Voodoo Child

[cooder]

Roger Mayer Voodoo Vibe here on Brenja's fantastic board.
Sounds flippin' awesome and could be my desert island pedal. I just love vibe style pedals and this does so much, the tremolo also sounds soooo good and the wave options and tweakability. Flat out great to have.
So glad I finally got around putting this together.

I didn't do myself favours by being stuborn with my pot placement and I did all pot off board wired and I included the three position cap selector for the Univibe voicing. A very useful mod too and worth the effort.
Because of all the wiring and how I placed the controls in my stubborness it was a VERY tight fit to get it in. Bottle ship type stuff.
I count myself lucky that it did in the end.
Also wired the expression pedal for the fine control of speed and that is such good fun to have too. Leslie type sounds and throbbing tremolo are just delicious when you can control the speed while noodling. Fun fun fun...







Acrylic faceplate held by 3mm stainless Allen head screws.

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Those big red caps are WIMA film caps 3.3uF/16V which I used in place of the 2.2uF electrolytic ones that schematic calls for. I just had those kicking around and they do the job just fine of course if not better. They are fairly big and I had to mount some of them somewhat tilted to make it fit (swearing and mumbling going on...).

[m-Kresol]

Great work and a tight fit for sure

[mjg]

Wow, there is a lot going on in there.  Nice work! 

[davent]

That's scary tight  Stephan, great job!

What size of an enclosure did you use?
dave

[cooder]

That's scary tight  Stephan, great job!

What size of an enclosure did you use?
dave

Cheers Dave, the enclosure is a 1590XX (refering to measurements given on Hammond website).
On one hand there's a bit of "wasted" space on the footswitch side, but the really tight fit was getting the rotary to fit above the pcb (if you look closely you'll see that i actually had to grind of a tiny bit of pcb to fit it in) and the jacks that I had and always use.
It would have been easier with Lumberg jacks I guess but I don't have them here and they don't sell them in the corner store either...

I always use either the 125B enclosure or this larger 1590XX size as my pedalboard is spaced for them. So it kinda has to go in and even if I use a hammer...

But it's in and I love it!

[Yahoo67]

There is space left for a battery clip :p
Nice work !

[Turnip-Tone]

Great work! Congrats! Very compact & very tidy 
Are the PCBs for this still around?

[cooder]

Great work! Congrats! Very compact & very tidy 
Are the PCBs for this still around?

Cheers! I do think Brenja has some left, best shot him a PM.

[Turnip-Tone]

Thanks Stephen. Will do

[fair.child]

This looks very well executed! Love it!

[jimilee]

That is sharp lookin, hows the sound?


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[cooder]

That is sharp lookin, hows the sound?


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Cheers! I think it sounds absolutely fab and as said in original post this could be my 'desert island' pedal!
It does so much so well.
This pedal and a cranked Fender Vibroverb amp or so... I just wonder if there's a wall power outlet on a desert island?!?

In the meantime enjoying an overload of pedals and amps being on the Mainland, plenty of wall outlets here...

[jimilee]

That is sharp lookin, hows the sound?


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Cheers! I think it sounds absolutely fab and as said in original post this could be my 'desert island' pedal!
It does so much so well.
This pedal and a cranked Fender Vibroverb amp or so... I just wonder if there's a wall power outlet on a desert island?!?

In the meantime enjoying an overload of pedals and amps being on the Mainland, plenty of wall outlets here...

Solar Power my friend.


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[brejna]

Awesome looking build! You really squeezed it..

[cooder]

Awesome looking build! You really squeezed it..

Cheers Brane, thanks for making such a great project! Sounds awesome!