Echo Flanger (Dandy Horse) DIY Guitar Pedal Build

Oh wow, I didn't know there was a clone available of this pedal! I love the closely related Memory Man, Electric Mistress and Clone Theory pedals. I own a vintage Clone Theory and use it on bass, as it has this metallic sound that doesn't wipe out the low frequencies of the bass sound.

No Noctua fan? ;)
NV-FS1

Nice Project and Sound. To encrease the longevity of the Pedal I would take the Vibration of the Stage Floor into consideration. Maybe put a drop of loctite on those wonky trimpots and put some thermal pads between the chips and case to ensure nothings rattles itself lose over time.

Happy tinkering, and there is alot of tinkerers in the guitar community

Wow nice to see Jan's musical side!

Nice one.

Very nice!! Love it

Yay! Pedals! My actual favorite thing!

Nice! :-) Ah, i love Electro Harmonix stuff (okay, this is a clone, but still), especially the Small Clone, too. Greetings, jenzGuitarist \m/

Hello from Washington State.

So are you playings gigs in The Netherlands sometimes? Or near the Dutch border perhaps?

Not sure if the caps you're using in the oscillator are NP0, if they aren't and you're having stability issues with the effects and or bias you may want to swap them with NP0 parts because those won't be affected by temperature changes. Those might be surface mount parts... but that's what there are spare resistor leads for 😉

Also when biasing you may need to loosely couple in your scope via a capacitor, your leads have capacitance and will mess things up. You'll bias for the circuit with the leads in... and not without.

Ah, this is cool. So good to mix up the content. Also, the different knobs and hand written labels are perfect. I wouldn't change anything!

Really cool to see how these things are really made. Thanks! ❤

Why are all geeks musicians? Don't tell me you also have a cat!

Great video. I'm disappointed in the enclosure though: You should have gotten a heart shaped box.

Excelent!!!!

That looked like a lot of bloody hard work fella!
You made me glad I bought my Zoom B1Four (bass multi effect pedal) already assembled!

It's great to know you are a fellow musician! I didn't think my esteem for you could get any higher, but you continue to delight! 🎸🎶❤

Much like with modern retro computer recreations, even in the music scene people want to replicate classic hardware for their unique sounds... :)

Hol' up, pardner! I'm fairly sure A has always been log and B linear, with C meaning reverse log, as in two side inputs being logarithmic to the centre output, rather than the centre input being logarithmic to the side outputs

If you ever need a bass track for something, get with me. Cool little pedal kit.

music and computers is life

Great build, Jan. Fellow retro enthusiast here - building & repairing Apple / Mac / Atari / Amiga / Commodore etc - and gigging guitarist. I also build & repair a lot of valve / tube amp music gear. So I’m loving this content, in addition to your usual retro stuff. My pedalboard is mostly home made pedals, preamps & accessories. I never label anything, so get lots of questions from musicians wanting to know what gear I’m using, which I love talking about. Coincidentally, one of the guys I play with is a German friend called Jan! Did a gig down in Baden-Württemberg a while back! Biasing by ear is always the way to go. And hand-written labels and mis-matching knobs are perfect. Very rock’n’roll!

As a keyboard/synth player who also fixes retro gear we are kindred spirits Jan. a great job on the build sir.

Not saying I am disappointed but I kinda expected the Turrican II theme at the end :P

A small tip for making more live music 🎸😉

Very nice also as a soldering guide! What temps are you normally using?

Never thought I'd see you cover another one of my favorite hobbies, nice work Jan!

Smells like solder fumes 🙂.

Thanks Jan! As an amateur guitar player myself, i reaeally dig this! I revisited the Nirvana discography very in-depth and extensively a half year ago!!! Straight as an ARROW!!!!

Here's how you feel old: there's more time between now and when "In Utero" came out than between when the first Beatles album, "Please Please Me", and when "In Utero" came out.

Awesomely cool!!

A multi-talented tech. How cool jan

This is awesome the clone I got of a echo flanger sucks and I ended up getting a poly chorus reissue and it's not spot on the echo flanger clone I got the dude did what he could with the wrong bbd chips but knowing there's a kit available is awesome

Nice. I think I see Guitar Rig on the PC in the background. ;)

Would of been nice to hear some Nirvana riffs where the pedal is actually used, that annoying high pitched whine would do my head in.

Would be nice to see a device for inside the c64. A delay so every Sid song sounds like you have two of them inside. Where you can set the delay time with a potentiometer. Good video btw.

did you hear the high pitched noise?

Great job!
I tried to build mine but It do not works properly.
I cannot get the 15 and 7.5 volts at the test pads. I just receive 12 and 6 volts and there is no effect.
Please, do you have any tip to solve this? I checked all the parts an apparently everything is ok

i love the guitar too

Thanks for posting this! I actually made an audio probe a couple of weeks before biasing my own build. I had the same issues with the oscillation adjustment and some of the other biasing as you did where it wasn't making much of a difference in the output during the adjustments. The direction didn't really say where to probe for the last feedback adjustment from what I remember. Also, I ended up getting the clock frequencies pretty close with a 22pf cap. It is what it is I guess.