Doombutter w/ fuzz lift

[lincolnic]

After sitting unboxed on my desk for months, I've finally boxed this guy up. It's super wacky, but a lot of fun. It'll take a little experimenting to find some good settings, but hopefully I can come up with some musical uses for it. The enclosure is PPP's Blue Hammertone, with a white LED.

I used LDR #9203 from Small Bear, which was the closest I could find to the recommended specs. It sounds fine to me, and I can't think of any reason to swap it out, so I'll save the other LDR I bought for an upcoming Neptune build.

I added the fuzz lift switch, which doesn't seem to remove the fuzz as much as make it just a bit quieter. I'm using single coils (Strat/Jazzmaster), so who knows. Still a fairly useful thing to have, and it's such a simple mod that there's hardly any reason not to include it. At first I tried wiring my LED up for Brian's suggested rate mod (i.e., positive lead goes to lug 2 of the Track pot), but it didn't work as I expected. Rather than being an on/off indicator and flashing constantly to show the rate, it would only show the pedal's settings when I played through it. If the pedal was engaged and I wasn't playing, then the LED didn't light. It was cool to look at, but ultimately not that useful, so I went back to the standard on/off LED indicator action.

This was the first drilling layout I designed solely on my own, and it turned out very well. The Depth knob accidentally was drilled too far to the right, and I didn't notice until it was too late, but worse things have happened. I did my usual sloppy hand-labeling with a black Sharpie paint pen.

The wiring isn't pristine, but I'm definitely making progress. This is probably the neatest wiring I've done yet. And the pedal fired up with no issues, so hooray for that!

[bigrigg]

very cool.  I have one myself with some cool mods to add here but I just need one more flipp'n knob. grrr
play with the knobs and there are some good muscial settings for sure.  congrats

[nzCdog]

That pcb is deliciously colour co-ordinated with the red caps and metal film resistors.  Thinking this one needs a demo

[lincolnic]

That pcb is deliciously colour co-ordinated with the red caps and metal film resistors.  Thinking this one needs a demo

I'll see what I can do!