Friday, May 26, 2023

SoloDallas Storm Booster V1 Clone (146th pedal built)

This particular pedal is a nice circuit variant present in the original Schaffer-Vega Diversity System Wireless ''tower'' used by EVH, Angus Young, Pink Floyd, Kiss, The Rolling Stones.

Massive boost, although a bit noisy (LM386, tried a few variants with some being much better on the noise part), but great sound overall, it literally pushes everything and gives a great chug sound and enough gain on tap. The limiter is very subtle but has its purpose if wanted, this is achieved by an NSL-32 Optocoupler.













Saturday, May 13, 2023

ISP Decimator Clone (145th pedal built)

 Built an ISP Decimator clone (145th pedal built) 🔥 

Decided to do it initially without the buffer as it was in the specific project which I chose, but it needed a buffer because without one, on clean it had these wolf note type artifacts in parallel with the original unchanged sound. The Klon style buffer fixed this and gave the necessary highs and everything back as per the original (I had it at one point).

The pedal is still true bypass fully when off, but when engaged the noise suppression and the buffer are both engaged together. The sound is not affected at all and I literally cannot tell when it is on or off 😀 except for the minute difference of some vague presence that it gives when it is on vs off, this is exactly what the original does as well. Very cool and useful pedal.







Built a Split/Reamp/Buffer/Phase + Ground lift pedal (144th pedal built)

 Built a Split/Reamp/Buffer/Phase + Ground lift pedal so that I can play stereo on the two amps (144th pedal built)

Features both a lofi Xicon TM018-R xformer and also a more quality original Lehle LTHZ xformer, I can choose between them.

Absolutely clear sound, with apparently no loss, because the selectable Klon style buffer works amazingly in getting back any tone that was affected from the split of the guitar signal towards the amps.

Thank you bancika for this!(link to the owner of the original project): https://diy-fever.com/effects/lehle-splitter-re-amp/













Boss OD-1 70s Clone -14PIN Raytheon RC3403ADB IC (143rd pedal built)

 Did a Boss OD-1 late 70s discontinued pedal clone(143rd pedal built), with the following specs:

-14 PIN real USA NOS RaytheonRC3403ADB IC + Toshiba 1S1588 Japan diodes

- true bypass

- extra bass frequencies are added on the additional switch installed (this pedal stock cuts out quite a lot, so there is now this extra option on my pedal).

Very specific sound with specific mids added, classic to this pedal variant. These can only be found original now for 500€+(if you can find it 😊)








Friday, May 12, 2023

12U Rack Goodies for FX LOOP Tone Shaping

Decided to do a 12U rack loaded with all kind of stuff more for some general tone shaping. Nothing fancy but it really helps the sound in a big way. I always use it now, in the Loop of my two amps, stereo mode. Some A/B with the whole rack off and on in the loop: 


 Soundcloud:


 The rack features the following: 
 >Aural Exciter Type B USA 
>Crystal Exciter Type C Germany 
>BBE Sonic Maximizer 362 USA 
>DBX Project 1 Series 266A Comp USA 
>Drawmer DL221 Comp England 
>Rane Parametric EQ PE 17 USA 
>Rocktron Hush Super C USA 
>Rocktron Replifex USA 
>Rocktron Intellifex Blackface USA 
>Surgex SX1213i Power Conditioner 

Monday, May 8, 2023

Soldano SLO100 Clone HGE Contraptions Build pending

Since I like my Ceriatone Chupacabra 50 Hot Rodded Plexi build so much, I decided to do another amp in the future... The legendary 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗼 𝗦𝗟𝗢𝟭𝟬𝟬 🔥🤘🤤 Still have to make additional part lists (switches, sockets, choke, res/caps/everything), but so far, I'll have the below chassis, headshell, PCBs and grilles (already got the PT and OT from InMadOut Italy). Looking forward to this one, as tonally, it'll be quite different to my other amp. Debating on whether to install 2 chokes in the amp to directly switch between a saggy sound (3.5Henries) or a tighter sound (10Henries). My PCB variant has an additional Optocoupler that will entirely prevent the clean channel from bleeding into the lead one (as this is now fixed on the newest SLO100 models). Also added a pic of an original Snakeskin model priced one (4500€ 😬, yikes).