Building The Boogeyman

After building versions of the tubescreamer and distorion+ pedals, I figured that if this primarily was to stay a heavy metal project, I needed to build a high gain distortion. The TS and + are more in the realm of overdrive, and I feel I need to make some mods before they look and sound good enough to show them here.


So I rounded up some schematics for a project called Dr Boogey, a pedal meant to emulate the sound of mesa boogie's high gain dual rectifier amps. Soundclips on youtube got me quite excited about the broad variety of sounds other builders were able to squeeze from their pedals, so I sent the drawing if the schematic to someone from the newtone forum, who was very accommodating in etching a PCB for me, usign said schematic.I also ordered the casing and all the parts (in mulitple orders, since I kept forgetting stuff, duh!), and after a lengthy soldering session I have the electronics in place:






After soundtesting the above tangle of wires and resistors, I'm rather satisfied with the immense amount of destructive sounds I'm able to coax out of the circuit.


NOISE APPROVED!!


At this point it was time to start work on the casing. I decided that dr boogey was not scary enough as a name for this box of mayhem, so rebaptized it "The Boogeyman" and designed a very cool graphic for the pedal. Using a draft of this graphic as a reference for the location of all the potmeters and switches and outlets, I stuck it on the blank aluminum casing and used it as a drilling template.






After I finished drilling the casing looked like this:






Since (as you can see on the draft) the graphic is mainly black, I spraypainted the casing a matte black.




After this I printed the graphics on a decal transfer. I stuck the decal containing the graphic and at this point this is drying. When it´s all dry enough (probably tomorrow) I will have to apply lots of layers of varnish to permanently stick the graphics to the casing and protect the whole lot.


I will post the finished product, and if I manage to make some, some sound samples, as soon as it's finished.


LATER!