Hello, My name is Jubal81 and I'm a dirt junkie. Built tons and I still had 5 on the floor at my amp. The idea behind the Brazen Bull was to take my favorites and get them all (well, not all, but a good few) in a 125B with just four knobs and a switch. I used headers and two PCB stacked together to get it all to fit, so lots of careful measuring and calculating.
There are four settings:
JFET boost
JFET Mu-amp overdrive
CD4049UBE distortion
Muff variant
These all go through a James tone stack. What you see here is the first prototype. There are a few things I want to fine tune and I've been back at the breadboard all week - 3 hours today and I ended up just changing one component. Maybe I'll be done before my beard turns gray.
The box is etched and then - gulp - electroplated with copper, rubbed with shoe polish and clear coated. Yes, it looks cool as hell, but I'll never do it again. I ruined two other enclosures, my favorite pants and spent about 8-10 hours just babying that thing in the copper bath. I wanted to get that 'excavated from a Greek island' look and I'm pretty happy with it.
