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Gear Heads => Effects => Topic started by: CaptainPeyote on February 11, 2014, 10:41:06 PM

Title: open for business!
Post by: CaptainPeyote on February 11, 2014, 10:41:06 PM
so, a while back, I quit my job and went back to school for electrical engineering.  I was motivated by how much fun I'd been having building pedals and other gear for myself.  Learned a bunch of stuff, then started getting poor.  took a job doing engineering work for a company producing AC drives and motion controls (robot stuff).  It wasn't that fun.   ::)

anyway, I got the axe last week.  and while my wife is a little stressed, I'm seeing it as a great opportunity!  after a year of working mandatory overtime and not being able to get any of the work I REALLY want to do done, I'm finally back in the saddle and building custom pedals and such again.

So here's the official offer:  anybody need anything built?  I'd rather build for Phans than anybody else :)

Here's something I put out a couple weeks back for a guy in NYC.  4-in-1 pedal, Ross Comp > Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret > 3-way Univibe emulator > my own 20dB clean boost.  Order switcher for the comp and drive, germanium dirt switch for the boost.  Customer named it an supplied the artwork, I had it powdercoated and screened, then added an etched and tinned name plate (same as all the circuit boards!) for teh mojoz.   ;D  sorry about the pics, I'm no photographer.  This does everything from tasteful, subdued tones, to Hendrix at woodstock purple haze tone, nailed.  And dead quiet, too, thanks to shielded teflon/silver wiring.  Not my best work, it's sloppier than I'd like, but I had to tear it apart and bust out the scope to find a bad FET.  It didn't go back together as neatly as it did the first time  :-[

(http://i946.photobucket.com/albums/ad302/CaptainPeyote/2014-01-26%2004.10.31_zpsdqkufbar.jpg) (http://s946.photobucket.com/user/CaptainPeyote/media/2014-01-26%2004.10.31_zpsdqkufbar.jpg.html)
(http://i946.photobucket.com/albums/ad302/CaptainPeyote/2014-01-26%2004.09.53_zpsuf7bl9sp.jpg) (http://s946.photobucket.com/user/CaptainPeyote/media/2014-01-26%2004.09.53_zpsuf7bl9sp.jpg.html)
guts:
(http://i946.photobucket.com/albums/ad302/CaptainPeyote/2014-01-26%2004.07.30_zpsrqn5jjst.jpg) (http://s946.photobucket.com/user/CaptainPeyote/media/2014-01-26%2004.07.30_zpsrqn5jjst.jpg.html)

so, anybody need anything?   ;D  *spam*
Title: Re: open for business!
Post by: Helping Friendly on February 12, 2014, 08:22:43 PM
Dude thats dope.. Would love to hear it in action
Title: Re: open for business!
Post by: Heady Jam Fan on February 12, 2014, 10:31:13 PM
Very cool!
Title: Re: open for business!
Post by: CaptainPeyote on February 13, 2014, 01:10:50 AM
yeah, would have loved to record a demo, but unfortunately, I had to get it shipped to the custy.  Maybe next time.