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by Bill Oakley
Sat Feb 25, 2012 6:11 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: Big Muff PI Mods
Replies: 13
Views: 5564

It is 100% compatible (power-wise) to your other pedals. All the newer BMP's are negative ground. It's the older versions like the 70's Rams Head that had positive ground.
by Bill Oakley
Sat Feb 25, 2012 4:39 am
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: RAT clone
Replies: 15
Views: 3846

Yeah, they are kind of hard to find now. I don't think they make them anymore. Just to be clear the Biyang version is called the Mouse and the GFS version is called the Brownie. The few Biyang Mouse ones I've fixed/modified had a wrong capacitor. It was 56k or 560k (I can't remember) instead of 560 ...
by Bill Oakley
Sat Feb 25, 2012 2:54 am
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: RAT clone
Replies: 15
Views: 3846

The GFS/Biyang Brownie is a 100% Rat clone with a switch for some clipping options. Even has the LM308. They are cheap.
by Bill Oakley
Sat Feb 25, 2012 2:53 am
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: Built a new Tube Screamer. It's right pretty.
Replies: 13
Views: 4412

Just to be more anal, the TS has a 20kG pot for the tone control. Other taper pots are going to bunch up a lot more.
by Bill Oakley
Sat Feb 25, 2012 2:48 am
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: Big Muff PI Mods
Replies: 13
Views: 5564

You can absolutely swap the DC jack out. 9v from the board goes to the top horizontal lug. Battery positive (the red wire) goes to the center horizontal lug. Ground goes to the sideways lug. You can wire this lug right to the sleeve connection of the jack next to it. The sleeve lug is the one connec...
by Bill Oakley
Sat Feb 18, 2012 11:53 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: Wah Wah Wah-ie can't I get one?
Replies: 31
Views: 12072

I would charge for $50 - 60 if it was the inductorless one. A little more for the inductor one. It's about 3 hours of work to etch a board, populate it and wire it all up. if u have one built I can attest this man is pure class Thank you!! Well, if you really want me to do one for you PM me and we ...
by Bill Oakley
Sat Feb 18, 2012 3:40 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: Wah Wah Wah-ie can't I get one?
Replies: 31
Views: 12072

I would charge for $50 - 60 if it was the inductorless one. A little more for the inductor one. It's about 3 hours of work to etch a board, populate it and wire it all up.
by Bill Oakley
Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:01 am
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: Wah Wah Wah-ie can't I get one?
Replies: 31
Views: 12072

The Snarling Dog wahs have tons of treadle travel and you can pick of some of them really cheap. Get one of these and have someone gut and build the CS wah in it and you would be set. I'd do it for you but I'm in the States so shipping would probably kill it. Once in a while I come across empty CS w...
by Bill Oakley
Tue Jan 24, 2012 1:55 am
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: Have you seen the new Yamaha amps?
Replies: 33
Views: 8496

Actually, I'm not in the market for a new amp at all and I totally understand the purpose of the amp. I was just saying if I was, the effects kind of turn me off of it. I understand that it's a modeler amp and it's not a tube amp. I was just saying I could get a tube amp of equal wattage for about t...
by Bill Oakley
Tue Jan 24, 2012 12:21 am
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: Rogue Pedal Sale
Replies: 21
Views: 5572

I got mine today. The bag is a lot bigger than I thought. I didn't really pay too much attention to what it was. I thought it was just a little bag for the pedals but it's a pedal board bag. The one beef I have is the power supply only supplies 300mA of power. That's not much since they supply a 5 s...
by Bill Oakley
Tue Jan 24, 2012 12:13 am
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: Have you seen the new Yamaha amps?
Replies: 33
Views: 8496

I understand that but I just don't really like onboard effects personally. I would never use them and I realize that it probably wouldn't cost much less for them to leave them out. I don't know how much development and hardware cost for them to do the effects. The thing is I could buy a 5 or 10w tub...
by Bill Oakley
Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:29 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: WEM Watkins Copicat?
Replies: 16
Views: 3949

Most people give kudos to the MXR pedal. I have a Roland Space Echo RE-201 that I love and haven't had issues with yet but I wouldn't gig with it. It's too big and I wouldn't trust it. Just too much can go wrong. I did buy the RE-20 since I love my tape Space Echo so much and I absolutely love the R...
by Bill Oakley
Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:24 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: Have you seen the new Yamaha amps?
Replies: 33
Views: 8496

Not bad really. I wonder how fast that would eat up batteries??? If I needed another amp, I would probably consider one of these BUT: 1.) I hate when they put the controls and plugs on top. You can't stack it unless it's on top. 2.) I'm not a fan of effects in amps. It would be nice if they could ha...
by Bill Oakley
Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:24 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: Rogue Pedal Sale
Replies: 21
Views: 5572

Me too! The last backorder email I got from them was a few days before Christmas. I hadn't thought about it since then.
I just checked my order status and it says "processing".

EDIT: I just got an email that said it's been shipped!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sweet!!!!!!!!!!!! Took 2 months exactly.
by Bill Oakley
Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:57 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: Rogue Pedal Sale
Replies: 21
Views: 5572

That would be sweet. Thanks for the update. I was getting backorder emails from them every 4-5 days but I haven't received one in a few weeks now. Hopefully I'll get mine soon too.
by Bill Oakley
Sun Dec 25, 2011 1:41 am
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: broken fender blender advice - PICS NOW UPLOADED
Replies: 20
Views: 9041

You can also hook up the input of the board directly to the input jack and the output of the board directly up to the output jack. This will take the bypass switch out of the equation. You can also short the middle lug of the other switch to one outside lug to take that switch out of the equation to...
by Bill Oakley
Sat Dec 24, 2011 6:57 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: broken fender blender advice - PICS NOW UPLOADED
Replies: 20
Views: 9041

The common blue type of switches are better than these in my opinion. Carling switches are good also but usually a little more expensive.
by Bill Oakley
Sat Dec 24, 2011 6:20 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: broken fender blender advice - PICS NOW UPLOADED
Replies: 20
Views: 9041

I was going to suggest a bad switch. I've found those "X type" switches aren't the most reliable. I used to use them a lot because they were cheaper but I found I was replacing them more often than I thought I should be.
by Bill Oakley
Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:52 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: Rogue Pedal Sale
Replies: 21
Views: 5572

I was thinking about the compressor or the tremolo also. I probably would have picked the tremolo if I hadn't just built myself a killer tap tempo tremolo and I'm working on a really nice compressor at the moment. It's not that I don't already have a delay and chorus though. It just seemed like the ...
by Bill Oakley
Tue Dec 06, 2011 6:09 pm
Forum: Effects, Amps & Gear, Pedal Building
Topic: Rogue Pedal Sale
Replies: 21
Views: 5572

I keep getting emails that they are on backorder and that may delay shipment. I hope they don't start cancelling orders.