Recent content by leadfoot

Yeah, there is some drop. This article from RG Keen http://geofex.com/Article_Folders/mosswitch/mosswitch.htm is where I'd first seen it mentioned (using.a MOSFET instead of a diode). I don't see why you couldn't use a vp2106 or even something like a irf9540npbf I'd you're going to push a ton...

The goal of the power section is to get clean (for some definition of clean) DC power to your effect circuit as efficiently as possible and prevent damage to the effect if you plug in the wrong polarity. As long as your design does that you're golden. Personally, I'm a fan of power sections...

Great builds! I built 141G recently and really liked it too. How much auditioning of parts did you have to do with the Driving Notion? I'd love to see DEFX trace Infanem's Faye Sing A.. it's my white whale circuit.

I'm with you 100% on this. I ended up just fabbing some PCBs that match up to his kits DC and Boss slim line jack board and bought a bunch of premade jst connectors to speed up the build process and lessen my annoyance.

I've been using this mat from Amazon for about a year and it doesn't appear to be building up any static electricity from what I can tell. I've built almost all my boards on it and they've all worked.for me, but YMMV. https://a.co/d/0X7DWmG

Sorry for bumping this back up to the top but did you ever figure out your issue? I'm having the same problem and thinking its an IC issue.

I've found DHL to be the most reliable in central Texas. UPS and FedEx always seem to lose or misplaced an item I order or it shows up late at night where DHL shows up around lunch time all the time. Plus, Tayda sets their shipping rate to 99 cents for them quite often -- but I generally wait...

I had a few PCBs for a SeppukuFX Fuzz Overloader sitting around and some spare parts too. My middle daughter wanted to learn to solder, so I figured this is a great board to use since the part count is small and the layout is pretty simple. The soldering was really good for an 8 year old too. I...

I just built this recently and it's a great pedal. I really don't think you can go wrong with any of their pedals.

I'm close to the same when it comes to building pedals, I use a notes program to keep track of what I liked about a pedal or disliked about building it. As far as actually keeping track of settings, once I dial something in I'll take a picture of it with my phone and push it to the cloud. So if...

Continuing on my backlog of Dead End FX PCBs, here's Sprocket, Spaceman Effects Space Rocket I clone. Taking my learnings from the previous pedals, I adjusted the level at which I placed the knobs and gave myself enough clearance to have all top inputs. I had to make some small adjustments on...

So, after finishing Trahald, I figured I should finish the big brother: Gollum. Much like the Trahald, this build went together pretty quickly. I went with all top jacks, which maybe wasn't the best idea. I should have given a little more space up top for the first row of knobs which would have...

This build came together really quickly. It appears to be lacking the 3rd voicing that exists in the original pedal (which I assume bypasses the voicings) however, that isn't a big deal since only one of the voicings really tickles my fancy. There were a few time-consuming parts: finding...

I'm a huge fan of the FZ-1 circuit and had this breadboarded for a few months playing with all the transistors until committing it to a pcb. I used SFT-353s from Amplified Parts for the Q1-Q3 and they ranged in hfe from 80ish to 115. The build went really quickly and really had no issues...

It's an AI generated image of Indrid Cold aka The Grinning Man. Playing off the name of Space Fuzz :). Although, the similarities are quite uncanny with Kenneth Copeland in more ways that one...