Mike's Pedal Thread

Post by **Mike** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 9:51 am

1. Post Doog, Hurb and Mezz's pedals tomorrow - Posted
2. Drill cases for Tonebender (Rob - silver, battery, lowpower design) and Green Big Muff (stewart - Green with Green LED) - Cases Drilled
3. Try Klon again after finding missing cut track and fixing that - Klon now makes overdrive!
4. Build Green Big Muff from my layout - Green Big Muff circuit for stewart made on stripboard.
5. Design layout for and build tonebender - Designed and Built
6. Build Fuzz Factory when I get the transistors (JD and finboy interested) - Built, waiting on transistors
7. Build another Green Big Muff for ebay

I have drilled and also laid primer and colour on the Tonebender and Big Muff cases. I'll lay clearcoat tonight and should be able to start assembling them towards the end of next week. I have the transistors for the tonebender and fuzz factory imminent, also a case for the fuzz factory, which I will drill when I get it.

corlimey · Post by **corlimey** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:30 am

Mike wrote:1. Post Doog, Hurb and Mezz's pedals tomorrow - Posted
2. Drill cases for Tonebender (Rob - silver, battery, lowpower design) and Green Big Muff (stewart - Green with Green LED) - Cases Drilled
3. Try Klon again after finding missing cut track and fixing that - Klon now makes overdrive!
4. Build Green Big Muff from my layout - Green Big Muff circuit for stewart made on stripboard.
5. Design layout for and build tonebender - Designed and Built
6. Build Fuzz Factory when I get the transistors (JD and finboy interested) - Built, waiting on transistors
7. Build another Green Big Muff for ebay

I have drilled and also laid primer and colour on the Tonebender and Big Muff cases. I'll lay clearcoat tonight and should be able to start assembling them towards the end of next week. I have the transistors for the tonebender and fuzz factory imminent, also a case for the fuzz factory, which I will drill when I get it.

I'm getting you a bloody assembly line for Christmas, Foz

Post by **Mike** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:24 am

Taiwanese Slave kids FTW

corlimey · Post by **corlimey** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:49 am

A man of my own heart

finboy · Post by **finboy** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 5:54 pm

good to hear about the fuzz factory, i still have to send out those knobs but some tool in quebec won't get me his address for a shipping mixup about a pedal, hopelfully shipped out monday

Post by **Mike** » Sun Aug 10, 2008 6:56 pm

No worries dude, whenever you can, after all you're doing me a massive favour!

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:22 pm

are you using the knobs from the tear powered sweatshoppe plexitone for extra mojo on the tonebender?

Post by **Mike** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:42 am

haha.. I think so. I'm going to try and find them, I think they're in my guitar stuff record bag somewhere.

I should have some pictures of your case tonight. The transistors have arrived! I can test the board tonight hopefully.

These are for two fuzz factories. The larger case with offset knobs is for finboy who wants to mark his settings. Jacks are on the top. The smaller case is one I'm going to try and squeeze a fuzz factory into. I think JD expressed interest.

More Cowbell · Post by **More Cowbell** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:16 pm

Would like to order micro pog or pog, mike style. DO IT.

Post by **Mike** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:17 pm

Couldn't do it. Proprietary EHX Digital processing chips.

More Cowbell · Post by **More Cowbell** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:21 pm

Mike wrote:Couldn't do it. Proprietary EHX Digital processing chips.

Quitter.

Nothing stops the mike.

Post by **Mike** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:25 pm

I wish I could, but it's beyond my ability by some distance.

James · Post by **James** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:31 pm

Mike wrote:Couldn't do it. Proprietary EHX Digital processing chips.

Do they make/order their own chips? I remember reading something briefly about it and it seeming like they were hard to get hold of even for current production models. I think I remember seeing a link to an ebay auction where someone was selling an EHX IC for about $15-20 too and wondering what was going on.

Post by **Mike** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 1:34 pm

The Pog and MicroPog would both be programmed DSP chips. The chip would be available relatively easy but it's a blank canvas - a series of arithmetic processing units (multipliers, adders) and some memory and a flashable EEPROM memory which you can load program code onto. EHX will program the DSP up with their algorithms for doing Delay (Stereo Memory Man) or pitch shifting and modulation (Pog, MicroPog).

So even if you got the same chip, it would be programmed up, so it's basically useless to you.

They do other stuff which they have stockpiled chips for (DMM uses Bucket Brigade Analogue Memory chips for example).

Post by **Mike** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:35 pm

Both the tonebender and the Fuzz Factory are tested and working now. I'll start painting finboy's case when he decides on a colour.

should be able to assemble the tonebender and the Green Big Muff this Friday (WOO HOO MIKE HAS NO LIFE)

mewithoutus · Post by **mewithoutus** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:38 pm

GET A LIFE, MIKE.

im also building a "green" big muff. i have an empty green sovtek enclosure and im building a muff into it. not sure which one yet.

finboy · Post by **finboy** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:41 pm

Mike wrote:The Pog and MicroPog would both be programmed DSP chips. The chip would be available relatively easy but it's a blank canvas - a series of arithmetic processing units (multipliers, adders) and some memory and a flashable EEPROM memory which you can load program code onto. EHX will program the DSP up with their algorithms for doing Delay (Stereo Memory Man) or pitch shifting and modulation (Pog, MicroPog).

So even if you got the same chip, it would be programmed up, so it's basically useless to you.

They do other stuff which they have stockpiled chips for (DMM uses Bucket Brigade Analogue Memory chips for example).

it sounds like mike needs a chip burner and madd haxxorz skillz11!!!1!

Post by **Mike** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:42 pm

mewithoutus wrote:GET A LIFE, MIKE.

im also building a "green" big muff. i have an empty green sovtek enclosure and im building a muff into it. not sure which one yet.

I'm going out on Saturday? Does that count.

Those green enclosures are HUGE. You could put 8 big muffs in there. I use Hammond BB's.

mewithoutus · Post by **mewithoutus** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:00 pm

ah dude i know. its massive. i was toying with the idea of putting multiple circuits into it, but then i thought "im a douche" and im just gonna keep in "Au naturale" as they say in nudist communes.

mewithoutus · Post by **mewithoutus** » Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:12 pm

oh, and it depends on what you are doing saturday. out to the pub with some friends for beeeers? out with the wifey? out to walk the cats? wait, do you have cats?