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I made a Sunking for a guy with a gold horsey Klon and his impressions are that the real Klon has a lot more mids. Possibly even a mid boost. The sunking is flat or possibly a little scooped in comparison. He reckons the bottom and top is all Klon though. The Sunking is much cleaner. He's going to do some high res back-to-back samples for me so I can compare. Just to show that everyone has different perceptions of things, his friend reckons they sound nothing alike at all at any setting...

His and my Sunking's are built as per the PDF using 1n34a diodes. I'm going to be building another one soon and will socket that one up for some experimentation. I've got some 1n60s to try and will get some BAT41s. Personally I like how mine sounds as it is but I am curious as to how close we can get the Sunking to the real Klon. Interestingly he says that essentially what it's missing is the mids of the Darkside that I made him (that was running 1n60s).

I have a cheap probably 10+ year old Antex C15 iron still on it's original tip. It's very important to keep your tip clean 

Love the decal!

I honestly don't know. They were on a pedal that someone sent to me to rebuild into something else and it ended up with different knobs on it so they've been sat in my box of knobs since.

I'm curious about your tube-based pedals. what are they? what voltage are you operating them at?

The Twincaster (Thermionic OD II) and Vibracaster (Vibradrive) are running 12DW8 valves that were designed for car audio use and are running correctly at 12v. The Prom Girl is one of Rick Holt's designs and I think it charge pumped up to about 80v or so (Rick can correct me on that one if I'm wrong). The others are mostly 12v but not feeding the heaters as much power on them as maybe they should. They still work nice though.

The Twincaster is my fave though. It does an incredibly close impression of an amps OD stage. Brilliant thing and I'll be making a new one shortly for someone which will allow me to tweak it a little more too. It's massively power hungry though. The thing draws nigh on 1A on it's own.

^YES!  Juansolo I love your work.  ZVex-in-a-box is one of my faves.

Cheers! I do like that, even if it's a bit surreal. I also seem to rotate them a lot as I've built quite a lot more than this, but a lot of them get recycled for parts if I'm not keen. Leaving me with just the stuff I really like (and the SG-1, which kinda freaks me out and I'm not that keen on. I just keep it as it's a nice build). It's also dawned on me looking at that, that I have the right knobs for the COD kicking around, I must swap them over.

I don't have a board, but this was all my pedals (plus one going out...) that I had as of about a month ago (2 more added since). Not bad considering I've now been doing this hobby a for about 18 months...



Edit - Thought I should probably add what they all are. Starting in the top left:

Agent Orange - Orange Squeezer
Fuzzy Kitten - ROG 24/7 on one of John Lyon's boards. It's a CMOS BMP
The Gameboy Effect - Insonicbloom's slightly disfunctional (and damned fragile) take on Tim Escabedo's PWM+LFO. It doesn't work, but the way it doesn't work makes it awesome.
Angel - Rick Holt's Little Angel chorus on a GuitarPCB board
QotSA Drive - Catlinbread SFT
Clone Abduction - The only pedal here that's a re-housed commercial pedal. I bought a tatty old Small Clone and made it pretty.
Master Shredder - Marshall Shredmaster, BYOC kit
Brazillian Beaver - Rev3 BMP with tweaked tonestack amongst other things
COD - OCD
Echoes - BYOC Ping/Pong kit
Trek Phaser - BYOC Phase 90 kit
Tonebender: Russian Bullgod edition - An NPN Tonebender MkII Pro into a SHO
SG1 - Boss SG1 built on a BYOC board
Foxxy Lady - Foxx Tone Machine
Zach in a Box - Box of Rock
Thermionic Overdrive II - Renegadrian's Twincaster slightly frigged for different valves
Thermionic Vibradrive - A Vibracaster with the same valve
Danger! High Voltage - A bit of a lie, it's only 12v. It's a EF86 valve boost again frigged to use different valves. Also added tone, gain and selectable clippers.
The Hypnotoad - Rick's Causality 4 phaser. ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
2 Face - Catlinbread Merkin Fuzz and Fulltone 70 (no mids control and frigged for more bottom end)
EchoEcho - Echobase, Can't remember where I got the PCB for this *blushes*
Prom Girl - Rick's Promiscuous Girlfriend
Elunium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator - Tim Escabedo's Uglyface + LFO and mods. Actually in bits at the moment as the LFO section has never worked correctly. I've re-assembled it as a Uglyface and wi'll be dropping in a new LFO on Thursday hopefully.
Hot Sholicon - A Hot Silicon with low gain transistors into a SHO
Snow White - Mad Professor Snow White Auto Wah. Built on a GuitarPCB board.
Darkside - Cornish G-2. My first Madbean build. It has a 100K pot in place of the 10K vol to make it a little more flexible.

The big thing on the bottom right is the Vibratron - It's a EF86 boost into a Vibracaster.

Not shown are:

Zombie Tramp - Phase 45 on a GGG board
Klone - Klon on a Madbean Board
Ooherr - OohWah II on a Madbean Board

Yeah but think about having to cram this into a zvex B size case!  I dunno how that guy does it.  He's a maniac.  But I guess if that's your job you do what you gotta do.  Plus, board mounted LEDS and pots would help I suppose.  Not sure how you'd do it but i'm sure someone has taken a look into the original ZVEX version?

It's got to be all board mounted to do it... I really couldn't get it into anything smaller!

I'll try and get some better pics and swap them. My tidiness OCD kicked in today and I've had it in bits today to restore the height of the 3rd LED...

This is really cool 

Is the top graphic a sticker or waterslide decal?

I use adhesive transparent inkjet decals.

LEDs are glued in and there's quite a bit of pressure on the board from behind holding it all in place. It'd all be a lot more elegant if I ever did it again (and the text would line up better for the switches) now I know how it all goes together. The pots are cheapo Japanese ones would you believe it. (about 40p each!). They only really do anything for the first 1/4 of a turn but I believe this is normal... (maybe!?) Otherwise everything does what it says on the tin. Top fun thing!

It's an oohwah!

Not an easy build. Made worse by trying to fit it into this enclosure. Looked awesome the first time I assembled it, but I had to totally strip it to reverse all the LEDs. Now they're somewhat recessed and I'll be damned if I'm going to take it apart again to level them out! Saying that, it actually looks cool as hell when it's running.

Reversing the LEDs has sorted it! Cheers MB!

EDIT: and here it is complete

Hi,

I've been defeated by this one... Pics below (it was so pretty when it was in the enclosure *cries*).


From what I can tell the main board is doing it's thing. I can see things pulsing away on the wire side of IC2. Broddling around I can find the speed working also. Just nothing on the knob-board... The signal is going through the circuit and coming out the other side... But with no effect applied to it.

I'm a bit stuck on this. Any ideas? Gonna attack it again tomorrow anyhow, but pointers of where to look would be most welcome.

I've built one of these on vero and it's a mixture of complete chaos and twisted genius. Useful? Possibly not. Lots of fun though.

http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=70747.0

http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=66861.40

Would probably help to have the trim pot for setup even though I didn't use it on mine I probably should have...