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Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:44 pm
by benecol
Ooh, nice guts.

Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 9:50 pm
by wwrrss
so ridiculously tidy.

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:39 am
by timhulio
wwrrss wrote:so ridiculously tidy.
Thanks! My girlfriend populated these boards, so she'll be well chuffed :)

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:42 am
by Mike
timhulio wrote:I've been a-making more scrambler clones.
timhulio wrote:My girlfriend populated these boards
haha.. PIMP!

They look immense mate, congrats on spreading the workload also. Haven't you got your bro drilling cases and all? Soon you'll just need to throw fish guts at the pair of them every two days.

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 9:56 am
by timhulio
Ha! Well the proceeds are going towards our house (pokey flat) fund so she'll see some benefit in the long run.

Tom, my 14 year old brother, has been drilling PCBs and learning to solder. Least I could do as they outsourced his paper round! Actually it's good as it gives us something to talk about, and he's just getting into music/bands etc. Only I drill the cases, as it's a pain in the ass and I'm a terrible stickler for having all the holes accurate.

Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 4:50 pm
by sp3k
You should put "handmade family business" somewhere in your site, that's how personal it can get for pedal makers, i'm sure boutique guys would love it :lol:

Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 11:21 pm
by timhulio
I reworked my boosted companion fuzz layout, removing the tone 'scoop' in the original and substituting a big muff tone control. Gonna start offering this fuzz as an option in the Unpleasant Companion enclosure once I've tested/demo'd the thing. The vintage correct, but somewhat ineffective tone control is something that's bugged me about the FY-2 for a while.

This layout took ages!

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Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:03 am
by Dave
Pedal sounds ace but get that printed on a shirt and I'll buy it.

Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2010 7:17 pm
by Mages
speaking of out of the ordinary bypass circuits.... just noticed this on the frantone website:
Frantone effects use a unique active true bypass audio switching circuit that is designed to stay in bypass mode if the applied power is less than 7 volts. The LED can light with as little as 3 volts supplied, so it may remain lit in this case. The benefit of this circuit is that if your battery or power supply falls bellow operational levels while playing the audio chain is not interrupted. There is nothing worse during a performance than stomping on a pedal and getting your signal muted!

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2010 7:51 am
by timhulio
Hot stuff! There's also some interesting developments with electronic switches online. I'm gonna try these at some point:
http://www.thetonegod.com/tech/switches/switches.html

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:04 pm
by timhulio
My FY-2 solution, in classic booootweaker style, is this:

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Here's my first completed board. It sounds really pretty interesting. The nastiness of the FY-2 is still in there, but the range of tones is massive, and the volume is well, loud.

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Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:15 pm
by benecol
I felt my wallet give a little quiver i my pocket as I read that post. Too early for me to call dibs on the prototype in a plain box?

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 9:57 pm
by wwrrss
timhulio wrote:My FY-2 solution, in classic booootweaker style, is this:

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Here's my first completed board. It sounds really pretty interesting. The nastiness of the FY-2 is still in there, but the range of tones is massive, and the volume is well, loud.

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No chance of the fuzz control outside the box?

Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2010 10:29 pm
by timhulio
Yep it is- the controls are tone and vol. The trimmer is the weird mid-tone of the stock fy-2 schematic.

Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2010 10:57 am
by Gabriel
Ohh I'm loving the idea of that pedal.

Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2010 3:25 pm
by timhulio
And a demo!

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Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2010 9:02 pm
by timhulio
Here's my workspace. Wooo! It's a mess.

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Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 10:03 am
by timhulio
I've done a couplea things not on pcbs recently.

Willin's Muff fuzz with klon buffer. Built on padboard.
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A silicon fuzzface. Built on mojoboard- no solder pads!

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Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 11:00 am
by johnnyseven
Any chance of a demo of the silicon fuzz face?

Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 11:10 am
by timhulio
No chance, I'm afraid. There's quite a lot of silicon fuzzface demos on youtube and this ones sounds just like them. It's a one-off, because if someone wants a simple pedal in a plain enclosure for £60 I cannot say no :D