Recent content by coachseeley

Greetings, Has anyone done any "diode rolling" in their Paragon (Mini)? I have a pedal wizard acquaintance who says to try IR LEDs in the hard clipping section. I very much enjoy asymmetrical clipping and put in diodes to give me a bit of that. IN 1 side has all BAS33 IN 2 side has BAS33 in...

This is typically how I wire all my pedals. Still just a paint by number guy, but I've done probably 50+ pedals, and I don't usually run into noise like this. Even the production pedals I've taken the lid off of didn't use shielded wire. Would you suggest that wire for higher gain pedals...

Thanks for your answer. I think I’ll let a couple others chime in, and I agree with you about the “manageable” part. Thanks again.

Alright... I admit I bought a 10-pack of J201s off of Amazon. With the Umble circuit, I'm getting quite a bit of noise when the pedal is engaged. Honestly, could this be due to the quality of (or lack of) the J201s or is the noise just the nature of that higher gain circuit? Thanks.

I just put the board up to it, and I think it will work great. Thanks!

Appreciate that. I looked at two 5-knob JHS pedals, but it seems the vertical spacing is different.

Afternoon all... Does anyone have a drill template for the Umble circuit? I'm in the enclosure design phase, and I'd like to have something to work off of. Thanks.

I think I simply replaced the 1054 chip. Trying to remember if it was anything more than that…

Well that sounds easy. I’ll have to test that out.

I’m mid-level at best when it comes to pedal building… That being said, does anyone know if the Argentum 1212 is true bypass? I don’t know if there’s a way to tell from the schematic. I did an A/B comparison between it and the Guardian project - and when the bypassed Argentum is in my signal...

Morning, I just finished the "new revision" of the Simulcast. The pedal functions, but there seems to be absolutely no clipping whatsoever. I have successfully built 3 of the Duocasters (they sound great!), and was hoping to save some real estate on my board by switching to a Simulcast. When...

After populating everything, biasing all jfets to 9V, and testing outside of an enclosure... I too also felt the pedal was a little week in gain and overall dB. I tried 3 different J201 (measuring a little higher on my cheap meter) and I could get any of them biased to 9V. Swapped out with 3...

I genuinely gave effort in searching previous posts, but could not find any without being further confused. I have a customer asking for "soft bypass" switches in his requested pedal. I am not sure which relay board I need or which switch either. Other searching tells me to use "momentary...

I ended up using an orange diffused LED with the 5516 (recommended for the Pendulum). I covered it with electrical tape and it sounds fantastic not even being boxed up. Now I can sell two pedals and replace it with this one! Thanks for all of the wisdom folks.

It's been probably 4-5 years, but for what it's worth... I had the darnedest time with my Luna build. Ended up having to take it to a pedal wizard friend of mine and he tested and ended up using a different vactrol and something else. Sounds great, but I have no idea what he used. That being...