11-09-2014 Important! I need to update my vero with the final values (some caps in the filter section). I plan to do it in the next days
This is a fun effect to play, its an optical tremolo and optical auto filter with a lot of options designed by DeadAstronaut at diystompboes.com, go to the original thread to know more about it. Instead of traying to explain how it sounds, its better to hear it, I've recorded a crappy demo for you.
I built my Small Clone using Mark's layout. This in theory could fit in a 1590b but I wouldn't try it again, I used closed jacks and mounted the board with component side down but I still had to force it a little when screwing the lid, and it did felt wrong to me. But it sounds great. I included a Mix pot to reduce the wet signal which helps when using it with a bass.
I built my SFT using sabro's layout, this is another amp like overdrive which is often compared to the ROG Ginger as it also tries to emulate the sought after ampeg-near-break sound. I like this better and is my favourite bass overdrive so far. It has a great dynamic response, I feel like I can control the clipping with my playing style, more so if I use a pick. I think it may be because of the mu-amp jfet gain stages. The SFT is also very versatile with a wide range of tones going from mild overdrive to a doomy distortion, and has a massive amount of lows in it.
This is really a great sounding reverb designed by DeadAstronaut at diystompboxes. Go to the original thread to learn more about it. This has a couple of features not usually found in a reverb as buffered bypass with tails and feedback oscillation switch. It also has a unique mix control where you have to adjust the volume control depending on the mix to match effect/bypass volume.
I drew my own veroboard layout and built it with a medium belton brick, but with the decay and oscillation controls you can achieve a lot of depth effect.
This is how it looks at my first atemp doing a silverburst painting.
This is my verified layout. In the revised version added the need to ground PIN 2 and PIN 4 of the brick and removed and unnecessary cut.
This is a high gain beast with lot of knobs and wires. I went creative with the painting this time. Built using the layout by Harald Sabro. It had very bad RF interfence, really loud and clear radio signal bleeding in so I tried a common solution of adding a 100pF at the input to ground and it worked, I soldered it on the track side of the vero.
The Snow White Autowah is the best autowah I have tried, the Nurse Quacky and the Seamoon Funk Machine both have too much ripple in the decay, and the DOD FX25 lacks a bit in the envelope detection. The SWAW has good control over the effect and sounds fantastic.
As usual I used the layout by Mark at tagboareffects to build it, but modded it to have a sidechain input for the envelope detection, like in the Chunk System's Agent 00Funk. This feature helps a lot when you want to put the SWAW after a distortion or fuzz but responding to the original signal. I use a signal splitter with one output going to the fuzz and the other output to the sidechain input of the SWAW.
I used a switched jack for the sidechain input so it works as stock when nothing is connected to the sidechain.
This is my modded layout with the sidechain input, I canibalized Mark's layout so all the credits goes to him.
This is the layout for the signal splitter I built.
