Recent content by Erik S

The EQD hype machine convinced me to build yet another muff. This one gave me some trouble. It worked right away, but (at least on bass) it was doing some weird sagging and sputtering that didn’t seem right to me. After the third re-boxing and a swap at Robert’s suggestion from 2n5089 to 2n3904...

Warranties are cool, and probably a good business practice. If you’re trying to make a name for yourself and start a real business where you’re charging real living wage money for your pedals, that makes sense to me. If you’re just looking to dump some excess builds and you’re competing with...

I do like that better! It still gets a tiny bit unruly at max sustain on bass but in a nice way to my ears. It doesn’t sound broken anymore. I’m a little worried that maybe it was cool before, and I just wasn’t cool enough to like it, but that’s a me problem.

I talked to my local music store about maybe putting a few pedals there in some kind of consignment arrangement. They said if someone returns a purchase and isn’t happy with it, they’re basically going to give them their money back, and I said I would be comfortable doing the same. If something...

Great page! I didn’t do very deep research, but I did find that site in a @Feral Feline post and skimmed it. Seems like if I want to stop taking shortcuts and put the time in, all the answers are there. I’ll give that a shot!

Thanks for those. Those were both good demos. Something I failed to mention was that I’ve mostly been testing the pedal on bass since that’s where I was hoping to use it. I did plug a guitar into it for a few seconds and it sounded much more normal.

Thanks! I’m hit or miss with my pcb cleaning, but I happened to clean that one pretty good. Still haven’t found anything obvious wrong with it. I have a second one of these boards. I might just build that out and see what it sounds like.

Well, who would have guessed that shotgun-replacing components with no evidence they’re bad wasn’t going to fix the problem?? Put it all back together and it still sounds weird. I think this is supposed to be one of those eqd circuits where they cloned somebody’s broken pedal that they...

Amazing. If (when) we get one of these double-muff boards I certainly hope somebody uses that.

Well, my tester says they’re all transistors, so none are totally broken I guess. hFE measurements: Q1 - 229 Q2 - 196 Q3 - 136 Q4 (2n5089) - 499 Those 2n3904s are probably on the low side of in spec if I’m reading the data sheet right, but I just tested a random handful of tayda ones and...

In honor of the big red big muff everyone’s talking about, I thought I’d throw this Liquid Crystal Fuzz together in a red box. Everything works, but it sounds bad. It’s doing some weird saggy, bloomy, sputtery stuff that I’m pretty sure isn’t right. I pulled it back out of the box and did a...

There's really nothing wrong with the lens. It just isn't what I'm used to. Once everything is soldered up and installed, the retention feature isn't important, and as a side benefit, it would be easier to take out of the box if I ever needed to. And I still think it looks sweet.

Good catch! I've bought lenses from you in the past (my favorite ones) because you also have some that are that nice deep red - and those do indeed have the grip feature. I just assumed these were also from you because they were in a clear (not pink) bag. After a little searching in my email...

I bought my first bass about a year ago. I haven't played it a ton, but of course as soon as I got it I started making a list of bass related pedals to add to the build list. This one seemed to get some good reviews from the actual bass players, so onto the list it went. When I first plugged it...

Nice job as always! Didn’t convince me to get a supreaux, but you might have sold me on Wingspan.