Brazen Bull No. 1

[jubal81]

Hello, My name is Jubal81 and I'm a dirt junkie. Built tons and I still had 5 on the floor at my amp. The idea behind the Brazen Bull was to take my favorites and get them all (well, not all, but a good few) in a 125B with just four knobs and a switch. I used headers and two PCB stacked together to get it all to fit, so lots of careful measuring and calculating.


There are four settings:
JFET boost
JFET Mu-amp overdrive
CD4049UBE distortion
Muff variant


These all go through a James tone stack. What you see here is the first prototype. There are a few things I want to fine tune and I've been back at the breadboard all week - 3 hours today and I ended up just changing one component. Maybe I'll be done before my beard turns gray.


The box is etched and then - gulp - electroplated with copper, rubbed with shoe polish and clear coated. Yes, it looks cool as hell, but I'll never do it again. I ruined two other enclosures, my favorite pants and spent about 8-10 hours just babying that thing in the copper bath. I wanted to get that 'excavated from a Greek island' look and I'm pretty happy with it.

[GrindCustoms]

How the hell could you wait before posting this!!!!!

MasterPiece this is!

[jubal81]

How the hell could you wait before posting this!!!!!

MasterPiece this is!

Eh, I was waiting for sound clips, but that's gonna be a while. Glad you kicked my arse into getting this up.

[Stomptown]

Sick on so many levels! From the enclosure to the stacked PCBs to switch mounted relay pcb... this is just beautiful!

[Thomas_H]

Thats a beauty in many aspects.

[Hangingmonkey]

That thing looks amazing. It's taking DIY to another level

[cooder]

Absolutely fantastic and clever and gorgeous too!

[selfdestroyer]

That is some next level stuff right there! I love it.. Well the pants are already ruined, so keep wearing them and do another enclosure.

Cody

[TGP39]

Every time I reach for the bar, you guys raise it beyond belief. This is truly art.  Incredible. Fantastic job.

[Tremster]

Don't you ever think of how the lesser talented builders feel?

Absolutely incredibly fantastic!

[GrindCustoms]

How the hell could you wait before posting this!!!!!

MasterPiece this is!

Eh, I was waiting for sound clips, but that's gonna be a while. Glad you kicked my arse into getting this up.

A deaf-blind would stare at one of these!

[alanp]

Agreed with everyone else, it's definitely raising the bar. Far, far more impressive than "just another" clean wiring job (although I hate to sound dismissive like that.)

Any problems with crosstalk or noise?

[micromegas]

Cool as hell. I love the copper patine,  and the circuit idea is awesome. I want at least one if you ever do a run of those.

[kothoma]

Great in every way!

[mmlee]

Whoa, this is amazing.  Seriously impressive.