What’s on *YOUR* workbench?

[Guardians of the analog]

With that testing rig, I would too! So nice. Do you have a custom PCB in the test rig or is it just p2p?

Not custom, it is a combination of things. Robert was working on one at one time. But I'd love for him to make a board for you guys

 

[Band of Dans]

Even after hundreds of builds I still rock every single board before I box it.

I’ve never been able to get those claw things to work! Are you using test points too or just the claw?

Edit: these kinds of test points, not the ones incorporated directly in the pcb

 

[Guardians of the analog]

I’ve never been able to get those claw things to work! Are you using test points too or just the claw?

Edit: these kinds of test points, not the ones incorporated directly in the pcb

I just grab em onto the hole in the pads, never been a problem for me. I've never bothered with those ring things.

 

[Gordo]

Your test rig looks better than most of my builds, but same deal: even with my janky test rig I always rock before boxing. I do need to up my rig game though.

 

[analog_bham]

Post in thread 'Missing Build Docs / Schematics'

May 15, 2026

The FUZZ REMAINS schematic is absent...

...Just sayin'.


I've started a visual trace from screen-grabs, as I don't have the PCB for a proper trace. May have to rectify that.

• Feral Feline

I have this pedal if you need better pics! Q1 and Q2 both BC549c.

 

[analog_bham]

Trying another vero board…. 78 op-amp muff.

 

[jimilee]

Even after hundreds of builds I still rock every single board before I box it.
View attachment 117280

 

[Guardians of the analog]

Your test rig looks better than most of my builds, but same deal: even with my janky test rig I always rock before boxing. I do need to up my rig game though.

Best thing I ever built. Mine was purpose built to be an all in one box. I've always hoped someone would make my test rig on one board for everyone. Everything you could ever want: oscillator, headphone jack, audio probe, voltage selector and added side DC jack for powering my looper pedal off one power supply when I'm calibrating something like an analog delay or other BBD pedals.

 

[Gordo]

Very slick

 

[analog_bham]

Best of thing I ever built. Mine was purpose built to be an all in one box. I've always hoped someone would make my test rig on one board for everyone. Everything you could ever want: oscillator, headphone jack, audio probe, voltage selector and added side DC jack for powering my looper pedal off one power supply when I'm calibrating something like an analog delay or other BBD pedals. View attachment 117331View attachment 117332

It’s glorious!!!

 

[Harry Klippton]

I'm gonna have to make a back panel for this

 

[CheapSuitG]

Absolutely nothing is on mine.

Got a new steel desk, it was NOT fun bringing it downstairs to the basement and will stay with the house when we move

 

[JohnnyCreepy]

Troubleshooted mates Vox VT30 quickly and changed a new dual pot for ”Power soak” control. Symptom was weird muffled sound with vol drop and OG soak pot resistance reading drifted like Twin turbo Supra. Now it blasts again.

Weirdest thing what gave me joy was I found finally use for arced NOS JA GE 12ax7wa. For fun I had an idea and tried the arced tubes in the VT30 ’s mockup tube PA circuit. Result was they all worked and sounded really good with the starved voltages the amp uses. Those tubes won’t work with real tube voltage anymore, but with low volts all seems good.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

It’s glorious!!!

Maybe I should change my SN to Test Rig is Glorious

 

[Feral Feline]

I have this pedal if you need better pics! Q1 and Q2 both BC549c.

Cheers Bham, thanks for the extra pics.

BC549C confirms what's in the build doc, is what ships as well.

Most of the screen shots taken from the Hello Sailor vid don't perfectly match the final PCB-layout, as the TONE is in a different spot in HS's prototype PCB.


I'm not the tracing whiz that Robert is, and others here are, so I may hit you up for some more photos and/or some continuity checks.
I'll shoot you a PM later, life has taken a busy turn here and tracing is on the back-burner for now.

 

[jimilee]

Best of thing I ever built. Mine was purpose built to be an all in one box. I've always hoped someone would make my test rig on one board for everyone. Everything you could ever want: oscillator, headphone jack, audio probe, voltage selector and added side DC jack for powering my looper pedal off one power supply when I'm calibrating something like an analog delay or other BBD pedals. View attachment 117331View attachment 117332

Nice!! That’s what I use as well. I don’t have the variable voltages, I have that on my power supply. It makes life so much easier.

 

[jimilee]

Very slick

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[jcpst]

It doesn’t have to be much of anything either. Some may laugh at how basic this is, but it still makes it easier to set up testing and probing.

 

[analog_bham]

Cheers Bham, thanks for the extra pics.

BC549C confirms what's in the build doc, is what ships as well.

Most of the screen shots taken from the Hello Sailor vid don't perfectly match the final PCB-layout, as the TONE is in a different spot in HS's prototype PCB.


I'm not the tracing whiz that Robert is, and others here are, so I may hit you up for some more photos and/or some continuity checks.
I'll shoot you a PM later, life has taken a busy turn here and tracing is on the back-burner for now.

I actually have two PCBs from him. Some of us who ordered early got a PCB with a horizontal tone pot that was the wrong board. When they noticed it, they sent us replacement parts and a new board with the vertical tone pot. My son and I built both of them.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

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I don't know if he's even still selling, and with them being in Canada if they are worth paying for extra shipping. I remember a few years back he said he was taking a new job