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benecol wrote:notoriously litigious about it

Yeah odd that Black Cat can still call theirs a Superfuzz. The Voodoo Labs one is a Jordon Bosstone, isn't it. Really like the look of the Black Cat pedal though. Nice colour scheme. I'd be happy to sell mine for £80-90 though, undercutting them by half. I'm going to make one anyway to test my layout. That'll probably put me off the idea.

Why did I think the Ampeg Scrambler was some sort of treble booster until just now? This looks quite fun. Parts count is reasonable too and nothing too hard to find.

Balance control makes it very bass friendly too.

The fuzz section from the Roland Double Beat wah would be an awesome pedal. Three interesting sounds in one. Could do with an extra pre-gain control though, I always have to roll my guitar volume back on it.

Tim - i don't know if this has enough 'legend' to be a good seller but it is one of those rare and far out pedals that indie noisenics would love - not that i want one one REALLY BAD you understand...

Here's the freestompboxes thread on the HARMONIC ENERGISER

Dave wrote:Tim - i don't know if this has enough 'legend' to be a good seller but it is one of those rare and far out pedals that indie noisenics would love - not that i want one one REALLY BAD you understand...

Here's the freestompboxes thread on the HARMONIC ENERGISER

Nice! There's a full layout up there already, but I'd have to draw my own. Will add this to the list of stuff to prototype and maybe make more if it sounds good.

Bonus for using a single quad opamp to do all the work.

Harmonic Energiser is fun. Like a cocked wah in the middle settings and a treble or bass boost at either end of the spectrum. I've only played with this for a little while but it's quite promising. Will box it up and might add it to my board for a bit. I do kinda wish the wah was envelope controlled for added funkiness (LOLE) rather than fixed, but it sounds nice. What might make it killer would be another boost and clipping stage.

Many people really remaking the Gibson Maestro Fuzz-tone?

Dave wrote:Tim - i don't know if this has enough 'legend' to be a good seller but it is one of those rare and far out pedals that indie noisenics would love - not that i want one one REALLY BAD you understand...

Here's the freestompboxes thread on the HARMONIC ENERGISER

this is frank zappa's secret tool. used shit loads on his guitar sounds.

aha. i'd always been led to believe it was an actual cocked wah he used. this'd be cooler.

Definately promising. What I gotta do next is shrink the board so it'll fit in a Hammond B enclosure and look into board-mounting the pots.

I built the layout on Freestompboxes, designed I think for fatass carbon comp resistors.

Is that the harmonic energiser yeah?
I'd quite like a ce1 that's in a smaller lighter enclosure. Probably way more effort than what it's worth.
Not really reissuing a vintage pedal but I want a freakenstien fuzz in a metal encosure with a normal footswitch and generally better build quality.
I tried one the other day and it felt really flimsy. Not at all worth the price tag.

If it gets me closer to Frank Zappa's tone the harmonic energiser would be awesome.

I think i'd probably be interested in any pedal you decide to start building Tim, I have 3 of your pedals on my board at the moment and I love them all.

Do an Doom Box of some sort.

I used to have a Systech phase, it sounded great and had two sweeps. The enclosure was the size of a hard cover book and was built like a tank. You could easily kill somebody with that stomp pedal, I like the idea of that.

The problem with the space saving enclosures is they all look the same. For the most part all the boutique pedal makers stuff looks exactly the same no matter how good the artwork, it all looks generic, since nobody(very few) bother to design their own enclosures. I guess that's just gonna be a relic of the 70's which still might be the greatest decade of stompboxes. Now is a good time too, don't get me wrong I'm not complaining, there's a lot of options out there but it lacks originality. Even in the 70's people were borrowing and modding each other's designs but they had a strong company identity to set themselves apart. There are so many stompboxes makers out there and a few new ones every month that I can't even keep up. There used to be time where you could show me almost any stomp-box and I could tell you the company for sure and probably the effect.

jcyphe wrote:The problem with the space saving enclosures is they all look the same. For the most part all the boutique pedal makers stuff looks exactly the same no matter how good the artwork, it all looks generic, since nobody(very few) bother to design their own enclosures. I guess that's just gonna be a relic of the 70's which still might be the greatest decade of stompboxes. Now is a good time too, don't get me wrong I'm not complaining, there's a lot of options out there but it lacks originality. Even in the 70's people were borrowing and modding each other's designs but they had a strong company identity to set themselves apart. There are so many stompboxes makers out there and a few new ones every month that I can't even keep up. There used to be time where you could show me almost any stomp-box and I could tell you the company for sure and probably the effect.

Yep I see your point about sameiness and lack of originality. One of the big problems though is that guitarists are quite a conservative bunch when it comes to buying gear. So they'd be more likely to buy a harmonic percolator that looks a bit like a 70s MXR script logo pedal than, say, one finished in lurid floral fabric. I am two years into the pedal building game, having built just over 200 units, so at this stage I can't plow huge amounts of money into stuff I can't be sure will sell. I have been doing some research into custom enclosures- like maestro/shin-ei style wedges in smaller sizes, but that looks like £7-£10 per enclosure for a batch of 100, plus £5 per unit pro painting and screen printing, means £1500 outlay before you've even put any gizzards in there. The costs are prohibitive for smaller builders.

As guitarist who generally has to carry his gear on the bus or tube to gigs I much prefer small enclosures to big fancy looking ones. All I want from my pedals is that they sound awesome and are as small as possible, I'm not really bothered what they look like - as long as I can tell which one is which on my board.

True that; while interesting looking boxes are fun (I think part of my love for Tim's Tonebender was the case), the sound and cost is ALWAYS going to be the defining factor in a purchase.

It's just not practical to have a gigging pedalboard full of oversized boxes, no matter how kooky.

Everyone that buys a PS-3 gets it for mode 7. I think it's pretty cheesy, but folks on the forums that are more shred/pedal oriented seem to go nuts for these things.

Reverse delay with an octave up pitch shift. Or something. Probably too expensive to make though.