Mike's Pedal Thread

Post by **Mike** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:43 am

Wicked.

Thanks for the kind words mate.

Post by **Mike** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:43 pm

Thom, Tim, your fuzz pedals went in the post today, 1st class. With any luck you should have them tomorrow. Thanks very much for your custom and the monies.

Mike's Naughty Savings Account = Â£375

Post by **Mike** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:45 pm

Posted
1. Benecol's FuzzFace with Fuller mods - Completed
2. Coupletones fuzzbox - Completed

Done
3. JD's Fuzz Factory - Completed.

In progress:
4. Astro - Saltbooster Plus (with tone control) - sticker + lacquer, Blue LED - board built and tested - Case drilled
5. Astro - Foxx Tone Machine clone - Green with Green LED, footswitchable Octave effect with Yellow LED - board built & tested - case drilled, painted and lacquered
6. stewart - Fulltone OCD clone, White with Pink LED, board built, case drilled, painted and lacquered

-. Ebay Big Muff - takes lowest priority obviously. Board built and tested - Case drilled and painted

Astro's two pedal boards are tested and working

Stewart's OCD board is built but currently not passing sound, I have the prototype working on breadboard and am going to debug the board on Friday.

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:50 pm

Thanks mate that's great.

Post by **Mike** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:01 pm

Astro's Tone Machine/Ultimate Octave and Stewart's OCD cases. I stickered and lacquered the Saltboost case also today.

I built Stewart a new OCD board from scratch and it fucking works. BONERTOWN. It sounds fucking immense actually.

I hope to wire these over the weekend and teh start of next week.

Controls on the Octave are Fuzz, Tone, Tone toggle switch, Volume

Controls on the OCD are Gain and Volume with the LP/HP switch between them and the Tone in between them below.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:10 pm

Mike wrote:Astro's Tone Machine/Ultimate Octave and Stewart's OCD cases. I stickered and lacquered the Saltboost case also today.

I built Stewart a new OCD board from scratch and it fucking works. BONERTOWN. It sounds fucking immense actually.

OH YES! can't wait for that one. glad you got it working. i think white and pink is also going to look very modern. an albino overdrive!

Post by **Mike** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:11 pm

haha

I'm most excited about the toggle switch. I LOVE TOGGLE SWITCHES.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:44 am

So I built that Big Muff for ebay which is in Classifieds until tomorrow.

Then I built Astro's Octave Fuzz. I forgot how complicated these things are to wire. Luckily it worked first time and sounds fucking PHAT.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 12:00 pm

Done
1. JD's Fuzz Factory - Completed.
2. Astro - Foxx Tone Machine/Ultimate Octave clone - Green with Green LED, footswitchable Octave effect with Yellow LED - Completed
3. Ebay Big Muff - Completed - in Classifies until tomorrow evening

In progress:
5. Astro - Saltbooster Plus (with tone control) - sticker + lacquer, Blue LED - board built and tested - Case stickered and lacquered
6. stewart - Fulltone OCD clone, White with Pink LED, board built & tested, case drilled, painted and lacquered

I'm waiting on Stewart's Pink LED but I should get that next week. I'm going to build his OCD without LED tomorrow. I'll probably end up building teh Saltbooster after a shower now.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 12:23 pm

i knew that LED would be trouble...

Post by **Mike** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:17 pm

stewart wrote:i knew that LED would be trouble...

Ah it's not so bad, I found a place n the UK that sells them, only they use paypal and slow shipping.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:21 pm

Finished Astro's Saltbooster Plus

Post by **Mike** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:22 pm

Done
1. JD's Fuzz Factory - Completed.
2. Astro - Foxx Tone Machine/Ultimate Octave clone - Green with Green LED, footswitchable Octave effect with Yellow LED - Completed
3. Ebay Big Muff - Completed - in Classifies until tomorrow evening
4. Astro - Saltbooster Plus (with tone control) - sticker + lacquer, Blue LED - Completed

In progress:
5. stewart - Fulltone OCD clone, White with Pink LED, board built & tested, case drilled, painted and lacquered

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:42 pm

This morning BenecolJr and I pottered down the post office to collect my fuzzface - thanks Mike! It was promptly whipped out of my hands as soon as I got through the door by my wife, insistent that since it's a birthday present, I can't have it until my birthday. Slag. I moaned and whined that I should plug it in just once to make sure its patented geranium technology had survived transit - she double-bluffed me, plugged it into my amp, and hamfistedly played my guitar through it while adjusting the controls.

I can report that it sounds great, even while Mrs Benecol accidentally plays the Howard's Way theme through it. Full report on or after September 7th. Thanks Mike.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:43 pm

hahaha.. that's got to be one of the best initial posts I've had after a pedal arrives. Nice one Tim, looking forward to your thoughts in a week or so

More Cowbell · Post by **More Cowbell** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:17 pm

I love that green paint.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 3:37 pm

More Cowbell wrote:I love that green paint.

Yeah, it's ridiculous isn't it?

Metallics are way easy to spray also. Good times.

astro · Post by **astro** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:14 pm

The pedals you built me look sweet! That metallic green kicks ass. I'm going to wear that pedal on my head at next year's St-Patrick's day. I love the knobs that you used, too!

Check your paypal, there are some electronic coins waiting for you in there.

Post by **Mike** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:30 pm

Thanks bud! I'm glad you like, will get these into your hands ASAP.

The controls on the Booster are tone top left and volume in teh middle

The Octave Fuzz is Fuzz, Tone, Toneswitch and Volume.

Left switch is pedal on and off, right switch is Octave engaged or just regular Fuzztone.

Post by **Mike** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:50 am

Done
1. JD's Fuzz Factory - Completed.
2. Astro - Foxx Tone Machine/Ultimate Octave clone - Green with Green LED, footswitchable Octave effect with Yellow LED - Completed
3. Green Big Muff - Completed - sold'd to Arsecake
4. Astro - Saltbooster Plus (with tone control) - sticker + lacquer, Blue LED - Completed
5. stewart - Fulltone OCD clone, White with Pink LED - Completed except for LED

In progress:
6. Mickie - Box Of Rock with 3 band EQ - board marked and resistors added.

Stewart's OCD is done!

It sounds rather fabulous, just needs that pink LED. I'll knock together a demo later on I think