Recent content by micmac

Hi all, Here's a vero layout for this rock machine. Thanks for sharing the mods to CB! I checked the voltages in my build and they look good. It also passed the IDSS check that is described in the Boneyard thread. It was a fun and rewarding build! Great sounding overdrive. All the best...

Actually, 100p is barely noticeable, even cranked. I sort of liked 330p. But I play Volume high and Drive at 9 o'clock, so that's why. But I mean I just put a socket, it's not baked it. Can be changed to taste.

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Actually, let me add one more thing. I was also playing with status LED switching on the breadboard, because I had seen people add a cap sort of into the LED resistor, like here for instance. So I tried it out, but I could still hear the switch action. Then I had this idea to do the switching...

Hi all, Fan of the SD-1 here. I built the PedalPCB Oddity and am actually liking it a lot. Sure, no tone pot, but the way it's set is fine. It's tight (Tuco from Breaking Bad comes to mind). And one less knob to worry about. After I built the Oddity I put the circuit on a bread board. I...

Hi! Maybe audioprobe the board to find out which part produces the ticking? Last weekend I put something on the breadboard and it worked fine alone. But when I connected another pedal to it it went crazy making a loud popping noise. Turned out it was something stupid, I had connected the output...

Hey Robert, surely the Rigel is not a complete clone of the Ceres. It's way smaller and only has one channel. I watched some YT vids some time ago, where people demoed the Rigel, and IIRC somebody said it's a clone of one of the Ceres channels, prolly the high gain channel.

Sounds pretty good, but I'm not a fan of the Treble control. At 12 o'clock it sounds sort of like the Big Muff Treble at fully CW :) But when you put Treble a little lower it starts sounding good. Only tried in front of an amp, though, didn't try FX return. Construction is pretty solid. I see...

Hi all, Chuck's breadboard thread is here. This is a vero layout of his version 0.1.1. - I added two 100nF ceramics for a bit of extra power filtering, leave them out if you want. The space was available so I added them. - In Chuck's schematic the CLR is connected behind the polarity...

I have to respectfully disagree. :D There's no audible propagation and no charge pump whine. I'm putting 470nFs by default around charge pumps for quite a while now and haven't had an issue since. After seeing what aion did I also found this post, which to my understanding says the same thing.

In my experience there's no problem with charge pumps when you put them like aion did in the Ember and the Straylight. Just add 470nF MLCC from the input and the output(s) to ground.

Can both sides of the LM13700 be used like in later revisions of the engineer's thumb for even better performance? And can one maybe even use one or even both buffers of it for any extra benefit? Thanks for sharing this btw, I heard about the Black Finger a couple of times now, going to try it...

Thanks everybody!

I'd like to know, too!

The source is normally pointing down and the drain is pointing up in a schematic. And when the gate arrow is pointing towards another leg and not in the middle, like in the pic above, it's always pointing to the source.