Tooly Posted September 22, 2010 Report Share Posted September 22, 2010 the first one is my first digital delay build, works great!!! its a Ping-Pong, so you can dial in 2 diff. delay times, or the toggle switches the 2 chips in series and doubles the delay time with single repts, not double. circuit is built to sound warm and analog IE every rept gets a little "darker" or "warmer", this thing sounds killer!! i dont know why i was scared of a delay pedal build for so long, this one was tricky but not the worst ive done. finish didnt turn out that good, it was a rush spray paint job, but it works for now. 2nd is an all-germanium Tonebender Mk. II. a great fuzz, ive never been a fuzz guy but the last few that ive built have me convinced!! This is the same fuzz jimmy page used on the earlier stuff, and there are a ton of zep tones in this box, within minutes i found the dazed n confused solo, communication breakdown, the ocean, its a great pedal for sure!!! and for teh price some builders want for a tonebender clone (hundreds of $$ plus a few month waiting list) i am so happy i can just slap one together in the basement!! both circuit boards came from BYOC months ago, they make great boards, thats for sure. spent about a half hour sorting thru 20-30 different transistors until i settled on those 3 metal cans, thats the tough part, finding new old stuff like that. thanks for looking!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Funk Dawg Posted September 23, 2010 Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 Wow you are really doing some nice work!is your guitar set up now almost completely custom?I'm almost running entirely on BOSS pedals - my first set of pedals burned to the ground in VW fire... I had a mix of DOD, Boss, Ibanez pedals then... any advice to getting a sweet JJ Cale tone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonyak Posted September 23, 2010 Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 cool, I just finished a big muff clone. It sounds better than my real big muff.I am currently modding a build to be able to switch between germanium diodes, silicon, and led's in the clipping sections.next I am going to build a brassmaster clone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted September 23, 2010 Report Share Posted September 23, 2010 cool, I just finished a big muff clone. It sounds better than my real big muff.I am currently modding a build to be able to switch between germanium diodes, silicon, and led's in the clipping sections. http://www.beavisaudio.com/projects/FuzzLab/ Aloha, Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooly Posted September 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2010 i love a nice big muff, i recently discovered the muffy love, i should get a pic of muffy up on here too, hand stamped box.Jay, i dont listen to enough jj cale to say whats what but a nice booster or drive like the honeybee will do wonders pushing a tube amp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayr Posted September 28, 2010 Report Share Posted September 28, 2010 Hey Tooly. Where do you get your BYOC kits in Canada? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooly Posted September 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2010 http://axeandyoushallreceive.com/store/page2.html this is the page where you can buy the prebuilt painted by ME pedals from BYOC, or just the kits iswww.axeandyoushallreceive.comScott is a fantastic guy to deal with, tell him you know me and maybe he will fix u up? i paint alot of boxes for him and byoc, worth a shot anyways. he is out in brantford or will ship to you.cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-towns Posted September 28, 2010 Report Share Posted September 28, 2010 get back to work ya bum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonyak Posted September 28, 2010 Report Share Posted September 28, 2010 You can buy them all right off the BYOC or GGG site as well, they both ship to canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooly Posted September 28, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2010 I'd have to say that BYOC kits and circuit boards are better quality than GGGs, just my two cents after having built with both. i dont get paid by byoc or anything to say that either LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonyak Posted September 28, 2010 Report Share Posted September 28, 2010 What makes byoc's better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayr Posted September 29, 2010 Report Share Posted September 29, 2010 http://axeandyoushallreceive.com/store/page2.html this is the page where you can buy the prebuilt painted by ME pedals from BYOC, or just the kits iswww.axeandyoushallreceive.comScott is a fantastic guy to deal with, tell him you know me and maybe he will fix u up? i paint alot of boxes for him and byoc, worth a shot anyways. he is out in brantford or will ship to you.cheersCool. I just hooked up with Scott last week to start stocking the boutique pedal lines he deals and the BYOC kits. Found him by