UPDATE: Finally finished this run, what I thought would be a simple bang them out run took a long time but happy to take a group picture of these dudes. I will post back here if any are leftover!
Old news:
Here's a nice short clip:
http://www.instagram.com/p/CgKMk5ss3tg/
Sinews a Roland Bee Baa / Buzzaround mashup. I had originally wanted to call it Rome Plows but the font I was wanting to use at the time steered me to calling it something else, so I went with Sinews. In case you don't know, both names are songs off of one of my favorite bands records - Drive Like Jehu's Yank Crime. Sinews stuck as it is actually quit fitting to the way it sounds.
In the Buzzaround circuit, there's a clean 2 germanium transistor boosting stage that slams the 3rd transistor into fuzzy saturation. I know other folks have tried different front ends so I thought I would give the dirty boost stage of the Roland Bee Baa a go and it works fabulously. I thought this was a quick project I could whip out in February but here we are. I have amassed a large sum of tasty germanium transistors over the years from estate sales and pulls from old radios so I have a sorted about 30 absolutely slaying transistors for the project. So building up 13 for this run and then more if people like them.
Controls:
IN - amount of guitar signal going into the circuit
SUS - amount of bee baa boost going into Buzzaround
BAL - the balance control from the Buzzaround
TIMBR - the crude tone control from the Buzzaround
VOL - master volume
Toggle - changes caps sizes on the output of the bee baa boost feeding into the buzzaround. One setting is thick and one is thinner.
Enclosures will be deep etched and then buffed to a shine. Pics of 1st unit:
Older pic dumpage:
https://imgur.com/Jzr1wdb
https://imgur.com/rABcj8v
https://imgur.com/gLfeond
https://imgur.com/Q57BwpR
First version of the board, had made some mistakes on the main board and footswitch board so got them functioning but had to order new boards. Put some sockets in to test the GE transistor and diode pairs.
https://imgur.com/PnOAFqO
Here's the rinse after the etch pre steel wool / polishing
https://imgur.com/tajX7b6
Proto / decided the graphics were a bit boring:
https://imgur.com/9IqDHvI
That's it ILF family...
