My New Stompboxes

Well, I recently finished two of the four or five stompboxes that I have planned. The first one was a design from runoffgroove.com called the Double D. It is a 4049 based dual channel distortion circuit. The first channel is a nice mild overdrive that is extremely responsive to picking dynamics while the second channel is a very high gain channel perfect for hard rock and metal. It is very versatile pedal.

The second pedal is a replica of the Way Huge Red Llama. It too is a 4049 based overdrive that is a modification of Craig Anderton's Tube Sound Overdrive circuit. It is a great overdrive that fits nicely between the two channels of the Double D. It has a little more fuzz to it, but sounds really great. The only issue is that I have some oscillation at high gains, so I still need to fix that, but other than that, they sound great.

To add my own touch to them, I made some boxes from solid ash and put my logo on them. Take a peek and tell me what you think. The Double D is on the left and the Red Llama on the right.

More Guitars

Okay, so it has been a little while since I updated this. Recently I have been refinishing a couple of guitars I built while still in high school. They needed a lot of work, but they are finally done. Here I have some pictures of the beauties.





Here is the group photo of all of them together. The bass is in the middle with an original design on the left and a PRS style guitar on the right. They all play and sound quite nice, in addition to looking awesome (if I do say so myself).

My next projects are a series of stompboxes that I will be making myself. They tend to be more responsive than my Podxt to picking dynamics, etc. since they have a real analog signal chain. I have one almost finished, but I am waiting for a replacement IC chip since I fried the first one by accidently reversing the polarity of my power source. I guess if carpentry's mantra is measure twice cut once, then electronics is use sockets and voltmeters before IC's.

Anyway, I will try to keep this posted somewhat. Hopefully some sound clips will be coming of my stompboxes when they are done.