Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: shobet on October 15, 2011, 05:25:17 PM
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Well it's not often some of juansolo's and Marauder's pedals that have flown the coop get to meet, so I thought two of them getting it on deserved a mention. More of John and Cleggy's awesomeness here - http://juansolo.demon.co.uk/stompage/index.html
Today we introduced Alice to her sibling Evil Monkey. (Pics stolen from our beloved Juan's site)
Alice - sort of makes a lot of noise in various sorts of ways I think is the best way to describe her, she's a bit of a psycho bitch...
(http://www.freaky-geeky.com/images/Alice-o.jpg)
Evil Monkey - Hendrixish octave fuzz meets a monkey covered in poo
(http://www.freaky-geeky.com/images/emonk-o.jpg)
Anyway here is proof of their coupling going into my board as it stands at the moment.
(http://www.freaky-geeky.com/images/madness.png)
And this is what happens to people as a result
(http://www.freaky-geeky.com/images/matt-monkey.JPG)
No audio I'm afraid as you we wont inflict that on the poor world. It's also one of those 'you had to be there' experiences as Juan and Marauder will also attest to.
If I'd have only remembered we could have got a Bender involved as well, but hey ho...
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You are a madman!
Have you tried alice and the murf, or is that a silly question?
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You are a madman!
Have you tried alice and the murf, or is that a silly question?
Oh yes I have. I spared Matt that as he looked giggly enough as it was with just the two pedals. Even I haven't had the balls to check it out with the MuRF and the Ring Modulator as yet. I'm waiting until some expression pedals arrive before I do that. I expect it to be completely unusable and hours of fun! ;)
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Is that a Nick Greer Ghetto boost on your board?
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Is that a Nick Greer Ghetto boost on your board?
Yep, his stuff is quality. I believe you rave about one of his boosts? I've been meaning to get some more of his stuff, but keep forgetting.
The standout pedal on that board is the purple Skreddy ?Lady. It's simply the best fuzz I've ever played.
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Is that a Nick Greer Ghetto boost on your board?
Yep, his stuff is quality. I believe you rave about one of his boosts? I've been meaning to get some more of his stuff, but keep forgetting.
Yes, the Sweetback Driver. I keep it turned on at all times and set at 9 o'clock. It does the thickening thing that the z.vex SHO and Klon Centaur do, but without the boosting/overdrive. Amazing stuff!
The standout pedal on that board is the purple Skreddy ?Lady. It's simply the best fuzz I've ever played.
Hmm, as the owner of several fuzz pedals, I shall have to check that out!
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The ?Lady is bloody fantastic. Due to the now completely unobtainable transistors in it I can't make myself one.
It's another pedal on my list that I'll buy if one pops up for sensible money (sadly getting increasingly unlikely).
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Wicked stuff guys. Love them.
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so is alice 4 pedals in one?
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so is alice 4 pedals in one?
3.5 really. It's an Uglyface + LFO and mods into a 3 knob tremolo (can't remember which one I used!) into a Rebote delay. The trem was chosen as it was nice and simple 3 knobber (I knew this thing was going to end up with lots of knobs) that could get nicely choppy. As a choppy trem after an uglyface is fun. Get it in or out of sync with the LFO of the UF and it is even wierder. The rebote again was chosen for it's simplicity and the fact we could tweak it can run just on the edge of forever.
Essentially it's a box of lo-fi nasty madness. It can make you sound like a laser gun or like your playing in a bucket. It can also distort and twist the signal so much that it's pretty much irrelevant what goes in one end vs the output at the other. With the LFO, to be fair you don't even need to plug a guitar into it for it to get pretty wild.
Part of me wanted Huw not to like it as I'd have gladly kept that one.
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You lot are as mad as a box of frogs - in a good way! :lol:
I can't begin to imagine the craziness of the sound in the room!
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Oh dear, it would seem that the visit to Chez Shob has raised the need for a compressor and a new fuzz in young Matt. I think John's going to be busy with weird graphics for a while yet!
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I liked the way the neighbours banged on the wall in approval. They must have been very impressed because they did it for ages!
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Oh dear, it would seem that the visit to Chez Shob has raised the need for a compressor and a new fuzz in young Matt. I think John's going to be busy with weird graphics for a while yet!
Made the compressor (well the board). Unfortunately 3 of the caps are unknown and unless we find the values we're best guessing (given that we've never heard one). Might have to get you to pop the back off it and take a photo. If yours is an early one we've got a chance. However if it's a later surface mount one... We might be struggling.
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After John and Marauder did some digging around and some borrowing of pedals, they've managed to clone the ?Lady using slightly different transistors. Mine arrived the other day and I think young Matt is getting one as well.
John wouldn't put a picture of a Ladyboy on mine so I had to take what I was given...
Anyway here is the result! We'll mine anyway...
