If you take a peek at my shop page you'll find a rarity - a P450 (Prescription Electronics Experience clone) for sale.
Usually I can't make these fast enough and they sell before they're completed, so it's good to be able to have one available, ready to ship immediately.

Get in touch if you'd like to give it a good home - but do it quickly as it won't be around for long!

It's funny how a particular pedal can be suddenly really popular. A while ago I couldn't make Danger Birds fast enough. Now I have five confirmed orders, all for the P450 and P450+.

The P450 is a clone of the Prescription Electronics Experience pedal.
The Experience pedal comprises of the fuzz and octave fuzz parts of the Foxx Tone Machine, but with a few slight modifications - which make for a more pronounced octave-up effect. It also features an old swell circuit from the 60s, which works with the octave fuzz section.

There is a short demo of the original Experience pedal by Doyle Bramhall II at around 5 minutes into the video below.

The P450+ is the fuzz/octave fuzz section of the original Experience pedal, but with an independent swell circuit which is based on the now obsolete Boss SG1 Slow Gear.
This allows you to use the swell in fuzz, octave fuzz, on its own - or with other pedals. (On the P450 you can only use the Swell in octave fuzz mode.)

Another option is the Dust Bunny, which is the fuzz / octave fuzz sections only, without the swell.

I have to say, I'm glad to see the back of 2017. It was not kind to me and the people I care about.
I lost my mum to cancer late in the year, which made me take a much needed break away from the business of pedal making to gather myself. It hit me hard. Harder than I could ever have predicted.

Then what should have been a very relaxing holiday over Christmas and New Year had me knocked sideways by flu. Not a cold, proper flu with a bonus dose of full-on labyrinthitis. I spent the entirety of the time in our expensive holiday let confined to bed trying to make the room stop spinning. I'm only just recovering from it now, with a really nasty cough that just won't give up and let me be.

So apologies if I've been a bit quiet recently. The universe was busy kicking me, then kicking me some more.
I've tried to stay as active as I can on the facebook page, as that seems to be where most people go. I regularly post photos and updates on things i'm working on there, so drop by and give us a 'like', if you'd like.

I'm taking tentative steps at getting back into things now, and have decided to start taking on limited orders. Feel free to contact me if there's something you're interested in. I can't promise I'll be able to make it for you quickly, but if you don't mind a bit of a wait then I'm sure we can arrange something.

Apologies for the lack of updates on here recently. I'm not sure how many people actually read it?
I assume most people keep track on goings-on via my facebook page, which I tend to update much more regularly.
www.facebook.com/ButterflyEffectPedals/

But I am keeping busy with orders. Here's a few pics of stuff I'm working on.

Just a quick note to let you know that the range of colours for powder-coated enclosures has increased, so there's plenty of choice now.
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I can still spray paint your enclosure in a different colour if required, but these are the colours currently available in the pre-painted range. See the How To Order page for more info.

You may recognise the mug on the drum kit. I was pretty chuffed to see this photo, taken and shared by none other than Ricky Gervais - as it shows one of my pedals, the Double Arrow, on the David Brent's 'Foregone Conclusion' guitarist's board.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
2016 was a bit bonkers. Too much questionable politics, too many deaths. Here's hoping 2017 is kinder to us all.

​Apologies for the radio silence and lack of updates. I had to take some timeout from making pedals this year due to illness, but I'm back on the horse now and taking orders again.

​Just recently I've completed a couple of nice pedals.

I've been working hard at completing all of my outstanding orders recently.

The second batch of the big re-house job is finally complete and has gone to its new home. As well as the re-housed effects, it also included new builds of a Chevron One (Boss slow gear clone) & clone of EHX Electric Mistress flanger.

Below is a photo that the customer sent me of all the pedals being installed on his board.

The Kill Three. Twice is a 6 stereo channel killswitch

And the Filth Foundry for a studio in Chicago is nearly finished.

Every time I mention that I'm building another Danger Bird, one for myself this time, it gets snapped up and bought before I get it anywhere near finished. This was my third attempt at making one for myself, but I can't really say no if someone wants to buy them from me.

The Flower of Evil. This is a highly modified fuzz face. This one is destined for a studio in Chicago.

TB-3  - a Tonebender MkIII clone with on-board voltage inverter.

The 'Buzzaround' is a clone with an on-board voltage inverter and added master volume control.

I've been working on a couple of Tonebender MkIII circuits as an experiment.

I have an order for a Tonebender MkIII with an on-board voltage inverter (so it can be used alongside standard negative ground pedals) which is built with modern components, which are smaller and have closer tolerances.

I thought I'd build a 'vintage correct' circuit at the same time, using NOS Mullard C280 'tropical fish' capacitors, axial electrolytic capacitors and polystyrene capacitors, along with carbon-comp resisters.

It'll be interesting to compare the two against each other when they're built. I suspect there will be little between them - and any differences would more than likely be down  to the transistors than anything else. I don't think there's any right or wrong way of doing it. Some people like the 'mojo' of using vintage components, so it's just like the original units, whereas that sort of thing doesn't matter to others.

I thought it might be interesting to post a few in-progress pics together, so you can see the various stages in the build process. People seem to be interested in this kind of stuff.

Next I apply the artwork decals. This is delicate work and can involve hours of work to get a really good finish.

Once the decals are dry, several coats of laquer are applied. Then it's time to load the external hardware before wiring up the insides.

Plain box / Dymo label pedals are quite popular right now. I'm not complaining - it's a bit cheaper for the customer and it reduces the build time by removing the prime / paint / decal / lacquer stages.
This is a Dangerbird that I'm making for someone.

The first batch of an order for 11 pedals is shipping tomorrow, but not before I share a picture of them.

Pictured above are:
A re-housed Rattler from a multi-effect unit.
A new build two in, one out A/B box
A re-housed Dyna-Ssor compressor from the multi-effects unit
A new build delay (Echoes in a Shallow Bay)
A new build MFKR
A re-housed Tube Dreamer dual overdrive from the multi-effects unit.

The customer didn't get along with the multi-effects unit and wanted the effects re-housed into separate enclosures, as well as some new pedals from my range. He also likes the plain box finish with labels, so we've gone for that look for the whole suite of pedals. More to follow.

This beauty is off to the post office tomorrow, on the way to its new home.

It's a dual pedal, with the Echoes In A Shallow Bay delay and Aoifeverb reverb (otherwise known as the Tiny Dynamine - or the Moon Sounds Reverb in the USA).
The effects can be used independently, or both together. 

The delay has a hand-picked PT2399 delay chip and a Burr-Brown OP2134 high quality Op-Amp.

One of the things I have on the go at the moment is rehousing into individual and dual enclosures, all of the effects from a multi-effects unit. This was a custom-made multi-effects unit that the owner just didn't get along with, so I'm giving them new homes.

The whole set of 10 pedals I'm making for him are all in the unpainted metal box with labels finish. They'll look great all together.

Apologies for the less than great photos. They are really difficult to photograph without natural daylight. I might try to get some better pics at the weekend.