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Lunar

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Quarantine pedal number eleven. Witch Burner.

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Blue clipper. Rosie the Cat ( next door cat ) inspects the Blue Clipper. Since the weather was nice, I started another round of pedals. Box is simple as it kinda took me a little time to get back in the groove of building them. Pretty simple pedal…one of the earlier ones to come out back in the day. It actually used to plug into your guitar directly. The circuit is about as textbook of a hard-clipping op amp circuit as it gets.

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The Atari Punk Console is probably every beginners gateway into DIY synth noise. Its simple, cheap and all the parts could be found at your local radio shack. Remember that place? Radio Shack Forest Mims archive If you can build this, and sit with it…perhaps stay entertained for 5 minutes or more, you might have found a hobby you can get into. Hackaday link I was playing with this and your standard 40106 oscillators for a weekend that my head broke and I finally got into “Glitch” as a EDM Genre.

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Building pedals involves a lot of half builds. So you typically bread board the circuit first. If it works, you build it proper and then box it up. It’s a lot of work and kinda expensive to do to completion. So it’s good to hear it and make executive decisions on the way. If it sucks, cut your loses. This was a clone of Acapulco Gold. link I really have not had much luck with LM386 pedals.

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Birdie sanders eyes my little clipping diode toolset suspiciously. The weather is nice, so I’m in the yard with the birds and the squirrels ( raccoons and possums too) doing another round of pedals. One of the features that you find in many pedals is a clipping stage consisting of diodes. Different diodes have different forward voltages, so you can customize the clipping pattern. The lower the forward voltage, the more it squares it out.

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Quarantine pedal number eight. Mosrite fuzz clone. Posing with the last green tomato of the summer. In a cage to keep critters out. I would say it’s a little more raspy. I really need to scope a few waves to see what is going on. The water slip off decal turned out nice. But I prob should print the whole thing at once rather that pieces. Eh. Better than sharpie and nail polish jobs I was doing a decade ago.

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Quarantine pedal number seven. A variation on the Electra posted on small bear. I used a 2n5088 and some Ge diodes I had in an envelope marked “Ge diodes.” Guess I have to take my own word on that. I think I created a few of this on stripboard. This was my favorite. Small Bear I found some laser printable decal paper on the interwebs. Pretty fun! This is my new labelling process.

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Electra pedal! Technically, this is a rebuild from the scrap box. I built this in 2016, but the box looked like a trainwreck. For some reason I used nail polish in some attept to do a hack clear coat job. It did not play well with black paint! Then I dremeled the paint off which just gouged the aluminum. Oops. Finally, the 3PDT switch gave out. Those blue ones suck.

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Quarantine pedal number Five. Ross distortion clone. Black Version. JRC4558 although I fail to hear the magic between that and my other 4558s floating around. Electro Smash Pretty much the same distortion as a DS-1 or MXR+. With the gain dialed back a bit, it’s pretty decent. Heather showed me how to blend inks for the color effect. ‘Sweet Cat’ eyes it suspiciously. She is either a stray or puts on a good act in return for a little wet food.

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