My take on the Sunking

[Ward]

That's a seriously good lookin pedal dude. The sound clip I like too, is that just the Klon?
I've been playing mine for a few hours now ( different sessions, JTM45 clone and 4x12 pre rolas) I think as a clean boost it is as good as I've heard and have no complaints, I love it with the strat, (that and P90s are all I play) with the gain on full but I have to dial in more bass on the amp to get it sounding to my liking, then when I bypass the pedal the amp is way too bassy, so for live the full gain setting would be a PITA for sure, for recording it's killer and as a clean boost it works great with the un pedalled amp settings. Pedals, love em, hate em.

[Cortexturizer]

Thank you Eldanko and Hangingmonkey, you're very kind!

Ward my man, yeah, only the Klon on the recording, but it's a Squier CV 60's strat into a Line 6 UX1 through the AC30 simulation, not really a charming recording technique I concur, but it is what it is. The bridge pickup on the Squier is really really bright and agressive, it's the only thing that I don't like on it. And that rhythm track on my demo is played on the bridge pickup, so...

I found somewhere that madbean posted what capacitors to change if you wanna remove some treble on the overdrive side of the pedal, wait a second...yeah, here it is

"To increase bass on the dirt side, try upping the values of C6 and C7. 100n for C6 and 150n for C7.

On the clean side, increase C4 to 220n."

So you can try that.

With my build I may try changing the 3n9 for some higher value, but that's about it.

[MattOcaster]

I love it when people raise the bar! Nice! Graphics A+++

[Ward]

"To increase bass on the dirt side, try upping the values of C6 and C7. 100n for C6 and 150n for C7.

On the clean side, increase C4 to 220n."

So you can try that.

With my build I may try changing the 3n9 for some higher value, but that's about it.

Thanks man, I'll give it a try, mind you, I've never heard that you could effect the tone of the clean AND the dirt separately so if this can be done it will be very interesting. I don't want the clean to change one bit, only add some bass to the full gain setting BUT again that could muff out the tone as well but I'll start with C7 n see how it sounds, I'm happy with the treble side of things, the tone control works well. Thanks.

[gordo]

So let me get this straight...killer build...killer photo skills...and then killer demo?  Nicely done!!!

[ch1naski]

Is that digital readout the bias level? Omg......

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[Cortexturizer]

Here's another one I made. This one is really special for me cause I made it for a friend Voja who plays in a band that I LOVE called Hipnagoga Slike. The graphics is inspired by their song "Surlasi" which stands for the order of species to what elephants belong to. I hope I explained this okay, English is not my mother tongue...









And here is Voja playing the song "Surlasi"

What a killer riff. He plays with his fingers, no plectrum. Insane.
Hope you will like all of this guys.

The interiors of the pedal are absolutely the same like with mine. I missed the chance and haven't made any pictures of the interiors, but, as I said, everything is absolutely the same like with mine. Cheers!

[gingataff]

Wow that's really nice, I love that artwork. The cartoon made me chuckle too

[icecycle66]

Surely you have a website with all you work on it?

[Cortexturizer]

No I don't but that's an idea to follow definitely I really love the way some of you designed your places on the interwebz, I gotta try and do mine sometime soon.
I have some history in web programming and currently am a full time SEM specialist so maybe blogs would be a little boring for me in terms of lacking options or whatnot but if I engage in all of the programming and website optimization then when will I build pedals...arghhh

So yeah, a blog is to be expected

Cheers!

[monkeyssj1]

This second klon is glorious

[selfdestroyer]

And the clouds opened up and God touched a pedal, and it was good, and it was called Gold Centaur!

I just love the look of this pedal. So inspirational. Also, thanks for sharing your paint/resin knowledge.

[Cortexturizer]

I managed to fetch this second Sunking from a friend I made it for, and these photos are a part of the same batch as the ones of the Filthy 9 fuzz so...
I owed you guys a gutshot of this second one, so here it is







There miniature Alpha dpdt switches are a bitch to solder with this build. So many connections...

[gordo]

How did you get the subtle stereo effect on the rhythm track? Is that the amp sim doing it?  I really like that sound.

[jimilee]

Great paint job!