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That looks insanely good! Great work 😍

Sweet looking build, @jimilee

Sweet looking build, John!

Impressive looking build right there 🤘🤘

These are Philips MKT capacitors, 5mm pitch, but I “adjusted” the legs with a plier to make if fit the e-cap spacing. I think I bought the 1uf from eBay!

What a fckn pedal to dial in. Soldered every component without a socket, but the damn CD4047 was dead 🫠. A few hours of head scratching and cursing and I got a nice sounding analog delay. I need to say it is pretty bright for a BBD pedal.

For diodes, resistors a and transistors I do exactly this, do the “blob” method or sometimes I heat both sides quickly (with just one soldering iron) to make a component sit straight. For opamps and such I go with the hot air tool.

Thanks man! I was never really pleased by any of the logos I used before that one ✌️

I’m really glad you liked the video! Almost everything I know about pedal building, I learned on the internet, mostly from reading on forums and I learn a lot around here, on top of being inspired by so many beautiful builds and creative and knowledgeable people around here, so I feel it’s time...

I always see people commenting around the forum that soldering SMD jfets is hard and frustrating. The truth is that it is really easy and quick, it just takes some practice. This is how I do it: The Brazilian accent is because I’m Brazilian

Spot on! Higher HFE on Q2 also makes the germanium FF clean up more gradually and don’t get that glassy cleans (and I personally prefer the more gradual cleanup)

Your blog Is a really awesome resource! One thing that is cool to add (and is really important on how the Zonk will be voiced) is the internal capacitando of the transistors used. After more than 30 Zonk Builds I have concluded that, specially for q1, the selection isn’t really paint by numbers...

Killer build as always, mate! Glad to see you back at full power with the builds

Looks great, very clean build! And I gotta tell you, the build using just carbon film resistors gave me REALLY nostalgic vibes, from when pedal building was based on etching your own PCBs, you could buy thru hole J201 for cents. Cool times!

Looks beautiful!