Space Ritual

[juansolo]

Space Ritual - A psychedelic, space rock, trip-in-a-box

I suppose I should start with what's in there. The first effect is an UltraStoner fuzz on Pickdropper's MiniMuffin PCB, that goes into a Madbean Zero Point Dual Delay, followed by a Madbean StageFright (Maestro phaser) and finally into a 1776 Effects Rub-a-Dub reverb.

All of these effects stand alone or will work with any or all of the others in order to create some great psychedelic soundscapes. It's almost like they were made for each other.

I reckon this might be the best effect I've ever built...

[gingataff]

Awesome.
I'm wondering why you put the phaser after the delay, to modulate the repeats or some other reason?

[kothoma]

Wow. Impressive build.

I too wonder about the order. Is this the secret of great psychedelic soundscapes? Any sound samples on the way?

[alanp]

Awesome. 2SC-whatever transistors on the Ultrastoner? Normal caps on the phaser? Been thinking about what to put in a multibox myself lately.

[juansolo]

In answer to the questions.

I've got all these effects separately in one form or another and tried everything in just about every order until this was settled on as being the best sounding way around. Everything needed to be there and in the order they're in to get the effect. The phaser sounding better after the delay flummoxed us a little too!

Yep, they're 2SC1327s. We have a few and they're bloody brilliant for muffs. Though they need a leg twist (shown here) and they're different gains to those that we used on the minis. They were S (low gain) and U (high gain) rated ones. The ones we can get now are all T (mid gain). So we meter them all and have them in different batches for where they go.

The Stagefright is a completely standard build.

Yep, gonna try and get a demo of this one sorted so I can enter it into Oct's comp

I was quite pleased to be able to board mount all the pots except the mids and reverb. Likewise all the builds are low-profile to allow for the fittage.

[Bret608]

Total thumbs up on this combination, dude. I've always put phase after delay, by the way. Back in the 90s, I ran my green Russian into an old Boss DSD-2 delay and then into a vintage Bad Stone. I firmly believe modulation goes after delay for true psych sounds! 

[lincolnic]

Beautiful.

[Ettore_M]

Absolutely stunning! Love it.. Top job! 

Hector

[Vallhagen]

Blöödy brilliant:)

[bcalla]

Hell, who needs a pedal board if you've got one of these???  Fantastic!!!

[gtr2]

There should be a pedal death match between this and pickdropper's andromeda.

[Mich P]

Class
Mich P.

[pickdropper]

This looks fantastic.  The wiring on the inside is brilliant.

[hoodoo]

Epic build, can't wait for the sound sample too, all the best, Matt.

[jimilee]

Wow,that's really fantastic. I always run modulation after delay as well.