Recent content by Grubb

I'm often doing that, or using AI to generate enclosure art.

Even if you don't get it fabbed, it's good practice and fun to do. Your layout is really nice and clean. And symmetrical, which shouldn't really matter, but does to me. In turn, I stole the background colour idea from some Pirate Midi product shots. Coral goes so nicely with black.

It's not lost on me that some of my tweaks to the circuit came from the datasheet too. I wouldn't then claim that my variant of this circuit is designed to sound like an obscure and expensive amplifier. It's the exaggerated claims when all they've done is configure the part according to the...

Yeah I built a reverb into an amp project I made for my kids, and learned that J Rockett were selling a reverb pedal that is 100% datasheet haha

I've been on a bit of a tear with PCB design lately. This one is a result of playing around with the El Sol/Acapulco schematic. I found something reasonably funny while looking through LM386 datasheets, namely that the Acapulco Gold - famed pedal "based on the sound of a cranked Sunn Model T" -...

The Skewer fuzz: what you get when you combine a Meathead and a Doomstick II. (Meat + stick = skewer). I thought I would squeeze two one-knob fuzzes into a 125B and have them on a switch. I decided against 2 footswitches as I don't like 2 in this size enclosure. Using an on-on-on switch allows...

It's nice to see this thread still kicking at 10 pages. Obviously a lot of interest in taking DIY to the next step. Here's what I've been working on: It's a modified Life/Parentheses. I've recently fallen in love with this circuit, after realising how nicely it can be used as a dirty octave...

I was thinking about a potential mod to this circuit, where the Scooped and Full paths could arrive at a pot for blending, rather than at a switch for toggling. Would it work the way I am imagining if the Scooped path went R26 to lug 3 of a pot, Full went R27 to lug 1, and lug 2 connected to...

With the MMBFJ201, that's almost certainly the main driver of availability at the moment. A lot of manufacturers still have a backlog to work through from that period of time. The MMBF5457 is a different kettle of fish, once we use up whatever finite stockpiles we have, those are gone. I should...

If we look at parts availability data, we know that these parts exist in far smaller quantities than they have in the past. The reason I started thinking about this at all is this graph of MMBFJ201s from last year: The MMBFJ201s haven't been discontinued yet and are occasionally restocked...

Recently I've been messing around with the HM2 circuit and throwing around different design ideas. During that process, I've noticed that the stock of common SMD JFETs is seriously dwindling in the usual places I look. I know someone somewhere will have a stash of them - getting my hands on a...

Nice. I built a pedal that switches between Mach 1 and Southern Belle modes and used a TL072 for that. I have no complaints about it at all in place of the OPA2134. Tidy build here, I like the artwork.

I only have good things to say about them. I went from free IRs to York ones and my tone improved a lot. I have the Deluxe Reverb set, the AC30, a Friedman for hot Marshall tones, and a Mesa OS for the heavy stuff. Thinking of adding a Peavey 5150 cab to add a tighter sound than the Mesa.

I used my Fender Player Tele for all of the tracks. The rhythm parts were the Tele's middle position, through the low-gain mode of the Australis, into separate clean AC30 and Deluxe Reverb patches, using York Audio IRs for the cabinet sounds, and hard panned. The lead was the bridge pickup, with...

Recorded a demo this evening. Would love some feedback.