fuzmeister: Extending The Muff Mods

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Now I'm thinking about grabbing up some transistors and diodes to re-haul the gain stages of the Big Muff. If it's successful, I'll be channeling my inner David Gilmour.

Thoughts from the Vent collective?

Mood: Musical


Tags (beta): guitar, effects, electronics

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fuzmeister: Muffs and Micros

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So I recently ordered some parts from DigiKey. A co-worker of mine who is way better with a soldering iron than I am is going to modify two of my guitar pedals. I know one will be improved by the mod as it's a somewhat cosmetic (albeit functional) change. The other is questionable as I can't seem to find any results online of people who have attempted what we're trying to do.

The "cosmetic" modification is actually quite useful. The Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer is a neat little box capable of generating all kinds of bleeps, creeps, and sweeps. However, the LED indicator is foolishly only used to indicate whether the AC adapter is powering the unit and not whether or not the effect is on or off. Using a bi-color LED (red and green), we hope to keep existing functionality, but also let the player know if the effect is on or off via the color.

The other mod is being done to the Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi. This is a very powerful sounding distortion, but I noticed that a lot of players attempt to get the vintage Big Muffs over the new ones. Most of the circuit in the older models uses different components, but what I'm altering is the tone stack part of the circuit. This simple change controls the tone of the Muff ever so slightly, but I'm hoping it will affect it enough to give me the gain of the reissue circuit with the EQ of the "triangle" and "ramshead" versions (the highly sought after vintage models).

Anyway... we'll see how it goes... if nothing else, it will be interesting to hear the results.

Mood: Lethargic
Music: Peter Gabriel - The Family and The Fishing Net


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fuzmeister: A Prophecy Fulfilled

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I predicted this shit!


Mood: Nostradam-y
Music: Cage The Elephant - Back Against The Wall


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fuzmeister: Tired of harassment

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Actually, it's more irritating than anything. Of course, I'm talking about being Facebook and YouTube bullied by an elderly man. I guess it's really only bullying if it comes off as threatening or something - this whole scenario just comes off as extremely pathetic.

David knows what I'm talking about.

Ho-hum, back to my day job.

Mood: Annoyed
Music: Elitist Rubbish!!!!!


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fuzmeister: E3 - Sony

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I figured that it's only fair to post my thoughts on Sony's press event as well...

• Killzone 3: now over-hyped in 3D!! 0
  
• 3D gaming - my games are already 3D enough already. Please focus on making them play better now. -1
  
• Playstation Move tracks 1-to-1 movement out-of-the-box without requiring any additional peripherals. +1
  
• Playstation Move is a motion controller. -1
  
• Kevin Butler: the character who saved Sony's marketing +1
  
• PSP... I'm totally indifferent to it to be honest... aren't most people at this point? 0
  

Well, firstly, this list is much shorter. I can only determine that's because Sony's event was so much more focused on the Playstation Move device. What's the deal with the focus on motion gaming?! Argh!

That's all for now...

Mood: Unproductive


Tags (beta): video games, sony, playstation 3

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