u/That_Immo

A custom one-off hovering android. His acronym describes his role in the Blacktron crew: Purser - Acquisitor - Quartermaster, keeping the daily stuff working and all the cogs turning.

Since the loot... uh... findings are divided equally among the crew, he decided to use his share of precious metals to plate his ocular receptors to add a bit of sheen to his dull black body. He feels it gives him respectable presence, but other crew members smirk under their dark visors at his new-found vanity.

EV3A (ExtraVehicular Access And Acquisition) is an autonomous unit based on a multi-purpose BGF (Big Guy Frame) automaton platform, built for "space hygiene" of scavenging parts of wrecks, as well as for all those lovely surprise meetings in the cold void of space where valuable cargo changes hands.

Equipped with strong spotlights, mighty pincer manipulators, 5-point propulsion, magnetic feet and, last-but-most-definitely-not-least, powerful plasma cutters, this automaton for some reason is usually nicknamed "Can Opener". Its formidable yet still portable size allows it to fulfill its role with ease. It can be purposefully deployed or loiter in a dormant state, reminding everyone why "orbit" and "morbid" sound somewhat similar.

Contrary to the popular opinion, pirates usually used small, light and agile vessels to plunder the seas. Most of them probably were not a square-rigged catboat with railing-mounted blunderbusses, but even a boarding/ferry craft should be well-armed on the Imperials-infested seas.

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I saw that Disney sail sold separately for cheap at a convention and immediately had a picture of a boarding/ferry catboat in my head. The boat has a rudimentary rigging and a working winch for the grappling hook, as well as blunderbuss mounts and fake tiller. The Technic liftarm at the bowsprit was since replaced with the new "Plate, round 1x3".

NFD! New-old thing, really, since it's Blue Colander 2024 Smoke Fuzz, a pedal made (as merch of sorts) for Red Smoke Festival, an open air stoner/sludge/doom weekend festival held annually in Poland.

It's a mighty op-amp driven dirt pedal.

MORE= Level

FUZZ = amount of dirt and character

(Also has a Tone trim)

It goes from a warm drive to a powerful yet creamy distortion and solid fuzz that cuts nothing from one's tone, does not butcher dynamics, and stacks nicely with other pedals. Last week the second I saw there was still one unsold unit available, I immediately grabbed it, having tested it before and regretting that I never got to grab one.

My newest. This thing is so awesome.

KMA Chief Disruptor, Bloodstone Edition: a "Fundamental Fuzz/Distortion", with an emphasis on FUN.

I feel Chiefly Disrupted.

But tacky slogans aside, it is an awesome dirt pedal. At heart it's an improvement of the well-known Muff topology with active tone controls, and it can do much, much more than a plain BMP. The three distinct voicings and extensive mids controls w/expression pedal capabilities are a game-changer. The gain range goes from mild OD crunch to doomy muffness, and it could mimic various Muff variations well enough in my book. It works amazingly well with bass. Downsides? Haven't found any.

Honestly, it's a grand choice for a "If I Could Only Have One Dirt Pedal" (very) hypothetical scenario.

It was my grail pedal for 10 months but the regular version had way too much going on on the enclosure, with a detailed graphic and a base color of "Louis Vuitton Beige" which is icky to me. When I saw the blacked out "Bloodstone" version I immediately knew I needed to grab it. It's a limited run of oy 100 units available for sale.

PROD (Profound Retrocognition OverDrive) is a custom one-off bass-dedicated mod/clone of the Electra/COT-50 circuit a buddy has made for me years ago. I received the guts only, broke them like a klutz immediately after receiving the package, and the sorry mess spent a decade in a drawer. Recently I finally learned some basic electronic skills and fixed it, and designed the enclosure and controls layout.

It's a drive pedal and its primary function is to push dirt pedals and make them sound more retro. It also works rather well on its own. It runs an all-time classic 2N5088 transistor into a symmetrical duo of diodes and has an extra clipping section.

* Lightning Toggle = selection between Drive (small bolt; status LED goes blue) and Overdrive (big bolt; status LED goes red)

* L knob = Level (self-explanatory)

* S knob = Sizzle (reversed bias, works only with Overdrive and goes from compressed and warm - essentially a slightly boosted Drive mode - at zero to sizzly but not velcro-ish when dimed)

* Purple selector = rotary switch for clipping mode selection; clockwise it goes from no extra clipping (warm, least dirty), single asymmetric Schottky diode (slightly less warm, slightly more dirty) and a symmetric array of two Schottky diodes (quieter, least warm, lows cut and the most crunch).

After spending two weeks pondering the idea of getting my first own drill/driver and dedicating a budget of a hundo for it, I obviously tripled it and went with one of the best options I could get for my absolute ceiling budget. Having studied reviews and opinions and caveats, this little monster - DCD805 - impressed me the most. Liking it a lot so far.