Recent content by Hetari Gotoh

The Obsidius is a lovely board with tightly packed components where the layout is sensible, logical, oh, symmetrical, practical. It did result in a build where I could be so detestable, oh, canonical, oh, unoriginal, typical. 🎵 There were only two moments where the zen flow was interrupted...

The Amazon Chinese Brand Name Generator The brand of the 24awg silicone stranded wire I've been using is "Haerkn", which sounds like someone hocking up phlegm. Apart from that, the wire is nice and I agree with falco_femoralis.

Thanks a lot, I was a little overzealous in my search for the shortest paths. I think I understand the logic behind this "rule". I will try to keep the same orientation next time.

After finding about this fine bunch of components and spending some time in the boneyard I decided to try designing my own pcb. Armed with EasyEDA and the schematic from the Voodoo Woman thread I tried applying some guidelines I found on the forum while copying the familiar PedalPCB 3-knob...

I remember reading in some other thread that the forward voltage of germanium diodes rises with temperature, resulting in less clipping and some say "duller tone", but the effect is not that dramatic in real world applications. And that on the other hand, Germanium transistors in your pedal will...

It took a while but I finally got to building the Bass Klon Feral Feline suggested in my first build report. I didn't have a Kliché Mini so I tried the recipe on a Refractor board. No particular problem fitting the new values on it, except for C3 and C7 that required some vaseline. For C9 I...

LOL, there's still the full size Pro-10 for that! Speaking of which, I still haven't tried the blue and green together. Which is something any guitarist would have done first and foremost, whereas the first thing I did with it was trying it on bass, for some reason. 😶

In a broader sense, everyone here is an oldfag. Which is why this place is great in every season, including summer. It's an old style forum where people share a niche interest that naturally repels the malignancy that killed the rest of the web. 🥲

Thanks, I'll go with something like this for general use then and an orbital sander with ceramic discs for electrolytic cap ground pads.

Thank you, so far I have tried with magic sponge + isopropyl alcohol, some extra RMA flux and +20°C and all I have obtained is my ground pads collectively farting a mocking tune in response to my efforts (plus microplastics from the magic sponge and flux everywhere).

After a long break due to assorted horrors, the blasphemy continues with the companion to the Pro-10 blue I previously gave unlife to. Thanks to a year of randomly assembling pedals I can now look at a schematic and recognize a few basic elements, but more importantly, I can get shamanic...

More like twenty-fifth build. Had I attempted this as my second, this post would have been in the troubleshooting section. Perhaps I've gotten slightly better at assembling pedals, but my communication skills and my english are getting worse. Thank you so much anyway. 😄

This is actually my first graphic "design" and the second pedal I decided to build at the beginning of my journey, but I knew I needed some experience before tackling it. I used a 500K gain pot with 470K resistors between pin 1 and 3 and SMD J201 on adapter boards. It wasn't strictly necessary...

Splendid job. I love the coherence of the whole design and the purple indicator + gold aluminum in particular.