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I used this to play the gig the other day, sounded really sweet. I'm really enjoying the Toadworks overdrive. I'd like another delay though, I've got my eye on a DE7 on ebay that is going for less than my small stone is at the moment, so hopefully I'll be able to afford it.

I'd also quite like a pedal tuner, I tend to use a headstock tuner when I'm running without pedals but something to stick down on the board would be nice, something like the GFS or Joyo one maybe?

My current pedal board.

Korg DT10 - Boss CS3 with Monte Allums mod - Fredric Effects Scrambled Brainz - Magnetic Effects Rat/Turbo Rat & IC Big Muff with Mids knob - Boss TR2 with Monte Allums mod - Electro Harmonix Stereo Polychorus - MXR Phase 45 reissue - Maxon AD999. Oh, and there's a couple of Boss Line Selectors - one for distortion, the other for modulation.

hows that newfangled polychorus?

I really like it. As a standard chorus or flanger it doesn't really stand up to prevoius pedals i've had (MXR EVH Flanger, MXR Micro Flanger, Ibanez CCL & EHX Small Clone) but what it excels at is sounds that these pedals, and other more standard pedals, can't do. My favourite sound at the moment is the Flanger with the depth set to about 9 or 10 o'clock and the rate at about 3, it sounds kind of like a leslie/rotary speaker. I'd love to be able to work out the settings to make the noise from the beginning of Scentless Apprentice but it has alluded me so far, even using the settings from the EHX website doesn't seem to do it.

Nice Scrambled Brainz! Just sold the last of the first batch of them. Think of the rarity value!

The Scrambled Brainz is great, with the controls straight up I get some almost Neil Young type sounds. The only issue is with the output volume, I have to run it though another pedal to bring the level up. I guess this is something not easily rectified due to the clean sound/fuzz mix.

Yeah that pedal is unity gain like the originals.

I'm getting stuff together for the next batch now (75 of the buggers), and they will have a boost stage and a third volume knob. The artwork will be different though.

That will be awesome. If I didn't already have one i'd be very interested in one, i'm sure others will be too.

Finished up my MadBeanPedals Current Lover project, based on the Deluxe Electric Mistress. Benecol knocked me up some lovely graphics for these pedals I built myself as a treat.

Nice stuff! Especially like the minaturised Electric Mistress.

Think I'm gonna have my filter matrix as a stomp switch. If the boards ever arrive.

That's easily done, it's just a DPDT.

I haven't noticed his stuff taking too long to arrive if it wasn't a preorder. Did you get a shipped notice?

I'm rather surprised that you of all people uses a flanger, Mike

they both look ace.

Aye, I just saw the project and thought "why not?" I've always loved EHX pedals, the classics; PolyChorus, DMM etc, so I thought I'd give this a go. It is rather lovely

Looks great mike

Great work Mike. The guts look time consuming, whats the turnaround on one of these if you dont mind me asking?

Building the board for someting like this is fairly time consuming. The DMM I think is something like 4-5 hours in all to populate the resistors, caps, IC sockets, trimmers, diodes, board mounted pots etc. The DEM is a little simpler so probably something like 2-3 hours.

However if you're building on a verified PCB and take your time the chance of fucking up is quite low if you're an experience solderer.

Wiring up into a box is simpler than any pedal I make myself since everything is board mounted, you just need to wire the jacks, power jack and switch/LED into the case and connect with 4 wires to the board. Simples.

Cool. I think my patience would run out at anything beyond a Fuzz Face circuit.

Spent a good two hours last night before bed having a lot of fun playing this lot into my Mustang I amp.

sexy!

Very Swish.

This now reminds me I haven't bought a pedal for a good while. Hmmm.