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A Wolfshirt for a friend

Started by Cortexturizer, February 22, 2015, 12:00:55 PM

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Cortexturizer

Hey guys, here's an etched Wolfshirt that I made for a friend. He is a very very dear friend and I really hope that he will be satisfied. I haven't played the Foxx before nor a clone so I hope I got the sound right. The non-octave sound is so-so to me, but the octave sound is just ridiculous. I love it!
Will post an uber short clip later in the day just so you guys can verify that I've got the sound right. I got perfect voltages down to a mV in comparison with other builds out there including mr Bean's. I used one of my favorite transistors for this build, the BC192B. I used those earlier with the Pharaoh build a couple of times and they really do shine to my ears.
Anyway, here's some pictures, hope you guys will dig it if you can ignore the trashy window frames that my landlord wont fix for years haha. It's all the same to me honestly because this room only gets used for my hobbies and not much else.





finally managed to capture that subtle sparkle that's going on here





the etched board is not a piece of beauty but it works perfectly and has zero noise; I did wire this up patiently, and used shielding and whatnot, satisfied with the interiors other than for some minor ugliness here and there...

https://kuatodesign.blogspot.com - thoughts on some pedals I made
https://soundcloud.com/kuato-design-stompboxes - sounds and jams

GrindCustoms

That's absolutely beautiful Sir!
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m-Kresol

Love your style. If your friend is not happy with this build then I don't know what would make him happy.
I build pedals to hide my lousy playing.

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GrindCustoms

Quote from: m-Kresol on February 22, 2015, 12:20:38 PM
Love your style. If your friend is not happy with this build then I don't know what would make him happy.

If he's not happy, i'd be glad to grab it!  ;D
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micromegas

Flawless! I really dig those faceplates, and the sparkle box is really beautifull (I got one once from ColesBD, but it got damaged during travel).

I've been looking for trumpet-like/brass-like fuzz lately, does this one do that thing?
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playpunk

This is really awesome.



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Cortexturizer

#8
Thanks a lot my good people!
Demo is uploading and it's pretty shaky on the playing side (in all honesty, I have a runny nose and a bit of a fever) but I really wanted to be sure I got this right before I hand it over to a friend. I've found that I rarely want to take the Tone control past 30%, this thing really can be bright. With the Tone control at 50% and up the sound is kinda trumpet like like micromegas said, and the octave is ridiculously bright. It is SO pronounced, I love it.
It's a very good fuzz all in all, I love octave up fuzzes. Still, I think my favorite so far is the Hyperbolic by RobA and that I've been exhaustingly repeating for some time now so I should probably stop :)
https://kuatodesign.blogspot.com - thoughts on some pedals I made
https://soundcloud.com/kuato-design-stompboxes - sounds and jams

pryde

Really fantastic. Your builds (and demos) are just great, I enjoy all of them.


micromegas

Quote from: Cortexturizer on February 22, 2015, 03:26:30 PM
Thanks a lot my good people!
Demo is uploading and it's pretty shaky on the playing side (in all honesty, I have a runny nose and a bit of a fever) but I really wanted to be sure I got this right before I hand it over to a friend. I've found that I rarely want to take the Tone control past 30%, this thing really can be bright. With the Tone control at 50% and up the sound is kinda trumpet like like micromegas said, and the octave is ridiculously bright. It is SO pronounced, I love it.
It's a very good fuzz all in all, I love octave up fuzzes. Still, I think my favorite so far is the Hyperbolic by RobA and that I've been exhaustingly repeating for some time now so I should probably stop :)
I have an Hyperbolic PCB around, I should build that thing and prove you're right!! :)
'My favorite programming language is solder' - Bob Pease

Software Developer @ bela.io

chordball

That's a hell of a build. Good work!

Cortexturizer

#12
Thanks pryde and chordball!

Here's a demo of sorts (sorry for the slippers):

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2B05289658A8BC3B!555&authkey=!ABQDvhIPcXT0fS0&ithint=video%2cmp4

The tone control has been on 30% I think, gain on max. I think it sounds very good. What do you guys think?

P.S. Played it on the middle position of my tele deluxe, so both pickups on. I hadn't turned the tone pots down, when you do that the octave is even more pronounced, just like on the octavia.
https://kuatodesign.blogspot.com - thoughts on some pedals I made
https://soundcloud.com/kuato-design-stompboxes - sounds and jams

GrindCustoms

Quote from: Cortexturizer on February 22, 2015, 04:10:52 PM
Thanks pryde and chordball!

Here's a demo of sorts (sorry for the slippers):

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=2B05289658A8BC3B!555&authkey=!ABQDvhIPcXT0fS0&ithint=video%2cmp4

The tone control has been on 30% I think, gain on max. I think it sounds very good. What do you guys think?

P.S. Played it on the middle position of my tele deluxe, so both pickups on. I hadn't turned the tone pots down, when you do that the octave is even more pronounced, just like on the octavia.

Hahaha! I call a moshpit for that last part... was heavy as fawk! lml

Sounds very similar to those i've built too, though.. you had a bit that was sounding a tad like a bit crusher... never got that out of mine or i just did'nt played them right. 'Nyway.. kickass dude!
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Cortexturizer

Haha yeah it can get moshpitish fast :-D
The part that you described I got by turning the volume on the guitar around half or a bit above and played the right intervals ;-) :-P No really, experiment with the knobs on the guitar and it will be easy to get all sorts of sounds
https://kuatodesign.blogspot.com - thoughts on some pedals I made
https://soundcloud.com/kuato-design-stompboxes - sounds and jams