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#81
Global Annoucements / Re: Geekmacdaddy needs a littl...
Last post by jessenator - September 22, 2025, 05:09:15 AMQuote from: jimilee on September 22, 2025, 01:29:49 AMWhen you say discreet adult conversations, you mean like politics and the meaning of life or conversations I have with your mom???🤣
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#82
Global Annoucements / Geekmacdaddy needs a little he...
Last post by jimilee - September 22, 2025, 01:29:49 AMQuote from: tkle on September 21, 2025, 08:19:00 PMLive girls available for discreet adult conversationsWhen you say discreet adult conversations, you mean like politics and the meaning of life or conversations I have with your mom???
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#83
Open Discussion / Re: Unusual "views" counts?
Last post by lars - September 20, 2025, 11:36:56 AMLOL, there are going to be some weird pieces of pie information on AI-generated DIY surfboards. Political activist Tubescreamer relay bypass, inserted Klon hair piece at the key buffer input. White house rally trumps the audio taper output pot while connecting pin 3 to active shooter tone controls.
Remove resistors R3, R24, and R31 and replace them with jumpers to activate the Ukraine edition transparent overdrive CE-1 mod.
Taylor Swift.
Remove resistors R3, R24, and R31 and replace them with jumpers to activate the Ukraine edition transparent overdrive CE-1 mod.
Taylor Swift.
#84
Open Discussion / Re: Unusual "views" counts?
Last post by jwin615 - September 19, 2025, 12:01:54 PMThe venerable ProCo Rat. When is a Rat clone no longer a clone and instead merely offspring. Should we not consider pedals like:
Ratified
Soothsayer
Gorilla Warfare
Skinner Box
Alpha Dog
Rattler
Rattler+
Black Secret
Iron Horse
Mr. Vermin
Retro-Sonic Distortion
Warthog
Lonely Robot
Tioga Road Cycling distortion
Shorebird
TYM Savage
TYM Toe Cutter
Reinhardt Willard
Earthbound Iron Pig
BYOC Mighty Mouse
DCW Muskrat
Greenhouse Effects No Brainer
Abominable Electronics Don's Shred Me / Deluxe
Acid Age Electronics Acid Pig
Beavis Audio Research FKR (Four-Knob Rat)
Big Ear Pedals Wood Cutter
Big Tone Music Brewery Classic Distortion
Blakemore Effects R.O.U.S.
Catalinbread Katzenkönig
Dunwich Amplification Volt Thrower
East River Touch Distortion
Freakshow Effects Rabbit (Various)
Fuzzrocious Cat King / Cat Tail
Hartman LM308 Distortion
Himmelstrutz Fetto Custom Distortion
Ibanez FC10 Fat Cat Distortion
IdiotBox Effects Blower Box Distortion
Jerms TAR Distortion
JHS All American Distortion
Landgraff Mo'D Distortion
Little-Bear R.ATTACK RT-2
Matthews Effects The Harbinger Parametric Distortion
Mojo Hand FX Socrates
Moose Electronics Battlehammer Distortion
Randale Pedale Blackout
Reuss Germanium Dirt
Roger Mayer Mongoose
Tortuga Werewolf
Vick Audio 85 Classic Rat
Zander Circuitry Cranium Dual Gain Distortion
As glorious offspring? The key to the tone of all the aforementioned is not in the circuitry but purely their genetics.
Ratified
Soothsayer
Gorilla Warfare
Skinner Box
Alpha Dog
Rattler
Rattler+
Black Secret
Iron Horse
Mr. Vermin
Retro-Sonic Distortion
Warthog
Lonely Robot
Tioga Road Cycling distortion
Shorebird
TYM Savage
TYM Toe Cutter
Reinhardt Willard
Earthbound Iron Pig
BYOC Mighty Mouse
DCW Muskrat
Greenhouse Effects No Brainer
Abominable Electronics Don's Shred Me / Deluxe
Acid Age Electronics Acid Pig
Beavis Audio Research FKR (Four-Knob Rat)
Big Ear Pedals Wood Cutter
Big Tone Music Brewery Classic Distortion
Blakemore Effects R.O.U.S.
Catalinbread Katzenkönig
Dunwich Amplification Volt Thrower
East River Touch Distortion
Freakshow Effects Rabbit (Various)
Fuzzrocious Cat King / Cat Tail
Hartman LM308 Distortion
Himmelstrutz Fetto Custom Distortion
Ibanez FC10 Fat Cat Distortion
IdiotBox Effects Blower Box Distortion
Jerms TAR Distortion
JHS All American Distortion
Landgraff Mo'D Distortion
Little-Bear R.ATTACK RT-2
Matthews Effects The Harbinger Parametric Distortion
Mojo Hand FX Socrates
Moose Electronics Battlehammer Distortion
Randale Pedale Blackout
Reuss Germanium Dirt
Roger Mayer Mongoose
Tortuga Werewolf
Vick Audio 85 Classic Rat
Zander Circuitry Cranium Dual Gain Distortion
As glorious offspring? The key to the tone of all the aforementioned is not in the circuitry but purely their genetics.
#85
Open Discussion / Re: Unusual "views" ...
Last post by jimilee - September 19, 2025, 02:53:33 AMHurricane monkey football bat. Checkmate!
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#86
Open Discussion / Re: Unusual "views" counts?
Last post by jessenator - September 19, 2025, 02:24:44 AMLevitation training is the first part of this balanced breakfast, Solomon Grundy! I have to finish all of these Pennzoil holodeck math story programs before next Sampterday!
