Happy Little Accident
Happy Little Accident is very literally just that. An accidental circuit that emerged on the Fruits breadboard. We took a session before taking the Fruits prototype apart and just started swapping out components and hoping for something wild. In the end we basically just ended up with something that sounded really awful in a fun way and called it a day. Later I also added a hole to the design so that a user could stick their finger in it and basically circuit bend it on the fly. Fun.
Happy Little Accident User Guide
The pedal uses 9VDC power (2.1mm jack: center-negative).
There are three controls and a perhaps also a big hole in this pedal:
V - Is your VOLUME control. With a fair amount of boost.
A - Is the ACCIDENT control, all the way to the left you monitor yourself in the real world, all the way to the right your totally lost in the ether. Any mix of those two is possibly.
L - This is your LITTLE help in the ether, it helps you fine tune your experience between the radio waves. This control also screams a lot when you are not playing anything. But Max it completely and it will play out, or tap your finger in the hole to silence it faster.
HOLE - There is, as you’ve probably noticed, a big happy hole on this pedal. It’s there so you can access part of the circuit on the inside. Stick your finger in there and gently touch the circuit to make your pedal go completely bonkers. Together with the L knob you now basically have a touch controlled synthesizer. Very avant garde!