Honey Overdrives

 

 Thanks again to drdfx. Made the BJF Honey Bee and the Mad Professor Sweet Honey in the other. The write-ups where good, I wanted to compare the sounds together. Although it was more designed for mass production, I gotta call the sweet honey the one. I would class this ( as with the scarab deluxe) a must build. I have since reboxed the sweet honey in a steampunk version ( my title page background pic, basically because I love it so much, It's Stayin!

In retrospect I found my artwork design a bit over the top on this one. It was a lot of shagging around on Inkscape to get the end picture, so I went with it. Again Inkscape + Scribus = Tayda printable PDF.

It's a very usable mid-gain overdrive. My go-to overdrive on many songs we play. 

Basic Audio Scarab Deluxe

 Up until I made this my "fuzz" option was a Big Muff. It didn't get much use. You can't hear it in a live setting. I needed something  with a bit more grunt. I love this pedal, and its a stayer for me. I'm going to re-box it in something a bit more deluxe ( and smaller) at some stage. With the bias set to not too much fuzzy It's a an awesome distortion option ( for me). I found using some lower gain 2N5088 transistors produced better soundz.

Again I got the circuit and build info from drdfx. I chose a few of his to start with. In my view it seemed he had shortlisted worthy builds and I haven't been disappointed in his choices.

Inkscape drawing left, actual right pic. Printed using Tayda printing service.

The circuit can also be found in vero layout.

Cranked AC30

 

This is another I decided to build early on from drdfx. requiring etching a PCB. artwork is Inkscape (left pic ) printed by Tayda printing service.

The circuit is a discontinued Wampler cranked AC. It requires 3 matched sets of J201 Jfet transistors.

Needed to make a JFET tester for this. SMD J201's can be found on Tayda. soldering them to adaptor boards is a trick, but not as hard as you think it will be. youtube videos are great for learning how.

I would call this a bright overdrive/ distortion. Very usable from light gain settings to heavier stuff.

drdfx have videos with soundz examples if you think you might like

 

PT2399 Delay no 1

Another pedal I've used Inkscape art (left pic) for Tayda printing service. I've placed a few 3mm green led's on the radar screen to look like blips when it's on.

The circuit is The Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay with a volume control ( which was one of the draws to building this. I didn't beat my memory boy off my main board, mostly as it's more digital sounding compared to the more organic, analogue, darker toned EHX machine. Not to say its not good, its an excellent sounding delay. I had this on my board for ages as a 2nd option delay.

Thanks to drdfx this was made with the use of his pcb layout

 

Timmy the Kid

This is about when I discovered Tayda and Their printing service. I've used Sketchup for many years to design things before I commit to making, so I was able to eventually use Inkscape to start drawing designs in vector format according to Tayda requirements, mostly no overlaps, sized right etc. With the use of another program called Scribus I was able to convert the finished drawing into the correct layer format, change colours to CYMK, apply the right Roland swatches for the clear and white layers and end up producing a PDF that worked. Above are a png of my inkscape drawing and photo of pedal.

Another great pedal really. I use it often as a booster/ stacker booster, but useful on its own in many ways. So many transparent overdrives and their all good. worth the build for me