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I somehow missed this PCB on my last order - or maybe it wasn't out yet when I was ordering? Anyway, I wanted to build it, so vero it is and here we go. Filter and Input are good to have, on bass I roll back the Input and put the Filter on the (not too) dark side. Those MPSA18 are filthy...

Heres the other one, I got from @Aleph Null - the Peacock, a parallel fuzz that features a tweaked Percolator, that brings the mids and the other channel is a Fuzz Face with a Muff style mid scooped tilt EQ. Parallel fuzz is a great thing to start with and this pair is well voiced to sing...

Bring the noiz!!! Another one from Moonn, says it is a clone of the 4MS Noise Swash Mini. It's a very cool distortion and/or noise machine, that can throw in some oscillation as well. I have the oscillation on a momentary foot switch. If you're into that kind of sounds, this one is a sure...

More PT2399 goodness for me! This one brings all kinds of woobly pitch shifting sounds! I really like it. Can go crazy or just make your notes feeling a bit seasick. I had some trouble with the internal LED at first, meaning it would do the pulsing while the pedal was off and when engaged it...

This is a pretty nifty delay, designed by @Aleph Null who was kind enough to send me a PCB over the pond (I also got a Peacock). You can read about this delay in detail here. It's a PT2399 Delay with envelope controlled modulation and an interesting tails implementation, meaning the TAILS...

Another great circuit from Fairfield! @Mentaltossflycoon said more or less what I think, if it comes to how it sounds, so just read his report, it's better anyway. I still had exactly 3 through hole 201s, that I bought quite a while ago, in my stash. I'm not sure where I bought them, probably...

Mmmhhh, bass preamp based on the B-15? Sure, gimme-gimme-gimme. Of course, I've never played a real B-15 and I am not even chasing that sound at all, but boy-oh-boy, this pedal sounds good. I fattens up your sound in a lovely way, gives you some well tuned tone controls to play with and if you...

So, more bass dirt, yeah! This is some kind of muff-tortion, to my old ears. It's more on the muff side with the tone control engaged, I'd say - and if you bypass the tone control, the mids jump out, things get clearer and it sounds more like a distortion than a fuzz. I like both type of...

I've made another one of these, including the "secret mode", letting you run Fuzz I and Fuzz II. Sounds great and will probably end up getting sold.

Here are a few builds from the Fuzz Dog's pedal parts. First up, their take of the Basstortion. I made this for a guitarist friend. He played my PPCB version and wanted one as well. As I really like mine on bass, I had to make another one. Sounds pretty much identical. The graphics were chosen...

Sometimes I take a break from my ususal "build all the fuzzes" programme and try something else. Here we have two vero designs I saw on dirtboxlayouts. Both are delays, based on the PT2399. First up is something based on the Seppuku Memory Loss. A mix knob has been added, which is a good thing...

I had these 2 DBA boards from Moonn for a while now and finally tackled my (rather silly) idea to put them into one box, with an order switch. It's a reverb and a delay, supposed to recreate the Echo DREAM 2 and the Reverberation MACHINE --> DREAM MACHINE. I've built this DBA/Moonn reverb...

I grabbed the Basstortr PCB because, you know, BASS! I didn't even bother trying to find out, what it is supposed to sound like .... so when firing it up, I was like "Hmmm, pretty good, but not as dirty as expected, sounds like a boost with the Drive dialed back - and that bright switch is a...

I've bought a Dunwich Amps Fuzz Throne DLX, aka Blackblood, a looooong time ago and it has been on my pedalboard ever since. I looooove that pedal. Recently I changed the footswitch on the Dunwich, and while doing that, I was like, hmmm, I should try to build one of these, especially...

The bass player of the other band of the drummer of one of my bands asked, if I could build something like the BAT Raw Heart, which is a double pedal with order switch, incorporating their Witch Burner and Quantum Mystic. After some looking around, I saw that the chaps at Fuzzdog offer both...

All this talk about the Klon, magic diodes, fairy dust and unicorn farts was quite amusing for me, but I never really cared about the sound his thing was said to deliver, to be honest. That changed whenever @Chuck D. Bones was giving it the real deal bass treatment, not just changing some caps...

This was a smooth build for more 4046 PLL type of fun. There are quite a few cool sounds in this box, from frightening rumbling to annoying bleeps, I dig it. Also just boxed up a Super Fuzz. It's supposed to be the good old Univox version, surprisingly symmetric PCB from Moonn. I'm just a...

Nils at Moonn has been throwing quite a lot of stuff out here, lately. And after the last two big and complicated things I've built (DBA synth and Klein Bottle), it was nice to put some dirt boxes together. First up is the BDSM, Big Distortion Sound Machine, running a Ruiner and a Torn's...

I jumped on this (hype?) train, only after finding out that @cwsquared would offer these PCBs with all the smd chips pre-installed (hUUUge thanks again)! It still was an intimidating project for me, I left it in a drawer for a while before taking a deep breath and starting on populating the...

I bought the latest LP by A Place To Bury Strangers, as I like that band. Getting an LP sized circuit board with it, to build a DBA synth with 2 delay lines was pretty cool. Sourcing parts was fine, just those rotary switches required some searching, as they had to be the exact type (Alpha...