The T.R.O.G.G ! Picture's added !

[Lonestarjohnny]

I started my new project this week, it is a multi-effects pedal that will incorperate abunch of the ROG Emulater's, I hav'nt decided on how many as of today, but I must before cutting and bending the Aluminum housing that all of this will be installed in,.
I'm calling this pedal the TROGG, in paying some Homage to " T.he R.un O.ff G.roove G.uy's " for there great work on these great sounding pedal's,
I'm gonna post picture's at the Photobucket and if all goes right I'll have the Pic's and voltage's of the total build on my Webb page which I have postponed until I get a new T-1 phone line installed, my old 1 is giving me problem's, Schem's and soundclip's can be found at ROG,
I'm in process of starting on the power amp first, it's 6X6L6 150 watt Yamaha, same as the PV, It'll be pushing 4 or 5 different speaker cab's until I find the right combination of cab and speaker's., If anybody has any info or Idea's and would like to offer some input I would be very Grateful,
Happy Trail's,  
JD

[Peter Snowberg]

I just want to say best of luck on your build!

That sounds like a fairly ultimate amp!

Take care,
-Peter

[JonC]

JD, have you considered using something like PAIA's frac-rack system? A 4 knob ROG Emulator should be able to fit in the 1.5" panel, use a 3" panel for a 5 knob emulator, with a in-out bus/ switching system running across the back of the enclosure.  It would then allow you swap in/out  new ROGG boxes if desired.

[Peter Snowberg]

http://www.paia.com/fracrak.htm

[Lonestarjohnny]

Thank's a bunch, I was worried about that part of it, I got a good plan and I've got 3 of the Emulater's on 1 board, and enough room on this full sheet of Perf to get 7 Emulator's in total, Plus I'll want to build a Wha and a Volume pedal for the right hand side of the unit, I'm Righty Even When I'm Wrong, New Country song,  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
I'll go check it out, Might just be the Cat's Pajama's !
:roll:  :roll:
JD

[Lonestarjohnny]

The Fracrac look's good and the hardware look's great, price's are very good on the power supply's, thank's for the info,
JD

[Lonestarjohnny]

I finished perfing 3 of the Emulater's today, all 3 biased out correctly, need lot's of 50 k & 100 k trim pot's for this project, will try to finish Master Board over the weekend, still need a system for switching, I need it to switch from pedal to pedal by hitting any other stomp switch, this will take some thinking, I need it to unlatch the on pedal and latch the new pedal I stomp on at the same time, HMMMMMM! I'm still thinking Potter Brumfield 9 pin relay's, for now, til I see a better way.
Happy Trail's,  
JD

[Lonestarjohnny]

I have 5 of the Emulater's populated on 1 master board, 2 more to go, I also dug out the amp chassie that will be the power for this system, I'll take pictures today and post them at photobucket if my camara still work's ? I also dug out the 6X10 Silvertone speaker cab I will be useing for this project til I can determine which speaker combo sounds best . I will be replacing the old vintage speaker's in the cab with Jensen Mod's, if you have never tried these your missing out, I get them for 19 buck's ea. and they do sound good, can't believe this but they sound better to me than the Alnico Jensen's I pay twice as much for.
Stay Tuned,
JD

[Lonestarjohnny]

Well the boarb is populated, with the Fetzar, Thunderchief, Professor Tweed, Supereau, English, Uno, and Matchbox,     http://img69.photobucket.com/albums/v210/Lonrstarjohnny/IMG_1470.jpg             http://img69.photobucket.com/albums/v210/Lonrstarjohnny/IMG_1484.jpg                http://img69.photobucket.com/albums/v210/Lonrstarjohnny/IMG_1472.jpg I'm waiting on trimmer pots and a rotory switch to come in and I'm in process of looking for a wedge shaped housing to put this, power supply's, switching system and
a few other controllers for other affect's in,
I was donated a PV Mace VT serie's amp chassie that has had a major blow up at one of the 6 power tube socket's for the basis of power for this project by a friend,        http://img69.photobucket.com/albums/v210/Lonrstarjohnny/IMG_1480.jpg          http://img69.photobucket.com/albums/v210/Lonrstarjohnny/IMG_1481.jpg                                                           I'll be removing and replacing the octal socket's with Amphinol ceramic tube socket's, Plus I'll off the burnt circuit board and go point to point on the Socket's. the pre amp on this amp is loaded with 18 different 8 legged chip's, mostly Dual Cha, N- Cha. J-Fet's and a couple of house no. switch's , and a few 4885 opamp's, all of these I'll replace with my choice of upgrades. plus I'll rebuild the power supply on the amp with better quality filter cap's

[Arn C.]

Great Job JD!!!

Gotta give us some sound clips later on !!!!!

Peace!
Arn C.

[B Tremblay]

Wow!  Pretty mind-blowing, not to mention quite flattering.  Thanks for sharing the photos, I eagerly await more reports!

[casey]

that's alot of perf.....

[Lonestarjohnny]

Hey Mr. B, If it were'nt for all you great guy's here on the Forum I sure would'nt be havin so much Fun, The ROG guy's have thier stuff ' Together"
for sure,
Thank's to all here on the forum, stay tuned, more to come with sound clip's in the near future.
   
JD

[Marcos - Munky]

Cool photos. I'm waiting for your review of all of them.

[Sic]

**sings* I've got big balls
             He's got big balls
             BUT...
       JD HAS THE BIGGEST BALLS OF THEM ALL

**/sings**


Damn jd, that is a serious project! cant wait to see final pics

[smoguzbenjamin]

Hope you don't mind, JD, but I think I'm gonna follow in line (as soon as I get the cash together :x) and do something similar. I won't be using tubes though, I'll be using an LM3886 as my power amp.... Gotta build a freakin cab yet


Yup, lots of stuff to do.... Fun! :mrgreen:

[Lonestarjohnny]

No problem for me Ben, all I can tell ya is, it's a lot of fun perfin that many circuits on 1 big board, keep us posted on the build,
and if ya need some inspiration just check back on my build, I'll be postin more pictures of my cab, amp, and Emulater as I go.
JD

[smoguzbenjamin]

Well I'll be doing it over the summer holidays, so it'll take a while since I'm off to sunny France for 4 weeks But yeah it's gonna be great... what about switching though? I guess a DP4T rotary should do it, only that means a million wires to and from the board

[Lonestarjohnny]

sounds cool Ben, I'm thinking of useing a analog switching system, I'm not interested in mixing any so all i'm looking for is to engage 1 at a time and trip off any other pedal that is engaged with one stomp,
I may add a Tube Driven Buffer to warm the tone up on my PV amps, if I do it'll be in the area of a 6CF7 probably,these make good driver's, low gain is needed for this type of buffer I want to build.
and now I'm looking at how to mod and control the built in Phase on the PV mace amp, I know it won't be a true Univibe tone but being able to loosely emulate the sound live would be cool for me.
Lot's of stuff for me to do, But I just Love it,
I may not win but just competing makes it all worth while.
JD

[RDV]

They make em' bigger in Texas.

RDV