Boomstick in 1590bb with FX Loop

[timbo_93631]

Hello, first post here.  Would normally post this at FSB, but the site is down at the moment (scary).  I am setting up my first pedalboard, a Gator Pedal Tote with the G-Bus-8, a compact board, so space is an issue.  I have a Aquaboy/Echo Base in one 1590DD enclosure that I am wrapping up today that I'd like to be able to have on an FX loop so I can turn both on and off at once without hitting both individual 3pdt's, so I put that in the extra space of the 1590BB that the boomstick is in to save space and 6" cables etc.  Would've been a tighter fit with a battery, so I went the, "dc jack only" route.  I built this over the past 3 nights after the wife and kids were asleep, so the pots are a little out of alignment and the lead dress isn't as tight as it could be, but it all worked on the first shot and sounds great!  Graphics and font are bleary-eyed-way-past-midnight-sharpie on a Smallbear bananna yellow powdercoat 2nd's enclosure.  Green knobs are for extra school spirit!  Go Rough Riders!  Props to Madbean for getting such a useful distortion out of a small PCB layout.  A pleasure to work with these fabbed boards.

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[lincolnic]

I'm always a fan of the Sharpie markings. Pedal looks great on the inside, too!

[revmayer]

Great use of space incorporating the fx loop in the same enclosure. And a 2nd for the fabbed boards. 

[petesz]

Thats awesome, cool idea having the loop in there too.
How does it sound?? Ive got a boomstick board on the way.

[timbo_93631]

Sounds really good!   It gets a little noisy (background hiss while not playing) when it is in full gain mode (OD switch is off), but I think I could get it quieter with some chopsticking of the leads.  I think it is fantastic really, I needed a power-chord friendly distorton pedal as my setup is pretty twangy/worshipping link wray...  I use a strat with fat-strat pickgaurd with a GFS Surf90 in the neck and Mean90 in the bridge with tele switching and a series parallel switch into a Supro 1616t with Weber 10" Blue Pup Alnico speaker...  So it fits the bill nicely.  Good luck with you build!

[nzCdog]

I'm always a fan of the Sharpie markings. Pedal looks great on the inside, too!

+1... very cool

[gtr2]

Cool!  Don't be a stranger around here 

Josh

[sgmezei]

hahaha good job with the Roughriders theme, Looks Great!

[bigmufffuzzwizz]

Looks great and welcome!