Mike's Pedal Thread

ambientnoize · Post by **ambientnoize** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:35 pm

On a completely unrelated note, how small an enclosure do you think you could fit a saltbooster into?

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:41 pm

i'm wondering the same thing. but i was thinking about a saltbooster but no switch so its always on. just in>saltboost>out. no led or anything, just a dc

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 11:42 pm

he built a mini-saltboost for kim that was in a pretty tiny box.

Post by **Mike** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:02 am

Yeah that's as small as I go.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:08 am

I have received a little purple package of joy and nasty noises. Now begins the hunt for a DC adaptor at work so I can have a fiddle with it...

Thanks a million Mike.

Post by **Mike** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:20 am

No worries mate, glad it got there ok. I didn't think the post office lady had pressed the recorded delivery sticker down probably but she was so pretty I didn't mention it.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:27 am

So, I had a chance to have a quick muck about with the Machine last night - on it's own, it can be almost reminiscent of an Octavia, and does some weird things - the notes almost seem to bloom backwards; you'll play something, only to think that the fuzz has flubbed it and it's going to disappear, then it comes back, bigger and uglier than ever. Where this pedal really excels however is goosing other pedals: I tried it in front of, variously, a Ram's Head Muff, a Superfuzz and the Mutantes Fuzz. While it didn't do so much in front of the latter (which has got the wierdest gated fade on it anyhow, so isn't at all surprising - it's already crackers) it made the muff and the superfuzz sound like this:

... which is exactly the effect I was after.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:30 am

Happy Days, glad you like it bud, thanks as always for your tireless work on the decals.

Now sort NickD's pedal out (only kididng, not drilling again until Tuesday)

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:34 am

Roger - will do.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:39 am

There really is no rush, sometime before the end of the weekend will be great.

I drilled the Saltbreaker and Saltshaker last night and painted them red and BRIGHT PINK respectively. the hottness.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 3:47 pm

Dear Mike,

Please invent an insanely gainy, noisey, and aggressive pedal. Name it "Salt in the wound". Paint it pink. Sell it to me.

Sincerely,
Ends

Post by **Mike** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 3:48 pm

Meh.

I'd be more interested in cascading two overdrives to form that much filth to be honest.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 3:52 pm

I really just like the idea of a bright pink pedal called "salt in the wound" more than anything.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:05 pm

endsjustifymeans wrote:I really just like the idea of a bright pink pedal called "salt in the wound" more than anything.

Call it salt in the wound and make it a big picture of Jimmy's face with the footswitch in his mouth.

Gavin · Post by **Gavin** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:15 pm

mickie08 · Post by **mickie08** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:18 pm

come on now, guve Jimmy a little credit. It would be more like salt in the vagina.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Wed Sep 23, 2009 4:35 pm

HAY-YO!
too soon?

Have you tried cascading salt storms yet? that could be the next beans on toast my friend

sp3k · Post by **sp3k** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:34 pm

a rat i bought camed with the reutz rat, i love it and everything, but i wanted to see how the normal rat sounded. It doesn't sound that good. I put an on/off switch, so i could switch between the diffent sounds. Everything was fine, working great. Then i drilled the case without taking off the circuit... well the input thing got broken, i tried to put another one, i still can't get a sound.... do you think you could take a look at it Mike? see if you can fix it? i really like the reautz rat sound...

Post by **Mike** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:36 pm

Input jack needs replacing?

Yeah I should be able to sort that for you, did you see any damage to the circuit board from where you drilled the case? Maybe some loose metal from when you drilled it is shorting two tracks together?

sp3k · Post by **sp3k** » Thu Sep 24, 2009 9:50 pm

everything looks fine to me, only the input jack was kind of drilled....
i did replaced it, but probably did it wrong