CrabDrive (GreenBean)

[mhshizz]

First madbean build, though somewhere around my 15th DIY pedal of 2022. This was my first attempt at drilling my own enclosures  (obviously seeing how off-center things are) so I built two. This is the better looking one of the pair so I'm gonna send it to my dad for Chrimbus. Due to my poor locationing of punch marks, I had to enlarge the area for the mini-pots a large amount, and thus needed to put big knobs to cover my Shame Holes. This also means my rubber stamp labeling looks goofed. But hey, I wouldn't want my projects to look too professional. That would be boring to me. My Pedal Children are all ugly and I love them that way.

Went with a 1n34a instead of the bat41 as I had some left over from other projects. MPSA18 for Q1 & 2.

As far as DIY TS variants go, this is among the best sounding ones. One note: the build document says the red LEDs don't light up, but uh, they absolutely do when that switch position is active.

The doc note about it being a tight fit for the 1590B is no joke. Especially when you get your stuff slight off center as mentioned previously. But hey, it works and sounds fab.

[jimilee]

Nice, looks fantastic. The LEDs light up according to the strength of your input signal. Humbuckers light 'em right up.


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[Bio77]

I like the look of the graphics, build came out great!   

[mhshizz]

Thanks, my fellow Bean Heads. 

Nice, looks fantastic. The LEDs light up according to the strength of your input signal. Humbuckers light 'em right up.


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Yeah, the reason I was surprised the build docs said the LEDs wouldn't light up is because they do in every other pedal I've owned or built with that style of clipping. I was super curious about it. Almost hoped they wouldn't so I could be like "whooooa, " but my all single-coil Ibanez lit em up just fine.

I like the look of the graphics, build came out great!   

Ha, thanks. It's just a $4 wooden stamp on found at Hobby Lobby. You can get the alphabet stamps there too. 

[BryGuy]

Look great. I've been digging mine but need to finish boxing it up lol.

[gordo]

Damn that looks slick.  Has a JHS vibe with the simple graphics but the stamps make it look a bit urban. 

[zombie_rock123]

The stamps look amazing! Loving how much the colour makes them pop.

[Thewintersoldier]

welcome to the forum and hope to see more builds, especially madbean builds. Pedal turned out great and I echo the comments above about the stamps looking fantastic.

[harryklippton]

I like the name crabdrive 

[mhshizz]

Thank you all again. Might as well show off the other one.