I enjoy building and modifying electric guitar effects pedals in my never-ending quest for the ultimate tone. Some of the vintage circuits I have built are the Arbiter Fuzz Face, Dallas Range Master and the Colorsound Tonebender MKII. More contemporary circuits include the MXR Distortion+, ProCo Rat and ZVex Super Hard On. When necessary I create my own PCB solder masks from scratch or from available ready-to-print sources, then I etch, drill and populate each board by hand. I have also modified wah pedals with inductor upgrades and component changes, created and installed buffer circuits, and done other free-style component mods in chorus pedals, phasers etc. Some of my builds are used by the guitarists in my favorite local band One Way Ryde.
Recently, I have been using ready-to-solder boards from popular DIY sources with impressive results. The following represent completed builds as well as current works in progress, and I will post photos as the projects take shape.
MKC1 V2 - Best Moddable Klone (Klon Centaur Clone)
Gut Shot (before wiring)
PCB board (populated)
PCB board (populated)
Aristocrat (aNaLoG Man King of Tone clone)
PCB board - etched, drilled and ready to populate
PCB board partially populated
Enclosure - Hammond 1790 in Rootbeer Gold-fleck
Green Bean - (Ibanez Tube Screamer variant ala TS808, TS9, Rockbox Boiling Point)
La Vache (Lovepedal Les Lius clone)
PCB board (etched - ready to drill and populate)
Neutrino (Lovepedal Eternity "Burst" clone)
Clean Drive (VooDoo Lab Sparkle Drive Clone)
Steaming Kettle (Rockbox Boiling Point (TS808 Tube Screamer) Clone)
#1 - Front
#1 - Gutshot
#2 - Front
#2 - Gutshot
#2 - Board (close-up)
#3 - Front
#3 - Gutshot
Refractor (another Klon Centaur clone)
Halo (multi-version Electro Harmonix Big Muff)
Cerulean Overdrive (another Marshall Bluesbreaker pedal clone)
Titan (a Fulltone OCD clone)
Azimuth (Hermida Zendrive clone)
Procyon (BJFE Honey Bee clone)
Candyman (a part-for-part clone of Paul Cochrane's "Timmy" Overdrive)
Joy Drive (a "Dumble in a box" clone)
Enlightened Drive (another Dumble amp-in-a-box clone of the famous Lovepedal Zendrive)
Throb Tremelo (Schaller TR-68 Trem clone)
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