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  1. OK its alive and working 1st go!! I dont have a real TS to compare it with but seems OK, all pots work etc. Might look at the mods i have seen on the net to improve the amount of bass. But before i fiddle around i think ill just enjoy somehting I made. Thanks for help and stuff. Ben
  2. Heres a pic for paul. it still aint 'alive' waitin on one capacitor. oh and did i say green i meant sky blue. (crazy clarkes doesnt sell ibanez ts green) EDIT: the pic might be good
  3. Couple days ago i bought a brand new pickup off ebay to go in my Pacifica 512 neck position. It's a Puretone, humbucker size of single coil pickup. SOunds pretty good, now i have HSH.. Through my MG30 with this pickup the intro to to Sweet Child sounds great!, Thats the sorta sound you get with it. It cost AU$20!! So, wats that like US$16. I say great value for money. Ben
  4. javacody.. its not alive yet I had to order another cap and another resitistor, i dont have a huge box of misc parts unfortunately. But It WILL work.. well i hope so. I do care what it looks like becasue half the time ive spent making it has been manufacturing the case, and damn is it solid. lol And YES i did socket the OP amp
  5. My pics were outa focus... i aint no photographer. You'll see it painted green in a few days Ben
  6. Thanks for the reply Paul, specially with the 47pF substitute. I finished my enclosure except for the paint job, ill put a pic on of it later tonight for anyone interested. Ben
  7. Hi everyone. Well my parts arrived (well most of them) and ive spent most the arvo putting my tubescreamer together. Ive done as much as i can but now I am a little comfused. Ive spent about an hour trying to work it out reading the 'data' page in the back of all my electronics catalogues and have learnt alot. Like how to read EIA coding on capacitors. But its come to asking for help. I am assuming that when i asked for a package from Small Bear for the GGG tubescreamer he would have sent me all the right parts (though I already know he got a resister wrong - no biggy). But when it comes the allll the different types of capacitors Im abit stuck. - I received at 0.022 instead of a 0.02 - i worked that out and put it in. - I have 2 ceramic brown capacitors marked 47 +/- 5% 500V SM and have no idea what they are for, any ideas?? - I only got one capacitor marked 2F9224 - which im pretty sure is a 0.22uF and i needed 2. - I have 2 blue rectangular prisms things marked 1uO JR 63V BC 0403370 and dont know wat they are for. - i have the 2 1uF capacitors except they are 25volt instead of 50volt and the diagram at GGG doesnt show which way to put them round - so could someone have a look and let me know and will the 25V ones work?! I guess problems just find me.. so any help would be appreciated.. Paul, I know you made this pedal. If you stuck to the schematic, it would be really helpful if yu had time if you could please take a photo of the top of the circuit board, so i can check mine against it. The GGG links for this are: http://generalguitargadgets.com/diagrams/ts_lo_808.gif http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/instru.../tscmr_inst.htm <-- has all the capacitor values and types. Thanks alot for any help - i wanna get this thing working. Ben EDIT: I looked at the excel file Steve (from Small Bear) sent me and some things dont match up exactly with GGG, so i know to check for next time and also realise that yes everyone seems to have their own variation of the Tubescreamer.
  8. Hot Potz II available here: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...ssPageName=WDVW I am lookin for a old wah on ebay and came accross this. Let us know how it turns out and what you decide to do because i am quite interested in that and would consider doing something similar one day. Ben
  9. Whoa. What an adventure and bit of clever thinking and recylcing People pay money for old shower door tracks?! You obviously didnt want it as a stompbox? I cannot see a footswitch on it. But thats cool. Im just hoping I can get my TS going At the moment i am waiting on parts for my tubescreamer and I plan to get some liight rectangular prism scrap metal and weld sides on it to create my stomp box. But I found this metal in Dads metal heap. I didnt want to spend good money for an encloser i could make up myself, specially becasue it would have to be sent from the US. Keep up the original thinking. Ben
  10. OK i uploaded the whole zip file about the woody on my ISP webspace, but dont go donwloading it too many time unnecissarily - 100MBs a month thats it. http://users.bigpond.com/gilroyfarms/woody.zip
  11. Well my stuff should be here any day now and i cant wait. Meanwhile I am kinda bored and have been looking into what i will make next. I was considering making the enclosure for this Tubescreamer but dont know any dimensions yet and would want to worry about it all fitting in (--a thought i had while typing ill just go look up the dimensions for the enclosure in the small bear tubescreamer kit?? and make it that size... gee im smart) Anyhow what i was thinking of doing next which doesnt seem to be as popular as other effects on the DIY scene is accoustic similator. What i am after are any ideas about making one of these. I play at church and stuff quite regulary and would like the convienience of only one guitar for some of those more 'softer' songs. I came accross the 'Woody' on... well actually i cant remember but it came in a zip file with schematic, pics and sound file. It sounds OK but I have heard much better -- thinking John Petrucci. As it says in the "woody" doc that accoustic silulators are quite complex devices. SO what i am after are any comments on the "Woody" or any other accoustic simulators or similar. I posted the doc that came with it. (or will once i find somewhere to upload it) Thanks guys and gals, Benno
  12. OK instead of modding you amp why not think about doing a couple DIY stomp boxes. That way there is no risk of wrecking a decent amp and then these effects can be used for other amps as well. Look at www.generalguitargadgets.com and it has reverb, compression and many types of boosts and distortions plus many other effects with the bonus of being able to buy a ready to solder circuit board. Good luck
  13. Haha yeh that was tradgic, but they must have got mixed up and they sent everything out to me again, enough to make another one mini amp!! weird.
  14. Ordered my 'ready to solder' board a min ago and placed an order with Steve at Small Bear, its great how he has the part lists all done up already, at least i know i am getting all the right components.
  15. OK, an after thought, before i order my ready to solder circuit board. It would be a little difficult, but would save me $20 if i used perf board. Do many people use perf board for circuits this complex or for just simple projects? Just a thought, and i guess it would mean i would have to learn to layout a schematic onto the perfboard. Has anyone got an appropiate layout for tubescreamer (from GGG) on perfboard?
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