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[fuzzonaut]

Fuzzimile, Deadend FX PCB of the Spaceman Gemini III.

GE/SI twins

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[frodog]

That thing is fucking awesome fuzzonaut. My friend has a GIII (he got it pretty cheap) and I love it on the rare occasions I get to use it.

Cool builds on the previous page too, holy smokes! So many nice looking enclosure-ites.

This dual Schaller tremolo here turned out a little strange visually, I guess it's the closest I'll ever get to a patriotic pedal, with the red, white and blue. Wish I had mirrored the knobs maybe, but overall I'm happy with the layout and ease of use. Only small mods I did was add a 1.2m pulldown resistor, slightly increased input impedance (why?) and a switch on each of the depths to lift the ground, thus cutting out the valley of the wave for a hard-chopped albeit quieter trem. Not a brilliant mod as the Schaller is choppy (chopper-y even) enough already. Volume drop doesn't seem too bad. Transistors are BC170 with a BC109C at the end. Middle switch is for the trem 1 speed range, which probably should generally be set to fast because in slow mode the last 10-20% of the speed pot flattens out the wave and you just get volume reduction, esp with depth set high. That's the only obvious flaw so far, or well the range/smoothness of the speed/depth pots is not perfect, should have selected them more carefully maybe. Does what it's supposed to tho, which is being two asynchronous tremolos in one box to run both sides of my stereo signal thru.

[fuzzonaut]

Hey thanks, Frodog! The G3 is amazing, yes. I'll probably go for the G4 as well, one day.

That double tremolo is a cool idea - and it looks great too.

Here's some utility thing for a change: the Omnilooper, from Schalltechnik. I usually don't do kits, but this thing ticks a lot of boxes for me, so I even went with the deluxe package, including pre-drilled enclosure and faceplate. It is very packed and tight in there (BB2 enclosure), you even have to sand down one side of the bottom plate to make everything fit.

What does it do? Here's some blurb: "It consists of three effect loops (Inserts), two of which are equipped with filters (1x LPF/1x HPF) with -12dB/Oct. per Filter. The filters position in the chain can be switched (Filter -> Insert, Insert -> Filter, or Filter off)." There are also impedance and phase switches for the loops. Pretty nifty ... aaaand there's a bass boost at the end to round things off!

needs some golden marshall style knobs

should have shortened those wires

[coldbrightsunlight]

Cool! Very tight build.

Here's the first project I've done in a long time.





The enclosure is, obviously, not by me. It was for a crazy custom build I commissioned from skullservant years ago and due to various things never quite materialised but I got the enclosure. I then left it unused for yeeeeaaars. You may notice I've lost the base of it and had to replace it with some MDF I had lying around from broken IKEA furniture...

Recently I really got an urge to use it and also generally to make a multi-fuzz box. So I rehoused an old BYOC Octavia (my first fuzz pedal from about 2006) and a fuzz with oscillation and a wah-type filter circuit that Sclatte built me for Secret Santa 2013!!!! So every bit of this is quite old But it's a lot of fun having it in one box.

One footswitch for octavia, one for the other fuzz, and one to engage the filter. A lot of spare holes But I'm very happy with it, and I'm finally using all these old things that had gathered dust for a while.

[Schlatte]

So you gave the Roarster a new home?
Nice!

[coldbrightsunlight]

I did

Making the filter a footswitch was a fun mod. Still enjoying it

[Dowi]

Just put a ton of LEDs in those empty holes and make it a flashing multicolored beast!
or: ---> route the filter knob to an LED that changes colour depending on the freq position
Also, don't know about those pedals you put in there but reading the description it should be a feedback machine (octavia+oscillations+wah filter? yes please!)

[coldbrightsunlight]

Yeah LEDs is probably the way to go. Also considering jamming a treble boost in there at some point but that's long term plans.

It's pretty cool yeah. Nice having some footswitches to change the oscillation character/note. Oscillating fuzz isn't something I use all the time and one of my issues is it being quite static sometimes.

[Ben79]

I like the graphics on that thing....did you do it or where is it from?

[fuzzonaut]

I like the graphics on that thing....did you do it or where is it from?

It's from a gig poster ... I took a part of that and photoshopped it a bit.

[frodog]

Eyy, more cool builds! That Omnilooper seems so useful, holy shiv (btw fuzzonaut, if you really want Marshall knobs on that, pm me and I will send you some)

Just another fuzz here, the Arctic White (renamed) by BJFE. Nothing crazy, just a solid, versatile fuzz/distortion with really low noise floor. Probably my quickest, easiest build/paintjob so far.

[digi2t]

Finally got my shipment of enclosures, so boxed up a couple of Spaceman clones...

Glenn - AKA Spaceman Atlas.





Sprocket - AKA Spaceman Spacerocket.

[fuzzonaut]

Eyy, more cool builds! That Omnilooper seems so useful, holy shiv (btw fuzzonaut, if you really want Marshall knobs on that, pm me and I will send you some)

Thanks frodog, that's very nice of you, but I already ordered some Marshall knobs from Musikding, with 2 small chicken heads for the rotary switches. That will look pretty pimped out, I hope.

The Arctic What also looks good! And the Whale pedal is just dirgeliscious, btw!

Here's another Fuzzdog thing, their CB Katzenkoenig PCB, renamed in French, it's a mashup up of "a Tone Bender MkII fuzz with a Rat distortion to create something that sings like a fuzz but is tight like a distortion", as the blurb goes. And I must say, it kinda lives up to the claim, as it's a really unique sounding dirt box and the Gain and Input knobs allow for a lot of fine tuning. Good stuff.

meow

purr

[digi2t]

Finally... my 3207's showed up. Finished up the Mangel Wurzel, Ibanez RC-99 Rotary Chorus clone.

[Dandolin]

looks aws! i used to really enjoy an RC99 I had before I got gear "woke"