I can finally post this on my blog now that she has the pedal. I did not want to ruin the surprise since they were traveling in Portland and I wanted it there waiting for her when she got home.

I wanted to build my aunt a pedal and recently she tried out a Way Huge Red Llama and liked it but she was still in the process of looking for her perfect mid gain pedal. I thought, this is something I can actually make for her that she may actually get some use out of. I went with a Madbean snarkdoodle 2012 edition and was surprised that I already had the CD4049UBE IC onhand. So at some point I was going to build since I can’t find any other build that uses that IC. I wanted to do something fun with the artwork since my aunt and I seem to have the same sense of humor. Here is what I came up with.

Revered etched for maximum awesomeness..

Gut shot.. really not much to this circuit.

Notice that green film capacitor for added mojo tonez.. all of a sudden the price doubled. lol

When I was demoing this pedal I found it had a sweet spot with the gain about 2:00 with my Epiphone Riviera’s humbuckers. It is a great/simple overdrive/distortion and I may just build one for myself at some point.

Maybe I can con her into making me a demo of it so I can post it here.