Recent content by Caldo71

Roger that...thank you!

Good to know. Time to use that shitload of caps that didn't pass muster on cranking out some janky-ass pedals that actually sound exactly the same as my "boutique" builds.

@spi that's really the beginning and end of it? They're just cheaper?

LOL I'm sure you're right! I've always been a bit fearful of NOT cherrypicking my components as being very close to the stated build doc values, in the two or so years I've been into this hobby. But man, I've just never been sure how much a cap being like 5 or ten k high or low really matters...

After the earlier conversation on this thread I decided to built another Golden Falk using nothing but MLCCs...and yeah it sounds bitchin'. Question: is there a "tone reason" why a pedal designer would choose almost entirely ceramics for a pedal that's trying to imitate a Plexi (or any other...

Hey Folks, So I bought a few Simple Jfet Buffer SMD version PCBs, and I wanted to mess around with putting one into the tiniest possible Hammond enclosure and making just a basic little utility pedal for use in troubleshooting or wherever it's needed in someones signal chain. This represents a...

Okay so @szukalski it's as simple as: if I touch the first probe of the DMM to one of the pads, and then whichever pad I touch next with the other probe that eventually give me the "beeep" that continuity will for sure be the "closing of the loop" that I'm after? Keep going with that method...

Oh haha @spi here's how stupid I am: I make these things without footswitches - they go into rack enclosures, are wired with a jumper to be "always on", and are instead turned on/off with a looper in my way of using 'em - and so, not needing to wire in the footswitch etc, I never ever print out...

Hey @Robert so there are all these unmarked pads on the Valhalla PCB, and they're not listed or mentioned on the build doc either, so I'm not sure what to do. PCB photo with "mystery pads" circled and numbered is at the bottom of this post, referred to number-by-number in the following: These...

Just built one, works perfectly. One question, though: wasn’t there some talk on the forum here somewhere about having phase switches on this?

So I re-flowed all my solder joints as-suggested and also replaced the two 100u electros as-suggested by @Drayve85 and IT WORKED!!! Played it for 20 mins with no degradation! Gotta tell ya, thus far have not had nearly enough of these success stories of curing a broken circuit since I began...

Nope it’s all solid state stuff.

Yeah my voltages are right on the money. Hey @Drayve85 is there any particular reason to suspect an electro versus a “regular” metal film cap as the culprit, to the best of your knowledge? Obviously those are easier to desolder so it’s a tempting answer.

Hey guys, so… I have this Golden Falk that I built, and it sounds great…FRIGHTENLY like a real Plexi…but it has this funny specific issue: It sounds perfect for about seven minutes of play through, and then this random crackling noise starts slowly entering the sonic landscape….first very...

You have no idea how relevant this is to my struggle right now. Having just attempted and spent many hours on the bench and in their forum only to ultimately fail in getting the infamous GuitarPCB Paramix to actually work...well, it'll be nice to build a circuit that I know is intelligently...