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Here in Brasil we have the sad tradition of trying to copy USA fashion in lots of areas… music, movies, sports, politics (🤢) and gear. And most of the times it makes no sense at all… like, we have some unique and beautiful wood but people here import Ash and Maple to build guitars. And...

One more! This time with a switch to defeat the octave. Great enclosure by @mwpedalparts-maggie! Sounds really good, I went with a combo of BC109c and I forgot the other transistor, I think it’s a 2N2907.

Went full mojo on this: carbon comp resistors, tropical fish capacitors (and a MKT, which was the line that replaced Tropical Fish), 70s German made 1N4148, epoxy dot ME4003 and a repro enclosure from our own @mwpedalparts-maggie. Sounds amazing!

Built this one for Brazilian guitarist Sergio Buss, who played guitar with Steve Vai for years! Figured out the layout using some pictures from the web, but had to debug the pedal for hours, until I found out the 2 central pins of the transformers should be isolated from the rest of the circuit...

Here is a Foxey Fuzz I just finished. It’s essentially a Sun Face with 220pf cap from input to ground (under the board) and a pair of Mullard GET872. Sounds really good, the transistors have almost no leakage and the hFEs are 69-90

Made this one for a US based customer! Used a trio of MP20B

Here is another mojo-tastic build. Used a pair of Tungsram AC128 for this - I hate this transistor on Fuzz Faces, but sounds great on a I.5! And a short video showing its clean up:

I made a project for a smaller sized wedge enclosure with the jacks on the same profile as the other hardware and board goes, because I was always annoyed with wiring floating between the two parts of the regular Bender/Zonk enclosure. For the circuit I used a vintage specs stripboard I got made...

A customer who works as a sound engineer/producer at Globo (the most important Brazilian tv channel) asked me to build him a dual Shallow Water so he could run it in stereo. The build took me the almost 10 hours (and it included some troubleshooting in the PCB that goes in the lower side 🤬) but...

Got some heavier gauge solid bus wire from Amplified Parts and felt the urge to try my hand building one of those again. This time I went with Philips BC109c for the transistors. It’s a great sounding fuzz for such a low parts count pedal!

The only thing I can say: that is not a funny build. But it does the thing

I really love treble bosters and I’ve been experimenting with Range Masters and Red Roosters for a few months and wanted to do an Sabbath related artwork. The transistor of choice was an Tesla 156NU70. Sounds really good with a really low noise floor.

I’ve been on a vintage-full-off-mojo kick latelly and yesterday I finished this Ram’s Head clone using carbon comp resistors, tropical fish capacitors and epoxy dot 2N5136. Sounds incredible!

What a finicky circuit to build, I hate every second of testing transistors for Zonks and MKI. There is no magic formula to follow, gotta socket and try infinite combos to find the sweetspot between gain, sustain and gate. But when it sounds good, oh boy, does it sound good! Went full mojo on...

A simple one to kill the time on a boring afternoon!

A few years ago I got a bunch of Intersil CA3260 and Toshiba MA165 and built a few Ibanez MT10 clones and totally forgot about it. A few weeks ago I found some PCBs for the project and wanted to try something in the green/golden colour scheme and I got to say I’m very pleased by the looks of it...

This is the first time I try my hand at building a pedal point-to-point. It’s not the cleanest job ever, but hey, it works! In the picture I’m usina NOS Toshiba PN1002 but I actually changed the transistors for ME4003, with hFE circa 300. Sounds really cool and it’s a very meditative way to...

I don’t post lots of stripboard work around here, but I got myself a spool of Remington wire and oh boy, I’m really impressed and spoiled by it’s quality, great stuff! So I made one of these to try it out and here is the result, it’s a Janray with assym/symetric clipping awitch, sounds really nice!

It’s been a long time since my last blackout build, so I decided to celebrate the 200th Demoiselle unity I produced and made a small batch! Some pieces are still available at my Reverb Store 👀

Made this one with a self etched PCB and a enclosure from @mwpedalparts-maggie! Went with a 2n2907 and a pair of BC109c for the transistors.