Hummingbird tremolo and DOD 440 reissue

[Thewintersoldier]

DOD 440 reissue with up/down switch. OTA like all the reissues. This one sounds really good. Not a bad sound in this one.


EQD hummingbird. I'm a tremolo slut (phasers too) and this one is like no other trem I have. Some really neat and different sounds at higher speeds. I like the Tom Morello Killswitch type stuttering it can do.

[Caedarn]

Nice build, as always.  How do you like those helping hands?  (I need a better set, and am trying to decide between this style and the Quad Hands)

[Thewintersoldier]

Nice build, as always.  How do you like those helping hands?  (I need a better set, and am trying to decide between this style and the Quad Hands)

Thanks, I like them a lot. got a 6 pack cheap on amazon. I made mine removable. I use them to also hold my diy LED light and exaust fan. my whole solder station is diy. you cant go wrong with these, so many uses.

[Caedarn]

Nice build, as always.  How do you like those helping hands?  (I need a better set, and am trying to decide between this style and the Quad Hands)

Thanks, I like them a lot. got a 6 pack cheap on amazon. I made mine removable. I use them to also hold my diy LED light and exaust fan. my whole solder station is diy. you cant go wrong with these, so many uses.

Thanks - didn't mean to hijack your build report thread - again, great stuff!

[jimilee]

Wow, nice. How do you like the 440? I've built one myself.
You're building up quite the pile of pedals. Might be time to build a guitar or two.


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[Thewintersoldier]

Nice build, as always.  How do you like those helping hands?  (I need a better set, and am trying to decide between this style and the Quad Hands)

Thanks, I like them a lot. got a 6 pack cheap on amazon. I made mine removable. I use them to also hold my diy LED light and exaust fan. my whole solder station is diy. you cant go wrong with these, so many uses.

Thanks - didn't mean to hijack your build report thread - again, great stuff!

It's all good. I really love my whole set-up and like to show it off lol

[Thewintersoldier]

Wow, nice. How do you like the 440? I've built one myself.
You're building up quite the pile of pedals. Might be time to build a guitar or two.


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I'm out of the guitar game. I've had many over the years. 6 years ago I had around 22 and these all made the cut. I can only play one at a time anyways haha. If I did get anything else I'd probably get another gretsch, I miss my old one sometimes

[jimilee]

Wow, nice. How do you like the 440? I've built one myself.
You're building up quite the pile of pedals. Might be time to build a guitar or two.


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I'm out of the guitar game. I've had many over the years. 6 years ago I had around 22 and these all made the cut. I can only play one at a time anyways haha. If I did get anything else I'd probably get another gretsch, I miss my old one sometimes

I hear you, I don't even want to talk about how many I have, it's too many, I'll tell you that. Some of my favorites are the ones I've built though, it just goes hand in hand with building pedals.


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[Thewintersoldier]

Wow, nice. How do you like the 440? I've built one myself.
You're building up quite the pile of pedals. Might be time to build a guitar or two.


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I'm out of the guitar game. I've had many over the years. 6 years ago I had around 22 and these all made the cut. I can only play one at a time anyways haha. If I did get anything else I'd probably get another gretsch, I miss my old one sometimes

I hear you, I don't even want to talk about how many I have, it's too many, I'll tell you that. Some of my favorites are the ones I've built though, it just goes hand in hand with building pedals.


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My tele, strat and jazzmaster are all parted together by me and I made them to the specs I wanted since I couldn't buy them like that. All my others are rewired and new pickups and all that. I went thru a pickup modding phase long ago where I swapped different magnets in them all, then different cap type values, learning to make bone nuts. I'm surprised it took me so long to start making pedals after years of modding/fixing my own amps

[Bio77]

Those look great!  I'm going to give the verde green a try on my next build.  Do you treat the enclosure before painting?  I've had bad luck with spay paint in the past, but I'm starting to get sick of the same enclosures.

[Thewintersoldier]

Those look great!  I'm going to give the verde green a try on my next build.  Do you treat the enclosure before painting?  I've had bad luck with spay paint in the past, but I'm starting to get sick of the same enclosures.

my process is the following:  sanding the enclosure, usually with oribital hand sander. clean with whatever you have, i usually use alcohol or naptha. Prime with rustoleum primer, two coats. Three coats of hammered paint, sometimes four depending on color. 20 mins in convection toaster oven and apply graphics once cool. whole process takes about an hour . I have it down pretty good. After around 50 enclosures I splurged on the last tayda sale and ordered some powder coated enclosures. for odd size enclosures or certain colors I will still use hammered rustoleum.

[dawson]

Nice!  HummingBird's an awesome effect- I'm super happy with one I built on a strip board layout: http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/2013/04/earthquaker-devices-hummingbird.html
Call me a "quack," but I've noticed that you build a lot of envelope filters- has a favorite emerged from the ranks yet?

[jimilee]

Wow, nice. How do you like the 440? I've built one myself.
You're building up quite the pile of pedals. Might be time to build a guitar or two.


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I'm out of the guitar game. I've had many over the years. 6 years ago I had around 22 and these all made the cut. I can only play one at a time anyways haha. If I did get anything else I'd probably get another gretsch, I miss my old one sometimes

I hear you, I don't even want to talk about how many I have, it's too many, I'll tell you that. Some of my favorites are the ones I've built though, it just goes hand in hand with building pedals.


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My tele, strat and jazzmaster are all parted together by me and I made them to the specs I wanted since I couldn't buy them like that. All my others are rewired and new pickups and all that. I went thru a pickup modding phase long ago where I swapped different magnets in them all, then different cap type values, learning to make bone nuts. I'm surprised it took me so long to start making pedals after years of modding/fixing my own amps

Wow, nice. I haven't ventured into amps yet. Short of a lot, I'm not sure where to begin.


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[Bio77]

Those look great!  I'm going to give the verde green a try on my next build.  Do you treat the enclosure before painting?  I've had bad luck with spay paint in the past, but I'm starting to get sick of the same enclosures.

my process is the following:  sanding the enclosure, usually with oribital hand sander. clean with whatever you have, i usually use alcohol or naptha. Prime with rustoleum primer, two coats. Three coats of hammered paint, sometimes four depending on color. 20 mins in convection toaster oven and apply graphics once cool. whole process takes about an hour . I have it down pretty good. After around 50 enclosures I splurged on the last tayda sale and ordered some powder coated enclosures. for odd size enclosures or certain colors I will still use hammered rustoleum.

Cool, thanks for the info.  What grit paper do you sand with?  What temp on the oven?

[Thewintersoldier]

Those look great!  I'm going to give the verde green a try on my next build.  Do you treat the enclosure before painting?  I've had bad luck with spay paint in the past, but I'm starting to get sick of the same enclosures.

my process is the following:  sanding the enclosure, usually with oribital hand sander. clean with whatever you have, i usually use alcohol or naptha. Prime with rustoleum primer, two coats. Three coats of hammered paint, sometimes four depending on color. 20 mins in convection toaster oven and apply graphics once cool. whole process takes about an hour . I have it down pretty good. After around 50 enclosures I splurged on the last tayda sale and ordered some powder coated enclosures. for odd size enclosures or certain colors I will still use hammered rustoleum.

Cool, thanks for the info.  What grit paper do you sand with?  What temp on the oven?

I use 100 grit just so it's even and the paint can grab. I use the lowest heat setting on the oven. 175-200 for 20 mins. To long or high and the paint starts burning or gets a wired texture.

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