fantastic furry Fredric Effects thread

Post by **Mike** » Wed May 19, 2010 7:47 am

timhulio wrote:I like how they painted the inside too.

Make sure you sand off the inside near the jacks so they form a ground contact with the case properly.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Wed May 19, 2010 7:53 am

I've asked them to mask off a tab by the jack for the main paint run. I didn't bother with this one though and there's no noise at all.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Wed May 19, 2010 11:48 am

Join the Fredric Effects Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118480601525417

I'll be putting cheap deals up there from time to time and pics of new pedals and stuff.

matt.dines · Post by **matt.dines** » Wed May 19, 2010 4:23 pm

absolutely stunning pedals.I really like the new enclosures too, been thinking im happy with all of my dirt boxes right now! not anymore!
can definatly see one of your pedals on my board the next few months.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Tue May 25, 2010 8:35 am

Cheers Matt.

Here's something else. Demo of the Jehovadrive by the Pineapster FX Militia!

[youtube][/youtube]

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Tue May 25, 2010 8:44 am

that sounds pretty cool Tim, love the William Blake graphics. Any more details?

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:58 pm

Oh yep, the Jehovahdrives there's details a couple pages back. Loads of tasty stuff in these boxes, so complex I'm glad I only made seven of them!

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 12:59 pm

Some Harmonic Percolators on ebay now!

Will post worldwide etc.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:04 pm

"This pedal uses exactly the same hard to obtain parts as the originals: 2N404(A) germanium and 3N3565 silicon transistors, with 1N695 germanium clipping diodes"

Never heard of them.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 1:10 pm

Yuh, 3N- it's one better.

Well spotted, I've edited descriptions.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:05 am

I'm getting sent one of these Lehle-style whopping great mushroom switches as a free sample. Am well excited!

Now I gotta buy a stepped drill bit to make an hole big enough.

Mike Hill (not heard of him until a couple days ago, seems a Cornish kinda guy) uses something very similar in his custom stuff:

Post by **Mike** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:17 am

Is it SPST?

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:20 am

Mike wrote:Is it SPST?

Momentary contact. I'm gonna use it to drive a latching relay for bypass.

Post by **Mike** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:24 am

haha. More than I could ever be arsed in monkeying around with. I'm busy enough just making pedals as it is to experiment with new technology.

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:42 am

I was actually excited to build some working flip-flop circuits last week. Girlfriend thought I was nuts.

RG Keen has this relay driver with a CMOS flip/flop:
http://www.geofex.com/FX_images/ltchrly.gif

The chip it needs is CD4069, which costs 30p and latching relays can be had for Â£1.70 each or much cheaper in bulk. I'm intrigued because it blows open a whole world of sexy switches. Admittedly, that mushroom-headed switch costs Â£13.00!

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:03 pm

After much fiddling and a pointer from a nice chap at Freestompboxes... tested, working and awesome!

This is first prototype from this morning. The board has changed a little above.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:42 am

all of that for a switch?

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 9:06 am

Haze wrote:all of that for a switch?

Switch and status indicator. It might seem a lot, but this board is actually pretty small (I should have got my thumb in the photo for comparison) and the cost of parts is less than Â£2.50. It's also reasonably quick to make, especially if I do them in batches.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 1:20 pm

I can tell it shouldn't be too much bother to stuff one into an enclosure, just used to seeing 7-8 wires coming from a 3pdt. I'm guessing you can still use your millennium bypass dubrees with this?

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Sat Jun 12, 2010 2:04 pm

Nope, this is instead of Millenium Bypass. In this method the board-mounted relay does the actual switching. Planning to use this board in effects which don't seem to get-on with MB, like the Shin-Ei Companion Fuzz.

In 'production' boards I'm certainly not socket-mounting the chip or the relay to save space, and using ceramic caps rather than polybox to save money. It is just a switching circuit, after all, and doesn't touch the audio path.