fantastic furry Fredric Effects thread

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:44 am

I'm making a batch of custom pedals for these chaps:
http://pineapster.com/groups/the_pineapster_fx_militia

It's a crazy but interesting design, a parallel boost/distortion usings bits and bobs from various sources. Has turned-out quite huge!

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input - klon buffer - mxr dist + - green ringer - amz tone control - output &#40;b&#41; or mixer then output &#40;a&#41;
        - klon buffer - mxr microamp - output &#40;a&#41; or mixer

Post by **Mike** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:50 am

Are you using a charge pump to power the Klon Buffers? It doesn't look like it from here...

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:57 am

Nopes I think the Klon buffer runs on 9v anyway. I nabbed the buffer from the Beavis site. The cool thing about the first bit of the circuit is that I managed to use the TL074 for two buffers and the two mxr circuits.

You experimented with charge pumps at all? I've ordered bunch of MAX1044 chippies, but they've not arrived yet. Planning to introduce a little extra voltage to everything I already build to see what happens.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:19 am

Napes. It runs on the charge pdumped +-15V. That is what gives it the delicious headroom it is famous for.

I have used them when I've build Klons. ICL7660s are a more hardy version of the wussy MAX1044 (you'll HAVE to use a 9.1V Zener to protect it). Be careful with electrolytic cap orientation and the diodes. Worth making a box with one in it and using it to try on prototyped stuff. You'll have to make sure your electrolytics are in spec though.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:06 am

In this schematic, the first opamp (the buffer, no?) runs on 9V, the second uses the charge pumped voltage.
http://freestompboxes.org/members/souls ... 24-08b.gif

Post by **Mike** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:08 am

Right you are, I thought it was off V2+ and V- from memory.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:42 pm

I cascaded three mxr dist+ circuits using a single TL074. Woot. Sounds wild!

The controls: Gain, Gain, Gain.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:55 pm

that sounds like good fun! all of these variants on the dist+ are wild cool

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 3:02 pm

I made a new one... Atomic Clock ring modulator.

http://fredric.co.uk/effects/index.php?content=atomicclock

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 3:09 pm

Oh fuck I want one.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:23 pm

Heh. I better make some more then, as I've just sold the first two!

Here's something else... laser-cut wolves. Wonder what these could be for?

Post by **Mike** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:31 pm

That is fit! 3d pedal finishes?

Post by **Mike** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:36 pm

hhah.. I'm not really hearing anything "musical" about the arpeggio clean guitar mixed with airraid siren oscillation.

Sounds better in fixed mode, but I understand I do not belong to the demographic for this pedal.

Reece · Post by **Reece** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:46 pm

that sounds mental.

i want one too.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 6:51 pm

timhulio wrote:I made a new one... Atomic Clock ring modulator.

That looks sexy as hell. As do the laser cut wolves. Very tidy.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 9:32 pm

timhulio wrote:

Loving the graphics, they looks brilliant.

Post by **Doog** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 11:14 pm

timhulio wrote: http://fredric.co.uk/effects/index.php?content=atomicclock

What's the ticket price on this, out of interest Timmy? Sure is sick sounding

aen · Post by **aen** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:28 am

I would like to license that from you and shitcan the Hax.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:06 pm

The first grumbly wolf with a laser-cut relief. Pretty pleased how this turned-out!

What I did with this pedal was to epoxy the design (lasercut from 1.2mm aluminium sheet) onto the bare enclosure. Painted it with black primer, wet-n-dry the paint off the front of the pedal, exposing the shiny alu. Then a couple of clearcoats.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 12:15 am

that looks mega-sick tim, real proper.