amuro namie - new look - Plone mash up

Amazing mash up of Plone and Japanese pop star Amuro Namie.

Zombie Viking Kay Tremolo

Kay Tremolo with Booster for Jon.  He wanted a custom design for this so we tried a few ideas out before coming up with this Zombie Viking theme!

Shin-Ei FY-2 Companion Fuzz

Fy-2 for Sean in Birmingham.

Tonebender mk1 #7

Tonebender mk1 for Fred in the USA.  This one is done on vero board and has socketed ACY22, OC45, and AC128 Transistors.  

Treblebooster

Made this for myself, it's based on the JHS Treblebooster circuit but has blendable input capacitors, and switchable output capacitors.  The blend control lets you go from trebleboost/basscut, to full range boost, to overdrive when turned all the way up!

Brumcast Supersonic special

Tonebender mk1 #6

Gold hammerite Tonebender mk1 for Tim in Switzerland.

Tonebender mk1 mini #5

Tonebender mk1 clone in a small case with a hand painted gold hammerite finish. Nice little build which I'm very pleased with, last of the '1965' labelled mk1s from me, and likely to be the only small version as well.  This is 'For Sale'!  Soundclip below...

Mini Tonebender MK1 ACY22, OC45, AC128 Germanium Transistors

Some new soundclips at last!

I've recorded a few rough soundclips of some recent pedals, I'm a bit slack when it comes to clips, I could really do with some customers sending me some (hint!), maybe some discounts would be in order?!  Anyway, here they are played by me on a Squire Jagmaster (needs setting up properly if I'm being honest), recorded using Logic on a Powerbook, Presonus Firepod, Sennheiser E609 mic up close and at the edge of the cone, Audition speaker, Epiphone Valve Jr on lowish volume.

Buzzaround AC128 Germanium Transistors

Rosac Nu Fuzz BC108 Silicon Transistors

Tonebender MK1 ACY22, OC45, AC128 Germanium Transistors

Tonebender MK1 ACY22 Germanium Transistors

Burns Buzzaround replica

Burns Buzzaround replica for Bart.  AC-128 Transistors, tagboard layout, DC input, hand sanded top surface with decal labelling and clearcoat finish, red l.e.d.

Amazing pedal collection

Thanks to Graham for pointing this out, look at the second part as well!

Rosac Nu-Fuzz

Rosac Nu Fuzz, small silver hammerite case, tagboard construction, blue l.e.d., a great sound from this little circuit which is similar to the Mosrite Fuzzrite.

Tonebender mk1 test pedal

Here is a photo of the mk1 'test' pedal I have been using to check potential transistors 

Tonebender mk1 #4

After extensive transistor testing using a 'test' pedal with sockets and trimpots I finally found a nice combination of transistors to do a new batch of Tonebender mk1s.  This ones for Bart from the Discofreq effects site.  

Rosac Nu-Fuzz (sneak preview)

Coming soon!

Circuit Bent and rehoused Danelectro BLT slap echo

The final 'ECHO' pedal, a circuit bent and rehoused Danelectro slap echo for Steve.  Increased depth control, added echo, repeat, and level controls, true bypass, 9v DC input.  The switch at the back initialises the pedal so its ready for use (its fooling the original circuit into thinking its been 'stomped').  All the on board wiring (to tiny  surface mount components in some cases) has been hot glued and is super solid.  The original boards have been taped together then attatched to the case with velcro.  Sounds great, far more versatile than the original and can self oscillate.  Here's what Steve says - "Thanks recieved the echo pedal today - its got a real unique sound really like it and its so much more versatile so many thanks again...The echo repeats sound great just on the verge of feedback like an old binson ehorec, real one off, no other echo pedals sound like this one."

LM386 mini amp

Little chip amp for Marc in Switzerland.  9v DC input, Mullard input cap, level and gain controls.

Noystoise workstation

In my opinion one of the best circuit benders out there at the moment, check out his Blog for more rehousing genius.

Real FY-2 versus replica

Dave sent me some pics of his original Shin-Ei FY-2 next to the replica I made for him!

MTO on Hong Kong TV

Some great footage of Modified Toy Orchestra from Hong Kong TV, must have been done recently when they were over there.

Interesting Ebay 10

Theres a lot of people selling Circuit Bent instruments on Ebay at the moment, I have stopped selling Bent stuff pretty much to focus on the pedals, though I AM still bending instruments for Windscale.  Saw this Bent Speak and Maths on Ebay and was very impressed, a very comprehensive version of my favourite 'Speak'.

Gold Hammerite Buzzaround

Gold Buzzaround for Richard.  AC-128 transistors, tagboard construction, Gold Hammerite paintjob, decal labelling, clearcoat finish.

Real Tonebender MK1 versus replica

Some amazing pics of my replica alongside an original Tonebender mk1!  I won't go into detail on what the customer thinks, lets just say he is very happy with the replica.

Shin-Ei FY-2 Companion Fuzz with mods

FY-2 replica for Dave.  Has the scoop mod where you can control the amount of mid scoop on the sound, plus the fuzz control is wired differently to the original for more varied tones.  Update - Dave has received his fy-2, here is what he says - "pedal is amazing! absolutely amazing, better than the original fy-2 i have" ; )

Brumcast 121

The new podcast from Brumcast has a Windscale track featured.