Two builds using PIF enclosures

[gül]

I received a few enclosures from Luke51411 in a PIF a while back. There were some odd holes drilled in them, so I had to get creative and it was a really fun experience. Here are two things I made with them:

A Harmonic Percolator/Sardonic Albinator clone. I made it so it could be either an HP or a SA, or any variation of the two via the tone switches. It has a 2N404a transistor in it, along with a 2N1169 (it just sounded better to my ears than the 2N3565, so I switched it out). The diodes are BAT41s and black glass Russian 1N695s. I made the LED speckled like the enclosure.

A Noisy Cricket amp. Nothing special about it, just stock. I like these little LM386-based amps. I live in an apartment building where the neighbors are super-fussy about noise, so these are great to have around.

Thanks again, Luke!

[Luke51411]

Awesom! Great to see these put to good use!

[gül]

Thanks again, Luke! I'm still trying to fit the DigDug I into the yellow enclosure. I will prevail! One day.

[Addy Bart]

Nice builds and that sparkly finish on the HP looks very good! How does the Albini side of the pedal shape up? Always enjoyed the racket he makes with Shellac 

[gül]

The Sardonic side is cool. I made both side's caps switchable 'cuz I tend to like a combination of the Regular HP and the SA. I switch between bass and guitar, so any kind of tonal variation on a pedal almost always benefits me.

[Addy Bart]

What a great idea. How did you make switching between the two variations possible - are there two boards in there? IIRC the resistor values were different between the HP and SA.

And that's one tasty looking green LED in the Noisy Cricket 

[Leevibe]

Nice job on both. The amp is particularly cool!

[gül]

Thanks, Leevibe! I made a matching 'lil cabinet for it out of a bamboo recipe box.

[gül]

What a great idea. How did you make switching between the two variations possible - are there two boards in there? IIRC the resistor values were different between the HP and SA.

And that's one tasty looking green LED in the Noisy Cricket 

Thanks! I only made the cap values switchable, but I socketed all the resistors so I could make everything play nice. I don't recall what values I ended up with. I play a tele, so I guess my pedals are optimized for use with single coil pickups. I really need to pick up a guitar with humbuckers one of these days. I'm sure it would be invaluable for testing out stuff.