What Did You Do With Your Guitar(s) Today?

[SillyOctpuss]

Awesome! Always wanted to check one out.

It's honestly spectacular. It's like an overdrive and a fuzz had a baby. None of my other pedals really sound anything like it. If you get a chance to try one do it.

I pedal build in batches and was thinking about doing a thread in DIY for the batch I'm starting now. I'll put some sound samples at the end for each of the builds.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Playing music at any time with others in any setting is never wrong. Building skills and
growing is building skills and growing.

Oh, and my teenage self hates my comment.

My teenage self would have given me shit about the two bands I stood in for this year too but my teenage self was an idiot.

I had a great time and learned a bunch of chords types I'd never really used before. It really helped my playing get out of the rut it was in.

 

[Eagle]

It's honestly spectacular. It's like an overdrive and a fuzz had a baby. None of my other pedals really sound anything like it. If you get a chance to try one do it.

I pedal build in batches and was thinking about doing a thread in DIY for the batch I'm starting now. I'll put some sound samples at the end for each of the builds.

Do a thread showing the best way to do it .

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Do a thread showing the best way to do it .

I'll do a thread showing how I do it. It's definitely not going to be the best way to do it though. Especially not with this batch as I'm using a bunch of carbon comps and other NOS old parts for some of these. It's a batch of different fuzzes this time.

 

[Eagle]

I'll do a thread showing how I do it. It's definitely not going to be the best way to do it though. Especially not with this batch as I'm using a bunch of carbon comps and other NOS old parts for some of these. It's a batch of different fuzzes this time.

That will be interesting. You will have to tell us how you came to select the nos parts and the difference between them in use from new ones.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

That will be interesting. You will have to tell us how you came to select the nos parts and the difference between them in use from new ones.

Generally there isn't. In fact new parts will probably have a lower noise floor. I'm not expecting them to sound any different from builds with new parts tbh (minus normal component tolerances) but I've collected some really cool old NKT and Mullard transistors with perfect hfe and leakage and felt like making some old school fuzzes.

I normally use metal film resistors, wima/ epcos box caps and nichicon electrolytics but some of these are going to be Allen Bradley carbon comps, sprague and tropical fish caps etc. I've got some cool custom Enclosures for two of them.

I'm shallow enough to admit that this batch is about looking as cool (to me) as they sound.

Sneak peak

 

[Eagle]

Generally there isn't. In fact new parts will probably have a lower noise floor. I'm not expecting them to sound any different from builds with new parts tbh (minus normal component tolerances) but I've collected some really cool old NKT and Mullard transistors with perfect hfe and leakage and felt like making some old school fuzzes.

I normally use metal film resistors, wima/ epcos box caps and nichicon electrolytics but some of these are going to be Allen Bradley carbon comps, sprague and tropical fish caps etc. I've got some cool custom Enclosures for two of them.

I'm shallow enough to admit that this batch is about looking as cool (to me) as they sound.

Sneak peak

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Thread! Thread! Thread!

 

[FuzzyAce]

Generally there isn't. In fact new parts will probably have a lower noise floor. I'm not expecting them to sound any different from builds with new parts tbh (minus normal component tolerances) but I've collected some really cool old NKT and Mullard transistors with perfect hfe and leakage and felt like making some old school fuzzes.

I normally use metal film resistors, wima/ epcos box caps and nichicon electrolytics but some of these are going to be Allen Bradley carbon comps, sprague and tropical fish caps etc. I've got some cool custom Enclosures for two of them.

I'm shallow enough to admit that this batch is about looking as cool (to me) as they sound.

Sneak peak

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Man, I love that copper enclosure. Fun project!

 

[SillyOctpuss]

Man, I love that copper enclosure. Fun project!

That's going to be a Tone Bender MK1. I'll start the thread this weekend to document the builds as they go. Im still sourcing some parts and deciding on Artwork for some of them.

 

[FuzzyAce]

That's going to be a Tone Bender MK1

 

[Spaced Out Ace]

I'm thinking of getting Gotoh VS100N bridges for my 4 Stratocasters with 2 point trem. Anyone have any thoughts on these? Would I be able to use the same posts on the guitar and/or would the supplied posts from Gotoh fit without further modification?

I wish that Gotoh still made a 6 point bridge like the VS100N so it had the same string saddles. I think the make the VSVG, but I'm not keen on the saddles. I think I could buy replacement saddles like the ones on the VS100N that would fit, but I'm not certain.

Anyways, thinking of replacing the trems on my Stratocasters.

 

[DrewJD82]

Had my tech pull my amps out in the living room because I wanted to dick around with the FM9 in 4CM-

He deserved a break. And some treats.

I never spent a lot of time with the Fractal drives with these because I was so anxious to stick all those Lovepedals in front of them, the Shiva is kind of a bitch some days and today was one of them. That amp is going bye-bye sooner than later. Once I hit the Gauss Drive on the Electra Dyne I was stuck there for the rest of the time.

 

[Piing]

I am tempted to put it back on the RG550LTD bridge position. Currently there is a Dimarzio Bluesbucker. The Aldrich doesn't have the rich nuances of the Bluesbucker with clean and edge-of-breakup tones, but, but... The Aldrich was so fun... Tough decision!

Anyone else using the Aldrich pup?

Maybe the latest Fractal FW will squeeze more juice from the Aldrich clean and EOB tones. Specially the Wrecker Liverpool

 

[PLX]

I went over to RiggedTalk and talked about my guitars.

If you actually do something with your guitars over there, the moderators jump all in your ship.

 

[sleewell]

 

[DrewJD82]

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I am tempted to put it back on the RG550LTD bridge position. Currently there is a Dimarzio Bluesbucker. The Aldrich doesn't have the rich nuances of the Bluesbucker with clean and edge-of-breakup tones, but, but... The Aldrich was so fun... Tough decision!

Anyone else using the Aldrich pup?

Maybe the latest Fractal FW will squeeze more juice from the Aldrich clean and EOB tones. Specially the Wrecker Liverpool

I LOVE it.

Definitely not a pickup for nuances, IMO, that thing is balls out “I’m here to kick ass”, but what you lose in delicate timbres you gain in pitch harmonics jumping off the neck all over the place and all the balance one could want in a high output pickup.

 

[Orvillain]

Two of them are going tomorrow, and I'm coming home with a Mesa Mark V.

 

[Dave Lewis]

I’ve got to have a tidy up .

 

[la szum]

My teenage self would have given me shit about the two bands I stood in for this year too but my teenage self was an idiot.

I had a great time and learned a bunch of chords types I'd never really used before. It really helped my playing get out of the rut it was in.

Oh man! So much the same.

I ended up having way more fun once I ditched my pre-determined sensibilities
about what I should like, and who I should play with, and how judgey I should or
should not be about making music.

Made a lot of new friends and met some cool people, too. Also helped me realize
my own ego has not always been my best friend in life, if you know what I mean.
Leaving that fucker at home = way more fun!

 

[la szum]

Two of them are going tomorrow, and I'm coming home with a Mesa Mark V.

Tomorrow is today!