Been A Bit Busy... (4 new builds)

[sambo]

Hi! First post!

Been lurking around for a while, but these are my first set of builds...

4 builds,
1) Sparkle Drive - A fatpants preamp
2) Dragon Drive - Fulltone OCD (now my fav OD! - Needs a few knobs to finish!)
3) Jimi Thing - Fuzz Face (yet to decide on my fav transistors for this, playing with silicon/germanium mixtures at the moment)
4) Nova Comp - Ross Comp clone (from a tonepad pcb i did years and years ago!)



And Gut Shots...



Also had a little delivery from Russia this morning.....



Thanks!

[stecykmi]

good builds, cool transistors.

[chromesphere]

I like the wrap around labels!  Are the stickers? 

WHATS IN THE BOX!! WHATS IN THE BOX!!  (ge trans? )

[nzCdog]

Woo!  Cool builds man, nice graphic work!

[jkokura]

Nice stuff! I like the matchy matchiness of your builds.

Jacob

[Diamond]

Those are the little space shuttle transistors, aren't they? I also have a pack of big silo-shaped NPN Russian germaniums. I believe GT404. They sounds great in a Fuzz Face type effect. Really dirty!

[sambo]

Labels are just inkjet labels clear coated over...

I like having pedals looking similar!

The box has some gt108b in there. Little flying saucer ones. Problem is they have REDICULOUSLY thin leads on them... very difficult to get into sockets. Anyone found a way to get them in easily?

S

[LaceSensor]

Labels are just inkjet labels clear coated over...

I like having pedals looking similar!

The box has some gt108b in there. Little flying saucer ones. Problem is they have REDICULOUSLY thin leads on them... very difficult to get into sockets. Anyone found a way to get them in easily?

S

nope havent tried with sockets, but do you have the pinout.
I bought some of them and dont know what pin goes where....

[gtr2]

Great builds!

Josh

[DutchMF]

Hey Sambo!

That's some cool stuff in your first post dude! Especially like the Star Wars theme in the Sparkle Drive. And very neat on the insides as well! Might be your first post, but you've been doing this for a while, haven't you?

Paul

[sambo]

Made a few before, but never bothered painting and finishing them off well... they're all grey boxes!

Got the data sheet for the gt108s, I'll dig it out....

S

[raulduke]

Thats a nice little stash there mate.

Really neat guts as well.

[sgmezei]

Labels are just inkjet labels clear coated over...

I like having pedals looking similar!

The box has some gt108b in there. Little flying saucer ones. Problem is they have REDICULOUSLY thin leads on them... very difficult to get into sockets. Anyone found a way to get them in easily?

S

I have a ton of the same ones!! They are brutal to put in the staggered to-5 type socket so I put them in the SIP sockets. WAY easier to work with and you can get them to stay in. Make sure you push the leads in with pliers (smooth ones work easier).