Dub-T-123 Posted November 3, 2012 Author Share Posted November 3, 2012 D*A*M Meathead "clone" with some fancy caps. For those who aren't familiar with this circuit, it's basically a one knob silicon Fuzz Face. The knob controls the volume, the fuzz is *almost* turned all the way up all the time. You control the tone with the controls on your guitar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdclmn7 Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 I added a small subwoofer to a 15w orange crush amp to get some more bass out of it. I would since then add it to my fender mustang I amp as I absolutely hated the shrill tone I got from it. Guitarwise, I use rubbing compound and then toothpaste to get the most out of the finish. Stuck pots will get peroxide to loosen them up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesguitar65 Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 D*A*M Meathead "clone" with some fancy caps. For those who aren't familiar with this circuit, it's basically a one knob silicon Fuzz Face. The knob controls the volume, the fuzz is *almost* turned all the way up all the time. You control the tone with the controls on your guitar Where did you get the layout for this pedal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted November 5, 2012 Author Share Posted November 5, 2012 Here's a good one. It's a super simple circuit. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y7gcfRKQFgA/TMHwBpGtCLI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/SsKqY8bPFwA/s1600/DAM+Meathead+-+smaller+2-710238.png One major difference between this and a standard Fuzz Face is the input and output caps are much smaller. The sound is much less woolly and bassy than the Fuzz Face. This circuit is somewhat cleaner, better with chords, and more cutting in a band than a Fuzz Face. Another cool thing is the ceramic caps between the base and collector of each transistor to simulate the leakage of germanium transistors. If you increase the values of the input and output caps to the specs of the Meathead Dark you get an amazing bass fuzz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesguitar65 Posted November 5, 2012 Share Posted November 5, 2012 Here's a good one. It's a super simple circuit. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_y7gcfRKQFgA/TMHwBpGtCLI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/SsKqY8bPFwA/s1600/DAM+Meathead+-+smaller+2-710238.png One major difference between this and a standard Fuzz Face is the input and output caps are much smaller. The sound is much less woolly and bassy than the Fuzz Face. This circuit is somewhat cleaner, better with chords, and more cutting in a band than a Fuzz Face. Another cool thing is the ceramic caps between the base and collector of each transistor to simulate the leakage of germanium transistors. If you increase the values of the input and output caps to the specs of the Meathead Dark you get an amazing bass fuzz. Thanks Dubs Im going to order the cave dweller board from madbean and the PT2399 I purchased from eBay should arrive on Friday. Did you get your PT2399 also from the eBay seller nooelec? I got 20 PT2399 for $8.95 shipped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted November 6, 2012 Author Share Posted November 6, 2012 Yeah I ordered 20 from nooelec and they shipped out last night. That was such a sweet deal thanks for the heads up! Hopefully most of them are usable. Honestly, I have to recommend that you don't waste your time with the Cave Dweller. The only good thing about it is that it can fit in a 1590A it's not a very good circuit at all. The thing is it has no mix control and it completely ruins your dry signal. It's 100% useless with any amount of dirt. At first I thought it was cool but I quickly realized it is extremely flawed. You should do a Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay clone instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesguitar65 Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 Yeah I ordered 20 from nooelec and they shipped out last night. That was such a sweet deal thanks for the heads up! Hopefully most of them are usable. Honestly, I have to recommend that you don't waste your time with the Cave Dweller. The only good thing about it is that it can fit in a 1590A it's not a very good circuit at all. The thing is it has no mix control and it completely ruins your dry signal. It's 100% useless with any amount of dirt. At first I thought it was cool but I quickly realized it is extremely flawed. You should do a Mad Professor Deep Blue Delay clone instead. Hey NP Dubs Wow, pretty surprised about that cave dweller. Thanks for the heads up on that. Is there a board already made for that Deep Blue Delay or it would be a vero board? I noticed over at madbean that the had a cave deweller II with a Dub ed. Hmmmm.....was that based on your mods? What do you think of the Rebote PT2399 delays over at tonepad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted November 6, 2012 Author Share Posted November 6, 2012 The repeats of the Cave Dweller sound beautiful but the dry signal gets extremely muddy especially with any amount of dirt. Once you add dirt it's all whale communication. I don't know of a prefabbed DBD board but I just thought of something else you HAVE to try.. The Echo Base delay board from musicpcb.com The board is really well designed and the Echo Base is just a great circuit. I recommend you do like all of the mods listed. I built one for my brother in law and I really loved it and he seems to love it too. I'm a delay FREAK and that circuit is one of the best delays I've ever tried. lol no I think they called it that either as a reference to dub music (which involves a lot of delay with high feedback levels) or because I think that mod adds a second PT2399 to double the delay time. The rebote delay is a classic you can't go wrong with that. I think the D'Lay is basically a rebote though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesguitar65 Posted November 6, 2012 Share Posted November 6, 2012 The repeats of the Cave Dweller sound beautiful but the dry signal gets extremely muddy especially with any amount of dirt. Once you add dirt it's all whale communication. I don't know of a prefabbed DBD board but I just thought of something else you HAVE to try.. The Echo Base delay board from musicpcb.com The board is really well designed and the Echo Base is just a great circuit. I recommend you do like all of the mods listed. I built one for my brother in law and I really loved