Post-Lockdown pedal building

Cookiemonster

euan said:

First of a series of Christmas. BC108 Sunface clone. It’s excellent everywhere but at full on fuzz where it’s brilliant but the noise/whine is too much and above the actual level. 

Check the bias. If you add a 100r in series between the wire and lug 3 of the fuzz pot it will take away those artifacts

UnclePsychosis

Wow @euan that looks amazing. 

How did you do the graphic? 

euan

Usually I paint my own, but for this batch I've used Tayda's UV printing service.

Cookiemonster said:

Check the bias. If you add a 100r in series between the wire and lug 3 of the fuzz pot it will take away those artifacts

Yeah admittedly I've not biased it yet and played with the trimpot, ran out of fun time this afternoon

roberty

Beautiful @euan ;

Cookiemonster

euan said:

Usually I paint my own, but for this batch I've used Tayda's UV printing service.

Cookiemonster said:

Check the bias. If you add a 100r in series between the wire and lug 3 of the fuzz pot it will take away those artifacts

Yeah admittedly I've not biased it yet and played with the trimpot, ran out of fun time this afternoon

That will be it. Looks fantastic though. Try that 100r trick if you still get artifacts on the fuzz pot. Or add a 100pf to the collector and base of Q2

Cookiemonster

https://imgur.com/gallery/OvxAvy8
Which knobs do you prefer.

roberty

Cookiemonster said:

https://imgur.com/gallery/OvxAvy8
Which knobs do you prefer.

Green

Alex2678

Green

Cookiemonster

Interesting. The new owner went for black and silver. The green ones are from Tayda. Nice quality if your looking 

stickyfiddle

I like the black and silver on that pedal. I do love the style of those green ones but I tend to go for silver versions mostly. Lovely feeling knobs 

UnclePsychosis

Top tip on the engraved labels by the way. Thanks! 
https://i.imgur.com/PGyKh1S.jpg ; 

Cookiemonster

UnclePsychosis said:

Top tip on the engraved labels by the way. Thanks! 
https://i.imgur.com/PGyKh1S.jpg ; 

What's the engraved labels ?

Cookiemonster

https://imgur.com/gallery/uu2B7Qv  ;

Alex2678

Cookiemonster said:

UnclePsychosis said:

Top tip on the engraved labels by the way. Thanks! 
https://i.imgur.com/PGyKh1S.jpg ; 

What's the engraved labels ?

I was saying if you look on eBay for engraved labels people do engraving on different coloured plastic sheets, that’s what I did on the Timmy clone I posted. 

Alex2678

UnclePsychosis said:

Top tip on the engraved labels by the way. Thanks! 
https://i.imgur.com/PGyKh1S.jpg ; 

Looks great!

Cookiemonster

Alex2678 said:

Cookiemonster said:

UnclePsychosis said:

Top tip on the engraved labels by the way. Thanks! 
https://i.imgur.com/PGyKh1S.jpg ; 

What's the engraved labels ?

I was saying if you look on eBay for engraved labels people do engraving on different coloured plastic sheets, that’s what I did on the Timmy clone I posted. 

I shall check that out. Thank you 

Winny_Pooh

@UnclePsychosis said:

Whilst we're here, anyone got any good tips for dimming LEDs? 

Can't be faffed with changing resistors although that's clearly the right way. These are for DIY pedals so don't mind a bit of bodge. Masking tape? Something else? 

I've had good results lowering the led further into the case so it protrudes less. If you need to slightly heat up the contacts when you push it in it's still less faff than a resistor.

roberty

Looks like you guys are all upping your game. Great to see

Alex2678

Cookiemonster said:

https://imgur.com/gallery/uu2B7Qv  ;

Really nicely done. Solid shade of yellow too

Cookiemonster

Alex2678 said:

Cookiemonster said:

https://imgur.com/gallery/uu2B7Qv  ;

Really nicely done. Solid shade of yellow too

Thanks. Actually really looking forward to getting some decent graphics sorted now. Spent ages building and not really thinking about it. 
Seeing some of the other pedals being made is very inspiring. 
This is my favourite thread in the forum. Looking forward to seeing what people make over the Xmas break.