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I'll upload it tommorow no problem...

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LaceSensor wrote:I'll upload it tommorow no problem...
thank you so much, I wanna use your text layout for the rotary switches... the last time I've used rotary switches, I've failed the text disposition on the graphics :slap:

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Hi

Feel free to use modify repost.
recommend you print a test page and made sure it aligns with your build.
FYI this was done in paint, and isnt a pro image, but it works for me....ymmv
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LaceSensor wrote:Hi

Feel free to use modify repost.
recommend you print a test page and made sure it aligns with your build.
FYI this was done in paint, and isnt a pro image, but it works for me....ymmv

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teej212 wrote:is there anyway to modify this to have cutoff frequency control?
pretty sure the Intens knob controls the cutoff frequency :thumbsup
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Hi all,

I've built lots of different pedals and the building and electronics i've been fine with. My artwork on the pedals is usually not much better than a labelling machine. How do you guys get prints like that to either adhere to the boxes. Do you print them or do you print them directly to the paper or do you use paper that is sticky? What is the process that you use? I'd like to make my pedals look as good as some of the ones i've seen. I guess i've never sat there and worried if it has a pretty picture on it as long as thing works properly but i would like to start to get them to look better. Some of you guys do some amazing artwork on them it blows me away with some i see. Thanks
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nightraven wrote:
teej212 wrote:is there anyway to modify this to have cutoff frequency control?
pretty sure the Intens knob controls the cutoff frequency :thumbsup
intensity looks to me like a depth pot for the envelope LED

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pedalgrinder wrote:Hi all,

I've built lots of different pedals and the building and electronics i've been fine with. My artwork on the pedals is usually not much better than a labelling machine. How do you guys get prints like that to either adhere to the boxes. Do you print them or do you print them directly to the paper or do you use paper that is sticky? What is the process that you use? I'd like to make my pedals look as good as some of the ones i've seen. I guess i've never sat there and worried if it has a pretty picture on it as long as thing works properly but i would like to start to get them to look better. Some of you guys do some amazing artwork on them it blows me away with some i see. Thanks
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With the graphic I posted you need to spread out the rotary labels a touch, they arent 100% lined up

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Here's my pedal... Thanks to Taylor of musicpcb.com for the great project!

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Finally plucked up the courage to attempt breadboarding this ridiculous circuit. After a small amount of frustration, it's working pretty well now. Hooray!

For anyone else who attempts this, a couple of things helped me get it going: First off, the attack and decay controls are highly interactive: The filter won't trigger unless they are set so the decay is shorter than attack (or vice versa - my pots have the wrong tapers and are wired backwards so it's confusing). I read it in the manual, and again elswhere online several times, but as I was testing it I kept forgetting this and assuming it wasn't working, until I found the trigger point again by twiddling those two knobs relative to each other. This is made much easier by my second tip, which is to definitely breadboard it with the sweep indicator LED that's paralleled with the LEDs in the vactrols: You get a clear visual indication of if, and how the vactrols are sweeping as you debug.

Thirdly, I was working off two very similar schematics - One which didn't have the colour pot lug 1 clearly connected to the output of the second opamp in the envelope section, and neither of which had the colour pot lugs 2+3 connected. This seems to be known as the "colour mod" online, but I'm convinced it's how the originals were done - Without it the colour pot does very little until the last quarter turn, which doesn't appear to be how it works in demo videos of the OG pedal. These titbits are buried in the "Building the Meatsphere" thread at DIYSB and scattered elsewhere across the internet, but I thought it might be handy to record them here.

For anyone who has already built it: What controls do you use the most and least? I'm going to box this up as a pretty straight clone for a bass-player friend, but I'm going to drop a few switches for a version for my own personal use. I only really like the lowest range setting caps, and might just have a high/low two-way switch for variety. I'm equally not that fussed with the high pass mode, though this probably personal taste. Also, I've only tested the bandwidth by physically swapping the caps a couple of times, settled on the lower 22n and left it be: Is it that useful?
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Nocentelli wrote: Thirdly, I was working off two very similar schematics - One which didn't have the colour pot lug 1 clearly connected to the output of the second opamp in the envelope section, and neither of which had the colour pot lugs 2+3 connected. This seems to be known as the "colour mod" online, but I'm convinced it's how the originals were done - Without it the colour pot does very little until the last quarter turn, which doesn't appear to be how it works in demo videos of the OG pedal. These titbits are buried in the "Building the Meatsphere" thread at DIYSB and scattered elsewhere across the internet, but I thought it might be handy to record them here.
Hi, it's possible to have a little scheme of this mod? I've built a Meatsphere a long time ago, but I'm never been satisfied with it :popcorn:

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Here is my copy of the schematic, the colour mod is circled in red.

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Hi, after a bad experience with my first Meatsphere (equipped with VTL5C3), I've bought a second PCB... This time I wanna use LDR+5mm diffuse green LEDs.
These LDRs are good or not?
http://www.ebay.it/itm/10PCS-LDR-Photoc ... 233d4e88d0

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Model: GL5528
Maximum voltage (V-dc): 150
Maximum power consumption (mW): 100
Ambient temperature (° C): -30 --- +70
Spectral peak (nm): 540
Light resistance (10Lux) (KΩ) :10-20
Dark Resistance (MΩ): 1

100λ10: 0.6
Response Time (ms): rose: 20


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I should think they'll be fine: I used some cheap ones from Tayda with similar specs and they work great.
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Nocentelli wrote:I should think they'll be fine: I used some cheap ones from Tayda with similar specs and they work great.
Thank you... Vactrols are fuck1ng expensive and not the best choice for this pedal :horsey:

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go 2M dark or more wiith green LEDs FTW

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LaceSensor wrote:go 2M dark or more wiith green LEDs FTW
I've ordered the LDRs posted above, and now I'm searching some 2M dark... LDRs are pretty cheap, so the experimentation is really funny :applause:

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gilmour_pugliese wrote:
LaceSensor wrote:go 2M dark or more wiith green LEDs FTW
I've ordered the LDRs posted above, and now I'm searching some 2M dark... LDRs are pretty cheap, so the experimentation is really funny :applause:

socket them until you are happy; same with the LED choice.

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Going to redo my meatclone so drew up the switching for toggles
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