Monday 21 January 2013

Lardacious Phat Bastard

Pink Jimi Photon is one hell of a dude.


nothing special or probably un-done before....this USED to be the "stereo make up gain stage" i built for my mn3007 clone theory build...
ever eco-conscious <vbg> i decided to cascade the two preamps. and add a footswitchable diode clipper. all built in a re-cycled 1590 from my very second build.
now...it may not seem like much, but it's real nice and creamy!! i built mine with the balls pot on the side of the pedal, so i can roll it with my foot to adjust it. you may wanna do different.
anyways...it's built, it's verified, if you want a schematic, you gotta draw one!!!  it's basically a pair of eh lpb1's cascaded, with a footswitchable diode clipper between e of q2 and ground.
easy breezy sleazy goodness... can double as a fuzz or an overdrive. if you leave off  R9, and turn the gain pot all the way down, you get farty nasty octave down/ringmod/escobedo kinda horrible nasty sounds,
that SOME of you guys may enjoy...i just added the resistor to prevent that, but when ya breadboard this, you may like it better without.
i didn't measure voltages, i cranked the top trimmer full blast, then the bottom up till i found a sweet spot. if you get rf noise, turn vr2 down just an RCH.
there ya have it;
something to do one of these days when you're REALLY freakin' bored!!



12 comments:

  1. Yay, go Jimi. :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTY2H8pndY0

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  2. Switch balls 1 and balls balls 3 and this is verified. A very sweet little circuit.
    I agree, he is a very cool dude and very likeable too! A must watch clip above.
    A nice, almost perfectly symmetrical layout if it weren't for those pesky diodes :D nice one, Miro

    Mark

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    1. ...aaand i'm back.

      Thanks Mark! I updated the labels, description and tagged it.
      +m

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  3. I was about to call the truancy police! Phew :-)

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    1. Haha! I was just out of town with my tiny laptop for a few days :)
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  4. thanks miro!
    woot!
    now i'm famous thanks to you and IvIark!!

    lol...
    glad you guys enjoyed it.
    please check diystompboxes or fsb for my latest, the suzy q overdrive..
    the best f*ckin' thing i've come up with yet!!
    could always use a vero for it, VOT did one on FSB, love to see you guy's take on it.

    anyways, thanks so much, i feel really honored to have one of my things featured here!

    peace
    jimi

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    1. That looks simple and interesting.. I'll take it on at some point..

      Thanks Jimi!
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  5. screw it, sorry to hijack the thread for a minute, but i really really like this thing... live, i use my toneblaster(a modified tonebender) a wah, and this thing into a vibe, don't need anything else.
    ;)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RJuIm4F6ig

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    1. You're awesome, Jimi. Love your contributions!

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  6. Jimi is our king of fuzz. I'm glad to have gotten to know him. He's the real deal.

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  7. ;)
    thanks to my homies, dad and agitprop!
    and to IvIark and +miro, of course!

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