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[Slow Lorris]

I already posted my Tone Virus build earlier this year but here are all the other Madbean pedals that I built this year. All of these have UV prints by Tayda (except for the Laureate )

Slow Lorris
First of all is the Slow Lorris which is a RAT with a Ruetz mod and three clipping options. Asymmetrical clipping, gain at 1 o'clock, tone and sweep at 12 o'clock is THE distortion sound I've been chasing my whole guitar playing career. Immediately went on my pedal board. Not my cleanest wiring ever. I wanted to include the INCANDENZA BYPASS pcb from Effects Layout to this pedal but the pcb was too large. Got pretty annoyed after that and just rushed to finish it. Maybe I'll open it again and make it cleaner.



Wavelord
I was never really interested in a tremolo pedal so I thought if I build one I want one that does it all. This definitely delivers. 16 different wave forms and tap tempo. Now that this is on my pedal board I am using it quite a lot more than I thought I would. The tap tempo feature is also pretty nice. The pcb for this one has been finished over a year ago. Everything worked perfectly except for the tap tempo and I just couldn't figure out why the tap doesn't work. Eventually I found out that the TAPLFO3 chip that I bought had an error. Bought a new one and now it works just fine. I like this one so much that I am now thinking about switching my Strymon BlueSky to a Flint. Maybe I like tremolo after all.



Laureate
Next is the Laureate, which is a Nobels ODR-1 with a bass pot. Definitely understand why it's a common mod to include a control to roll of some bass. It's pretty boomy when the gain is turned up. Was really hyped for this because a lot of people like this one. Personally I was quite disappointed when I plugged it in. Even with the gain turned all the way up it's a bit too low gain for my taste.
While building this one my name came up on the King Of Tone waiting list and I ordered it. I was also pretty disappointed from that one. So I guess I am just not a low gain drive kind of a guy. But I really liked building this one. great layout. Hope there will be future pcbs from this pro series.



Rough Cut
Clone of the Diamond Compressor. Definitely does the sustain for days kind of thing. On this one I am not sure if it works 100% like it should. All of the controls work like I would expect them to but when I turn the comp control up high I get this weird "pumping" sound. Kinda sounds like a slow tremolo. I got my vactrol from eBay so I am not sure if it's faulty or not. I ordered a Xvive VTL5C3 one from Musikding yesterday so I'll change that and see if it fixes my issue.



Violenzz
It's a clone of the Eric Johnson Fuzz Face with an additional knob to roll of some bass. I used a BC183LS (hfe 285) in Q1 and a BC183LC (hfe 630) in Q2. This is probably my favorite silicon Fuzz Face variant that I have ever built. A couple of years ago I was a huge fan of building 1590A pedals but now I am mostly annoyed by the small size of the enclosure. I was swearing a lot putting this one into the enclosure.  Here I used some black Daier knobs. Always wanted to use them but they are unavailable in Europe (as far as I know). Really happy that Tayda now stocks them.

I think this is my first built report on here in quite a few years. And even those apparently got deleted in that forum crash a couple years back. Aaaanyway: Really funny noise maker that I will never use in a musical setting! Glad that I built this. 

The design is a Tayda UV print on a matte black sand enclosure. I think it came out really great. Gonna use their UV service more in the future.
Powered up on first try!  The only mistake I made when building it was that I didn't line up the right rotary correctly. Not it won't sit "flush" with the enclosure. Tried desoldering and fixing it but the rotary didn't wanna be desoldered. Since this is a personal project for I don't care that much about it. Definitely learned something for the next build that uses a rotary, though. lol

I think I also read on here a few times that this pedal is their wife's least favorite pedal. I can relate to that. My girlfriend hates it when I play this pedal 

Hi Guys!

I'm close to finishing my Chunkchunk, but I accidentally ordered electrolytic capacitors for C1, C6 & C9. I know this probably won't sound different - or at least I wouldn't hear it - so I want to use them in my build (and it's really hard to get non polarized 1uF caps where I live). But I don't really know where the + and the - side of the cap should be, could someone help me here?


Thanks,
Daniel

Hi Guys!

This is my first post here although I have been reading here for the past few month.

I have a weird problem with my Sunking. The gain pot only works in the last quarter. From 7 o'clock to 15 o'clock I don't get distortion and from 15 o'clock to 17 o'clock I suddenly get distortion. I checked if there are any shorts but I couldn't find any.
I swapped the ics and the diodes. The voltages of the ics are correct. I desoldered all of the caps and checked if one of them is dead - no. I soldered every solder joint again just to make sure there is no problem there. I even split the gain pot up into two independent pots but the problem was still there.
I substituted the 27n cap with a 22n cap but I don't think this could cause the problem.
\\Edit: Oh, and of course I checked the wiring.

I'm sure there is a problem somewhere because otherwise this would work correctly but I'm lost here.
Does someone know what I could try next?

Please excuse my odd englisch, I'm from Austria.


Daniel