DIY distortion pedals.

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Right, everybody chill out.
I'm gona run it on a honda 90 engine and a dynamo from a bicycle lamp.
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I am creating a mental image of large and foreboding brick factory buildings, housing countless legions of hamster wheels with little dynamos. Ruhmkorff coils and Faraday cages crackling. The hum of high voltage in the air. Gigawatts of hamster power being harnessed to power the Frankenstein of guitar amps... Oh dear, my mind can be a terrifying place.
 
PRHunt said:
I am creating a mental image of large and foreboding brick factory buildings, housing countless legions of hamster wheels with little dynamos. Ruhmkorff coils and Faraday cages crackling. The hum of high voltage in the air. Gigawatts of hamster power being harnessed to power the Frankenstein of guitar amps... Oh dear, Steen's house can be a terrifying place.
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Fixed it for you.
 
I was going to build my band's gear rack (amp Sims, mic pres, drum machine, etc - weighs more than me) into a robot powered by ethyl alcohol. Then it would run off schwill, just like a real drummer!
 
Amp arrived today. Here's a quick clip with and without the treble booster.

It's 4 bits

2 pickups clean then through treble booster
1 pickup clean then through treble booster.


My only concern is that it sounds terrible going into a completely clean channel; Held chords kinda sound like the batteries are dying in an old radio. Same happens on 9v DC adapter.

Other than that it sounds pretty good, I think. I'm not sure you'd use into a pure clean amp anyway.

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OK, so that is treble boost going through the Blackstar?

I agree that you probably wouldn't use the treble boost into a clean amp. It's kind of meant to assist the overdrive, isn't it?
 
Those little blackstars are awesome have fun mate. I think i'm gonna have a crack at building the deacy now too.
 
kip4 said:
Those little blackstars are awesome have fun mate. I think i'm gonna have a crack at building the deacy now too.
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Yeah! Spread the Deacy love! I'll bet John Deacon never for a second imagined that his little dumpster project would eventually become a cult classic.

@Paul - when do you expect delivery of your Deacy kit?
 
December 25th. :p
If not, I'll be buying it myself in the New Year.
I'm thinking maybe I'll be able to bend my thumb by then too! :)

Maybe I'll build a few treble boosters between now and then and see if there's any difference or preference.

I said before I'm not on a quest for the Brian May tone; Hell, I'm not even really a guitarist,
but since you mention it, there's something really really nice about the whole Queen history.

That guitar, the deacy....I just love that they did that. Born of necessity too.
Brian May couldn't just pick up a Les Paul and a little Blackstar. :p
 
rule 1 dont give the irishman an axe.:laughings:

My kits on order. I'm the club bud

will your treble booster work with the fender pro junior?
 
I think for the Deacy it's pretty much essential to have some kind of booster.


It's a generic booster though, like you'd buy.

You'd better not build yours before me! I still have the axe.

OH here, we could get them together and set up a stereo Deacy delay.
I'm pretty sure that would make a curly wig shaped beam go up in the sky and Brian May would see it and arrive ASAP.
 
Got my bipolar 9v on today.
At first I loved it, then I hated it.

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It's a joke dude.
Bipolar?


Anyone know where I can get a triple pole quad throw switch?
 
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Thanks for that, Paul.
I don't think it's quite the one though.

I need an in and 4 switched outs per pole; 5 contacts per pole.
 
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