Mike's Pedal Thread

Post by **Mike** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 12:32 pm

Orders:

Mickie - Box Of Mike - Â£75
Board Built. Case Drilled, Primed and Painted

Mickie - Cot50 - Â£60
Will drill case next week. 2 knobs. - Prototyped

Benecol/Prog - prototyping stuff for Secret Pedal of Filth - (would be Â£80 when done)
Stuff arrived. 1 Case Drilled, Primed and Painted - Prototyped

NickD - Saltbooster - stickers & lacquer - Â£35
Board Built. Will drill case next week. Needs battery power.

Lamp - True bypass loop, green metallic, blue LED, landscape - Â£35
Will drill case next week.

I prototyped the Secret pedal and the COT 50. The COT was fine but because Banzai labelled the special transistors I got as a TO92 (standard) package it took me forever to debug the other design and realise all the transistors have this fucked up ECB instead of EBC pinout. Once I re-did the breadboard sections around the transistors it worked fine and sounds great.

I have to redo my veroboard layout for it though as I had done it with an ECB pinout in mind, it shouldn't be "too" bad" to change it.

mickie08 · Post by **mickie08** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:49 pm

awesome.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:47 pm

Orders:

Mickie - Box Of Mike - Â£75
Board Built. Case Drilled, Primed and Painted

Mickie - Cot50 - Â£60
Case marked and ready to drill, Will drill case week. Board built.

Benecol/Prog - prototyping stuff for Secret Pedal of Filth - (would be Â£80 when done)
Stuff arrived. 1 Case Drilled, Primed and Painted - Prototyped

NickD - Saltbooster - stickers & lacquer - Â£35
Board Built. Case marked and ready to drill, Will drill next week. Needs battery power.

Lamp - True bypass loop, green metallic, blue LED, landscape - Â£35
Case marked and ready to drill, Will drill next week.

I had some time after I got beer for this party I'm off to later so I build Mickie's COT50 board and also marked all the small cases to be drilled, for Lamp's Loop, Mickie's COT and Nick's Booster.

mickie08 · Post by **mickie08** » Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:37 pm

How does the cot50 sound when you set it up? It has been a long time since I used one I just remember liking it alot...

Post by **Mike** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 12:08 am

Like a treble booster and a nice overdrive mixed into one pedal

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:55 pm

Mike wrote:
benecol wrote:Why, I'd be honoured. PMing you address even as you read this.
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Ask and ye shall receive

Remember this from way back in the mists of time? Well, it's my birthday, and I can now play it. Mike, I'm really chuffed; have wanted a fuzzface (and a germanium fuzz, for that matter) for ages now, and I couldn't be happier. There's much more fuzz on tap than I expected, and it's really touch sensitive. Add to that that you can dial in how much flub/sizzle sound there is with the contour control, and with the bias control you can chill the pedal out to make it a really useful germanium overdrive too. Thanks again Mike - we're lucky here in that we can send you a schem and you can make it for us. Great work, thank you. If anyone fancies a lush sounding fuzz, go for it.

Post by **Mike** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:56 pm

[quote="Mike"]Orders:

Mickie - Box Of Mike - Â£75
Board Built. Case Drilled, Primed and Painted

Mickie - Cot50 - Â£60
Case marked and ready to drill, Will drill case week. Board built.

Prog - Univox SuperFuzz - Â£80
Board Built, case drilled and painted. Board tested.

NickD - Saltbooster - stickers & lacquer - Â£35
Board Built. Case marked and ready to drill, Will drill next week. Needs battery power.

Lamp - True bypass loop, green metallic, blue LED, landscape - Â£35
Case marked and ready to drill, Will drill next week.

I built the Super Fuzz board from my layout and tested it - Booyeah it worked first time. it's a complicated bastard. Benecol has no money so isn't buying one for now.

Some pictures of the baords I've been making recently:

SuperFuzz and layout designs. Look at the state of it

NickD's Saltbooster, Mickie's COT50, Mickie's Box Of Mike (Left to Right)/(Furthest to Nearest)

I'll test these thread boards tomorrow.

