Fredric Effects one-off moustache pedal for charity. It's a modified Companion Fuzz with etched artwork by Stacey.
Serial number #250 !!! Super R@RE, one only ever.
Going on ebay in next day or two, all proceeds donated to Movember/The Prostate Cancer Charity.
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 10:05 am
by Mike
Etching! Super cool.
You should see what some of the guys on diystompboxes are capable with that stuff.
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 11:57 am
by wwrrss
FUZZSTACHE!!!
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 6:32 pm
by ohyeahfuzzbear
timhulio wrote:You can buy this soon!
Fredric Effects one-off moustache pedal for charity. It's a modified Companion Fuzz with etched artwork by Stacey.
Serial number #250 !!! Super R@RE, one only ever.
Going on ebay in next day or two, all proceeds donated to Movember/The Prostate Cancer Charity.
AWEsome.
I was thinking about trying some etching next time I build something. What's the best way of going about it?
Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 10:21 pm
by timhulio
Cheers for the comments dudes.
Etching: I used press-n-peel blue, ironed the design onto the buffed enclosure. Touch-up with humbrol enamel paint. Attempted to etch in sodium persulphate, which doesn't work on aluminium it seems. Use ferric chloride shit instead. Took a good while to etch, but the stuff wasn't too strong. Clean all the press-n-peel and paint off. Lightly spray the top with black primer. Allow to dry. Polish-up with wet-n-dry, removing the primer not in the etched grooves.
Don't think so. I emailed the facebook group too, so maybe one of them got it.
Recognised some usernames from here, so thanks to those guys who bid it up!
£82 for the charity though, which is ace!
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:37 pm
by timhulio
More Systech Harmonic Energizer fun. Designed a new board for this using a couple of TL074s. Features: buffered bypass (klon buffers), switchable fuzz circuit (opamp muff fuzz). Trimmer is fuzz volume. I also bought a Behringer FCV100 volume/mod pedal which works perfectly replacing the center frequency control. So when this goes into a box I'll add an expression jack.
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:18 pm
by wwrrss
THIS LOOKS COOL, HOW DOES IT SOUND?
Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 5:22 pm
by timhulio
Like a weird fuzz-wah with bass or treble boost settings. I'ma have to demo this as soon as I can put it in a box. Shame I'm having trouble finding affordabe painters/screenprinters at the moment as I really need to make a batch of these.
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:49 am
by timhulio
Did a layout for some Silicon Fuzzfaces I'm gonna sell on ebay. This took me a while, but I think I'm getting better at it. Only one jumper on this layout!
The J201s are for the bypass buffers, and the 2N5088 is for teh volume boost.
I'll post the PCB once it's verified.
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:57 am
by Mike
You're so anal about jumpers. Who cares, it's just another component. You insert a bunch more doing bypass in that fancy way, you trollope.
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 12:10 pm
by timhulio
Yeah but that's the layout game! Win points for resistors in a nice row, lose points for using 0R resistors or jumpers
I should really get out more.
Posted: Tue Dec 07, 2010 8:42 pm
by timhulio
Harmonic Energizer demoooooo.
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Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2011 10:24 pm
by timhulio
Ampeg Scrambler clones are ready!
Pro screen-printed enclosures for a lifetime of scrambled brainz. £80 to Shortscalers, £90 rest of world.
