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This was built using Madbean's Current Lover pcb. This was a build for my Uncle and the graphics were his idea. I came up with the font and lettering. I am not happy with the pictures. I did them in a hurry. I will try and get some more using natural light tomorrow and some gut shots as well.

It sounds great! I am not really a flanger guy but there are some great sounds sounds in this thing. I used the MN3007 in case anyone was wondering.

A buddy asked me to build him a Klone and wanted it to be pretty close to the original as far as external looks go. I couldn't find the right knobs these are similar but smaller. He also wanted silver instead of gold.

I would like to thank Kevin from Aion for helping me to get the polarity right on some electrolytic resistors.

I don't remember where I read about changing C14 to 8n2 from 3n9 but I had written it down and socketed it. I like it better with the 8n2 it seems fatter. I also read about a mod for C8 to either remove it altogether or put it on a switch with  a lower value capacitor. I decided to use a 20pF as the lower value.

Thanks to those who shared their mods. I would like to individually thank you but I forgot who posted what.

It's not perfect, there are plenty of flaws, but it sounds great! I will have trouble parting with it. I understand what the hype is about now.

On to the pics:

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I ran across an old blue box MXR 6 band eq at a nice price. It was in poor not working condition. I bought it and figured I would fix it later. Between the time I purchased and the time it arrived I ran across a guy on ebay selling several NOS MXR boards complete with schematics and parts layouts with original MXR part #'s for the build kits.

So when the eq arrived I opened it up. It was in horrible shape. The jacks were rusted the wires were brittle the traces on the pcb were corroded and the sliders were filled with 30 years of nasty gunk.

I decided to roll the dice and buy the nos pcb from the guy on ebay. I then decided if I was going to completely rebuild it I would use 1% Xicon resistors and 5% Panasonic ECQ-V series capacitors. I think the tantalums are TDK. I also socketed the opamps and installed TLO72's to make it quieter than it was originally. I found a video on You Tube that showed how to disassemble, rebuild, and re-lube the original sliders to like new condition. I bought new Switchcraft enclosed jacks like the original and even used the red, yellow, blue, and black wiring configuration the original had. The only thing I did different was drill and install a dc jack for modern use. I thought about adding a foot switch but wanted to retain as much of it's originality as possible.

I had done all this with the intention of flipping it. I knew I would lose some money potentially but wanted to make something old new again and put it back into service. Hopefully it would have made someone very happy, and they could have swapped the opamps to OPA2134's or something. I was going to include all the original parts, build docs I used and pictures on a disc to give it some history.  Anyway when I plugged it in I fell in love with it and have no intention of selling it.

Here are a few pics as it currently exists:

Not sure where to post this so if it needs to be moved or removed altogether that's ok.

I am looking for a pcb to build a BK Butler Tube Driver. I can't find one anywhere. I understand they are out of production and most people say the original BK Butler Is the one to have not the Chandler version. I know there are a lot of talented people who do layouts on here and don't know if anyone is tackling this already or not.

This would be a project I would build for my Uncle. It's something I would like to do for him to surprise him. I have a ton of respect for him. He taught me my very first guitar chords over 20 years ago, something my stepfather was unwilling to do.

If there is an alternative, Like something that is very close I may be open to that. If it is impossible due to parts availability, unknown transformers, or you just don't like me or want to help that's cool as well. I could just tell him to save for the original.

Thanks in advance to anyone for any information you can provide!

I got this at Christmas time last year and only now got around to completing it. This is my second time using Envirotex. Sounds great! Its a really smooth overdrive, reminds me of a Tube Screamer without the loss of bass and the mid hump.



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This is second AMZ Power supply I have built. This time I used a 125b enclosure which works better I think.


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Haven't uploaded anything in a while. This is my 1st attempt at Envirotex. Got it a little thick. Excellent circuit. It is entirely stock using 1n914 diodes.

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Daniel

Some of you may remember the AMZ power supply I built. Here it is after a little laser etching by a buddy of mine at work.



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1776 reverb



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Madbean Sea Urchin



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Madbean Bloviator II minus knobs



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Hi - I have an Uncle who is a Davis Gilmour fan who just started playing guitar again after 15 years or more. I would like to surprise him with a clone or close copy of what David Gilmour used for his dirty sound.

I have seen references to modifications in parts lists to achieve this, but have never seen an actual parts list.

I would appreciate any help in a point in the right direction.

Thanks in advance,

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Daniel

After discovering that certain pedals are very sensitive to power supplies I decided to build one. The board is very customizable. I decided to keep it simple. I have 7 - 9 volt outputs on this. I was going to go with a Duracell copper top theme and changed my mind. The color is the antique gold from Mammoth Electronics. It works great, no pedal hum. Very clean power.   




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This was the 2nd pedal populated and boxed. It sounds great! I used the Cool Audio chips in this. It is a really clean chorus. Just what I was looking for. I tried to pay homage to the original with the color, knobs,font, and led color. The led pulses with the speed knob. I couldn't find the original font so I used the font from The Terminator. Looking back the wiring could have been cleaner, but it works.




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This was the 3rd board I populated, but the 1st installed in an enclosure. I downloaded and used the Back to the Future movie font. The image was cropped from a larger charcoal drawing of Marty and Doc Brown.

I love this pedal! I can't believe how clean the boost is!



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