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My brother, Eric Dolch, builds custom guitar pedals from a schematic, and paints them too! These pedals not only look pretty, but sound phenomenal as well!
Check out some of his videos on youtube.
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1 sb800 full power CL bounced off large piece of foam core board, the flash was slightly flagged at the bottom, and there was a foamcore bounce camera right. Shot on wallpaper.
More in my set, "Dragonflies," including some really cool micros (macros)! Have you ever seen inside a dragonfly's mouth?? I'll take you there! Click the link below to visit my "Dragonflies" set:
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And be sure that you don't miss viewing my new set, "Dragonfly Mortuary/Autopsy:"
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My brother, Eric Dolch, builds custom guitar pedals from a schematic, and paints them too! These pedals not only look pretty, but sound phenomenal as well!
Check out some of his videos on youtube.
strobist info:
1 sb800 full power CL bounced off large piece of foam core board, the flash was slightly flagged at the bottom, and there was a foamcore bounce camera right. Shot on black velvet.
My brother, Eric Dolch, builds custom guitar pedals from a schematic, and paints them too! These pedals not only look pretty, but sound phenomenal as well!
Check out some of his videos on youtube.
strobist info:
1 sb800 full power CL bounced off large piece of foam core board, the flash was slightly flagged at the bottom, and there was a foamcore bounce camera right. Shot on black velvet.
Feeling a little fuzzy and out of focus after a super full day . . . so sometimes. . you gotta "just do (click) it" before you collapse :)
It seems REALLY nice. Sounds more like Jimi than any of the clones I've built. Not totally quiet; with the Fuzz Face going you can hear the clock cycling when you aren't playing, but it's pretty sweet. I need to try it out with the Jet, but my wife's off today and I'm already cutting into her Valentine's Day opportunities to enjoy my unbridled manhood. Heh...
BTW, it uses a plain stereo 1/4" cable for the expression pedal. I'd love to find a nice one with gray or black cloth wrap to Pimp My Nuvibe. Heh...
Also, heel down on the pedal takes the vibe completely out of the circuit, so that's pretty cool.
Believe it or not, he was a good model and sat very still for me. Of course, I caught him sitting in a patch of sunshine and was all the way across the room shooting with my longest lens on its longest zoom. And he still looked at me like I was doing something wrong. But a very good model.
Matt put together a cool little fuzz face guitar pedal and walked us through how it works at the space tonight. It sounds pretty good!
Repro Fuzz Face PCB's and NOS capacitors courtesy of Andy Mackie. 1W resistors courtesy of Jaycar. Newspaper courtesy of an underpaid worker.
My brother, Eric Dolch, builds custom guitar pedals from a schematic, and paints them too! These pedals not only look pretty, but sound phenomenal as well!
Check out some of his videos on youtube.
strobist info:
1 sb800 full power CL bounced off large piece of foam core board, the flash was slightly flagged at the bottom, and there was a foamcore bounce camera right. Shot on black velvet.
My brother, Eric Dolch, builds custom guitar pedals from a schematic, and paints them too! These pedals not only look pretty, but sound phenomenal as well!
Check out some of his videos on youtube.
strobist info:
1 sb800 full power CL bounced off large piece of foam core board, the flash was slightly flagged at the bottom, and there was a foamcore bounce camera right. Shot on wallpaper.
My brother, Eric Dolch, builds custom guitar pedals from a schematic, and paints them too! These pedals not only look pretty, but sound phenomenal as well!
Check out some of his videos on youtube.
strobist info:
1 sb800 full power CL bounced off large piece of foam core board, the flash was slightly flagged at the bottom, and there was a foamcore bounce camera right. Shot on black velvet.
So, yeah...five knob Fuzz Face build. Someone had asked me about using BC209C transistors and I’ve never really built silicon Fuzz Face projects. Pretty much always germanium. So I decided to experiment. Usually with germanium the common wisdom is for Q1 to be around 70 hFE and Q2 to be around 130 hFE. Silicon transistors are way hotter. This has a 400 hFE in Q1 and a 528 hFE in Q2. Sounds cool to me. Cleans up with the guitar’s Volume knob like it should. Maybe the ratios are more important than the voltage.
fuzz noise. a classical germanium fuzz face with a twist - the words "fuzz noise machine" on the top are actually etched copper plates connected to certain points on the circuit board, that when connected with a resistor begin to oscillate.
basically - when you touch the words with your fingers, the thing begins to oscillate like mad!
Let me start this whining by saying that the customer was right. I messed up.
A while back I bought this Madbean Mangler board to try out their negative-ground Fuzz Face circuit. It makes for a Fuzz Face that isn't picky about 9-volt adapters and that's nice. I'd kind of tossed it aside and I finally decided to stick it in an enclosure and sell it to get it out of here. I had an enclosure I'd drilled for a single-knob Rangemaster circuit that I ended up not liking, so I drilled a second hole, but the holes aren't exactly spaced perfectly. So I was only asking $50 for the pedal. And I said in the description that it was some spare parts I'd thrown together to make more room in my work area.
So the buyer gets the pedal and says the 9-volt jack is dead and the pedal just screeched when he was trying to play through it. And I immediately knew what was wrong. The PCBs in these little PCB builds move around some and it had grounded out against the back of the pots. I suggested that he cut a piece of cardboard the same size as the PCB and slip it between the PCB and the pots, but he had no interest in fixing the problem, so I took the pedal back.
I opened it up today, moved the board around until it wasn't touching the pots anymore and it magically came back to life.
I never think of protecting the back of the pots because I don't usually do PCB builds and that isn't on my mind. But here's the way the kids do it these days, for anyone who might be curious. "Pot Condoms" that slip on over the back of the pot. Keeps the pot from grounding out on the back of the board. Ten seconds to do the job right, but I'm a dinosaur and that job never actually occurred to me.
So, yeah...five knob Fuzz Face build. Someone had asked me about using BC209C transistors and I’ve never really built silicon Fuzz Face projects. Pretty much always germanium. So I decided to experiment. Usually with germanium the common wisdom is for Q1 to be around 70 hFE and Q2 to be around 130 hFE. Silicon transistors are way hotter. This has a 400 hFE in Q1 and a 528 hFE in Q2. Sounds cool to me. Cleans up with the guitar’s Volume knob like it should. Maybe the ratios are more important than the voltage.
My brother, Eric Dolch, builds custom guitar pedals from a schematic, and paints them too! These pedals not only look pretty, but sound phenomenal as well!
Check out some of his videos on youtube.
strobist info:
1 sb800 full power CL bounced off large piece of foam core board, the flash was slightly flagged at the bottom, and there was a foamcore bounce camera right. Shot on black velvet.