#1776-effects

Okay okay.  It has been faaaarrr too long since my last post.  Due to crowds and crowds of person asking why I've not posted I thought I'd give a quick photo summary.

Now I'm not sure if this is the right place to post holiday photos but here's one I took in NYC.  I had such an amazing holiday, if you've not been I'd defo recommend it!

Enough of that!  So what DIY stuff have I been up to?

NYC inspired baking - Knish anyone?

I decided to build a few bass compressors - the first was the Tadek design from Hexe. This is a GREAT little compressor!

Then it snowed:

Then I carried on:

At Christmas I promised a friend bassist that I'd build him a pedal.  He opted for a 'subtle' compressor so I opted for the Madbean Afterlife:

What next? Erm.  Oh yeah, also decided to do a quick bass overdrive.  Run Off Groove redid their Ampeg-style pedal (now called the Ginger) so I thought I'd do that...

This is yet another GREAT circuit from ROG.  Really really nice!

Another compressor came on to the list - this one was done by a German DIY board and now Musikding supply a kit of parts.  The instructions are sketchy at best, but as long as you have a bit of sense about you... you'll be fine!

Again this is an amazing compressor - its based on the Carl Martin compressor and is great on bass and guitar!

Carrying on with the ROG theme I decided to build the newest addition to the ROG family - the Thinderbird.

Check out the LED mounted Millennium Bypass... GOOD TIMES!!!

Again this is an AWESOME sounding pedal!  Go build one! 1776-effects sell a PCB if you wanna grab one!

Anything else?  Oh yeah.  I've had some perf-board laying around for a couple of years and finally decided to use it up.  In the past month or so I built a fuzz into an old case which didnt really work out for me so I decided to refit with a different circuit...  I read on John Kallas' site that he really loved the Fairfield Barbershop so I looked around and saw glowing-review-after-glowing-review... The build was inevitable!!!

You can see how I childishly scrawled an alternative reference over/around the FY-2 as it was originally labelled!

Anyway this pedal is AMAZING!  Really recommend getting one, building one or borrowing (NOT STEALING!) one.  I think it may boot my Timmy off low-drive position.  Just great.  Be aware that the J-fets need to bias correctly so where it says J201... don't use a 2n4547... it sounds POO.

Anyway - I'm sure there is more.  Like getting married in the summer. Our trip to London. My ankle being strong enough since I REALLY screwed it up to start running again... its amazing how much you can cram into a few months!

Hopefully not so long 'til next time.