(http://www.freaky-geeky.com/guitars/dirty_grrrl.JPG)
It's a rather spiffing thick, fat-arsed sounding fuzz which is as close as dammit to the original Skreddy ?Lady (http://skreddypedals.com/skreddy_pedals_lady.htm) it's based on.
(http://www.freaky-geeky.com/guitars/Skreddy.JPG)
It works with both humbuckers and single coils, which is nice!
Here's what the original sounds like, courtesy of Mr Snakeskin boots himself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bxPK0fmWaA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOfOkNZm4ao
I've been a bit of a naughty boy and I've gone and bought another original ?Lady, which means I own approx. 3% of the ones ever made! :)
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Nice work - you can't beat a bit of GAS mate ;)
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Got mine today and the acme compressor that i demanded be built. That's four from juan and marauder now. Love mine
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The ?Lady is bloody fantastic. Due to the now completely unobtainable transistors in it I can't make myself one.
It's another pedal on my list that I'll buy if one pops up for sensible money (sadly getting increasingly unlikely).
What transistors (?) do you need ?
I have quite a collection of 'rare' trannies, so mebe I can help ???
(Started building thermionic stuff in 1963, used my first trannies (OC72, OC73) a bit later ! Have several old LARGE OXO tins full of early (and later) stuff. Loads of trannies !!!
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Fairchild 2n5133 with gains above 400, and low noise.
Any for sale these days are either high noise or low gain, i dont think they were the most consistent part, the datasheet has a huge range for hfe.
What transistors (?) do you need ?
I have quite a collection of 'rare' trannies, so mebe I can help ???
(Started building thermionic stuff in 1963, used my first trannies (OC72, OC73) a bit later ! Have several old LARGE OXO tins full of early (and later) stuff. Loads of trannies !!!
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Got mine today and the acme compressor that i demanded be built. That's four from juan and marauder now. Love mine
That compressor is quite unlike any others i've used. I prefer something more extreme like a ross, but i have to say its impressive keeping the noise level down, when the note is fading out.
Need to box my ?lady up in a small box.
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I don't mind the lady having a big box :)
The compressor is just used to encourage feedback a bit quicker. Works perfect
http://juansolo.demon.co.uk/stompage/images/acme-o.jpg
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i think the lady needs a big box - and no, i dont mean she needs a big box to accept the massive input jack i am going to shove into her
i just like the graphic potential of the big box pedal format, which seems to suit what you guys do
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Because we had to re-finish Matt's pedals, I had chance to spend a bit longer in Photoshop cleaning up the dirty grrrl, so she's a little more spunky on his ;)
(http://juansolo.demon.co.uk/stompage/images/dgrrrl-o.jpg)
Which gave me the oppertunity to re-do mine also (we're just getting used to a new refinishing process...)
(http://juansolo.demon.co.uk/stompage/images/qlady-o.jpg)
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Fairchild 2n5133 with gains above 400, and low noise.
Any for sale these days are either high noise or low gain, i dont think they were the most consistent part, the datasheet has a huge range for hfe.
What transistors (?) do you need ?
I have quite a collection of 'rare' trannies, so mebe I can help ???
(Started building thermionic stuff in 1963, used my first trannies (OC72, OC73) a bit later ! Have several old LARGE OXO tins full of early (and later) stuff. Loads of trannies !!!
What he said. Don't suppose you have some Mullard OC81's in your stash? A bit of germanium onobtanium used in the original Tonebenders.
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What he said. Don't suppose you have some Mullard OC81's in your stash? A bit of germanium onobtanium used in the original Tonebenders.
LOL.
With real, not measured by a DMM, gains of 70-100 for 2 of them, and 100-150 for the other. And leakage below 200.
I think Dave Main has all those.
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What he said. Don't suppose you have some Mullard OC81's in your stash? A bit of germanium onobtanium used in the original Tonebenders.
LOL.
With real, not measured by a DMM, gains of 70-100 for 2 of them, and 100-150 for the other. And leakage below 200.
I think Dave Main has all those.
I think he's used them all up :) But it's worth an ask :P
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What he said. Don't suppose you have some Mullard OC81's in your stash? A bit of germanium onobtanium used in the original Tonebenders.
LOL.
With real, not measured by a DMM, gains of 70-100 for 2 of them, and 100-150 for the other. And leakage below 200.
I think Dave Main has all those.
I think he's used them all up :) But it's worth an ask :P
I've got a few in my personal stash, here's some I had lying around on my workbench. Also got a decent supply of OC45s and CV-number Ge's which are just awesome if you want low leakage Ge's with gains averaging 150 (tested in-circuit).
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There's a rubbish tip in Speke that has a lot of them
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Having looked at those photos, I have a horrible feeling I have binned bags full of such transistors when I helped clear out my grandad's electonics shed. I only salvaged the Mullard valves and didn't think the transistors were of any use at the time