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Title: BEHOLD!!!! THE LEVIATHAN!!
Post by: Willybomb on October 03, 2017, 08:44:46 AM
Gudday all.  Here's Leviathan.  In a nutshell:

Boost - Brian May Treble Booster OR SHO, Or Treble Booster cascaded into SHO.  Both Tayda pcbs.  The LED changes colour according to the selection.

Mid Gain - Tayda Englishgent pcb, OR Marshallarts' 1590a Zendrive pcb.  The LED changed according to the drive selected.

Plexi - Wampler Plexidrive on vero.

Worked first go, except for the Plexi that I had hooked the in/outs up to the wrong lugs on the footswitch.

Willy.
Title: Re: BEHOLD!!!! THE LEVIATHAN!!
Post by: Adam_DIY on October 03, 2017, 09:29:25 AM
Looks excellent I love the graphic.  What size enclosure is that? Also how do the different LED colours for each selection work?
Title: Re: BEHOLD!!!! THE LEVIATHAN!!
Post by: Willybomb on October 03, 2017, 09:58:59 AM
It's a DD.

For the boosts, the LED colour selection works off one set of the poles/throws on the rotary switch.  There's a common anode RGB LED in the bezel.  The ground off the rotary goes to the footswitch as usual.

For the mid gainers, there's another RGB LED with the blue clipped off (my straight RG LEDs didn't seem to work so well).  The footswitch goes to a 3pdt toggle that selects which drive and also switches to whatever colour.  Ground from that toggle goes to the footswitch.
Title: Re: BEHOLD!!!! THE LEVIATHAN!!
Post by: jubal81 on October 03, 2017, 10:14:42 AM
Whoa! That looks great. I really like the concept, too. Well thought out project.
Title: Re: BEHOLD!!!! THE LEVIATHAN!!
Post by: jimilee on October 03, 2017, 01:11:29 PM
Excellent


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Title: Re: BEHOLD!!!! THE LEVIATHAN!!
Post by: Martan on October 03, 2017, 01:16:32 PM
Nice! How's the treble booster into the Plexi? Love mine into a FuzzFace, but haven't tried it with other drive pedals.
Title: Re: BEHOLD!!!! THE LEVIATHAN!!
Post by: mrclean77 on October 03, 2017, 01:53:45 PM
Holy bananas - that's a definite grab-n-go dirt box - nice work!
Title: Re: BEHOLD!!!! THE LEVIATHAN!!
Post by: diablochris6 on October 03, 2017, 02:47:19 PM
Massively epic. I bet it sounds like a monster.
Title: Re: BEHOLD!!!! THE LEVIATHAN!!
Post by: Aleph Null on October 03, 2017, 08:16:05 PM
Looks really nice. The guts are surprisingly tidy for a multi build. I like the graphics.
Title: Re: BEHOLD!!!! THE LEVIATHAN!!
Post by: mjg on October 03, 2017, 09:19:35 PM
This has all of the things!  Nice work.
Title: Re: BEHOLD!!!! THE LEVIATHAN!!
Post by: EBK on October 04, 2017, 10:22:23 AM
Every now and then, there's a build I find myself looking at repeatedly.  This is one of them.  A real pleasure to behold.
Title: Re: BEHOLD!!!! THE LEVIATHAN!!
Post by: Martan on October 04, 2017, 01:15:31 PM
Who's in the background, there? Looks like a Transformers Combiner team.
Title: Re: BEHOLD!!!! THE LEVIATHAN!!
Post by: Willybomb on October 05, 2017, 02:06:29 AM
QuoteWho's in the background, there? Looks like a Transformers Combiner team.

Close.  It's the Jaegers from Pacific Rim (Gypsy Danger, Cherno Alpha, Eureka Striker, ???, Crimson Typhoon).  I don't like artwork getting covered by knobs so that was the best option imo.
Title: Re: BEHOLD!!!! THE LEVIATHAN!!
Post by: Philthy on October 05, 2017, 04:23:32 AM
epic - I love a multi
Title: Re: BEHOLD!!!! THE LEVIATHAN!!
Post by: Willybomb on October 06, 2017, 06:58:15 AM
Quote from: Martan on October 03, 2017, 01:16:32 PM
Nice! How's the treble booster into the Plexi? Love mine into a FuzzFace, but haven't tried it with other drive pedals.

I think I like the treble booster into pretty much anything more than the SHO.  It's pretty nice into the Plexi (and the Zendrive).