Post by **Mike** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:57 pm

benecol wrote:
Mike wrote:
benecol wrote:Why, I'd be honoured. PMing you address even as you read this.
[youtube][/youtube]

Ask and ye shall receive
Remember this from way back in the mists of time? Well, it's my birthday, and I can now play it. Mike, I'm really chuffed; have wanted a fuzzface (and a germanium fuzz, for that matter) for ages now, and I couldn't be happier. There's much more fuzz on tap than I expected, and it's really touch sensitive. Add to that that you can dial in how much flub/sizzle sound there is with the contour control, and with the bias control you can chill the pedal out to make it a really useful germanium overdrive too. Thanks again Mike - we're lucky here in that we can send you a schem and you can make it for us. Great work, thank you. If anyone fancies a lush sounding fuzz, go for it.

Awesome, thanks for the kind words mate, I'm really glad you like it. It was a really interesting and fun one to build - thanks for thinking of me.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:21 pm

OMG!! i didn't realize that you'd be building mine so soon mike, i did say i'd have a problem with funds till the 26th, as I'm on holiday. is this still a problem?

i'm looking forward to hear this beast.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:23 am

Progrockabuse wrote:OMG!! i didn't realize that you'd be building mine so soon mike, i did say i'd have a problem with funds till the 26th, as I'm on holiday. is this still a problem?

i'm looking forward to hear this beast.

Nah it's fine man, I'll wait till you have coin to ship it. What colour would you like the box incidentally, it's currently white as that's what Tim wanted..

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:23 am

i hadn't even thought about the colour to be honest, what colours do you have?

what knobs are you using? is their any oppression amp knobs left?

Post by **Mike** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:29 am

Erm there might be a few actually so I could use them. The box has holes for 3 knobs in it, because I didn't realise that "Balance" was actually a volume control so I wanted to add one.

I can either make a new box or I was thinking I would make the tone of the second tone settable by a tone control. So the footswitch in the tone bypass state is unaffected by the knob, and with the knob at full when you switch the tone switch you get the original Tone2, but you can also tweak Tone2 if you want - what do you think? Or I could make it a second volume control (a master - the balance is in the middle of the circuit).

I have Metallic Green, Metallic Blue, Dark Red, Bright Yellow, Bright Orange, Silver...

Do you want a blue on/off LED? The tone switch footswitch I think is going to have a sexy TWO COLOUR LED. i.e Green for Tone1 and Red for Tone2. How cool is that?

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:33 am

yeah, the blue led for on/off. that two colour led sounds wicked. what would you suggest for the 3 knob? i don't mind either way, indulge yourself mike.
you wouldn't happen to have black at all would you? if not white will be fine.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:36 am

Nah I don't have any Black I'm afraid mate. If you really want it that colour I'd be happy to get some from Halfords though.

I figure I'll try the tone control idea out on breadboard and if that doesn't work I'll do a Master Volume. You can always call it ithe "Oppression Dial" and set it to 10.

I think it will look prettier with 3 knobs anyway, since 2 knobs on a pedal in landscape orientation (the only way I can fit the board and switches in there), would look a bit weird I think.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:38 am

actually, you still got that silver tonebender paint? i'll have that if you have. then i can have colour matched pedals for different effects lol.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:41 am

Indeed I do. Silver it is. It's already got Primer, White paint and Lacquer on it - this is going to be one well finished case!

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:50 am

will it have decals on mike?

can it be called a shaftsbury Duo-Fuzz? lol

Post by **Mike** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:53 am

*sigh*

yeah I can try and do decals for you, I didn't realise they would be so popular. I need Joanna to do them as I'm terrible at photoshop.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:55 am

i would offer to do some photoshopping for you, but i don't have photoshop for mac and it's well expensive for a mac.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:08 am

Progrockabuse wrote:i would offer to do some photoshopping for you, but i don't have photoshop for mac and it's well expensive for a mac.

i've got a hooky copy somewhere, if i ever find it i'll send you it if you like. or try downloading it off limewire, i've got loads of "free" mac stuff there.