The Sore Soarer

Here is an awesome device that requires no input or feedback loop. In fact, if can be used in a feedback loop but it's fairly uninteresting without being processed by anything. By itself, it is sort of similar to the Bit Swash I posted on here a long time ago. You can hear it's flanger-like tendencies in the cycle. It's a droner and doesn't really glitch or sputter. Just long, harsh oscillations that move as fast as you have the speed set. I prefer the speed all the way down. Each toggle combination is a different kind of soaring group of frequencies. When a toggle is flipped, the cycle often starts over and it sounds really cool. Like a super loud, robotic plane taking off.

Sound sample.

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Eclectic Druidess

Here we have a circuit-bent Electro Harmonix Deluxe Electric Mistress with the infamous SAD1024 chip. This is the old version with it's own power cord. This was a difficult one to bend. It was tough finding the right connections to make. Finally, I came up with something that really utilized the rate circuit and made things very rhythmic, even in the filter matrix mode (honestly, switching the two won't give you incredibly obvious differences in the behavior of the pedal). Two potentiometers and one toggle. The sample is in a mixer headphone feedback loop. Both outputs of the pedal (the flanged and the direct) are running into a separate mixer channel. The pedal knobs and switches are all being messed with as well as the EQ on the mixer channels. This one is a little tricky to get used to because some settings doing react to knob-twisting or switch-flipping and others do a LOT and very sensitively. A little practice and you'll be making the most wackly, mangled sounds possible. Just listen to the sample.

Sample.

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Extreme Broccoli

Here is a bent DOD Flanger. It does some seriously exaggerated cycling through frequencies as you'd imagine a flanger in a feedback loop would do, as well as clicks and squeals. You know, the usual. Three 2-way toggles. Works best in a mixer feedback loop. The sound sample has the pedal in a headphones feedback loop and both outputs (it's stereo) on the pedal go into two separate channels on the mixer. You can get a huge variety of sounds from this pedal while messing with the knobs as well as the EQ on the mixer channels. Subtle movements create insane textures.

Sample.

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Classic Bone

Here is a DOD Classic Tone I just circuit-bent. No extra knobs or switches. Basically, whatever you feed into it, it will distort and oscillator overtop of it. As you mess with the drive and tone controls, the oscillating distortion will begin to decimate or bit crush the signal. The knobs are touchy and you can get a huge variety of sounds by tweaking the knobs little by little. The quiet of a sound you feed through the pedal, the more range you have with the damage. It also works completely fine on it's own to produce crazy sounds. Some of the sounds are the pedal itself, another is a Rush song fed through it, and another is a silly voicemail from a friend.

Sound sample: http://soundcloud.com/jmlasaboy/bent-classic-tone

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Squeaky Clean

This is one of the nicest modifications I've ever done. Mainly because it's a fairly dynamic instrument. The entire extension is built off of the regeneration control in the (originally DOD Stereo Phaser) pedal. Therefore, when the Regen knob is turned down, the device gets quieter and less sensitive to the controls. In fact, anything below about 3 o'clock becomes inaudible. I thought about installing a different voltage pot for more dynamic range but... I am not that good at this stuff and I didn't feel like it. The speed knob works as it should. The toggle on the bottom right switches off the cycle so that the speed knob doesn't do anything. The sound clip is half pure-pedal, with no input, and the second half is an octave down, lots of distortion and a little delay.

Sound sample.

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Beep-mote

This one is entirely not interesting. It only really produces one kind of sound. I wired it to the LED. Click on the sample to hear it. It looks bad-ass though. If you want people to think you're a total nerd, you should buy this. Or you could get super creative with it and run it through a cool effects chain.

Sound clip.

FOR SALE: $15

Ghirashaker

Just a simple "shaker box." The contact mic is permanently mounted to the top of a tin in which you can open to use separately, or to put whatever you want inside. The soundclip is with no effects, and then with a ton of distortion. You can plug this into anything that will take a quarter inch jack (i.e. guitar pedals, mixers, amps, etc.).

Sound clip.

FOR SALE: $20

Orange Shit Ball

This was a Boss DS-1 I bent a while back but then I busted one of the toggle switches and stopped using it. I'm glad I did, because the position in which the toggle was in when it got busted was what really made this pedal awesome.

The sound clip is of the pedal in a mixer feedback loop. I am messing with the EQ on the mixer as well as the knobs and the one toggle on the pedal. It does some crazy super high pitch soaring frequencies as well as crunchy and glitchy madness. Pretty harsh and all over the place.

I am selling this one cheap because there is a broken toggle switch on the right of the pedal that does not work. I pried out the knob on it so it's not in your way. It was also heavily used by me for a while, so that's another reason to sell it cheap.

The sound clip is awesome, though, so don't judge it by it's looks or wear and tear.

Sound clip.

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Pastrauma

Just finished this little gem. Works fine in and outside a feedback loop. It sounds best and has more range in a loop, however. I strongly suggest this pedal be used in a feedback loop with a strong and manipulatable single such as a headphone feedback loop in a mixer so that you can control the headphone level as well as the EQ on the mixer channel. Run in a loop with an EQ pedal is fine, too. The reason I suggest having it in a loop with an EQ is because you can get a lot more out of this pedal working with sending it high frequencies from the EQ, and minimal amounts of signal using the volume of the EQ pedal (or the headphones level on a mixer). Otherwise, running low frequencies and super hot signals will produce not much more than uninteresting clicks.

