SAQQARA BIRD (Warhead)

[bigrigg]

Hello again,
here is the Saqqara Bird (Warhead).  Quck review....chorus options are nice with everything from subtle to seasick for sure.  Vibe is what I was really after.  It can do a nice swirl, but not over the top.  It's a little more vibrato than swirl.  Lots of tweaking with the trimmers to get your choice of vibe.  Speed is quite fast to almost no sweep.  Great.  It can definitely "throb" if you like that kind of sound.  Giving almost a choppy trem effect.  Very quiet and warm sounding for sure.  Super tight fit in this box and I had to "shave" some pcb board down to squeeze in the double gang pot.  No mods, just stock.  Pulsing LED is a nice touch.  Very happy with this result.  A+ unless you want big swirl.
Thanks again to Madbean and all of Santa's little pedal helpers here on the forum.

[mgwhit]

Wow!  Great looking build!

[night-B]

Really classy! Nice choice of knobs 

[midwayfair]

Beautiful work.

[hoodoo]

Looks great mate, purple on silver always looks very classy to me. It must have been a small concern the first time you tried to fit that board in there hey lol take it easy, Matt.

[alanp]

VERY impressive -- the wire wrangling must have been headache inducing, with internals that compact.

[stecykmi]

very cool. i've got one of these 80% done. how sensitive are the LDR's to the positioning against the bulb? have you tried a light shield of some sort?

did you use a rev-log (C-type) pot for the speed control?

[bigrigg]

Looks great mate, purple on silver always looks very classy to me. It must have been a small concern the first time you tried to fit that board in there hey lol take it easy, Matt.

Yes, there were moments of panic.  LOL

VERY impressive -- the wire wrangling must have been headache inducing, with internals that compact.

First time I tried the "twisted" wire approach and of course LOL it was "fun" getting the right lengths and squishing all the goodies in place as well as I could.

[bigrigg]

very cool. i've got one of these 80% done. how sensitive are the LDR's to the positioning against the bulb? have you tried a light shield of some sort?

did you use a rev-log (C-type) pot for the speed control?

LDR's seem to work fine against the bulb or straight up as I did them.  No real difference.  You would simply make it up with the trimmer adj.  I had a light shield as well but it's really only needed to adj the trimmers in a lit room.  You can adj them in a dark room as well with no shield.  Once it's boxed up...well, there's your light shield.  The box.
Also used the reverse log (c type) for speed. Works great.  Just a wee bit big.  Good luck.

[bigmufffuzzwizz]

Really digging this.

[rr0727]

nice build!

[bluescage]

Nice one!!