Recent content by djmiyta

Echoing all the above. What an absolutely brutal sounding pedal

This is some sad news to hear I was gung ho from the vids to have one. Maybe my build IS what it's supposed to sound like. The vids do get crunchy mine not so much. Well there are plenty of other to build so I'll put this one away Any suggestions ? I'm always up for high gain crunch pedals and...

So glad some fellow builders chimed in. When I uploaded the layout I only had one thing on my mind, does the layout work. Wasn't thinking about the fact I didn't finish color coding traces and pot layouts. To be honest although its more work I don't mind wiring in the pots. and though it shows a...

3rd time on my first layout but ... this one when signal tracing was able to get signal on the output but when I plug my guitar in I get nothing. I use a tone generator off my computer out my headphones jack to the pedal under test. My pedal test rig has a built in audio probe that I use...

Since I suck at reading schematics I figured It'd help my understanding by doing my own layouts. This is my first one and I used DIYLC for the layout. I did the Horton Thexdrive a.k.a. Nutdriver O.D. using the schematic from the build doc. Came out bigger than I'd like but I just want to...

Wiring would the next likely suspect I assume. All values check out. Maybe the other IC is bad? It’s a small circuit so not a whole lot to go wrong. Maybe the layout is not good I did move a couple of things around. I’d love to get this working it’s a great sounding circuit. Hint Hint Mr...

Ahhhh thank you . We’ll take a compliment anyway we can.

I'll get some up as soon as I can . I mean my friend will get some up hopefully tonight. Thank you

i have not tried a buffer yet since I 'm using my test box to try the board out. I don't believe turning the guitar down stopped the squeal but I'll have to double check that. Does that happen to signify something in particular?

So you got this freind who put a Lo Baller together and barely had any effect , upon examination it was found a mylar cap was used in place of a tantalum same value wrong type That would be c3 470nf . Would this be the reason why there is no effect? Can an electrolytic be used in place of a...

Yes twisting turning and moving the wires changed nothing except minor pitch changes in the squeal And with the audio probe I am to probe until i come across a point where it's squealing then try to figure out what component and why? Basically how one would probe for anything else on a non...

Excellent thank you edit : wanted to come back and say i had a couple of tc1044scpa the one I had in the socket was a 1044cpaz. Swapping the cpaz for scpa definitely helped (quite a bit) but didn't eliminate the squeal 100% maybe reduced it by 50 %. Maybe I gotta try several different ones...

Is it possible to swap out a tc for an lt 1044? whats the difference between the two? I built a caline englishman and the squeel is really bad I took a stripboard layout and got rid of the jumpers and moved a component This pedal sounds great from what I hear between the squeals. I've read a...

Nice with a visual one can easily see there's barely any difference between them. That's really cool .Thanks for sharing that . Is this a screen shot of a / your O-scope or something similar? So when I realized I didn't have enough of the right value (47pf) but did have enough with a value...

Excellent that's what I like to hear. Ended up putting sockets in before I read your response. Thanks for taking a bit of your time to share. And I was not aware of what it was based off, interestingly the Metal Zone is a pedal I have 2 of. One is stock the other I did Wampler mods to, so that's...