it and he seems to love it too. I'm a delay FREAK and that circuit is one of the best delays I've ever tried. lol no I think they called it that either as a reference to dub music (which involves a lot of delay with high feedback levels) or because I think that mod adds a second PT2399 to double the delay time. The rebote delay is a classic you can't go wrong with that. I think the D'Lay is basically a rebote though I think we made a mental connection as I have built that delay a few weeks ago and I love it. I like it much better than the GGG PT-80 delay, which is suppose to be a clone of a an old Ibanez AD-80 analog delay and it runs at 12volts. The guitarPCB D'Lay sounds so much warmer and it does sound so close to an echoplex tape echo. The on mod I have is the warp switch, thinking of making another and do the tap tempo and momentary mod switch. Here she is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted November 6, 2012 Author Share Posted November 6, 2012 Yeah I think there are other PT2399 delays with more tasty filtering of the repeats than the Echo Base, but that modulation is so awesome. The repeats also have that nice way of sitting underneath the dry signal which I think makes it excellent for David Gilmour style delay like on the solo in Time. My favorite mod for the DBD that I've come up with is wiring a cap blend to one of the filter caps which lets me adjust the filtering of the repeats. I figured out how to make it go from a perfect tape style bandwidth to a dark analog-ish sound. It's so cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesguitar65 Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 Yeah I think there are other PT2399 delays with more tasty filtering of the repeats than the Echo Base, but that modulation is so awesome. The repeats also have that nice way of sitting underneath the dry signal which I think makes it excellent for David Gilmour style delay like on the solo in Time. My favorite mod for the DBD that I've come up with is wiring a cap blend to one of the filter caps which lets me adjust the filtering of the repeats. I figured out how to make it go from a perfect tape style bandwidth to a dark analog-ish sound. It's so cool. Nice! Do you have a demo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 I've only put that into one delay and it was a build I was commissioned to do so it's gone. I've got parts to build 3 more coming in the mail so I'll record something soon. I actually have one of the delay boards wired up right now but no filter control on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 Oh yeah, forgot to post guts of the Meathead This thing sounds rad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesguitar65 Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 Fanstastic work as always Dubs You should really market your online of custom boutique pedals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted November 7, 2012 Author Share Posted November 7, 2012 And here's a little clip of it with a Danelectro PB&J Delay that I modified. It's just with my little practice amp as usual, would sound a lot sweeter through an ac30 or something Also, where the sustain abruptly cuts off, I just cut the volume on my guitar to show the repeats of the PB&J more. The Meathead has endless sustain when you play it loud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesguitar65 Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 Nice Demo Dubs! Here is one I just built today. Yup...had some spare time after work so I decided to build this Marshall Guv'nor clone with a clipping mod switch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted November 8, 2012 Author Share Posted November 8, 2012 Hah I'm probly just talking to myself here, but I just made this fuzz. I've always really loved the extra buzzy fuzz sounds on some old '60s records but I've never really had a pedal that could quite capture that sound. I think this fuzz I just put together comes pretty close I basically just added a triangle Big Muff style tone control to a silicon Fuzzrite circuit. With the depth down and the tone up, I get a ripping, buzzy fuzz sound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesguitar65 Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 Hah I'm probly just talking to myself here, but I just made this fuzz. I've always really loved the extra buzzy fuzz sounds on some old '60s records but I've never really had a pedal that could quite capture that sound. I think this fuzz I just put together comes pretty close I basically just added a triangle Big Muff style tone control to a silicon Fuzzrite circuit. With the depth down and the tone up, I get a ripping, buzzy fuzz sound. Nice! Have you built a Shin Ei Champion Fuzz? Its similar to a Mosrite Fuzz, but nastier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted November 17, 2012 Author Share Posted November 17, 2012 Gonna drop the Fuzzrite into this enclosure I did Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdgm Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Gonna drop the Fuzzrite into this enclosure I did Nice finish. I do like the style coming through in your pedals - I haven't painted the Dark Cloud delay (yet) though, I still like the bare metal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted November 17, 2012 Author Share Posted November 17, 2012 Thanks! Here it is finished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesguitar65 Posted November 17, 2012 Share Posted November 17, 2012 Thanks! Here it is finished Well done as always Dubs [thumbup] Man, you got into building delays now. I've sourced out to build a Rebote 2.5 delay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamGuy Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Thanks! Here it is finished Wow, that looks fantastic... very cool indeed. I think it would be fun to try my hand at a pedal project, maybe after the holidays... your work is quite inspiring. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dub-T-123 Posted November 18, 2012 Author Share Posted November 18, 2012 Thanks guys! Bluesguitar, you should try modifying the rebote a little bit. That's where it gets fun JamGuy - thanks dude. Go for it! Make yourself a fuzz or something! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riffster Posted November 19, 2012 Share Posted November 19, 2012 This guitar is getting a full refinish but first a little pickguard cropping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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