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Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!

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gila_crisis wrote: Fri Jan 03, 2025 9:10 am
fuzzonaut wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:54 am Lemmy bore ya some more ... last Deadend ... for now, 'cos I'll need that Kruger whenever it's back in stock. :snax:

Shillelagh :!!!:

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I have a question: does on your clone the pre and post clip knobs work well? On mine the Pre Clip knob does barely nothing (and I double checked all components and soldering joints, and everything is fine). Post Clip acts as it should.
Hello and I just re-checked (with a bass): same thing with mine, POST is fine, but PRE clip doesn't do much, according to my ears.

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Re: Let's see your finished DIY projects!

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fuzzonaut wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 11:34 am
gila_crisis wrote: Fri Jan 03, 2025 9:10 am
fuzzonaut wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:54 am Lemmy bore ya some more ... last Deadend ... for now, 'cos I'll need that Kruger whenever it's back in stock. :snax:

Shillelagh :!!!:

46.jpeg
I have a question: does on your clone the pre and post clip knobs work well? On mine the Pre Clip knob does barely nothing (and I double checked all components and soldering joints, and everything is fine). Post Clip acts as it should.
Hello and I just re-checked (with a bass): same thing with mine, POST is fine, but PRE clip doesn't do much, according to my ears.

:idk:
I did some further tests, and PRE does also something, but it is very noticeable when you feed the Sooperfuzz with a loud or distorted signal, then it starts to make sense when you turn the knob ;)
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gila_crisis wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 4:11 pm
fuzzonaut wrote: Sun Jan 05, 2025 11:34 am
gila_crisis wrote: Fri Jan 03, 2025 9:10 am
fuzzonaut wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2024 7:54 am Lemmy bore ya some more ... last Deadend ... for now, 'cos I'll need that Kruger whenever it's back in stock. :snax:

Shillelagh :!!!:

46.jpeg
I have a question: does on your clone the pre and post clip knobs work well? On mine the Pre Clip knob does barely nothing (and I double checked all components and soldering joints, and everything is fine). Post Clip acts as it should.
Hello and I just re-checked (with a bass): same thing with mine, POST is fine, but PRE clip doesn't do much, according to my ears.

:idk:
I did some further tests, and PRE does also something, but it is very noticeable when you feed the Sooperfuzz with a loud or distorted signal, then it starts to make sense when you turn the knob ;)
Ah, I see, that knob is good for dirty stacking .... :D
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I got some boards from MAE lately (YES and NO), so will soon put soon together my "pimped" YES clone! Anybody else got some these boards from MAE?
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This is my "Perhaps?!" fuzz: built using MAE Business Card PCB, it's basically my own mix of Yes & No fuzz pedals.
Controls (left to right, top to bottom): Volume, Tone, Yes' More, Octave, NO's Thud.
Switches (left to right): 386 low-high gain, Q1 PNP/NPN switch, 3 position Yes' Splat (1nF, off, 10nF)

Stil trying out some transistor, but it's a messy, funny fuzz!
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Fresh from the workbench a pair of Infanem clones: blue Driving Notion and bare aluminium 141G. :!!!:

141G: straight forward build. I went for the G version, but I did a tweak as I installed 4.7uF NP caps instead of the 10uF, as I felt the sound was a tiny bit too boomy/bassy (but in a good way), and played a bit around with the transistors to get a different texture than the stock 2N2222.

Driving Notion: I did some tweaks in the High part of the circuit: I used sockets for R30 and ended with an additional 2n2 cap in this slot, as it adds a nice extra grit to the distortion. I socketed also C12, as I found a pair of schematics with different values for this cap and the stock 1nF was a bit too much glassy/high-piercing for my taste. I ended with a 47nF, but already 10nF sounds way better than then 1nF, IMHO.

As usual: big kudos to Deadend FX for the stellar PCBs! :animal:
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I rehoused a ggg orange squeezer kit I put together 16ish years ago… not showing a guts shot.. I barely got it all in :lol: the pedal was originally the normal Mxr layout… the enclosure is recycled from another old project that I never really liked… only mod to the design was I changed the input cap for a larger one so it works better on bass.. I painted it with orange safety paint
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