Hurb's Pedal of Mystery - Finished!

Post by **Mike** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:12 am

It's way better than a Fender Blender. The Octave effect will be footswitchable for one.

This is max Gain and Volume settings bear in mind - once we add some proper EQ control and I get a Gain pot in there it's going to be awesome

kim · Post by **kim** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:17 am

that sounds A LOT like the fulltone ultimate octave.

proof
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Post by **Mike** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 7:42 am

I had the Octave effect hardwired on, I'll have to make a short video with it off.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:26 pm

As you can tell, I've been doing a lot at work today.

Post by **Doog** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:44 pm

Haha, I've been drawing out all these enclosures I've been looking at too..

Post by **Mike** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:47 pm

Making Veroboard layouts that complicated takes several iterations and is tedious as fuck. I hope it's going to fit into the case with two footswitches, it's gonna be a tight fit. I hope I get big time manlove from Hurb at Doogfest for this.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:42 pm

After finishing Ludger's Booster I was still in the mood so I made a veroboard for Hurb's pedal. Marked where the ground rails, external connections and tranny sockets are in black. Red are cut traces.

Cut the traces using a drill

All resistors on board

Post by **Hurb** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:31 pm

holy shit mike

so awesome!

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:43 pm

Sick tones from that demo, Mike. The hint of octave and wet decay made me reach for my Jimi Hendrix lunchbox this morning.

Hurbivoires everywhere would love to see it in the hands of the man himself.

aen · Post by **aen** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:17 am

HUrb will have the most shortscale created pedals of any shortscaler.

Post by **Mike** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:04 am

ultratwin wrote:Sick tones from that demo, Mike. The hint of octave and wet decay made me reach for my Jimi Hendrix lunchbox this morning.

Hurbivoires everywhere would love to see it in the hands of the man himself.

Yeah I cannot wait until someone who doesn't reach for the outro solo from Live Forever while playing a Fuzz box has it in their hands. It'll be slow going with a pedal this complex and I'm yet to finalise the bass/treble control's tone stack, but I'm glad to be off the ground and making progress.

it's going to be a BEAST.

Post by **Mike** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:43 pm

Some very special diodes arrived today

Mmmmm Germanium TONE

Post by **Hurb** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:48 pm

just got an erection.

Post by **Mike** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:55 pm

Some transistors are turning up from Maplin tomorrow hopefully. You're gonna fucking SPURT.

Post by **Hurb** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:56 pm

Mike wrote:Some transistors are turning up from Maplin tomorrow hopefully. You're gonna fucking SPURT.

too late

Post by **Mike** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:57 pm

Post by **Mike** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:45 pm

Added caps and diodes. Waiting on pots so I can finalise the new filter stage.

Post by **Hurb** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 4:47 pm

sexy times!

oooo bother

Justin J · Post by **Justin J** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:39 pm

are those germanium transistors?

Post by **Mike** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:45 pm

Nah, they're just low-gain old school ones. The diodes are germanium.