Mike's Pedal Thread

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:21 pm

Mike, have you ever done a Civil War Muff? I saw a PGS pedal demo that was based on the Civil War Muff. Sounded pretty cool.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:31 pm

taylornutt wrote:Mike, have you ever done a Civil War Muff? I saw a PGS pedal demo that was based on the Civil War Muff. Sounded pretty cool.

i thought the civil war muff was a green muff clone?

SGJarrod · Post by **SGJarrod** » Wed Sep 14, 2011 10:14 pm

civil wars were out before the green russian..... there are only 4 parts that are different, the civil war has three 430pf high pass filters on Q1-3 compared to the 470pf's on the green, and the emitter resistor is different on Q4.... Civil war is 2.7k and green is 2k

basically the civil war is a tiny bit raspier with alittle more high end and the green has a touch more gain in the Q4 tranny

Post by **Mike** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:23 am

The Green is better in those subtle ways in my opinion. I also only use 470pF on those filters - you won't catch me trying to find some hard to find 430pF caps just because EHX slapped them in because they got them for cheap.

wwrrss · Post by **wwrrss** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:33 am

I'm gonna regret asking this... well my wallet is...

ever built an Bixonic Expandora clone? is it do-able?

Post by **Mike** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 7:37 am

Never built one but I've seen a schematic - should be doable. PM me if you're intreested.

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 10:43 am

Mike wrote:What's the verdict, kid?

Can't stop playing this monster. Everyone should have one of these. So much sonic joy from such a wee box!!

Post by **Mike** » Thu Sep 15, 2011 10:43 am

Aww you've made by day mate - that's going on the Testimonials page!

Post by **Mike** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:39 am

I've also been soldering my nuts off for my next few cases to get my order list down.

Sitting on my desk are built & tested circuit boards for the following:

- Dream Box (5)
- '78 IC Muff (2)
- Saltbooster Plus
- Modded Big Muff
- One Knob Fuzz
- Green Ringer

One of my next builds is the Nobels ODR-S I've done a layout for recently. it's the swank one with the 3 band EQ.

Post by **Mike** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 1:44 pm

Here's a cool review a customer did of the Green Muff I made for him for use with bass.

Includes tasty samples

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 2:24 pm

Sounds fine! If i wouldn't have an original green muff, i would buy one of yours!

Post by **Mike** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:45 am

Finished this one last night. Mercy Dream Boxes are a lot of wiring up. Approx an hour and a bit.

Apologies for crap light

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:45 pm

Love the gut shots. Amazingly clean as usual! All i can say is keep bringing the goods Mike. They'll keep on selling.

Post by **Mike** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:51 pm

Certainly seem to be popular - I've built 5 and there are another 9 on my order list!

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:54 pm

given the amount of work in the dreamboxes are you considering getting these made up as PCBs Mike?

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:55 pm

Mike wrote:Certainly seem to be popular - I've built 5 and there are another 9 on my order list!

I can believe it. Since getting mine I've not even picked up my acoustic once...and I love my acoustic. I love the Dreambox more. Gotta go do an riff!

Post by **Mike** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:56 pm

lorez wrote:given the amount of work in the dreamboxes are you considering getting these made up as PCBs Mike?

Designed, Ordered and awaiting the sample prototypes!

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 1:59 pm

nice one. are there any other pedals you are considering doing this with?

Post by **Mike** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:09 pm

Yes, the other one I've designed a layout for is the '78 IC Muff, and I've also done one for all my transistor Muff variants. I might order a batch of each if the Dream Box one is successful.

If I move to batch production I'll be using PCBs for sure, but at the moment I'm still working on an Order List basis, and a lot of my stuff is non standard and modified.

Some places charge tooling fees, and others have long lead times on the production. So designing the PCB itself is only half the battle really. Tim and I have been chatting a lot about it.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:35 pm

sounds brilliant and exciting with potential to expand production a lot easier if necessary.