Mike's Pedal Thread

Post by **Mike** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 12:45 pm

indeedy

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:31 pm

Cow's Arse / Ram's Head.

Hey waitaminute! There's two volume knobs. What's in there?

Post by **Mike** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:43 pm

A Ram's Head Muff and a '78 IC Muff - the tone control on the Ram's Head Muff is called Resonance because Tim is a fucking idiot

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 3:31 pm

ITT: Mike hides the truth.

(he'd also put 'sustain' instead of 'distortion' on the green muffs, the fucking n00b)

Post by **Mike** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 5:11 pm

Just joshing!

Post by **Mike** » Tue Sep 25, 2012 8:41 am

Post by **Mike** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:57 am

All going out in the mail today:

Post by **Mike** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 8:12 am

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 10:45 am

You continue to impress Mike. If I get another MBM pedal i think I'll go for a custom decal. All 2 of mine are plain which I usually go for but these look sublime! My Dreambox looks well swanky tho!!

Post by **Mike** » Wed Oct 03, 2012 11:04 am

Well all the graphics praise has to be heaped on Tim, really - but many thanks

Post by **Mike** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:24 am

This is a seriously great sounding modified Big Muff circuit. Thinking of making it a standard line product.

knobslideshow:

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 10:20 am

Cool thing . do a demo . . .

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 11:44 am

that jumbo tonebender looks amazing, I especially love this configuration

gusman2x · Post by **gusman2x** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 12:31 pm

Awesome looking pedal. I like the white mustang knobs best with the blue.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Oct 08, 2012 8:44 am

Amy was away in Edinburgh seeing friends, hence busybusybusybusy

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Mon Oct 08, 2012 10:31 am

Neat builds. One question though- why do you still socket all the transistors? Is it habit?

Post by **Mike** » Mon Oct 08, 2012 10:38 am

I socket transistors that I select for sound.

Things like the MOSFET clippers in an OCD I don't.

The Box of Rock also can sometimes get FET failure if you plug in the wrong supply despite reverse polarity protection - hence I socket for my own good. People are idiots.

sp3k · Post by **sp3k** » Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:03 am

Mike wrote: This is a seriously great sounding modified Big Muff circuit. Thinking of making it a standard line product.

Is this the one with one less transistor and two diodes, then green muff? does it sound much different from the green, less distortion and more fuzzy?

sp3k · Post by **sp3k** » Mon Oct 08, 2012 11:04 am

the one with white knobs looks better imo

Post by **Mike** » Mon Oct 08, 2012 2:06 pm

sp3k wrote:
Mike wrote: This is a seriously great sounding modified Big Muff circuit. Thinking of making it a standard line product.
Is this the one with one less transistor and two diodes, then green muff? does it sound much different from the green, less distortion and more fuzzy?

Yes, it's got no diode clipping on one stage, and also the tone recovery boost stage is removed, but I re-added it for clean volume boost. It also has other component subs.

More open, less clipping, more useable tone control