How do! I realised that I haven’t written any update posts at all this year, so I thought it about time to do a wee catch up. First off, thank you all for your support as always, thank you to everyone who bought a pedal, helped spread the word and of course everyone who was…
Category: projects
End of Days Fuzz (1) – Initial ideas and development
Like everything recently, this is way behind schedule. I blame my donkey brains, and offer many apologies from them and me. With these ‘end of days fuzz’ update posts I’m aiming to document the development of a pedal design. I like the idea of giving back to the community with educational content, and I’ve been…
The Fettle Boost Vs. The Canny Fettle Boost
The Fettle Circuit The Wee Fettle Boost was the first circuit we worked on from scratch. It’s pre-Champion Leccy, when this whole thing was just an all-consuming hobby. We originally crammed it into a 1590A enclosure and only made a handful, back in the days when everything was handpainted. The Fettle Boost It’s a simple…
sausage fingers (6) – boxing with sausage fingers
boxing up the prototype of sausage fingers led to some good old troubleshooting.
sausage fingers (5) – designing the PCB
Now sausage fingers is pedal-ready let’s design a PCB… …for sausage fingers!
sausage fingers (4) – oh why not!?
and now in a total U turn I go back on my plans again and get synthy.
sausage fingers (3) – keep it simple, stupid!
I decided to start taking stuff out to make the circuit simpler.
sausage fingers (2) – summing (amp) up
neatening up the modded BOSS OC2 octave overdrive here forth to be known as ‘sausage fingers’
sausage fingers (1) – back to the chopping board
so from the experiments with the BOSS OC2 circuit we say good bye to the rotund robot and say hello to sausage fingers.
The Rotund Robot (4) – diverging plans and sausage fingers
the end of the beginning, a U turn and the birth of sausage fingers.