Madbean Tonebender

[SmoothAction]

This is the Madbean Si Tonebender. Fuzzy as heck. Built it stock with a 2n3904 at Q1, 2n5088 at Q2 and Q3. Moved the bias trim to a pot. Im not crazy about fuzz, but this one can totally do the 'wall of fuzz' thing super easy. I enjoyed building it and am enjoying playing it. I want to thank Brian personally, he sent me this pcb and a few others. Good guy, that 'bean.

My buddy did the artwork which was hard to photograph. He used gold nail polish and a blue paint pen. Looks great, stuck with the theme inside and out.

The bottom plate was an experiment, wet toner transfer. Lay some mod podge down on the enclosure, drop the graphic on top, then let dry. Once dried you run it under cold water and take the paper off. Not super clean, but if I was patient it would have come out nearly perfect. Will be doing this in the future for sure.

[alanp]

Awwww, such a cute kitteh!

[SmoothAction]

Thanks Alanp!

It's just good to be building again.

I'm certainly not a photographer, in seeing these pics again I want to take better ones in the future. Which we live in. The future.

Thanks, it is a cute little one.

Max

[raulduke]

Cool build and cute kitteh to top it off.

[wgc]

cool build Max, I gotta try that toner transfer thing sometime.

no led?

[SmoothAction]

Nope, no LED. I thought I'd save the few I have for effects that are less obvious like compression or boosters. It's pretty easy to tell when this is on haha.

The wet toner transfer is really easy, give it a whirl Billy! Next time I want to try full color graphics on white primer. We'll see.

Thanks guys.
Max

[mcallisterra]

What type of paper do you use for that wet toner transfer?

[SmoothAction]

Regular computer paper, nothing fancy. I used a hair dryer to dry the mod podge faster.

[mcallisterra]

Interesting. Came out great!