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I guess I hadn’t posted this on GuitarPCB after completion. Another for some inspiration for the conventional combo folks. In fact this is part of a guitar/pedal combo. I wrote it up over at BYOC like this:
M-19FX MFF/KLN ‘Track Buster’
This modern-day stage explosive device is my FX version of a vintage reissue M-19 WWII land mine. The Track Buster. Made to be the companion of an SG that I refinished for my son in WWII style. He’s retired Army. Matches his jeep too. Basically what we have here is a heavily armed Big Muff Pi. Only this one is always pushed by a MKC3 Klon, through a Paramix, with the send/return loop containing the MUFF’N and a blend pot able to add more pure MKC3. And with the use of the switchable II/IO loop, more MKC3 plus anything else you want can be mixed in with the already klon-flavored MUFF’N. Boards from GuitarPCB, of course. One foot switch, primed or active. When primed it’s dark but when active the Lucite disk will begin to get a fiery but stealth orange/reddish glow. I decided to try to use fiber optics to light the disk with the aid of a red and an orange led and 8 strands of poly fiber optics and a couple shrink boots. Brightness can be adjusted up to a point. Popped two reds trying to get it right (no CLR safety resistor). Once you crush that raised switch you are the baddest axe slinger in a large perimeter. Your enemies and fans will take notice. Not that it doesn’t have tone. The MKC has great tone and the treble knob has a ton of adjustment. I opted for the Ultra Mod which brings a self satisfying smile, and I split the two gains for separate clean and dirty gain adjustments. The MUFF’N loves it. I opted for most mods here. I put the clipping diodes on a daughter board with the Roto Tone to help domineer every fuzzy situation. I squeezed in the low pass and high pass tonal options. Also added the Tone Bender option. Also I went with having the boundless Tone TwEq on an override switch but with the stock tone still intact if chosen. That Tone TwEq has some punch to it. I got back-to-futured by the cabinet a couple times before I got interfaced with the combo just right. Thought I was going to take shrapnel. I had to lower the gain resistor value. You’ll notice that I use TRS jacks to keep the number minimal. One for main In and Out and one for the Insert Loop of the Paramix. As a way of attachment, the LED/fiber platform connects to the boards below it by using component trimmings and soldering them between non-active solder pads of each board. I don’t recommend that method for beginners. But it was getting full and I needed a good angle for the fiber.Another Playsforfun Super Combo build! You are way more industrious than I am when building the combo’s. The ones I made had only up to 5 PCBs in them. I count seven that I can see, but you probably have more packed in there!
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