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Finished up the Cliffhanger yesterday. Have had a thing for Zen Drives and a thing for fuzzes but not necessarily together - that has changed. It's very Zen like and very fuzz like but will get really nasty with the fuzz all the way up. Housed it in a Grimace Purple powder coat box from Love My Switches.

Chuck

Looks ... well, functional . I got the Jr. version and like it a lot.

Chuck

Cool. Thanks, I can get it done and still have wire left!
Chuck

I'm finally getting close to finishing up Diablo Chris's Sagan Delay from the 2016 run - yeah, I'm a bit slow and don't work fast either. Initially I intended to ignore the Send and Return jacks but once I discovered the extra room in a 1590DD and read Chris's comment in the build doc about using them with an Electro-Harmonix Nano Stone phaser I changed my mind. The build doc has the line "GND - Courtesy ground. Can be connected to the input jack to ground all the jacks." Does that mean I can run one wire from there to the input jack ground and I'm done? That slow guy in my head seems to think I should do a daisy chain connecting Input, Output, Send, and Return grounds, but he's the reason I've been messing with this for so long.

Thanks,
Chuck

I have never done anything remotely like that ... more than 30 times, well maybe more like 40.

Chuck

Oh my.

Chuck

Is that dual RAT even legal, moral, or ethical?  Cool and interesting stuff!

Chuck

Nice job.  Agree that you can spend a lot of time diddling with the knobs and switches. 

Chuck

That story is amazing!  The pedal ain't too shabby either.

Chuck

Got mine yesterday and populated it last night.  Cool idea but weird that the board is the BoM.

Chuck

Very cool, very neat and very well done!

Where did you find info on the Hybrid Fuzz Driver?

Chuck

Nice build.

Built a Rat thinking I had an LM308 in my stash.  Couldn't find it so I ordered an OP07 since 308s had suddenly become unobtainium.  While waiting I remembered I had a 308 in a Black Horse Meerkat that I wasn't in love with, so I pulled it and put it in the Rat.  Was really enjoying the Rat when the 07 came in so I popped it in the Meerkat just to see what happened - it was way better in the Meerkat than the 308.  Haven't got around to checking it out in the Rat.

Chuck

Seems a lot of work for a joke, but sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.  And THAT IS REALLY FRICKING COOL!

Chuck

I'll second Metasphere's post and add that I've had a number of recent failures caused by bad electrolytic capacitors - especially the small versions.

Chuck

This Weener Wah II has been in my project pile for several years.  I got a little distracted several times when I bought supposedly non-working Cry Babies for parts  only to find that they did work to some extent so I spent time dinking around with them.  The shell for this one was from the first one I modified (very badly).  The shell was cleaned up and painted with the attractive flat green, the foot pad was cleaned and buffed up a bit  and I added an LED just in front of the switch.  The board was populated basically by the BOM using an On/On/On DPDT switch for the Whack, a Whipple inductor and a McCono pot.

Here's the outside:


And the guts (I initially wired the pot backward which was kind of neat but have since changed it to the correct way):


Chuck