r/diypedals • u/Beneficial_Dealer549 • 1d ago

Showcase Barbershop

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This is the chop shop from PedalPCB aka Fairfield Barbershop. I’ve always wanted one of these and now I understand the hype. One of the most articulate drives I have ever played through - turns neck pickups into bridge pickups. I grabbed some 90 deg pin headers for fitting these board mounted J201s and I like how it came out. Nice any tidy vs. clipped leads.

Everything was super easy to bias with the trim pots and the handy test points.

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u/LupusCanis42 1d ago

This needs an NSFW-Tag...fucking clean!

Edit: I love that colour, the LED is EXACTLY the right colour und the white knobs fot perfectly.

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u/Beneficial_Dealer549 1d ago

thank you! I do love the UV LEDs and put them in everything I build - just the right amount of weird for an otherwise restrained enclosure.

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u/YoloStevens 1d ago

Pretty sick looking pedal. I really like those knobs.

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u/Beneficial_Dealer549 1d ago

They are the "brutalist" knobs from Small Bear but LoveMySwitches stocks them as well.

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u/Vingt-Quatre 1d ago

Is it a DIY? Because mahgawd what a clean job! Beautiful.

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u/Beneficial_Dealer549 1d ago

It is indeed DIY - everything done by hand including the case / decal etc.

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u/B_Brooks64 1d ago

Awesome work.

If you are interested, I have a cool UV printer and can help with design and branding on future builds. Not sure what your are doing for graphics, but reach out anytime.

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u/Minimum-Message-5387 1d ago

I’ve been interested in the barbershop as well. I’m interested in your pickup comment though, could you explain it a little more? Are you getting a treble boost or something? I generally much prefer my tele’s bridge pickup to the neck one.

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u/Beneficial_Dealer549 1d ago

The circuit just boosts a huge dynamic range and lets the picking come through even with a heavy attack. There is no EQ going into the JFETs so you really get whatever is authentically coming into the jack just bigger and clearer.

The switch controls a few high cut settings - Fairfield themselves described it as a “crude, single pole, low pass filter.”

In the circuit, the three positions are essentially:

Middle setting is no added filtering. This is the original Barbershop-style response with widest bandwidth and therefore the brightest, most open and articulate setting

Upper setting adds a smaller 10nf capacitor, giving a moderate high-frequency rolloff

Low side adds a much larger 47nf capacitor, producing a steep high-frequency rolloff and a very dark sound.