaser? Those make great give aways!
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How about something like a tape delay with the fV-1?
Sounds like you might already have something else in mind.....
I can feel my eyes burning already...
Quote from: Invertiguy on September 11, 2018, 06:09:07 PM
I can feel my eyes burning already...
My graphic is probably in poor taste but it gets the point across...
??? A ROG peppermill maybe ^^ ohhhh and a 100 posts for me !
Haven't seen one of those in a couple years.
Some giveaway board ideas:
A clean blend (I previously suggested that),
a simple tremolo,
a Si fuzz face,
a sine wave generator,
a headphone amp,
an LED pulser or color cycler (perhaps even a color organ),
a VU meter,
a crossfader,
a panel of multiple SOT-23 (or other SMD) adapters,
a turducken.
The graphic makes me think of spray paint, bug spray, or maybe an LEO carrying a baton with a handle.
will place order for chance of turducken
Quote from: oip on September 12, 2018, 04:35:54 PM
will place order for chance of turducken
Glad someone noticed that. ;D
I have full faith that Brian can make something from that suggestion. I actually searched Google and discovered that no one has made a turducken circuit, so who knows what it could become! 8)
I second that clean blender
I have also found these are uncommon but very useful.
Quote from: Aentons on September 12, 2018, 06:00:02 PM
I have also found these are uncommon but very useful.
Are those passive or active? If you put the two of them together and set the knee frequency right, you have a primitive cabinet simulator!
They are active two pole
Quote from: Aentons on September 12, 2018, 06:00:02 PM
I have also found these are uncommon but very useful.
That sounds really useful. Do you have a schematic for those by chance?
Sorry, I don't have a schematic.
I believe Peter at VFE is doing something very similar with the Standout, Pinball, and Dragon. They have the hpf and lpf controls with the added bonus of a switch that selects between one or two poles which looks like it's just disconnecting one side of a dual gang pot.
The RUP and Klein Bottle also have these controls, but they work more as a crossover for multiband separation which is how I tend to use those Broughtons, with a Boss LS2 in mix mode, one in each loop.
If that graphic means what I think it means, I'll have to see if I still have he transistors and can remember how the pinouts go.
Big box of stickers has arrived. These will be included in every order until I run out. They should last until around Spring of 2019, haha.
There's a pic of one on my Facebook page.
Ooh, I don't recall you saying that there will be stickers! Will there be bacon also?
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Quote from: Aentons on September 12, 2018, 06:00:02 PM
I have also found these are uncommon but very useful.
I'd LOVE to build those!
Holy Jesus! I think I am going to break my New Year's Day promise and buy more PCBs!
Pretty soon, I'm going to have so much backlog ... thrt em going terr strt fergitting stuff abut spellinthg ... ( poop ... burp ... gurgle-ish )
Choral Reef is back in stock.