The first of the sound clip is just the pedal on it's own. No feedback loop and just a dead cord plugged into the input. The second portion is the pedal in a feedback loop using a mixer. I am manipulating the two toggle switches as well as the added potentiometer along with the headphone output level and the EQ in the channel the pedal is running into.

If used how I have instructed, you can get a huge variety of harsh sounds out of the pedal. There are some nice sweet spots with the pot that you can find, too. The pots the pedal came with also work. The overdrive level knob will do all sorts of things. The volume knob works as a volume but also feeds the circuit more signal as you turn it up which will increase the pitch of squeals and make the pedal act crazier the higher it is.

Sound clip.

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Pain Braiser

I think I've spent longer on this pedal than I have any of my other ones. I figured a phaser, like most, would be easy as hell to bend. I knew I'd be able to find a run that would make the cycle of the phase shifting feedback like crazy. I was wrong. This was a two day project just experimenting and searching. In fact, I think I fried a chip so I had to do extra searching and combinations of runs to give you control of the mods I did. There are nearly 8 bends in this pedal and I am positive I got every possible one worthwhile. It's a pretty dynamic pedal. The pot gives you a lot of quiet to loud sounds. It has a real sweet spot and search for it. The red button kills the signal no matter if the other mods are engaged or not. If you tap it quick enough, the power will run back into the pedal and the way the cycle of the shifting comes back up slowly is pretty radical. Clicks and rumbles, unique oscillations, and a few settings give you silence. This is cool when you run the pedal into lots of distortion because the hiss of the silence will be amplified tenfold so you will get a nice wall of static. Or, use it without distortion and enjoy it's touchiness. Works well outside of a feedback loop as well as in. Obviously outside a feedback loop is where it will behave more dynamically.

The sound sample was recorded in a feedback loop with a delay pedal, and then run into a ton of distortion. The delay was not engaged the whole time. 

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Bit Swash

This thing is freaking insane. I had no idea I was going to be able to do what I did with this. This thing sounds like a bit crusher running into a noise swash at times. Shrieks real high but comes crashing down into a bit-garbled mess. There are some nice dynamic functions about this pedal outside of a feedback loop, which is how it works best, I think.

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Highly Seasoned Smoked Beef

Reasons why this one is awesome:

• All of the switches are momentary buttons. 
• All of the bends are active UNLESS the buttons are pressed.
• All bends are on the top circuit board. I didn't even touch the bottom one to get the sounds achieved here.
• This one actually works outside of a feedback loop to get some tame sounds, but depending on the feedback loop it's in, all sorts of crazy sounds can be acheived.

Sample. (in a no-input mixer feedback loop )
Sample. (in a feedback loop with an ibanez de-7 delay)

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Three Track Mind

This one is quite interesting as well as minimal. It took me forever to find adequate bends. I ended up doing two internal runs that you can't switch one and off just to get something going inside the pedal without it having to have a sound source. Two of the momentary buttons come off the same contact, and the third one comes off the Oct 2 knob. These momentary buttons all do very distinct things. One will generate a loud tone, another will emit a strange and fast beeping, and another will generate a quiet, low-pitch rumble. Combining the buttons is the fun part, and doing that while working with the knobs. You won't get a variety out of this, but a few very distinct sounds that don't seem to relate to each other at all. Definitely a unique unit. I haven't tried this with a sound source plugged into the input nor have I tried it in a feedback loop, but my guess is that it can get extremely nuts when done considering it does such unique things without an input at all.

The sound sample plays once, and then again with a heavy distortion. 

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Peacock II

This pedal was originally bent by a friend of mine. I broke two of the toggles, so I took it completely apart, wired in 4 new toggles to completely different contacts. However, the pot he added is still wired the same. It was a reverb unit, so there is a lot of delay and looping capabilities, but also some drony tones and all sorts of wacky noise swash-esque sounds. Two of the toggles are 3-ways and the other two are 2-ways. The unit does not need a source signal but it can use one. Works well in a feedback loop as well, but it's not as dynamic that way.

Sound sample.

NOT FOR SALE.

Mini Mouse

This thing is a squeaking MACHINE. Two additional toggles, two additional potentiometers, and one momentary button. The button sends the pedal into high pitch heaven. The left pot is sort of like a starve knob. All the way down, the pedal shuts off. The other pot and the toggles alter the sound in ways I can't exactly explain. The sound demo should give you a good idea of what you can get out of it. I haven't tried running an instrument or sound through the pedal, but the input is wired to the output to create a feedback loop. There is a busted-off input jack plugged into the unit that can stay there so you can use it alone. However, try running something through it with an extremely hot signal. Might produce cool results. Better yet, put it in a feedback loop and I guarantee it'll go nuts. Especially in a mixer feedback loop where you can alter the EQ.

This is one of my favorite bends I've ever done. It's a very specific sounding pedal whereas a lot of my other stuff has been pretty diverse. This is to be used to create dynamic yet insane screeching and squeaks. Used to be an old DOD Chorus.

Sound sample.

SOLD.