Some of my previous DIY pedal builds.

[keloooe]

Aw damn that's a sick tone straight from the pedal then! Definitely reminds me of the actual FF!

[DrNomis_44]

Here's another one of my pedal builds, it's based on the Soldano GTO Supercharger pedal, this pedal is different to the Baja RTO pedal for two reasons, one is that it uses two Valves to produce much more gain, secondly it runs the Valves at a much higher voltage (about 350V DC) than the Baja RTO does, the end result is that the tone is a bit more like what you'd get out of a high gain Valve Amplifier, here are some pics of the pedal, and a link to the sound demo on soundcloud:



Here's a link to the demo clip on soundcloud:


https://soundcloud.com/drnomis_44/gtfo-democlip

[DrNomis_44]

And here's another one of my DIY pedal builds, this time it's based on the Klon Centaur Overdriver, the Klon Centaur is basically a clean-ish overdriver that adds some subtle distortion of it's own at high gain settings, a bit like the Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamer except that the Klon is capable of a much higher output level, roughly about twice what the TS-9 is capable of, it also happens to have a prominent midrange tone, good for overdriving an already distorting Marshall Amp, here's a couple of pics and a demo clip:


https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...%20Centaur.mp3

[andrewdosborne]

Good stuff Doc, these look very interesting and like the sound clips

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[DrNomis_44]

Here's something else I thought I'd post here just in case you're interested in checking it out, this is a Mini DIY Analogue Synthesizer I built called a Weird Sound Generator, I got the design, circuit, and veroboard layout from a website called Music From Outer Space, it's a website for anyone who's interested in building Analogue Synthesizers, the sounds that the Weird Sound Generator can produce range from deep droning sounds to otherworldly bleeps depending on how you set the knobs and switches, it's a crazy noise maker that's fun to play with, but wait....it gets better when fed through some kind of delay effect...where it becomes even weirder, here's three pics and a couple of audio demos I uploaded to soundcloud:








WSG Demo Soundclips:


https://soundcloud.com/drnomis_44/wsg-recording-3


https://soundcloud.com/drnomis_44/wsg-with-vst-fx



And if you're interested in building one:


http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/

[keloooe]

To be honest I'm always all in for analogue pedals, especially for drive / distortion / fuzz. Plus if its true bypass it can act as a mute when unpowered, like I do for my unused trem pedal

Seriously Doc those pedals are sweet, definitely keep them rolling in!

[stan]

some great pedals there, you have made great versions of some of the worlds most expensive pedals...

oh and i want your soldano, that is an awesome pedal

[DrNomis_44]

To be honest I'm always all in for analogue pedals, especially for drive / distortion / fuzz. Plus if its true bypass it can act as a mute when unpowered, like I do for my unused trem pedal

Seriously Doc those pedals are sweet, definitely keep them rolling in!

All the pedals I have built, except for the Klon Centaur, feature true bypass footswitching in that when they are bypassed they are completely out of the signal chain, when the Klon Centaur is in bypass mode the signal actually goes through a buffer circuit so it is never truly out of the signal chain, I can't see why it couldn't be converted to true bypass though.

[DrNomis_44]

some great pedals there, you have made great versions of some of the worlds most expensive pedals...

oh and i want your soldano, that is an awesome pedal

I'll have to see if I can get another circuit board etched so I can build another one, the PCB artwork is in a thread in the Freestompboxes.org website, I had alot of fun getting all the parts together and building the Soldano GTO Supercharger pedal.

[DrNomis_44]

Okay, here are a couple more old school Fuzzes I built, one is based on the Sola Sound Tonebender MkI, and the other is based on the Tonebender MkII Professional, the Tonebender MkI is the older of the two designs and is almost identical to the most Grandaddy of all the Fuzzes, the Maestro FZ1, the one that started the Fuzz craze off in the first place, the story of how the MkI Tonebender was designed goes like this, a 60's guitarist named Vick Flick (responsible for the famous guitar riff in the 007 James Bond theme from Dr No) brought a Maestro FZ1 to an electronics tech named Gary Hurst in England and asked him to mod the pedal for more sustain, the result was the Sola Sound Tonebender MkI, here are a couple of pics of my Tonebender MkI and MkII builds, the MkI is the one with three silver Germanium AC125 transistors, the MKII is the one with three black OC81D Germanium transistors, there's also two sound demo clips, feel free to check them out:





https://soundcloud.com/drnomis_44/mk-i-tonebender-demo




https://soundcloud.com/drnomis_44/mk...ebender-record



Apparently Jimmy Page, the guitarist in Led Zeppelin used a Tonebender MkII Professional.