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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...

This was part of the VFE group buy, that I only got into because the amazing @cwsquared offered the smd pre-soldering. Thanks again, for all the work you put into that!!!!!! With the smd chip already soldered, this build still took me out of my comfort zone, because of the whole soft switching...

MST stands for Minotaur Sonic Terrors. The Swamp Lord is their take on a Muff, housed in a comically large enclosure. The bass player of the band we share the Doom Room with has on of them, it sounded pretty cool, so I looked for a PCB .... and found a vero layout. It's basically a Muff with...

This is supposed to be a clone of the LAL Super Oscillo 88. LAL says about it: "A fuzz distortion pedal with it's own internal oscillation system. The main feature of this pedal is the huge variety of oscillations that can be chosen by using any combination of these six switches. The 88 can...

There's a bit of a story to this pedal: a few weeks ago, I was hanging out with the other band of our practice room, drinking beer and talking pedals. The drummer of that band flew in from Finland and when we were discussing preamps he mentioned one of his other bands, back in Finland, and the...

The Hyper Hype is real. This is like the 3rd time I've built this PCB. (One was stock and got sold, the other one shares an enclosure with a Parentheses Mini aka Life Pedal.) For this one, I've added a clean blend, the octave on/off switch and the secret mode switch, which combines Fuzz I and...

I'm slowly going through my Moonn stuff (but next up will be something from here, I promise). This is the first version of the Wave Cannon (by Caroline). It's basically a RAT, so that's a good start, Caroline put a 2N5457 at the output and changed the filter section, it seems - but most...

Behold, the TURBOBOI 4000: another - quote - "noisy fucker" from Moonn. It's basically his Schwurbel into a delay. You might have seen the great, recent Ultra Schurbel build report (by @jcpst) with its gnarly sound file - pretty cool, innit? Now this one here is just one Schwurbel, but - and...

I saw this on dirtbox layout, I think, and although I'm not much of a boost guy, the circuit seemed to be interesting with its J201/Germanium topology. After populating the vero, I remembered that I had some "why not both" transistor PCB laying around, so I made the GE switchable (GT309B /...

I like Spaceman stuff and when they came out with the Charon, I was of course interested. Deadend FX traced it and came out with a PCB, but given the simplicity of the circuit, I decided to try it on vero. It's a 2 transistor NPN Siilicon / PNP Germanium fuzz, looks like an inverse Percolator...

To round off my recent DEFX trilogy, here comes the BLUR, a clone of the Adenture Audio Fuzz Peaks II. It's a Muff at heart, with a clean blend, 2 clipping options, Mids on a 3-way toggle and a feedback loop on a momentary footswitch (Peak). I replaced the resistor (R31) that defines the range...