Recent content by fancypete

I love how if you look at the time stamps on my posts, each revelation took almost exactly half an hour :)

Nevermind, I'm wrong. I just discovered that NPNs come in different pinouts. Disregard or delete my post.

Do the numbers on the schematic refer to the pins, or do I just go by the symbol for CBE?

I'm bread boarding the Triad fuzz and the schematic calls for BC548As in Q1-Q3. The pinout is labelled backwards I think. Can someone confirm this? Thanks.

Cool stuff. Looking forward to trying this out.

Off topic but I've never used lead free solder. Why would you use it, and why would you need a different tip?

I know I'm late to the party but I had a similar experience with the green LEDs from Tayda. Very dim indeed. I ended up using some red LEDs since they were brighter and the LDRs I had were sensitive in that wavelength. The pedal sounds great, but I'm always wondering "what if?" The problem...

The pots were the issue. I found that they were a little askew going through the holes I drilled. When I tightened them down they flexed on the board and were shorting with other components/traces. I put some electrical tape down, and loosened the nuts on the pots a little. Voila: fuzzy...

I used "Model Master" enamel top coat. They sell it at my local D&D hobby shop for the little figurines. It works great if you do two or three light coats at room temp. If you spray too thick it gets crackled looking. But it gets fully hardened in a couple hours. I got impatient on one...

Well I took the Plecostomus fuzz that I tested on my protoboard and made a layout using DIYLC. It was a super fun puzzle experience. I decided to make it challenging by fitting it all onto a 17x19 piece of strip board. After about a day of doing the layout ( I finally surrendered and just...

The amentum is fire. Hasn't left my board since I built it. I would love to hear it on bass though. It adds a ton of presence on guitar. Maybe google EQD Arrows bass demo?

I had the same issue with weak octave on mine. I did not use diodes with matched forward voltage. Does anyone know if that makes a difference as far as the octave performance in this circuit? No high pitched noise on mine though.

Two things here: built the ProtoBoard, and my first successful circuit on a breadboard. Wasn't as hard as I thought, but it's a fairly simple circuit. Sounds very nice. Sorry for the crappy pic, but it's just a humble brag post anyway. Thanks to everyone who answered my questions about...

Love the demo. I need to try more of my pedals on bass.

I like how you mounted it on a cutting board. Where did you get those nice plastic clips?