All,
I tried a post after I got back from the Mark Green "Try 84 self-made pedals in 1 day" weekend trip, but my phone crashed when I tried to post and I didn't feel like typing it all again. Today is a better day, and I'm putting my sausage fingers to work on my home computer. To play 84 pedals that one person made over the small span of 5 years was truly a once in a lifetime experience. With the exception of a few that didn't work, they all sounded amazing. I"m going to post three pictures. Two of the pictures are the two pedal boards that sum up all of the pedals he made, and the third picture shows the guts inside the "Unicorn pooping out cupcakes" pedal. I believe it was a Klon Centaur clone, because it had the Chimaera PC board inside. Check out one of the pedal board pics to see the killer graphics on this pedal. It had tons of gain! I've played an original Klon, but this one had two DPDT switches on it. The Cupcakes switch was tied to the Gain pot on the right, and the Unicorn Tears switch was tied to the Boost pot on the left. With both engaged, it was tons of creamy gain! I'm not sure if this is a mod someone on this forum came up with, or if it was Mark's own doing. Whatever he did, it was awesome.
He made pedals in probably every category: flangers, choruses, delays, other modulation pedals, tons of Fuzz pedals, overdrives, distortion, tube screamers, EQs, and other pedals beyond classification. I'm not the pedal maker that many of you are, I just solder my own cables. However, even with my untrained eye, it seems like he experimented with different parts and different designs from the clones he was making, which makes most of his pedals one of a kind in my estimation.
I also want to thank you all for the many positive comments you made about him. I shared them with Mark's sister, and she and her family and friends were very encouraged by the things you all had to say. Seeing all he did inspires me to make my own pedals, but my wife might kill me for yet another music-related hobby!
All the best,
Jeff
I tried a post after I got back from the Mark Green "Try 84 self-made pedals in 1 day" weekend trip, but my phone crashed when I tried to post and I didn't feel like typing it all again. Today is a better day, and I'm putting my sausage fingers to work on my home computer. To play 84 pedals that one person made over the small span of 5 years was truly a once in a lifetime experience. With the exception of a few that didn't work, they all sounded amazing. I"m going to post three pictures. Two of the pictures are the two pedal boards that sum up all of the pedals he made, and the third picture shows the guts inside the "Unicorn pooping out cupcakes" pedal. I believe it was a Klon Centaur clone, because it had the Chimaera PC board inside. Check out one of the pedal board pics to see the killer graphics on this pedal. It had tons of gain! I've played an original Klon, but this one had two DPDT switches on it. The Cupcakes switch was tied to the Gain pot on the right, and the Unicorn Tears switch was tied to the Boost pot on the left. With both engaged, it was tons of creamy gain! I'm not sure if this is a mod someone on this forum came up with, or if it was Mark's own doing. Whatever he did, it was awesome.
He made pedals in probably every category: flangers, choruses, delays, other modulation pedals, tons of Fuzz pedals, overdrives, distortion, tube screamers, EQs, and other pedals beyond classification. I'm not the pedal maker that many of you are, I just solder my own cables. However, even with my untrained eye, it seems like he experimented with different parts and different designs from the clones he was making, which makes most of his pedals one of a kind in my estimation.
I also want to thank you all for the many positive comments you made about him. I shared them with Mark's sister, and she and her family and friends were very encouraged by the things you all had to say. Seeing all he did inspires me to make my own pedals, but my wife might kill me for yet another music-related hobby!
All the best,
Jeff