Quill Effects (DIY Guitar Pedals)

[ochoill]

Using this thread to post hand built guitar and bass effects pedals I am currently making.  This is mostly hobby but I sell everything.  I build a range of distortions, overdrives, fuzzes, boosts, and functional pedals.  If it's not in the thread but is something you are after, let me know.  Most are stripboard builds and are modded versions of existing pedals, some are PCB builds in short runs.  Artwork varies.  Cheers for the interest.

Shop:
https://quilleffects.bigcartel.com
- updated when a larger run of pedals are available.  For one offs and small runs, they're usually on sale in this thread / via DM for now.

also will post builds on instagram.com/quilleffects too, but that's just started so it's a bit bare looking.

[ochoill]

Bumping, have one more of these left, was selling for €60 shipped but will do €50 for anyone here interested since it's the last prototype built this way.

Acapulco Gold clone with switchable hard clipping and input gain pot.  Additional mods make it more versatile than the original pedal.  Stacks well with other pedals in any placement (before/after) by tweaking the gain & clip.  Goes from light crunch to fully saturated distortion.  Best suited to doom/sludge style sounds but malleable enough to be used for a variety of metal.  PM if interested.  Cheers!

[ochoill]

[UPDATE - All Sold]  One Knob Fuzz.  Does one thing but does it well.  Similar to a DAM Meathead or BAT Ritual Fuzz, for comparisons of what it does.  Brief phone video here to give an idea of how it sounds, playing through a Bugera 5w tube head dirt channel on low gain. 

https://youtu.be/klf4dFecjlg

[ochoill]

Have another few pedals available for sale if anyone is interested.  Prices include shipping costs anywhere in IE/UK.  Can be bought at https://quilleffects.bigcartel.com or by DM'ing me here.  Cheers!

DEMOS OF BOTH:

https://youtu.be/sunau0apgdA

BACCHUS (Overdrive) - €80
Volume, Pre, Shape (clipping/tone) and Drive controls.  Goes from a dark clean boost, up to full pelt overdrive.  Shape controls allows a wide range of sounds, great in front of a tube amp to push the heart out of it.
- 5 available



ONE KNOB FUZZ - €60
It has one knob and does one thing.  Volume control on a silicon transistor fuzz, thick and heavy.  Small enclosure build (1590A) to squeeze onto any board.
- 3 available

[ochoill]

Bump, have a couple of this batch left, making another couple of these and will have some one-offs available next month too.  Also in the middle of finishing a GCI Socialist Jr. if anyone is looking for one, will be selling it for €100ish elsewhere but will give it to one of ye for €90.

[ochoill]

Bump.  Socialist Jr is available, DM if interested.  Looking to do a short demo of it soon to upload.



Built a Rat clone lately, came out well, demo is available

Here - same as the others, quick run through of sounds through small tube and solid state amps.  Will have another couple in the next few weeks, better/different builds but still Rats.



If anyone is interested in anything in the thread and needs a price or has a query, give me a shout here.  Cheers.

[ochoill]

Small bump, getting rid of the older Bacchus run here - I have three left going for €60.  You can see them Here.

I also have a one-off 1590A sized Acapulco Gold clone with gain mod and hidden clipping mod (on an internal jumper) - €50. 


I'll have another 2 or 3 Rat Clones in February too if anyone is looking, these are similar to the one demo'd above but are built much better and neater, courtesy of a few PCBs from Moose.  Doing these for €75 at the moment, if ordered before I get them up for regular sale on the site next month.  Here's a photo of the last run:


Everything else listed in this thread is sold but if you are looking for anything in particular give me a shout too, I'll be doing a few runs of different types of overdrives later in the year too.

[Makeshiftatomsmasher]

Quick question, how hard would it be to do a clone if a TC Electronic integrated preamp/boost? I read the Fortin 33 is one with a slightly different eq, and the Peppers Dirty three is another version.

[ochoill]

Quick question, how hard would it be to do a clone if a TC Electronic integrated preamp/boost? I read the Fortin 33 is one with a slightly different eq, and the Peppers Dirty three is another version.

Not hard I imagine, I've actually been looking at doing a short run of a version of these later in the year - just clearing a run of custom orders at the minute before I do up anything else.  And you're right, the Fortin 33 is one but with a fixed eq section, I will be building them with controllable eq per the original.

[Makeshiftatomsmasher]

Colour me interested

[ochoill]

Deadly.  Once I have them done I'll post them here with a demo too.

[StoutAndAle]

I bought one of the Micro Golds last week - mad little thing - can't recommend it and the man Ochoill highly enough - sound out.

Stuck it in a chain with a Russian Muff Pi into my Orange combo - Heft City - Population: 1. 

[ochoill]

I bought one of the Micro Golds last week - mad little thing - can't recommend it and the man Ochoill highly enough - sound out.

Stuck it in a chain with a Russian Muff Pi into my Orange combo - Heft City - Population: 1. 

Cheers for picking it up again, glad to help and happy you're enjoying it!  Everyone enjoys how ridiculously loud they are for the size lol.

[ochoill]

Got another couple of bits available at the minute, both at www.quillfx.com

Organics - Parallel Boost/Drive with optional clipping and 2nd gain stage.  Two high pass and low pass filtered op amp boosts running in tandem to act as frequency selective drives.  At low pot values this can be a subtle clean bass or treble boost, at high values and into the optional clipping and drive stages, this can get rattling and crisp distorted tones and low, fuzzy sub bass too.  Best shown in the demo here:

https://youtu.be/L__C8uEWP_A




Bass Bacchus - Overdrive/Distortion tweaked for Bass.  Similar to my earlier Bacchus pedal, but with a few changes to suit bass better, and with added clean blend/boost, master volume, and the pre-boost broke out onto a separate footswitch.  No demo up yet but will have one soon.  I don't plan on doing a lot more of these, and have two orange and one silver from the pic below left:



If anyone on here fancies anything off the site, for the next while you can use the code METALWARFARE to get a few quid off your order, or DM here for any other queries.  Cheers for checking them out!

[StoutAndAle]

That Organics pedal sounds fucking mint, man. Between yourself and Moose - there's some serious pedals of filthy doom floating about at the minute. I might have to save a few bob and invest.