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Hey guys, just to report back. I largely followed Nathan's advice and ordered my first tube pcbs from jlcpcb. It arrived petty quickly...

30mil trace width is very large for a board of any complexity and it's going to get crowded fast. 16mils is plenty of space to avoid...

It can't be done. Tubes don't belong in pedals.

This is all your fault Robert... ... the poor Pelycosaur looks shocked and scandalized at the revelation... I'll probably add some...

Going to have to make some of these up... ... and I already have a cheeky take on my standard dinosaur for this one... :D

This is apparently how the Shamrock mod has always worked and.... is the inspiration behind the naming of the WDJD toggle switch...

That specific diode simply adds another 0.38V of Fvd to the clipping elements at that position. A 1N4148 (there is no 1N1418 diode) will...

I have this feeling that if Boss pedal enclosures were available blank, they'd be the dominant DIY pedal format.

This was a Boss Metal Zone that I stripped and modded for True Bypass switching which will be housing a PedalPCB designed Board. Alpha...

I'm not so sure it doesn't have a gain control (this is frankly why I find this build so confusing to calibrate - the "names" of the...

It's a pot with a transparent shaft. You can mount an LED underneath...

A SOIC-8 adapter for your EEPROM programmer might be the easier way to go. (assuming that's a SOIC-8 footprint)...

I've used this and a few other of their products with excellent results...

Updated with one last photo at the bottom of post #1... :D Once I had several pedals under my belt, I decided I wanted to try my hand...

I ordered a batch of my boards and I used the wrong foot print for one of the IC's. I am reordering boards, but want to use these still...