Mike's Pedal Thread

Post by **Hurb** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:01 pm

Mike wrote:I could never top your Fuzz Factory demo mate, it was perfect.

I could knock a little one up at some point though I guess, I've pm'd JD about this being finished but he hasn't got back to me, I think he's on holiday or something, or maybe has a real life. Does anyone have his mobile number to drop him a text and let him know it's done?

Yeah I can txt him.

Would be nice to hear a vid from you dude.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:05 pm

Hurb wrote:
Mike wrote:I could never top your Fuzz Factory demo mate, it was perfect.

I could knock a little one up at some point though I guess, I've pm'd JD about this being finished but he hasn't got back to me, I think he's on holiday or something, or maybe has a real life. Does anyone have his mobile number to drop him a text and let him know it's done?
Yeah I can txt him.

Would be nice to hear a vid from you dude.

Yeah, I've been so busy building recently I haven't had the time to do one in a long time.

I hope to be able to do one of the Vintage Delay soon, plus I'd like to get this to JD as soon as I can. I'm making Benecol a Fuzz Face with fuller mods and also doing a Green Big Muff for ebay (which I can definitely demo) and another Woolly Mammoth, so I should be able to demo some stuff soon, if not the Fuzz Factory (which is an awesome pedal by the way, I love it).

This week is a little busy - band rehearsal tomorrow, friends' birthday Weds, playing football Thurs, first time I'll get to build/demo will be Fri/Sat/Sun

Post by **Hurb** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:06 pm

He's in turkey. but is excited about pedal.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:14 pm

Aww. bless his heart.

Thanks for texting him mate, I appreciate it.

Post by **Hurb** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:27 pm

no worries pal.

Post by **Mike** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:31 am

Done
1. JD's Fuzz Factory - Completed.

In progress:
2. Benecol's FuzzFace with Fuller mods - parts ordered. Going to be in a BB case with battery power a must, jacks on the top, portrait style, pink LED if it's not just white, Green if the LED looks crap. Silver. Silver and Black knobs. Board built. Case marked, will be drilled tonight.
3. Astro - Saltbooster, waiting on feedback before marking case to drill

4. Ebay Big Muff - takes lowest priority obviously. Board built, not tested - Case drilled and painted
5. Woolly Mammoth - case marked, will be drilled tonight

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:15 pm

out of interest, could you modify an exsisting pedal? i.e a home built one.

i want to mod my treble booster, but i think i'll end up fucking it up if i do.

i want to add a 9v boss style connector, bypass switch and an led. possibly in a metal enclosure like the saltbooster.

Post by **Mike** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:38 pm

Progrockabuse wrote:out of interest, could you modify an exsisting pedal? i.e a home built one.

i want to mod my treble booster, but i think i'll end up fucking it up if i do.

i want to add a 9v boss style connector, bypass switch and an led. possibly in a metal enclosure like the saltbooster.

I'd need to see the circuit but I could probably do that if the circuit wasn't too large. It would be like Â£30 or something since the parts alone would come to Â£20.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:27 am

Did some drilling and priming last night, Benecol's case is now ready for painting (which I will do this lunchtime). His matched PNP Germanium transistors also arrived with some other stuff from Banzai yesterday (and his pink LED which I hope is actually pink rather than fucking white, so I should be able to build it over the bank holiday weekend depending on how the case has cured by Sunday/Monday. If not then, then definitely next week.

Done
1. JD's Fuzz Factory - Completed.

In progress:
2. Benecol's FuzzFace with Fuller mods - parts ordered. Going to be in a BB case with battery power a must, jacks on the top, portrait style, pink LED if it's not just white, Green if the LED looks crap. Silver. Silver and Black knobs. Board built. Case drilled and primed
4. Ebay Big Muff - takes lowest priority obviously. Board built, not tested - Case drilled and painted
5. Woolly Mammoth - case drilled and primed

Possible orders
3. Astro - Saltbooster, waiting on feedback before marking case to drill

Post by **Hurb** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:20 am

mike. just got a txt from jd saying:

"can u ask mike if he could find a way to write on the fuzz what pots do what?
theres like 5 aint there?"

Post by **Mike** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:22 am

Hurb wrote:mike. just got a txt from jd saying:

"can u ask mike if he could find a way to write on the fuzz what pots do what?
theres like 5 aint there?"

Cheers man. The only way I could do it would be to just write the letters in Marker pen. Althuogh from playing with it I found I learnt them off by heart pretty rapidly.

It goes Volume, Gate, Comp, Drive, Stability.

Volume you generally don't touch, Stab is on the opposite side and causes the crazies. Middle three I find easy to remember.

Post by **Hurb** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:24 am

Yeah it's just the same as a normal one..Just do diagram on a piece of paper or something. Like draw the pedal and name the knobs.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:28 am

Hurb wrote:Yeah it's just the same as a normal one..Just do diagram on a piece of paper or something. Like draw the pedal and name the knobs.

Yeah, I already did a scruffy manual for finboy when I sent his with some info and starting settings and that, I'll do the same for JD, I don't really want to scrawl on it as it looks nice as is.

Post by **Hurb** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:31 am

Koolio I will let him know.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:34 am

Thanks bud. Any idea when he;s going to be back?

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:44 am

Mike wrote:Did some drilling and priming last night, Benecol's case is now ready for painting (which I will do this lunchtime). His matched PNP Germanium transistors also arrived with some other stuff from Banzai yesterday (and his pink LED which I hope is actually pink rather than fucking white, so I should be able to build it over the bank holiday weekend depending on how the case has cured by Sunday/Monday. If not then, then definitely next week.

Once again Mike, don't stress about the LED - if it looks gash, is too potent for batteries, or is the wrong colour, it really doesn't matter, just bung in whatever you have around (even if it's a red, ie. non-boutique, LED). Oh, and I think you'll find they're called geranium transistors. God.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:40 pm

hahah

I'll see how it looks with a sensible resistor. I sprayed your case silver this lunchtime, it needs another coat before I go out this evening, silver is actually the hardest colour to spray I've found.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:54 am

Mike, I Love My Tonebender, It So Amazing. It's Just Like My Much Missed B&M Fuzz Unit i used to own.

Post by **Mike** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:56 am

You're too kind, I'm really glad you're liking it. I was really quite enamoured of it myself when I was building it. A very fun pedal and I really like the way it turned out, with the knobs, casing etc.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:22 pm

it's really got a retro fuzz vibe to it, looks good on my pedalboard. the knobs match the ones on my reel echo.