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Okay @vigilante398 and everyone else, I need to preface this post by pointing out that I am posting build pics for you guys to examine (I know it's the first thing requested for troubleshooting, always) but you guys are going to find them to be an absolutely crazy-looking jumbled, inexplicable...

So I’m making the Golden Falk, and I unexpectedly ran out of traditional J201s as I was getting started. BUT I happened to have a bunch of the @PedalPCB SMD ones that I haven’t tried yet…okay! So, can you guys take a look at the placement of the J201 on the right in the photo below (I have NOT...

Yeah everyone is going nuts about this one I’m excited! And intrigued…all those transistors and zero ICs…very unique for a BSIAB….

Nevermind…the build specs say ceramic for everything, but then the appropriate ones DO say film right next door in notes. Semitypo. Can’t figure out how to delete posts on mobile, derp. @Robert you can zap this post.

Oh hey sorry if this got mentioned before but I just noticed (as I was starting the build) that the Rock Star Distortion needs a build doc. I can git-r-dun from the PCB silkscreening it’s a simple build but those new to the craft may want it.

Aion was actually the specific PCB maker I was referring to earlier when I'd said I'd seen others' builds that omit the ground on the output. Thanks for the educational link! His article on sourcing good parts and the method behind it was super-helpful to me early on.

...and that input jack ground wire would connect to ground...where...?...

Okay so it IS a very simple circuit...but here is where I am a dumbass: I'm building this as a separate circuit, in a separate enclosure...it's not permanently piggybacking onto another pedal. SO, I see the pads for power (+) and (-), and one pad each for input/output. But what about the...

@Robert Not sure if this had been mentioned yet but I just got a new unicab in the mail from ya today and the pcb looks EXTREMELY different from the build doc. I’m just gonna go off the silkscreening.

For me it’s seeing my cohorts with DSP floorboards watching helplessly as their rigs reboot in the middle of a show because of a club power issue. I’m building the bulletproof as close to fully analog and solid state as possible rig.

Not enough metalhead love over here sometimes, obviously ;-)

Gonna give us any hints about your mods ;-)???

Just jumping on this post in case something happens some day. You had me at 350 components.

Okay, Yoda.

…so those photos I posted earlier are from a Cetus build that I literally just finished and tried out a half hour ago…man, that thing sounds pretty f$&in’ good! I’m hijacking my own thread here with a hard seguay into a different topic, but @Robert I was wondering if you could tell me a bit...

I feel I’ve suddenly fallen into an inside joke hole.

Here’s an even more extravagant flaunting… …how dare you, sir? How dare you?

SOMETIMES? I’d say that’s his mission in life! I didn’t think about though. The symmetry obsession and the “if there’s room why not do it?” Factor. This was the one that was making me scratch my head today… …I was wondering why one would need a big ol’ honkin’ cap in such a low value.

I feel like I should know this already, 2 years into this obsession… On most pedalpcb build documentation—or even if not, it can be inferred by the size of the component outline silkscreened onto the actual PCB—there is indication of whether one should use a 7mm x 2mm film cap, or the bigger...

Quick little note on the Kickstart push button if anyone's still interested, as I just today finished this build: these flimsy little guys seem to be really easy to destroy. First one I installed literally worked once before the physical guts with the springs and the contact points inside just...