Brett

When I saw that the JHS Crayon PCB was finished, I decided to abstain from buying it until I finish all the pedal projects I’ve started...

Relay coils are solenoids and throw a wide magnetic field. Many Wah inductors are pot cores, which should provide good shielding. No...

I haven't used the high-sensitivity type yet, but I do have an unfinished bypass design (based on one of Chuck's designs) where a high...

It's probably safe to assume that when you're switching contacts at half the current (36mA vs. 72mA) with the high-sensitivity type...

Just for the record... I had used a similar circuit in the vicinity of a coil in the audio path (a wah). Using an OMRON G5V-2 seemed to...

And unfortunately I could walk into Guitar Centre, pick up a random guitar, plug into a random amp, turn a few knobs and sound like me.

Yeah, good question. It's amazing how many pedals claim to "nail the Jimmy Page tone" as if Jimmy only had one tone. He didn't always...

I noticed that all of those relay bypass circuits uses a shottky diode in parallel to the relay coil to tame the kickback voltage...

It's true that the time to unload the energy stored in an inductor, in this case the relay coil, is inversely proportional to the coil...

If you thought the parts to PCB ratio was off......

What's on the workbench? A lot.... It always makes my day when prototypes and parts show up at the same time... Let's build some...

This is a tough pedal. It is tough due to the enclosure and fitting the circuit. Here are some tips that I learned- 1. Dry fit as much...

It may be difficult to find something that large in a low profile (<7mm height) at the voltages you need. I can think of a couple...