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I diagnosed the noise coming straight out from the power supply so I will go with the power pellet to reduce the annoying mains hum.

That's about as clean as they come!

Seconded.

This is what I imagine from your description of how it was painted, minus the brushes of course:

Pretty much. I work with acrylic paints so it´s pretty easy to clean up afterwards. But without a primer it´s a lost cause, the paint peels off really easy.

Looks like I´m off to play around with the 2N5457´s, I´m trying to get the noise floor lower. I understand compressors do what they do but the initial noise is pretty bad.

Great artwork!  I wish I was talented enough with a paint brush to do something like this.

What do you mean with paint brush? Full blown demented hands, arms, face and partially walls covered in splattered paint type a technique is the way to go here.  The texts are done by left hand with a piece of steel dipped in paint and scraped accross the tormented surface.

You can do it! The way Rob Schneider says it.

Here. I´m almost amazed how bad I am with taking photos. There are 24mm Alpha pots under there so I had to mask them with electrical tape to avoid any shorting since the PCB is laid on top of them and the fit is just barely with all the caps and trannies tilted.

But I guess the look of the inside goes with the theme. That´s my only excuse. F***ked with a soldering iron.

Love the paint job! Its kind of ironic that this of all pedals doesn't have a gut shot

That just cracked me up! I´m still pretty bad/impatient on designing the inner layouts for pedals but this time I think the outside will do the justice for the organs

Wow! Dude that's shiny! Only after looking in the pedal I realized the clever use of space to fit all the pieces in. Very Cool!

I´m really digging this! Very professional looking build! Those knobs I haven´t seen in a pedal before. Both thumbs up!

Haven´t built any pedals in a while now. Spent the last two years building a electric drum kit for a friend. But now I started to get back into the game with a fairly easy one to kick off. I really needed a compressor for my bass since my recently used compressor was a bit too big for the board.

I found this little circuit of the Toadworks Mr. Squishy so I modded it a bit and got it working right off the bat. It´s a little noisy but nothing I couldn´t deal with. I will post images of the innards later today. I hand painted the enclosure. I´ve been into Cannibal Corpse´s album, The Bleeding recently so I went with the theme on this thing

What I like about this circuit that it really gives that pop when playing with fingers or slapping. Based on the Orange Squeezer it doesn´t really bring anything new to the table but it really kicks ass!

K

That´s one great looking pedal! That worn out look to the graphics look suits the placement of the pots like a glove. Very inspiring!

That is cool! I love this octaver.

I never got the up1 octave to sound that good(clear and loud) on my own making, but Imma build me a new one now!

I would love to hear this thing

I just got my gear back up again after a recording session so I hope to get something up soon. I actually play mostly bass and this thing was intended to be used in my bass pedal setup so I´ll probably play the demo like that too. My good ole beat up strat has such hum and noise it wouldn´t do the pedal much justice.

Thanks! Ralph Steadman kicks some serious ass by the way I was initially going for a bit more eerie serious deirction but then I realized how much knobs there were going to be so I just splattered it out the way in the vein of White Zombie and Silent Hill, two thigns I seem to be almost obsessed about.

I didn´t sand or sponge it even at all and just laid few coats of matte laquer or it to keep it a bit rough all around.

What a great looking build! Looks like it could be from the 70´s.. in a good way! Clean too. Very appealing to my taste!

Hello.

I haven´t been building anything in about a year.. or at least gotten anything finished that I have started. But today I finished my first delay. It´s a PT2399 delay based on the MOODY SOUNDS Mushroom Echo.

The original has a LDR behind a switch that you can control the repeat rate by blocking light from "the eye". I added a 3-position switch to choose from three different brightness options for the repeats. Another 3-position switch to choose either the regular delay mode, the manual manipulation mode, or a LFO mode.

The LFO is a simple 555 based circuit that in a sinewavish fashion fades a led in and out. So it´s just a LDR stuffed in a shrink tube with that thing. There´s two interval pots there; One for the REGular and MANual modes and one for the LFO mode. The second (LFO) interval pot acts in the range determined by the first one.  The LFO very adjustable from really slow to ultra fast pulsing. I hope I can pull of some kinda demo for it in some point. The possibilities are quite interesting. I really like the really haunting kinda chorus thing I can pull off addition to a simple moody delays.

The enclosure is messed up with several coats of acrylic paints that are then brushed off with a sponge/sanding paper. Then I just doodled the "graphics" on the thing. There you go.