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Mourning Cloak - Seductive Fuzz

31/3/2015

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The Mourning Cloak, named after a butterfly species, is a somewhat modified violet Big Muff. 

The customer specified all poly capacitors in the signal path, along with a number of other modifications to ensure a tight focused sound. 

There's a 3-way tone contour switch (scooped / flat / boosted mids) and it also uses NOS ME4003 transistors.
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Tone Rodent mods

26/3/2015

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I've been working on some modifications for an existing Tone Rodent pedal.
The customer wanted a passive volume control adding to the repeater side and on the fuzz side, a volume recovery stage plus a tonebender mk4 tonestack.

It was a right bugger getting everything to fit in the enclosure. 
I had to add two additional knobs to an already quite crowded pedal. I've installed them so they work logically if you're looking down on the pedal from the front, which is the view you'd have when you're using it. The knobs turn intuitively, so clockwise is up and counter-clockwise is down - as it should be.

The good news is that the passive volume control and volume recovery stage will be standard features going forward.
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Gnarly Cat

26/3/2015

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This is the Gnarly Cat.
It's a dual pedal. It has a clone of the SFT bass overdrive and a boost. Right now, it's just at the decal application stage.

Meow!
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Decals applied.
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Mmmmm, purple...
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Yet another Danger Bird!

26/3/2015

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These are ever so popular right now. This one's in a nice shimmery silver.
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Hardware fitted.
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Decals applied.
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Rocket Overdrive

26/3/2015

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I've been working on the Rocket Overdrive, which is a modified clone of the Rockett Blue Note Overdrive.
The customer asked that the HOT switch be put on a footswitch.

The artwork for this pedal is a bit different to what we'd usually do. Instead of decals we had to print it on photo paper and apply it to the pedal. It's a much more long-winded (and a bit more expensive) process, as we have to try and match the paint colour as closely as possible, which takes time and experimentation. It does enable the customer to have white text and full colour graphics though.
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Hardware fitted.
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Artwork applied and laquered.
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Lots of work in progress

11/3/2015

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I've been doing a lot of decaling, varnishing and loading of hardware recently.
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Another Danger Bird! These are proving to be quite popular at the moment!
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Double Arrow (dual Klon Centaur) clone. This time with both silver horsey and gold versions in one box. Surprisingly, not that difficult to mask!
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Triple pedal! This one has a Belton-based reverb, a Guill-O-Tone (modified Kay Tremolo) and Cinnamon Swirl (modified Catalinbread Formula No.5) overdrive.
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Modified Tone Rodent. The new version (which will be renamed soon) has a volume recovery stage added to the fuzz section (Vox Distortion Booster fuzz) and a passive volume control with switches for tone and speed range on the Repeater (Vox Repeat Percussion tremolo). I have also laid about the stripboard for a germanium fuzz option. Think DAM 1966 (based on the Mk I Vox Tonebender) with an extra tone switch setting.
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