the FORBIDDEN TONE! -erm, ZONE, oh, erm, FUZZ!

[jessenator]

YOU'VE ENTERED THE FORBIDDEN ZONE, LOBOTOMITE! I AM DOCTOR MOBIUS! RETURN TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM AND DO NOT DISTURB THE CRITICAL WORKINGS I HAVE WORKING ...ON! I HAVE A GOOD RAISIN FOR DOING THINGS THE WAY I DO. GO BOTHER THE THINK TANK!

Okay, enough trying to write like Chris Avellone—I'm not that good.

This is my long-procrastinated build of Aleph Null's Peacock Parallel Fuzz. I was experimenting with a regular FF on the breadboard and dug up a 2N2904 PNP motorola can I had sitting around. It's silicon, but it looked nice 'n mojo.




Rattle can and lay-zor for this one. I think this is the furthest I've ever gone, as far as steps go, for the graphics. I wanted it done right like my head brain vision saw it. I could never get a good in-game screenshot to be the way I wanted it, so I ended up: using a modding archive decompression tool, extracting the NIF files from the game data, converting them to OBJ, importing them into my ancient version of Maya, rigging them, plopping on the textures, and posing them (mostly) the way I wanted them, setting up lighting, rendering, taking it into photoshop to tweak and adjust contrast, then into illustrator so I could get vectors for the laser. My rigging and animation skills are quite rusty, but I got it mostly the way that was in my head.

All that, and after it was all said and done, I got to looking at it and though ...FORBIDDEN TONE! would have been a much better name!  Also, I bought the knobs back when I got the PCB, and figured the blue rattle can I had would match, but 'Continental Blue' is rather subdued. Oh well, turned out fine.

Also, someone on here had a Big MT brain bot concept artwork (no name/words that I can remember?), but I couldn't find the post, so sorry to whomever you are for copping your concept on this one, but my Fallout-themed pedals—and this circuit—demanded it!

Thanks for looking.

[jimilee]

That looks killer, but how's the TOAN?


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[jessenator]

That looks killer, but how's the TOAN?

Thanks! I like it a lot, actually. Using a harmonic percolator on its own is ...not my thing, but it adds a certain something to this guy in parallel with the FF. Also, this is the first FF-a-like I've put together that I've liked, oddly enough. Or maybe my protoboard version has issues. Wouldn't surprise me.

One of these days I'll do proper demos of the projects I put together. I have condenser mics but they won't do like an SM56 would.

[thomasha]

Nice finish, looks good!

[gordo]

That looks great, you're using the laser to great effect.  I agree, too, this is a cool sounding board.  I tend to use mine as more of an overdrive than its origins would suggest.

I like that two tone fade paint!

[jessenator]

Nice finish, looks good!

Thanks! I'm always surprised how well the rattle can poly turns out. 

That looks great, you're using the laser to great effect.  I agree, too, this is a cool sounding board.  I tend to use mine as more of an overdrive than its origins would suggest.

I like that two tone fade paint!

Thanks, man. For this one I do prefer the spray n fade over a solid line. Thought about it. 

I live how yours you used that special paint to mark on the aluminum after you etch, but I'm too lazy and just use paint that will contrast with the bare aluminum one direction or another.

[jwin615]

I know 3 things:
1)Nothing about Fallout
2)your builds are always inspiring.
3)this one is no exception

Bravo. Waiting for the when you hit us all with a mixed media/method enclosure that somehow combines UV print, paint and laser