Revisit: Gameboy and LSDJ

Found another music toy I was big into a few years back. This is a modded Gameboy with direct audio out and a pitch shift knob. I also added a backlit screen and a nice custom paint job. It’s funny looking at this stuff now and think of what a better job I could do now that I have some knowledge with pedal building.

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I am definitely going to get this done with and play around with it. It’s been years since I have used LSDJ. I wonder if my old songs are still saved on the USB cart.

Revisit: Commodore 64 synth

This is my old Commodore 64 with a few mods and the Prophet64 cart. I modded this C64 about 4 years ago and hit a brick wall with it. Not sure what it was now but it maybe time to get it up and running again. I think my favorite part of the Prophet64 was the drum synth and sequencer. Looks like I also have the SID2SID adapter for duel SID chips and a C64 MIDI adapter.

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May play with this in a few months and see if I can get it up and working again.

Smaller Reverb

I took Jon Patton’s (MidwayFair) layout of Josh’s (1776Effects) design of the Rub-a-Dub and etched a board. My goal is to do a 2 in one pedal with this. I am going to do a low gain overdrive with it. This is the first time I have used a “short” Belton brick and I really dig the springyness of the reverb and there is not much modulation at all. Really happy with it so far.

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Fender Jaguar Replacement Pickups

I wanted to archive this information. Taken from OffsetGuitars.com forum

Fender AVRI
Official reissue of a ’62-ish jaguar pickup. Good quality, faithful recreation of the vintage sound. Cloth covered hookup wire.
Fender Japan
Decent recreation of the vintage sound. Are known to produce a lot of unwanted feedback when distorted.
Semour Duncan SJAG-1 Vintage for Jaguar
Good quality, faithful recreation of the vintage sound. Uses Alnico V rod magnets. Cloth covered hookup wire.
Semour Duncan SJAG-2 Hot for Jaguar
Overwound SJAG-1, resulting in a lot more output and a bit more emphasis on the lows. Uses Alnico V rod magnets. PVC covered hookup wire.
Semour Duncan SJAG-3 Quarter Pounder for Jaguar
Overwound pickup using long, 1/4″ thick Alnico V rod magnets. High output and a lot more emphasis on the mids. PVC covered hookup wire.
Semour Duncan Antiquity I for Jaguar
High quality detailed replica of an early black bottom jaguar pickup. These pickups have been slightly demagnitized to accurately simulate the sound of an aged original. Alnico II magnets. Cloth covered hookup wire.
Semour Duncan Antiquity II for Jaguar
High quality detailed replica of a mid 60s grey bottom jaguar pickup. These pickups have been slightly demagnitized to accurately simulate the sound of an aged original. Alnico V magnets. Cloth covered hookup wire.
Curtis Novak Jaguar pickups
High quality custom made vintage replicas. Although based on an original ’64 pickup, since they are custom, you can have them wound to suit your specific requirements. Options include Alnico II / III / V magnets, and enamel / formvar wire.

Note: Seymour Duncan pickups are in some cases wound differently than stock pickups, so for instance a SD neck pup and Fender bridge pup might not provide hum cancelling in the middle position, and may have phase issues. Apparently this isn’t always the case, but it’s something to look out for.

Jazzmaster Replacement Pickups

I wanted to archive this information. Taken from OffsetGuitars.com forum

Fender AVRI
Official reissue of a ’62-ish jazzmaster pickup. Good quality, faithful recreation of the vintage sound, although some feel they are a bit on the bright side. Cloth covered hookup wire.
Fender Japan
Decent quality pickups. However, these have a taller narrower central bobbin so the wind is shaped more like a Stratocaster pickup than ‘true’ Jazzmaster pickups, and this gives them a more Strat-like character with lower output and a thinner, brighter sound.
Semour Duncan SJM-1 Vintage for Jazzmaster
Good quality, faithful recreation of the vintage sound. Not quite as bright as the AVRIs. Supposedly based on the sound of a ’58 pickup. Uses Alnico V rod magnets. Cloth covered hookup wire.
Semour Duncan SJM-2 Hot for Jazzmaster
Overwound SJM-1, resulting in a lot more output and a bit more emphasis on the lows. Uses Alnico V rod magnets. PVC covered hookup wire.
Semour Duncan SJM-3 Quarter Pounder for Jazzmaster
Overwound pickup using long, 1/4″ thick Alnico V rod magnets, and a narrower and taller coil than a standard jazzmaster pickup. High output and a lot more emphasis on the mids. PVC covered hookup wire.
Semour Duncan Antiquity I for Jazzmaster
High quality detailed replica of an early black bottom jazzmaster pickup. These pickups have been slightly demagnitized to accurately simulate the sound of an aged original. Fairly dark tone. Alnico II magnets. Cloth covered hookup wire.
Semour Duncan Antiquity II for Jazzmaster
High quality detailed replica of a mid 60s grey bottom jazzmaster pickup. These pickups have been slightly demagnitized to accurately simulate the sound of an aged original. Brighter tone than Antiquity I. Alnico V magnets.Cloth covered hookup wire.
Curtis Novak Jazzmaster pickups
High quality custom made vintage replicas. Although based on an original ’63 pickup, since they are custom, you can have them wound to suit your specific requirements. He aslo offers P-90, PAF, Charlie Christian and standard humbucker pickups that will fit inside a jazzmaster pickup cover, with no modification required.
Jason Lollar Jazzmaster pickups
High quality custom made vintage replicas. Can also be wound to suit your requirements.

Grease gun

When the function-fx fund raiser started I was broke as a joke but Brian included a etch-able layout of the GreaseGun so I decided to build it while I wait for some funds to donate. This is a great all around pedal and gets nice overdrive sounds to fuzz sounds with no issues. Seems pretty bulletproof. Just as I boxed this one up my pack from function-fx came in the mail. haha

I stuck with my simple labeling for this one and I fell in love with the color.

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From the swamps comes…

The Swamprat – Wampler Plexi-Drive

Madbean just threw together another unverified layout and I figured I would give it a go. Here is here I am at.

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Time to populate it.

Done and it sounds great. Really happy how this came out. The enclosure etch was really fun to do. I think I am going to do a few more of them.

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Enclosure Etching

I started etching enclosures some again and I feel like I am finally getting a handle on this. I will make a tutorial this week on how I am accomplishing it. Here is one I did last night.

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Time to populate it with the Madbean Swamprat layout.

Vocal Effects

I am working on a project to have a “all-in-one” vocal effects unit. This unit will be used to achieve a 60’s /Lofi sound I have been after. Here are the parts I am looking at.

Enclosure: 1590BB or 4S6500/1790NS if I have to
In/Out Jacks:Neutrik XLR Connectors 3P XLR/1/4″ MONO (568-NCJ5FI-S)
Circuits:

  • Input
  • EP Booster (Madbean Fatpants)
  • Tape Delay (1776Effects Multiplex Jr.) Maybe?
  • Reverb (Grind Customs Fx Tenebrion with a short brick)
  • Overdrive (MXR Distortion +) Maybe?
  • Output