Messing With Stuff People Gave Me

[Chuck]

I’ve been working with boards I’ve been given or rebuilding stuff from a long time ago lately.

First up is a Muff variant based on a Skreddy version.  I prefer a little more flexibility so I added a pair of Barry’s 2PDT boards (one I have had for a very long time).  Currently the first switch (D1, D2) has a pair of 3mm green LEDs and a pair of 1N34As and the second (D3, D4) has a pair of 1N4148s and a pair of 1N34As

The box:

The guts:

Next up is the third or fourth pedal I ever built.  It’s a Mad Bean Wolfshirt – a funky Muff variant with an octave switch.  Originally built with 2N3565 and in a 1590BB with the controls in the side kind of like the old Foxx Tone Machine – not the brightest Idea I ever had.  It’s not an everyday pedal but it can be entertaining and sometimes useful so I moved it into a 125B and replaced the 2N3565s with 2N3904s in addition to cleaning up the wiring.

Here the box (pre finished in gray from Tadya with a quick squirt of black sparkle after the matte clear coat):

And the guts:

One of my neighbors bought two of Mad Beans new Kompromat compressor boards, offered me one board to build his for him and gave me the freebee Silverfox that came with it.  I built his with a LM13700 he provided and mine with a CA3080 from my stash of stuff.  Not sure about a 5 knob compressor but it fired right up.

Here’s the compressor:

And the guts:

The Silverfox is a modified Barber LTD Silver.  The mods include 9mm plastic shaft pots for Bass, Mid and Presence controls.  I used a LM1458 because I had one.  Here’s the box:

And the guts:

Thanks for looking.

Chuck

[Anonymous]

A busy builder as always!  Well Done!

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