Recent content by HamishR

Try it. What's the worst that will happen? My guess is that it will work fine. :)

As for the volume thing you could try using an A100K volume pot. Volume pots should almost always be an audio taper. Chuck says so.

And Chuck you are so right about using a Treble Booster with this. They go together so well. I'm using a GPCB Beano (one of your recommendations) with it and the tones seem to mesh perfectly.

Damn - it doesn't seem that long ago that these things were everywhere but looking at the pics it looks so ancient!

I guess the difficulty is that as soon as we say Marshall everyone is going to have a different idea of what that sound is! And these days there are a LOT of players who have likely never played the kind of Marshalls which are regarded as "the Marshall sound". I suspect it would be a minority of...

Thank you for your attention to this matter!!

Effects loops often cause trouble if they rely on shorting jacks. Fortunately it's usually a simple matter to get them working again. I hopes that's what the problem is. Grit or oxidation can affect the shorting part of the jack and simply cleaning it will fix the problem. Worst case scenario is...

The electrolytic caps I use these days are SMD caps. You gently pry the little black plastic base off and then you have two little legs to solder to the Vero. I learnt this trick on this very site. Tayda sell some but I get mine mostly from Mouser. I like them because they're tiny. The legs...

I think you're being a bit hard on yourself - that looks great! There are a few tricks I use to make things look as neat as possible and you're already doing most of them! Running wires along the corners of the enclosure is a good way to keep them straight and quiet. I like to place the board...

I don't have any trouble finding the pots I want at Tayda. Yeah the cataloging is not ideal but it's not that bad IME. The only thing I have trouble finding is 1µF Wimas! But recently I couldn't find the Alpha C25K 16mm pots I have always got from Mouser anywhere on their site. And their "help"...

Tayda is easy peasy compared to Mouser!

The way I approach things like this is work out what I want to achieve. Do I want to understand electronics? If so, to what end? Do I just want to design/build pedals which suit me? For me understanding electronics is secondary to making pedals which get me where I want to go. I have read a...

PedalPCB make an excellent PCB for it!

I've built this before on a PedalPCB board but can't seem to find it anywhere! It's possible that I have lent it to someone and never got it back - I think that happens more than I realise! So I wondered how easy it would be to lay out on Vero. The usual places to look for Vero layouts had some...

My son is Perth through and through and he loves the football. I like the footy, especially when Freo are doing well (like now) but usually find watching on TV too stressful. Strangely enough I'm fine if I'm at the game. My Dad was super into footy, being Victorian. I lived in Canberra for a...