accident when I went to order a BYOC Flanger from buildyourownclone.com and found out they don't ship to Canada. Looking forward to it. Nice work by the way. Looks like you're having fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaggyBalls Posted September 29, 2010 Report Share Posted September 29, 2010 What makes byoc's better?Some people prefer the PCBs, some people think the parts are superior (though I've read they're not tested/matched as per $$$high end builders$$$), and some people like the mods available.General Guitar Gadgets has some great kit offerings, but BYOC has a few things that set it apart...or so I understand.It's only as good as the guy working the soldering iron after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooly Posted October 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2010 its alot of things, the boardsa are laid out nicer than GGG, plated thru holes, nicer parts, nicer jacks. better custy service, better support on non-working builds etc etc etc.but it all does boil down to the guy whos assembling it all. ive been getting almost alll my boards lately from my buddy Barry at guitarpcb.com he has got a TON of boards to choose from but they arent as friendly as the byoc boards, thats for sure, they are for the intermediate or higher builder id say, just because the layouts are tight, and there is some real tight spacing on them. however they work flawlessly,and the price is right, and barry is a great guy to deal with, every weekend he has some crazy sale going on like spend 15 bucks and get a free board or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonyak Posted October 2, 2010 Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 its alot of things, the boardsa are laid out nicer than GGG, plated thru holes, nicer parts, nicer jacks. better custy service, better support on non-working builds etc etc etc.but it all does boil down to the guy whos assembling it all. ive been getting almost alll my boards lately from my buddy Barry at guitarpcb.com he has got a TON of boards to choose from but they arent as friendly as the byoc boards, thats for sure, they are for the intermediate or higher builder id say, just because the layouts are tight, and there is some real tight spacing on them. however they work flawlessly,and the price is right, and barry is a great guy to deal with, every weekend he has some crazy sale going on like spend 15 bucks and get a free board or somethingI'm not trying to start a fight, but the GGG boards I have built are plated through, The parts as far as I can tell are the exact same parts and jacks. Not only that but they are about 35$ cheaper for whole kits. thats the main reason I buy them. never need customer service so I can't comment on that.I might try a byoc build. or look into the guy you just told me about!Currently I am building a Fuzz Factor Clone and am doing the pcb myself at home. should be fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonyak Posted October 2, 2010 Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 What makes byoc's better?Some people prefer the PCBs' date=' some people think the parts are superior (though I've read they're not tested/matched as per $$$high end builders$$$), and some people like the mods available.General Guitar Gadgets has some great kit offerings, but BYOC has a few things that set it apart...or so I understand.It's only as good as the guy working the soldering iron after all. [/quote']as far as I can tell the only thing that sets them apart, is that some of there kits are heavily moded and they cost alot more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deranger Posted October 2, 2010 Report Share Posted October 2, 2010 Wow you are really doing some nice work!is your guitar set up now almost completely custom?I'm almost running entirely on BOSS pedals - my first set of pedals burned to the ground in VW fire... I had a mix of DOD, Boss, Ibanez pedals then... any advice to getting a sweet JJ Cale tone?Jay- was that your sweet suitcase pedal board that got destroyed? I loved that thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooly Posted October 4, 2010 Author Report Share Posted October 4, 2010 jon, ive never built a ggg kit so i cant really say whats better and what it all boils down to is are all the bits there? and is it gonna work? ive seen some pics of ggg builds a while back and ive thought their pcbs looked shitty but i just looked now and they look just about the same as byocs quality. and its nice that they sell pcbs only, byoc stopped doing that as they are reworking all the kits. i think they just started doing the 808 again, now thats a great little pcb. ive still got a ministack of them. that one of the next pedals for me, a dual OD.the byoc kits are great though, they offer sweet circuits with most of the mods already there or easy to do. ive never been disappointed and ive built at least 1 of just about every one of them except for the newest few Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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