current DIY projects you are working on .. or planning on.

[Big John]

work on a moter vibroto.

[subprime]

i might be interested in one of those preamp/pedals. PM me if you finish making them.

running that through the v4 would sound pretty slick, i bet.

If I can get it where I want it, I might do 4 or 5.

become the next rusty box.

I'll definitely want to give it a try. Its based off of a bassman right?

[galanter]

The cost of analog synth modules is too damn high!

[japmn]

i might be interested in one of those preamp/pedals. PM me if you finish making them.

running that through the v4 would sound pretty slick, i bet.

If I can get it where I want it, I might do 4 or 5.

become the next rusty box.

I'll definitely want to give it a try. Its based off of a bassman right?

It will never be as fancy as a Rusty Box. It will be more of a fuzz box that you can use as a preamp if you want. It will not have balanced outs, but it will have an overdrive built in and probably sound more like an amp blowing up than working properly.

[subprime]

Make some clips with bass and guitar meng.

[japmn]

Make some clips with bass and guitar meng.

Let me finish it. Or, I guess I can just make some clips of how it's goofy now.

[Moog$Fool$]

The cost of analog synth modules is too damn high!

[Nate Dort]

Fuzz pedal design:





The guy who owns the local guitar shop wants me to build some pedals for him to sell. I'm working on a trem pedal too.

[greg]

Nice looking. What do you use to decal the box?

[japmn]

So I'm having 2 problems with this Bassman preamp.

1. It is way too loud. I can only basically turn it up just enough for it to be making sound and then it is way too loud after that. It also is basically a fuzz if I don't turn the guitar volume down to about 2. It's a cool as hell fuzz, so if that is the way it is, so be it. It does sound great when it is clean though.

Ideas?

2. Should this design with these transistors have an excessive amount of hiss? Because it does.

Ideas?

Schematic:



Layout:




The board has the cap for the following the boost switch on it too. It's not pictures on the layout.

If I can get this figured out, it will sound quite good.

[subprime]

why cant you just change the master volume pot or something?

[Nate Dort]

Nice looking. What do you use to decal the box?

nothing yet. that's just a fancy computer rendering. i'm thinking about having them silkscreened though.

[Tommy]

Fuzz pedal design:

Man, if it sounds half as good as that looks, I want one.

[numberthirty]

Fuzz pedal design:

Man, if it sounds half as good as that looks, I want one.

Maybe a Funny Cat?

[Nate Dort]

Fuzz pedal design:

Man, if it sounds half as good as that looks, I want one.

Maybe a Funny Cat?

I've done a few Funny Cats in the past. This is going to be similar, minus the envelope filter portion. Just a distortion/fuzz with a few tweaks. A clean-blend knob being one of them, and a little less squishyness as the original compresses a lot with hot humbuckers.

[benadrian]

So I'm having 2 problems with this Bassman preamp.

1. It is way too loud. I can only basically turn it up just enough for it to be making sound and then it is way too loud after that. It also is basically a fuzz if I don't turn the guitar volume down to about 2. It's a cool as hell fuzz, so if that is the way it is, so be it. It does sound great when it is clean though.

Ideas?

2. Should this design with these transistors have an excessive amount of hiss? Because it does.

Ideas?

1. You can try taking the 25uf caps out of the circuit. That should reduce the gain of the gain stages. Make sure you still have 4.5 volts at the drain. If that's still too loud/distorted, then you can try replacing the 1.5k resistors on the source pins of the JFETS with 10K, and then rebiasing to 4.5 again.

2. Yes. these pedal circuits are known to be pretty hissy.

[Nate Dort]

trem pedal design:

[Nate Dort]

spraying tinted nitro my new bass neck in the alley behind my apartment.

[matt_stevens]

Just finished putting a pair of Phat Cats in my Ibanez Blazer. I cut a new pickguard for it that matches the old one pretty closely, but has fewer cutouts for the controls - just using 1 volume control and a rotary selector switch.

Sounds awesome.

[Evanc521]

Just finished putting a pair of Phat Cats in my Ibanez Blazer. I cut a new pickguard for it that matches the old one pretty closely, but has fewer cutouts for the controls - just using 1 volume control and a rotary selector switch.

Sounds awesome.

I have a Phat Cat in the bridge of my Epi Dot, how do you like it in the neck? I'm considering switching the 57' classic out with one.