Let's see your finished DIY projects!

[nbabmf]

I love that style of art. I'm working on a Rat variant right now that has that kind of old-fashioned scientific wood-cut drawing thing going on.

[Davegraz]

wikipedia has a lot of great hi-res woodcut scans that are in the public domain, it's a couple easy google searches and photoshop tweaking to get a real nice printable image

[nbabmf]

wikipedia has a lot of great hi-res woodcut scans that are in the public domain, it's a couple easy google searches and photoshop tweaking to get a real nice printable image

[TweedBassman]

nice stuff Dave.

[Davegraz]

thanks man.
i don't dare show you guys the guts - not yet at least - i think once i get a working board and get it all tested the 'putting it into the box neatly' thing is thrown out the window - all i want to do is rage as fast as possible

[nbabmf]

Well, there's one advantage to spaghetti... it's easy to pull the board out and flip it over to make changes and fix mistakes.

[tuffteef]

Well, there's one advantage to spaghetti... it's easy to pull the board out and flip it over to make changes and fix mistakes.

BOOM

i hate that when i wire it super nice and tight
it wont work

[dragonfly]

I don't solder much any more...BUT.... it's Christmastime, and I do like to "make" gifts for people... so, with that in mind, I fired up the soldering iron....

This one is an "sorta" original circuit I just kinda came up with one night...I call it the "Nerve Generator".

NERVE GENERATOR MP3 (please excuse the lousy quality of the sound clip)

I can't pay too much attention to making everything look nice....takes too much time, and I'm trying to minimize my time with the iron on... but it turned out OK I guess.











I still have another couple pedals to build, but they'll have to wait for a day or two.

Schematic, in case you're interested -

if I were gonna build another, I'd do the mods I labeled in red, both to smooth out the top end a touch, and to limit the output just a bit.

It borrows parts from classic fuzzes like the Fuzz Face, the Shin-Ei FY-2, and others, and then I tweaked the values just a bit. It is different than all of them, but still "in the family". It's nothing fancy or groundbreaking, but gives a nice "wall of sound" fuzz.

I used 2N2222 transistors, but any low/med gain NPN silicon should be fine. Feel free to try 2N3904, 2N5088, etc.

Use the 10k trimmer to adjust the sound to your liking. At some settings there will be no sound, others gated, others will have a lot of sustain....just use your ears. Also, you could use a 20k trimmer - might work for a wider variety of transistors.

Enjoy -

[The4455]

[quote="dragonfly"]I don't solder much any more...BUT.... it's Christmastime, and I do like to "make" gifts for people... so, with that in mind, I fired up the soldering iron....

This one is an "sorta" original circuit I just kinda came up with one night...I call it the "Nerve Generator".

NERVE GENERATOR MP3 (please excuse the lousy quality of the sound clip)

I can't pay too much attention to making everything look nice....takes too much time, and I'm trying to minimize my time with the iron on... but it turned out OK I guess.




Sounds amazing!

[dragonfly]

Sounds amazing!

Thanks.

Here's one I finished today - I built this for Ryoko, my girlfriends sister... she plays guitar in one band, keys in another...

Nothing fancy, just a silicon FF....

[BlindtoFaith]

I don't solder much any more...BUT.... it's Christmastime, and I do like to "make" gifts for people... so, with that in mind, I fired up the soldering iron....

This one is an "sorta" original circuit I just kinda came up with one night...I call it the "Nerve Generator".

NERVE GENERATOR MP3 (please excuse the lousy quality of the sound clip)

I can't pay too much attention to making everything look nice....takes too much time, and I'm trying to minimize my time with the iron on... but it turned out OK I guess.











I still have another couple pedals to build, but they'll have to wait for a day or two.

Schematic, in case you're interested -

if I were gonna build another, I'd do the mods I labeled in red, both to smooth out the top end a touch, and to limit the output just a bit.

It borrows parts from classic fuzzes like the Fuzz Face, the Shin-Ei FY-2, and others, and then I tweaked the values just a bit. It is different than all of them, but still "in the family". It's nothing fancy or groundbreaking, but gives a nice "wall of sound" fuzz.

I used 2N2222 transistors, but any low/med gain NPN silicon should be fine. Feel free to try 2N3904, 2N5088, etc.

Use the 10k trimmer to adjust the sound to your liking. At some settings there will be no sound, others gated, others will have a lot of sustain....just use your ears. Also, you could use a 20k trimmer - might work for a wider variety of transistors.

Enjoy -

I would use the shit out of that!

[frequencycentral]

"Ice Warrior" combo of Causality 6 phaser and Flashback II modulated delay. Built for forum member proroby .

[eatyourguitar]

I had a birthday on a lunar eclipse on a solstice while I was in a parallel universe. I gotta plug it in and see if it blows up.

[dragonfly]

Here's a super quick sound clip I just made with this fuzz, running it through my sucky DOD solid state bench amp - http://www.4shared.com/audio/r22NJFdY/d ... andom.html

I'm digging this fuzz.

[nbabmf]

Here's a super quick sound clip I just made with this fuzz, running it through my sucky DOD solid state bench amp - http://www.4shared.com/audio/r22NJFdY/d ... andom.html

I'm digging this fuzz.

That was super 90's. I dug it.