Literally. It was a record breaking build.
I got the visual idea for these just over a year ago. So, over a year from inception to completion - another record?
Vinyl Flux is a local band in which two members were old friends. You've seen me post about these guys a lot.
Since debuting just over 2 years ago, they've all become friends of ours.
Why so long to build these? I didn't really know what to build for the guys. I just had the visual idea.
After many chats and surreptitious interviewing, I figured out what I needed to build.
Once I began producing these, I ran into many problems with cutting the vinyl, getting fonts, printing the logo, and generally messing things up and starting over.
The circuits were the easiest part - even the dual tagboard build that gave me so much trouble was easier than the graphics/decoration.
The bass player wanted a "phaser type thing". I already had a Dr. Phibes circuit built. So, that was set aside for this build.
The Phluxer. It's a Phaser and the bass player's name is Phil...
The "Phil" switch does absolutely nothing. I accidentally drilled an extra hole. So, I put a switch in it and wrote n the instructions that it's there just to make him smile.
There are many pictures of him with a complete dead pan face. So, it's kind of a running gag to get him to smile while he's playing.
One of the guitarists started chatting about a dual pedal for which he had read about and had seen online review videos.
So, I hunted down some ideas and decided to follow a build that someone over on the BYOC forums did last year. It's a tagboard build and includes two drive circuits that were recently combined for a specific UK player.
The Fluxion
This is an in-progress gut shot. The end result is a mess since I had to rewire everything and ended up flipping the "E-Drive" board upside down too. But I just forgot to take a final shot before closing it up.
The other guitarist was a tough one, but I ended up putting together the SuperDrive 70s for him.
The SuperFlux
I didn't want to leave the drummer out so I bought a fan, took it all apart and painted it with Krylon Fusion paint.
The singer got a candy jar with the band logo on it and loaed with eucalyptus candies that we've been supplying to him for a few months. I don't have a picture of that, though.
It was a fun build, frustrating at times, but that's part of the process for me. I learned a lot.
Like:
1. If you're going to put envirotex over a paper label, clear coat the piece first to seal the label and the edges. When I poured the envirotex, it seeped under the label and the label even absorbed some. So it looked like wet paper.
2. Also, envirotex fills in all of the grooves on a vinyl record so that it doesn't look like a vinyl record anymore. They got tossed and I started over.
3. You (or maybe it's just me) can build one pedal and not mess up the pot pin order, build a second pedal and mess it up, then build a third and not mess it up.
4. It's pretty impossible to print orange on a printer. I ended up getting a stamp making kit and carving the logo myself. Then I used paint and stamped it wherever I needed it. The rustic look is intentional (whether I meant to do it that way or not).
5. I'm sure there's lots more that I am forgetting now.
I got the visual idea for these just over a year ago. So, over a year from inception to completion - another record?
Vinyl Flux is a local band in which two members were old friends. You've seen me post about these guys a lot.
Since debuting just over 2 years ago, they've all become friends of ours.
Why so long to build these? I didn't really know what to build for the guys. I just had the visual idea.
After many chats and surreptitious interviewing, I figured out what I needed to build.
Once I began producing these, I ran into many problems with cutting the vinyl, getting fonts, printing the logo, and generally messing things up and starting over.
The circuits were the easiest part - even the dual tagboard build that gave me so much trouble was easier than the graphics/decoration.
The bass player wanted a "phaser type thing". I already had a Dr. Phibes circuit built. So, that was set aside for this build.
The Phluxer. It's a Phaser and the bass player's name is Phil...
The "Phil" switch does absolutely nothing. I accidentally drilled an extra hole. So, I put a switch in it and wrote n the instructions that it's there just to make him smile.
There are many pictures of him with a complete dead pan face. So, it's kind of a running gag to get him to smile while he's playing.
One of the guitarists started chatting about a dual pedal for which he had read about and had seen online review videos.
So, I hunted down some ideas and decided to follow a build that someone over on the BYOC forums did last year. It's a tagboard build and includes two drive circuits that were recently combined for a specific UK player.
The Fluxion
This is an in-progress gut shot. The end result is a mess since I had to rewire everything and ended up flipping the "E-Drive" board upside down too. But I just forgot to take a final shot before closing it up.
The other guitarist was a tough one, but I ended up putting together the SuperDrive 70s for him.
The SuperFlux
I didn't want to leave the drummer out so I bought a fan, took it all apart and painted it with Krylon Fusion paint.
The singer got a candy jar with the band logo on it and loaed with eucalyptus candies that we've been supplying to him for a few months. I don't have a picture of that, though.
It was a fun build, frustrating at times, but that's part of the process for me. I learned a lot.
Like:
1. If you're going to put envirotex over a paper label, clear coat the piece first to seal the label and the edges. When I poured the envirotex, it seeped under the label and the label even absorbed some. So it looked like wet paper.
2. Also, envirotex fills in all of the grooves on a vinyl record so that it doesn't look like a vinyl record anymore. They got tossed and I started over.
3. You (or maybe it's just me) can build one pedal and not mess up the pot pin order, build a second pedal and mess it up, then build a third and not mess it up.
4. It's pretty impossible to print orange on a printer. I ended up getting a stamp making kit and carving the logo myself. Then I used paint and stamped it wherever I needed it. The rustic look is intentional (whether I meant to do it that way or not).
5. I'm sure there's lots more that I am forgetting now.