u/lykwydchykyn

Ok... so... Take a stock Rat. Rip out the IC and replace with a Davisson diode compression discrete op-amp. Only build the op-amp with Soviet Germanium PNP transistors. Give it a 3-way clipper switch to boot.

Next rip out the tone control and replace with an active 2-band EQ.

Now bring it over into an active panner-blend circuit to blend back in clean tone. But boost the clean tone using a transistor boost and give it a tilt tone control centered at 600hz.

This is El Gato, the primo distortion for bass players. I needed a big enclosure for all that rablash of circuitry, so it went in this hexagonal (reinforced) tin.

The cat head was a cupcake decoration leftover from halloween, and my daughter gave me the gem decorations. The combination just felt kind of Mariachi to me, so I put all the controls in Spanish. Hopefully I translated that OK.

Anyway, a stupidly long demo is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7Pvt3EnJYQ

So I've got this simple PCB that's just a green ringer into a bazz fuss, but on its own it's a little eh. So I pumped it up with two addons: A liberally lowpassed transistor boost and a BMP/tilt-style tone control.

The result is one of the most octavy octave circuits that ever octaved an octave. Having that dark boost on the front really accentuates what the green ringer does. My next version of the board will have the ability to drive Q1 harder and add filtering so I can do this all-in-one.

I put this in a red tin that held heaven knows what, which I reinforced of course.

For the curious, a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbY3qS7Nz58

Turkish Delayt. Yeah... I can pun. I'm a dad.

Anyway, this started as a Wapler Faux Delay, to which I added noise modulation and a self-oscillation stomp. I found I can use my little boost board to create a crude noise source. It's not ideal because I can't quite get as much noise as I'd like from it, and it's very sensitive to input voltage. But it works with my cheap power supplies, so I'm happy enough with it.

The noise is filtered a bit then sent directly to Pin 6 on the pt2399. When cranked, you get a warbly tone that reminds me of a really bad cassette tape. Pretty cool for some fun tones.

The tin is, as usual, reinforced using recycled plastic and wood. I got this tin not knowing what to put in it, except that it needed to be wide, so two stomps seemed a must. Warbly echo just worked here.

There's a demo you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gMS_XxhaJ4