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Great demo man! Kudos with sticking with the original too, although with artwork that good I'd not want to let it go either.

Really enjoyed building these. I realise I'm extremely lazy with the artwork, none moreso than the Wavelord that I just pulled straight out of the build doc and slapped it on an orange box. Spent a bit more time on the phaser and pulled the "rotating" line off what looked like an original Mutron Phasor ad.

The tap tempo out is super cool - hats off again to Brian for these, I never knew I needed to hear a phaser do random waveforms. Did have a bit of trouble with the tempo jacks, had to swap some wires round multiple times because I'm an idiot. Worked on my board but didn't when I took it to a mate who instantly stole the tremolo so I'll just use a normal DC jack as in the build doc for when I build myself one. Innards are a bit utilitarian compared to some peoples but the duck tape over the pot cover light shield is branded stuff so maybe that counts?

Ballsed the numbers up on the phaser so they don't line up perfectly but if you screw the knob on pointing at one of them, people might not realise if you don't draw attention to it.

I mean you had me at desoldering Behringer pots. The jacks are enough of a pain. Thank you for sharing the very layouts, they're awesome 👌

How many pints buys a 60 second stereo demo?

Awesome demo! I just built a ... I'm good for... yeah I'll be snagging this one.

That's all kinds of awesome! Really, really wanting to hear ever so slightly different speed vibrato in stereo now.

Legend, thank you! I need a BF3 rotary switch replacement that I can only get from Mouser so that does help.

Edit: Looks like Pihut in the UK stock the Adafruit ones. My BF3 is never gonna get fixed at this rate...

Cheers guys

Sweet! Love the graphics. I'm thinking of building the collosalus or the current lover.

They're both fantastic flangers. Someone asked me to fix a Neo Mistress recently and I had to give it him back and let him know they actually do sound that bad and lent him my old Current Lover to compare to.

Hello, has anyone found a source of the free rotating 1P8T switches other than Smallbear? I had some in my drawer but they stop at 8, I grabbed one from Tayda and same deal. Just if anyone knew of anywhere (UK might be a stretch but maybe Europe) to save me a Smallbear order.

Top mounted jacks in a 1590B will never not be impressive  board looks great!

Cheers man!

I don't know if this beats out the Polyphase as my favourite MBP modulation this year but if it doesn't it's a close second. So many sounds with just four controls. Got to calibration and felt a bit deflated, I was getting some kind of weird filter but there wasn't any depth to it. No clangy, typewriters falling downstairs effect. Before I could even consider what I'd ballsed up, saw Gordo's build report - he mentioned the clock cap value so on a whim threw one in a few sizes down and it came to life.

Every issue I've had lately could be avoided by RTFM. I'd like to think that I'd have figured it out if guessing didn't work, hell I put a socket in for the cap and everything. Usual pillaged license-free artwork, loving decaled on misalligned and clear coated in a rush. Then belted the enclosure with my pliers near the footswitch. Ace.



The Retrograde is one I failed at years ago, so really happy Bean brought this beast back. Again, RTFM about the wiring. I read it aaand forgot it. Luckily remembered after only twenty minutes of staring at the board. I used SE300? - can't remember the last number but a bit higher gain than the SE listed in the build docs. Sounds almost on the edge of misbiased in a delicious way and I think I prefer the unoctaved mode. Thanks to Gordo for us unknowing assist, and to Bean for the boards but also the thoughts on the transistors, love reading that stuff.

Woah. What a haul! Some epic builds there - specifically all of them. How did you UP your 1590A game, I didn't know it was possible! Lasering looking spiffy too, that Paradigm Shift 

UK resident here: Kinda leaning towards not believing that's a real tree. Someone sprayed a tree didn't they...

On a serious note, Harry Klippton mentioned being a plant nerd and I saw some pots next to the wah - does anyone know if we have a "Show yer plants" thread on here?

Jesus man, stellar work! The CAD stuff looks next level, let alone the 3d printing. I just measure with calipers, forget the number and think "Fuck it" and drill.

PCB artwork unclear, what does the boost do again? 

Man please never stop including the history in your posts! Love cactus, almost as much as that build.