Mellowtone

bamonte · Post by **bamonte** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 10:44 pm

Would like to see a doog demo of the pedal.

r40f · Post by **r40f** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:41 pm

these pedals look awesome

superfuzz · Post by **superfuzz** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:15 am

Nice use of have love will travel. Pedal sounds great, anyone know how much $?

Post by **Doog** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:45 pm

It turned up yesterday afternoon I think, went to collect it from the office a few hours ago- fun stuff. I definately miss some sort of tone control, but it's not like I'd ever really use it as a main distortion/fuzz anyways.

It's very much in the Fuzz Factory/Ultra Fuzz realm- the Bias control is basically a gate, and the Sag control yields pitched oscillation on most of the dial. With the fuzz up and everything down, it does this weird kinda descending arpeggiator thing where it plays your note, then a 5th below, then another octave below, then a minor third and beyond, til it's rumbles. Pretty fun and creepy sounding.

Very tweakable, I'll try and knock together a brief amp sim'd video demo in the next few days.

letsgocoyote · Post by **letsgocoyote** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 5:20 am

hurray, it survived its voyage. enjoy sire doog

Post by **Doog** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:18 am

Now with fully-installed tone control! Makes a great pedal even more usuable. Hooray.

Need to sort out the grounding so I can do away with the nasty gaffa tape on the outside, if that's even possible..

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:41 am

mojo-mod!
never realized it didn't have a tone stack

still thinking about buying the one on ebay but i would have no practical use for it other than making oddities in my room at night

James · Post by **James** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:46 am

Haze wrote:mojo-mod!
never realized it didn't have a tone stack
still thinking about buying the one on ebay but i would have no practical use for it other than making oddities in my room at night

That sounds like a very practical use to me. If it weren't, euan and I wouldn't own any gear at all.

Post by **Doog** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:51 am

Haze wrote:mojo-mod!
never realized it didn't have a tone stack
still thinking about buying the one on ebay but i would have no practical use for it other than making oddities in my room at night

It's amazing how much difference a simple guitar-style passive tone pot can do sometimes. Highly recommended for all those Fuzzface stylee boxes.

It's not really just a "weird" box, it's pretty damn usable- the standard OD and fuzz sounds can be very "tasteful".

jimib · Post by **jimib** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:20 am

i emailed him about a wolf computer but unfortunately the australian dollar is so bad at the moment i just cant afford it.

i sold my fuzz factory but his pedal seems to have the crazy of that and some great usable fuzz sounds aswell

euan · Post by **euan** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:31 am

James wrote:
Haze wrote:mojo-mod!
never realized it didn't have a tone stack
still thinking about buying the one on ebay but i would have no practical use for it other than making oddities in my room at night
That sounds like a very practical use to me. If it weren't, euan and I wouldn't own any gear at all.

I would be offended if wasn't entirely true

letsgocoyote · Post by **letsgocoyote** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:18 am

Doog wrote:

Now with fully-installed tone control! Makes a great pedal even more usuable. Hooray.

Need to sort out the grounding so I can do away with the nasty gaffa tape on the outside, if that's even possible..

YAY!

Post by **Doog** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 6:36 pm

I wasn't sure on posting the mod, felt like I was dissing your design a little bit.. but I'm glad that's not the case

hazelwould · Post by **hazelwould** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:46 pm

I've been looking at these... And the price is right. How did you mod it?

Also anyone try the Wizard?

SpaceFace · Post by **SpaceFace** » Thu Dec 18, 2008 10:11 pm

No but I really really want to try that wizard out. I think I may just buy it for the fuck of it.

Post by **Doog** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:19 am

hazelwould wrote:I've been looking at these... And the price is right. How did you mod it?

Also anyone try the Wizard?

Just a pot and cap connected to the footswitch and the volume pot, Mike helped me out. Really gotta change it though because the pot is grounding out on the case without the gaffatape..

Post by **Mike** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:21 am

Hmm.. weird. odd that that side of the pot would be "grounding out". Are you sure it's not the lugs on the inside of the case or the wires connecting to them? I always insulate that area of a case before inserting a pot.

Post by **Doog** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:31 am

I've got tape on the inside too, I think I've just connected something to the wrong place..?

The right wiper goes to the output lug on the jack, which is already connected to the right lug on the volume pot.
Cap connected to middle lug and pot casing.
Pot casing goes to the top right lug on the 3PDT, which is also connected to the middle wiper on the volume pot.

Does that sound iffy?

Post by **Mike** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:40 am

Ah yes. I think you need to connect it like this:

Replace volume middle lug to 3PDT wire.

Connect the yellow wire from the tone control to the left hand lug of the volume pot as you look at it from this angle. This is the input to the volume pot, you just bleed treble off from here.

I can't quite see what you've done from here. I can see you grounded the cap to the jack, that's fine. What's going on with the volume pot and tone control wiring.

Post by **Mike** » Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:45 am

Doog wrote:The right wiper goes to the output lug on the jack, which is already connected to the right lug on the volume pot.
Cap connected to middle lug and pot casing.
Pot casing goes to the top right lug on the 3PDT, which is also connected to the middle wiper on the volume pot.

Does that sound iffy?

OK.

That lug on the jack is ground.
The right lug on the volume pot should connect to it.
One leg of the cap should also connect to it.
The other leg of the cap should be connected to the wiper of the tone control.
The right lug of the tone control should be connected to the left lug of the volume control.
The wiper of the volume control should be connected to the 3DPT.