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nbabmf wrote:Hey, that's not a finished project! That's CGI!

Opps! You are right, sorry everyone. I didn't pay attention when I became a new member here and got carried away. When I get something more concrete on the compressor clone I'll post a new dedicated thread.

Haven't you already posted those pictures in this thread?

**cough**http://ilovefuzz.com/viewtopic.php?f=151&t=13360**cough**

moose23 wrote:Haven't you already posted those pictures in this thread?

My bad again! But you are right I went back page by page and found that I did on page 22 which was my first post here. I deleted the same completed project related info you had just complained about on this page 29.

nbabmf wrote:Hey, that's not a finished project! That's CGI!

I went back and deleted all the red graphic mockup related post I had made too.

Geeze after only 13 posts my luck has run out! This will not happen again, but I Love Fuzz.

Steve Mavronis wrote:Geeze after only 13 posts my luck has run out! This will not happen again, but I Love Fuzz.

I'm sure we can let bygones be bygones..and besides..looks like you've got some interesting stuff in the works.

Incidentally, are you the one who has the FuzzboxWorld channel on YouTube? your name, and some of your designs, seemed familiar from somewhere..

sorry if that came across dickish on my end btw..
nothing against your pedals either (they seem really well made and i am curious how they sound)
just seems spammy when its repeated too often. feels like an advert on television.

No problem guys. I just don't want to offend. Being a new diy pedal builder since the beginning of 2010, I tend to get passionate about my projects. Your creations sort of are like your children and you want to show the world. The 2 overdrive clone copies that I made were done back in May 2010 and I've finally gotten around to developing my second compressor clone starting around September. It took me a couple months just to get a viable PCB layout and enclosure graphics. I'm sure that I do post about things over and over on many other forums too without remembering what I posted where. Sometimes that causes a double post on a particular topic! But I'm glad you pointed it out, someone has to reign me in LOL.

Oh, the only youtube pages I have are Yngwie100Percent and PhotonLaserTag. The clip of my overdrive clone has real bad audio quality and doesn't do it justice.

I know someone at ferarri north america that speaks italian so if you want to get a letter that says its ok I can probably poke around and get you in contact with the right people. there is a difference between getting a letter that says your ok and there is no infringement and an officially license product. usually the license is expensive as fook and you have to make everything extremely high quality. the paint colors and their respective names are patent AND trademark. the font is a trademark but is usually restricted to the company name so even if they licensed your pedal they would most likely make you use helvetica to match other licensed products. they do aggressively go after unlicensed products and its a nightmare. the only problem with asking for a letter of non-infringement is that if you make any kind of statement ASKING if you can have a license it makes your pedal an unlicensed ferrari product by default and the letter will hold up in court. so its almost like shooting yourself in the foot. they tend to do deals with big long standing companies like coleman for example.

eatyourguitar wrote:the font is a trademark but is usually restricted to the company name so even if they licensed your pedal they would most likely make you use helvetica to match other licensed products.

Nah, I'm not interested in licensing anything. I could never afford it and I don't run a business selling pedals. I'm a computer tech that's all and this is just a hobby past time but it is my goal always to make everything at very high quality standards. I'd want my pedals to last decades! But as long as I'm only making one one these for my own personal use in my home, or at the extreme practically giving one away by covering the parts cost only (so as not to make any profit on my time and labor) wouldn't that be okay? At best this is just a 'fan tribute' pedal to them in appreciation. But to play it safe I should come up with a completely original graphic and be careful of those fonts! I wasn't aware that Ferrari designed that font themselves because I got it off a free fonts site like DaFont. They point to the maker of the 'FerroRosso' font as FontMesa (http://www.fontmesa.com/free_fonts.html) and they have a page about using famous fonts (http://www.fontmesa.com/famous_font_usage.html) that says "Designing a typefont based on a few letters from a famous logo isn't trademark infringement as long as the original logo is not displayed and the font isn't named after the company name or product." Now I'm not calling the clone pedal Ferrari since I'm not using the same combination and order of characters but thinking about it I'm not sure if Red Devil as a "fan nickname" is an infringement any more than Yngwie Malmsteen's same commercial title for his song Red Devil is about driving his own red Ferrari? I think the only real problem I'd have is that Ferrari horse symbol which is part of their logo. I don't think rotating it is enough so I'd probably need a different horse graphic or something completely different or demonic! Hell, I might just call this thing something completely different and not fan tribute themed at all.

This is my rat. 3 way clipping switch goes between symmetrical led clipping, assymeterical 1n914 clipping, and no clipping in the middle. I thought about putting led indicators for the clipping sections so I used a dpdt for the switching, but I ended up not doing that. I can't believe people buy the landgraff mod pedal for $$$ when it's just a rat. It sounds great for punk/post punk sounds like jawbreaker. This is actually the only distortion pedal I have which is funny becuase I have 3 or 4 fuzz pedals and 5 overdrives.

I just finished up this Tap Tempo Tremolo for dmcmahon.



I can't wait to build one for myself!

nbabmf wrote:I just finished up this Tap Tempo Tremolo for dmcmahon.



I can't wait to build one for myself!

funniest....graphic....EVAR

nbabmf wrote:I just finished up this Tap Tempo Tremolo for dmcmahon.



I can't wait to build one for myself!

what layout did you use? I am going to build madbeans new double flush (led/ldr optical tremolo) but I wouldn't mind building a tap tempo trem if it wasn't too complicated.

What do you use to make such cool graphics??

eniacmike wrote:what layout did you use? I am going to build madbeans new double flush (led/ldr optical tremolo) but I wouldn't mind building a tap tempo trem if it wasn't too complicated.

I bought the board and TAPLFO chip from Taylor on DIYstompboxes. The cool thing about this is that the signal path is all analog - it's basically the Tremulous Lune optical tremolo with a digital LFO controller. All the discussion can be found here:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/i ... ic=84020.0

It was a pretty straightforward build apart from trying to source all of the precise resistor values and specific sized caps from one place. There seems to be a run on common values in box caps right now.

fuzzmax wrote:What do you use to make such cool graphics??

My friend pales, from the Haunting Mids forum, did most of the work on that one. I fine tuned it in Paint.NET, an open source alternative to Photoshop.