Recent content by Diynot

Don’t give up. I highly recommend putting some time in to learn how to read a schematic and start applying that to small circuits. Once you get that down it can help you troubleshoot those 4 “duds” and get them working. Don’t assume that because the Ruby and Noisy Cricket are simple circuits...

I don’t know about any PCBs for these projects, but the Ruby is a great way to strengthen your ability to translate a schematic into a physical circuit either as point to point or vero. The Ruby is low parts count enough that if you fudge it up it won’t be a huge waste. Making cigar box amps...

Equilux or Drebbel

Yeeeeaaah, nah, once the back is on nobody will know🤫.

They are a new learning experience for sure, but just about every purveyor of PCBs has their oddities but if you want to build them all it’s just something you work around. The Lumitron is probably the most straightforward build wise as compared to the other Mutron offerings out there. If you...

To be fair, the Mutron was developed for keyboard…. The Junk Trunk does play well with guitar. It may not be the spiky quack you lean towards, but as I mentioned it does synthy better than the Mutron.

If you want some less standard synth-ier EF action check out the Madbean Junk Trunk

That’s a cool feature of the Spectron (Lovetone Meatball) it has an effects loop that you can drop whatever into to get that bloom effect w/o having to adjust the sensitivity to a different input level. I will def have to give your suggestion a try

Small Clone > CE-2. Something ab the 3007 (and the circuit around it) is just way better to me. Built a MBP Touchstone (with vibe/chorus mod) awhile back but gave it to my son for his bday (his choice) then built a Caesar to “replace” it since I had 3207 on hand and it just isn’t the Touchstone...

So a lot of these are replacements to pedals I have reluctantly sold, have had a request for, or I’ve built other iterations of the same circuit. There are 2 net new builds in the bunch. Let’s start with those. Truth be told, I like mostly useless noise makers. I wish I could use them in music...

DEFX in a 125b!? What is this heresy!? Good looking build. Loving the aesthetics.

Thanks. I mean a red crayon and lettering and I’d be…….cease and desisted 🤣. Meh on the pile it goes maybe to be played every once in awhile, maybe to be sold. Maybe you will find it more to your liking.

Different strokes for different folks. Hot take: I never got along with the Dung Beetle either and it is a pretty well lauded fuzz box around here.

Thanks man. Def keeps me from going down the road of the peavey pre pedals etc. if I want to sound like shit I’ll just go spend the $50 at musicgoround and then Office Space the MF’er after 5min

And we keep stepping in it