Gray Area – Buffed, Blended and Roto-Toned Mini-Me

[Chuck]

I always make notes on the back plate of my builds – mostly just the board name and build date.  In the case of this one I’ve written a substantial paragraph.  This started out as the 2014 original issue Mini-Me with a 3PDT Buffer, in 2017 I found a Flanger mod based on the Small Clone and all was good for a while.  Then Wilkie1 posted his Roto-Tone Deluxe Flanger mod and Chris posted his Mini-Me with the Buff-n-Blend which got me thinking and the poor old Mini-Me went back under the soldering iron again.  The switch marked S (for slow) adds a 10uf cap in parallel with C21 to slow down the rate – theDPDT switch originally had 150 pf and 30 pf caps for stock and flanger modes as well as the 10uf, I removed the smaller caps and associated wiring but left the 10uf as it was.  The Roto-Tone Deluxe (on the side of the box) ranges from stock chorus through some interesting flangery goodness.

Here’s the box:

And the guts:

The flangery thing is really kind of ‘meh’ with low to medium gain pedals but works great with my Ratt Deluxe, London Fuzz PUFF and ADD.

Thanks for looking,

Chuck

[Anonymous]

That’s wild! Great looking pedal.

[Chris]

Nicely done!  Love the rate shift switch and the roto-tone, but I can’t say enough how much I love the Buff’nBlend. Looks great, bet it sounds killer!

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