Recent content by leadfoot

Shhhh... don't give away my secret on how I'll make sure people don't steal my pedals from my board!

Yep, @szukalski has done something like that with the attiny85 to handle the soft switching. I'd like to get there but I've got a few different scenarios of IO boards that I want to make to handle the different situations (standard pcbs, pcbs with voltage sensitive components, etc.). But I know...

Been working on getting 3d models working in KiCAD and decided to make a simple IO board. Now to see if I can fit @PedalBuilder 's fancy 9v limiting circuit into this with smd or if I'll have to go a little larger on the pcb to make it work.

Very cool!

I love the shirt but way too few grackles to be the HEBs near me.

Awesome build! I've built this as well and between the life pedal and hoof reaper, I really think the hoof reaper is a much more fun combo.

Yes, there are a wide variety of options in it. I managed to get everything from a clean boost to a typical big muff and a nice wooly fuzz from it.

I have to agree, I flipped a bunch of switches and then just landed on one setting that I liked the best. It's the illusion of choice!

The build was actually really easy but waiting for Tayda was hard. I went with a matte army green and the chunky knobs to make it feel like a Big Muff. I threw in some Russian NOS Ge transistors and Russian Ge diode as well. Overall it's a Big Muff with a wide range of "toans" as they say and it...

I ran across this page: https://note.com/good_sound_shop/n/n1b50c75cb41f (thank you to google translate) where they discuss trace width. The guidelines suggested for guitar pedals are: Audio trace width .25mm Power trace width .5mm Don't run power and audio traces in parallel to each other for...

Another simple tip for your KiCAD workflow is to pin your most used Symbol and Footprint libraries to the top of the selection list. You can do this by opening either the Symbol Editor or Footprint Editor and then on the left side where the libraries are listed, right click on the library name...

As a former W2W guy, I approve of the iconic Gulf Livery.

I really love the Clever Hans circuit. It's a blast to play.

I generally route in, out and power traces to their first connections and then will do the routing of everything myself. If I don't like the way I routed it, I just delete all the traces and try again, then finally, I'll do autoroute to see what it suggests. In the end, I do a mix of auto route...

I just finished going through the course and it's very good. His lessons on PCB faceplates is really good, even if his workflow doesn't totally follow mine. It's worth it.