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[Rygot]

Civil War Muff for bob the r0bot.

Added:
Bass Cut Knob
Tone Stack Bypass -Toggle
Oscillation Footswitch

Dat Swag

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[LaoWiz]

Civil War Muff for bob the r0bot.

Added:
Bass Cut Knob
Tone Stack Bypass -Toggle
Oscillation Footswitch

Dat Swag

Love this one!

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Here are some new ones from yesterday :









Tap Tempo Trems

Tonight I'm knocking out another OKKO Diablo Clone and a Civil War Muff

[LaoWiz]

Here are some new ones from yesterday :









Tap Tempo Trems

Tonight I'm knocking out another OKKO Diablo Clone and a Civil War Muff

I love those classy colors. I was thinking about getting a powercoating setup. Any suggestions?

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Those are actually from Mammoth but if you want to go the DIY route I used a craftsman powdercoat gun + a toaster oven and got pretty good results.

Living in Upstate NY I've stopped doing my own powdercoating for the winter but come spring time I'm going to look into more professional equipment

[LaoWiz]

Thanks, man. I live in LA which would be perfect because of the climate. I'll need to try this someday!

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Has anyone ordered from Guitarpcb.com (Barry) ?

It seems like it's taking ages to get this EA Trem board...

[Bret608]

Hey everybody,

I posted this in the Mammoth section too (since I got most of the hardware there), but I just had to post a pic or two here as well. Just go ahead and file me under "way too excited about completing first build" and be done with it...

Anyway, I built this using the Madbean Pepper Spray PCB. It's fuzzy overdrive goodness in the Percolator vein. The toggle lets you choose between 1n695 germanium, 1n914 silicon, or no diodes. I built it to the Albini specs rather than the stock. The guys at the Madbean forum were very helpful with my various newb questions and challenges. This was a fun project and I love the way it sounds.

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[Jero]

Has anyone ordered from Guitarpcb.com (Barry) ?
It seems like it's taking ages to get this EA Trem board...

I remember it taking a little longer from there. Not as long as musicpcb.com though.

[LaoWiz]

Hey everybody,

I posted this in the Mammoth section too (since I got most of the hardware there), but I just had to post a pic or two here as well. Just go ahead and file me under "way too excited about completing first build" and be done with it...

Anyway, I built this using the Madbean Pepper Spray PCB. It's fuzzy overdrive goodness in the Percolator vein. The toggle lets you choose between 1n695 germanium, 1n914 silicon, or no diodes. I built it to the Albini specs rather than the stock. The guys at the Madbean forum were very helpful with my various newb questions and challenges. This was a fun project and I love the way it sounds.

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Nice build there. I etched one of those boards but it didn't work during testing, gotta debug cause I want to hear how it sounds
soooo bad!

[Bret608]

Thanks LaoWiz! Definitely post your impressions and pics after you get a chance to debug! I haven't heard anyone else's impressions of this particular version of the circuit besides my own. I've found it is not hard to get some Big Black-type sounds, but much more as well. It's easy to get a Stones-type grind, for example. Also curious about what you end up trying for D4 and D5. The 1n914 turned out to be pretty good--it has the same amount of gain of the germanium, but the added clarity and volume of the no-diodes setting.

You gotta explain where the name LaoWiz comes from--my wife is from Laos (i.e. an ethnic Lao) and I did research in that country during grad school, so my mind wants to jump straight to that!

[LaoWiz]

Thanks LaoWiz! Definitely post your impressions and pics after you get a chance to debug! I haven't heard anyone else's impressions of this particular version of the circuit besides my own. I've found it is not hard to get some Big Black-type sounds, but much more as well. It's easy to get a Stones-type grind, for example. Also curious about what you end up trying for D4 and D5. The 1n914 turned out to be pretty good--it has the same amount of gain of the germanium, but the added clarity and volume of the no-diodes setting.

You gotta explain where the name LaoWiz comes from--my wife is from Laos (i.e. an ethnic Lao) and I did research in that country during grad school, so my mind wants to jump straight to that!

I'll report back when I get to debuggin it. I have been listening to Big Black's Atomizer and Shellac a lot lately and that's the main reason I built the board. I'll futz around with it tonight. I don't have the Bat diode but am using some other germs for now.

That's awesome your wife is from Laos, my Mom is Laotian. A friend once gave me a birthday card and it said Happy Bday Laotian Wizard.
What kind of research did you do there? I have been twice only. To Vientiane and the village my mother grew up in. It's a special place.
My sister lives in Bangkok and travels that region often. I can't wait to go back.

[Bret608]

Awesome! I figured there had to be some Lao connection. I've only been twice too. The first time my wife and I went with her parents was in 2000. We mainly just went to Vientiane (stayed with her dad's relatives near That Luang) and a few Buddhist pilgrimage sites in the immediate vicinity to the north and south. It was basically my wife's first time there too since her family came when she was six weeks old! Then, when I started graduate school in anthropology shortly after that, I was kind of like "why not study Laos? Not much research has been done since before the civil war." I was interested in the impact of Thai-language media in Laos. That meant studying both languages! We went back in 2003 so I could do a summer's worth of preliminary research in both Laos and Thailand. I focused on a small media production company that sort of saw themselves as the Lao response to the Thai cultural onslaught. This research was to form the basis of a PhD dissertation. However, that did not end up happening! Laos does not really have a research visa like Thailand and most other countries. That was no problem for my contacts there (they were like, "can't you just do the research on a tourist visa?"), but a big problem for Fulbright and others who were funding the research! No big deal though; my career since then has all been related to this background, or at least in higher ed.

You should definitely get to Luang Phrabang if you go again--has to be my favorite place in Southeast Asia. You'll like this--I almost chose "Bak Falang" or "Ai Falang" as my user name for this forum!

When I finally get around to doing decals or graphics on my pedal builds, I may use photos I took in Laos or some kind of S.E. Asian art. It seems it may reflect well the mysteries of fuzz!

I've been on a Big Black and Shellac kick lately too. I hadn't listened to Big Black much before, but now I find it does for me what some of the early, more mid-tempo, chorused-out Husker Du stuff does for me. That would be from the period where Bob Mould was apparently listening to a lot of Factory records stuff, Throbbing Gristle, etc. I think you'll find the Pepper Spray works really well for these types of sounds!

[LaoWiz]

Awesome! I figured there had to be some Lao connection.

When I finally get around to doing decals or graphics on my pedal builds, I may use photos I took in Laos or some kind of S.E. Asian art. It seems it may reflect well the mysteries of fuzz!

I've been on a Big Black and Shellac kick lately too. I hadn't listened to Big Black much before, but now I find it does for me what some of the early, more mid-tempo, chorused-out Husker Du stuff does for me. That would be from the period where Bob Mould was apparently listening to a lot of Factory records stuff, Throbbing Gristle, etc. I think you'll find the Pepper Spray works really well for these types of sounds!

I'll PM you bout Laos so we don't bore our ILF brethren!

Yea those guitar sounds on Atomizer and Metal Circus are blazin' I'll probably get to the Harmonic Perc next week.