If anyone misses cockroach trapezoid maple articulations, they will be forced to furnace filter garbage pail kids pontification submarine sandwich.
That first paragraph sounds a lot like Senor Cardgage, actually...
If anyone misses cockroach trapezoid maple articulations, they will be forced to furnace filter garbage pail kids pontification submarine sandwich.
That first paragraph sounds a lot like Senor Cardgage, actually...
#87
Open Discussion / Re: Unusual "views" counts?
Last post by lars - September 18, 2025, 08:17:26 PMQuote from: jessenatorMayonnaise.Ah, one of the Smashing Pumpkins best songs.
Remember to bevel the stater to reduce hypersonic vibration, otherwise your germanium transistors will suffer harmonic saturation. The first greeting is for academic purpose only. Insert diode up there.
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#88
Open Discussion / Re: Absence, update and reflec...
Last post by LaceSensor - September 16, 2025, 01:10:00 PMHi Everyone
thanks for the kind words of encouragement
www.gigaheartsfx.com goes live today 4pm Uk / 8am west coast / 1pm east coast
Other time zones may vary
Even if I dont make any sales, its been a fun ride. Ive learned a heap, way more than I imagined, and I can make cooler stuff than I ever could in the previous 10 years I reckon.
Cheers
Ian
thanks for the kind words of encouragement
www.gigaheartsfx.com goes live today 4pm Uk / 8am west coast / 1pm east coast
Other time zones may vary
Even if I dont make any sales, its been a fun ride. Ive learned a heap, way more than I imagined, and I can make cooler stuff than I ever could in the previous 10 years I reckon.
Cheers
Ian
#89
Build Reports / A couple distortion 3s…
Last post by greysun - September 15, 2025, 09:01:23 PMWelcoming to the ever-expanding number of pedals in my arsenal: the Distortion 3 (squared - cause there's 2). Thank you [mention]Bret608 [/mention] for the suggestion.
I really dig this pedal and the possibilities within it - pretty sure this is my first 6 knob circuit in a 1590B, so that was certainly an adventure, but it's all board mounted and not hard at all. I had a lot of the parts on-hand, and had to order only a few - I had to parallel some caps, too, but it's works. You can't see the pots, which I fake-board mounted using lug pots with twisted leads to get everything in line and otherwise used standard 9mm pots cause I had em. I also socketed the 1n34a diodes so I could play a bit - one of these will keep it stock, the other gets D9Vs. It all worked out!
The VFE board was interesting - the pads were slightly smaller than I'm used to and sort of sunken a bit, so I was always paranoid I didn't get great solder contact. While I was originally thinking I'd just go the route of a 3pdt, I decided to go all-in with the switching board, which is certainly cool and definitely silent in the signal, but it was more effort than a standard 3pdt for me. Wiring it to the main board was pretty easy, though, and I like the trimpot for the LED to dial that in perfect. (I think the LED is too close to the knob if you use a bezel, so for future ones I might move that down a little at the expense of not being right above the pads on the board).
With any pedal I've ever made I try to make them look like toys, so I like a colorful, simple enclosure and Davies knobs - I can always figure out what knobs do what later. I miss Mammoth if for no other reason than they had the best powder-coated enclosure colors just ready to go. For one of these, I sprayed a bare enclosure the seafoam green color as best I could (and with really good paint, but we'll see how long it lasts, hehe), and the other is plain white from stomp box parts. The 1510 knobs I had on-hand, and the white ones are modified Davies 1900s I resized, modded the sides to swoop downward and then 3D printed.
Overall, I'm stoked to add it in. It's a cool pedal!
I really dig this pedal and the possibilities within it - pretty sure this is my first 6 knob circuit in a 1590B, so that was certainly an adventure, but it's all board mounted and not hard at all. I had a lot of the parts on-hand, and had to order only a few - I had to parallel some caps, too, but it's works. You can't see the pots, which I fake-board mounted using lug pots with twisted leads to get everything in line and otherwise used standard 9mm pots cause I had em. I also socketed the 1n34a diodes so I could play a bit - one of these will keep it stock, the other gets D9Vs. It all worked out!
The VFE board was interesting - the pads were slightly smaller than I'm used to and sort of sunken a bit, so I was always paranoid I didn't get great solder contact. While I was originally thinking I'd just go the route of a 3pdt, I decided to go all-in with the switching board, which is certainly cool and definitely silent in the signal, but it was more effort than a standard 3pdt for me. Wiring it to the main board was pretty easy, though, and I like the trimpot for the LED to dial that in perfect. (I think the LED is too close to the knob if you use a bezel, so for future ones I might move that down a little at the expense of not being right above the pads on the board).
With any pedal I've ever made I try to make them look like toys, so I like a colorful, simple enclosure and Davies knobs - I can always figure out what knobs do what later. I miss Mammoth if for no other reason than they had the best powder-coated enclosure colors just ready to go. For one of these, I sprayed a bare enclosure the seafoam green color as best I could (and with really good paint, but we'll see how long it lasts, hehe), and the other is plain white from stomp box parts. The 1510 knobs I had on-hand, and the white ones are modified Davies 1900s I resized, modded the sides to swoop downward and then 3D printed.
Overall, I'm stoked to add it in. It's a cool pedal!
#90
Open Discussion / Re: Absence, update and reflec...
Last post by Bret608 - September 15, 2025, 02:07:41 PMThat's awesome that you're stepping up to doing this! You PIF'd me an awesome "starter pack" during the holidays back in like 2011 when I first started building, and I have not forgotten than (and got years of mileage out of those parts, no less). Looks like you're going live tomorrow so I'll be sure to check the site out!