Recent content by thomasbe86

Yup, I can confirm that, I solder them on the board and mixed up with alphas there's always a tilt, I decided to embrace it and tell people this has a great influence on the sound, warmer, more dynamic, more (insert your sales keyword here)..

all at max, triangle in pink, ram's head in green, civil war in blue, green russian in orange. I'd go for ram's head and triangle just because I have never built any 😅

Tayda all day long 🤘

You should check out the diode comparison that @thomasbe86 put together. Suffice to say, the difference between the 1S1588/1N4148/1N914 probably won't be noticeable: Thanks @PedalBuilder ! I put the data in a more user friendly interface here easier to search, filter, etc. Oh and I added the...

Tube screamer was my first ever attempt, and second, and third,... Back in around 2004, a friend and I spent about 8 hours to put one together on vero board.. so excited to test the result, plugged it in, no sound, started to smoke here and there.. Had forgotten to clip the leads of every...

That is definitely the kind of haunting smell that I hate, a reminder of all my failed attempts...

That is EXACTLY the kind of thing that can hold me back! Sometimes I really start to question myself if I don't give up on these things, it really feels cursed, like no matter how simple, I will not make it work!

I love you guys but I do feel a little better knowing I am not alone :) It is a mid thing, like MF1 of the Amek Mozart MZ15-RN, just keep making silly mistakes like powering it up with 18v with 6.3v rated caps was the last straw today... WLCSP is way to small for my aging eyes, any good...

Hehe, nope, by law in Switzerland you need your business address way too visible on your website, so it is public 😉 My legal expert (wife) reminded me that I am not allowed to post full schematics though 😅 Anyways, point being, what is your nemesis project?

What is the one circuit that you have been working for way too long and keep failing at delivering what it should? I had planned to release this new model for black friday, and again, for the 20th times in 20 years, I made silly mistakes with the prototype and it sounds absolutely nothing like...

I would add that your potentiometer should be 50k, so at minimum it would be unity, anything above adds gain. or you would need to swap the resistor in the negative feedbakc loop to 500k. Have a look at how gain is calculated here: https://fr.farnell.com/op-amp-gain-calculator

Anyone who owns a rubberneck is entitled to my utter respect! This pedal is such a jewel of engineering... To build you could have fun with an octave down in the feedback loop of the delay, maybe the boss OC2, I think it's a pretty straight forward one. If you're planning to play around, the...

Hehe, what I meant is a sine wave, one frequency only. What do you run transient analysis?

What voltage and frequency make the most sense for guitar? I always see people using something like 440 Hz or 1 kHz, and around 200 mV peak for loud single coils or light humbuckers. I’m curious what you consider “realistic” when you run clipping sims. I’m working on an interactive tool to...

Perfect match I must say! The Feral Sludge Hammer for the next HM2 build 😂