Slow Loris

[Fastocker]

Just finished my Slow Loris build --- sounds great!  125-B enclosure, candy green powdercoat, decal on top.





Even his beady little eyes glow . . . .

[maysink]

YES! Very nice job, sir.

[mjcyates]

Quite cool!

[Jamiroking]

Looks awesome! Super bonus points for the eyes! Is that using white backed waterslide decal?

[lincolnic]

The eyes are what really do it for me.

Can you explain how you're using the 4PDT switch?

[jkokura]

that's just a 3PDT switch with a PCB that makes connections simpler.

Jacob

[Fastocker]

Thank you all for the kind words.  That is indeed a clear decal over white --- once I powdercoated the box, I masked and painted the top white.  And yes, that's just a 3PDT switch with one of Small Bear's PCB boards on it --- makes hooking everything up much easier.

[lincolnic]

Thanks for the info, guys. Of course, had I bothered to count the lugs, I would've realized it's nowhere near a 4PDT...sheesh.

[gtr2]

I didn't know small bear had boards like that.  Sweet!  I like the beady eyes...

[Fastocker]

To follow up on this build ---- I swapped out the linear taper pots for audio tapers and MAN, what a HUGE improvement, at least to my ears.  The volume and gain knobs now have a nice gradual rise and the pedal is much more useable.  It can actually be used as a medium OD now whereas before the distortion was almost instant-on with the linear pot.  Great midrange honk and is great with a Strat bridge pickup.

[mjcyates]

That's nice to know. I have the gain knob almost completely off to get the tone I want. I will be replacing with audio taper pots. This is a nice sounding pedal and it will be good to get more use out of the gain pot.

[Haberdasher]

Cool!  You replaced all 3 pots with audio tapers?

[Fastocker]

I replaced all three knobs with audio tapers --- the tone control was less noticeable but the volume and gain controls were a substantial improvement.

If you guys DO try the audio tapers in your builds, please post back to let me know what you think.