King of Rock (Aristocrat)

[mgwhit]

This is the first MadBean board I ever assembled, but for a number of reasons I never got around to boxing it up until today.  I made a total hash of the first enclosure -- bad finish, bad drilling -- and eventually just threw it out and started over.  I think I used 33n caps for C1 and C12.  Red channel has the high gain option.



I finished all the wiring this afternoon, but the Red channel wasn't working.  It had worked outside the box, so I figured it was a wiring error or a short.  Signal was disappearing at R10 on the board, and it turned out to be a bad joint on the Tone pot.  Luckily I was able to get my iron underneath the board and fix it pretty easily, but that meant I didn't finish until my five-year-old was in bed.  Sounds pretty weak at low volume, but then again what doesn't?  I'll give it a real workout tomorrow morning.



The 3PDT PCBs and pot condoms are from GuitarPCB.  The eagle-eyed among you may have noticed the 4558's on the board.  I don't remember putting them in there originally and I didn't notice them until after I took the photos.  I've since swapped in 4580D's on both sides.

[bigrigg]

Looks nice and neat.  Get the kids out of the house and crank that mother up and see what she can do!

[mgwhit]

My wife is taking my son to my parents' house later this morning.  Let there be Rock!

[gtr2]

cool!

[mgwhit]

Much more exciting with my 5f2a Tweed Princeton up between 4 and 5!  I experimented with Red=Distortion/Yellow=Overdrive and Red=Overdrive/Yellow=Boost modes before settling on both channels configured for Overdrive (Red=3:00/Yellow=Noon), each set for only a hair above unity gain.  They sound great independently and combined.

I've got a limited testing setup here at home with just a tele and the small tweed combo.  Gonna take this to band practice on Sunday and see how it sounds with humbuckers and higher gain amps.

[nzCdog]

Nice job man, really tidy.  I have a couple of pedals I want to rebuild too, now my enclosure chops are a little less rusty.  Great build

[mgwhit]

Thanks!  It's not as tidy as it looks, but I'm happy with how it turned out.  That's a lot of wire to jam into one enclosure.