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Ah, I misunderstood your previous post. I thought you were saying that pours for power or ground were bad. But it sounds like you were just saying power, or power and ground together. I had just enough room for the LED and resistor in the corner, so I've added those back in. Thanks for the...

Artwork and design is great and the 10mm LED is very cool. I might need to look into those!

Thanks so much, @Brett, your advice was really helpful! I finally got a chance to rework everything based on what you said. I figured I'd keep the separate schematic sheets since it seems like a good habit for larger circuits. I added values to the schematic (for the standard Meathead variant)...

I really like this pedal. It's literally 3 pedals stuck together. You can start with the documentation for the Hoof (the muff pedal), and Tentacle (the octave fuzz). The last pedal is the Tone Reaper, but the documentation for that seems to be down on the EQD website. There's also the overall...

Well, I'll be damned. I thought I had just bought cheap bits and abused them, rather than thinking they'd built up aluminum scraps... No microscope necessary! It looked like the edge of the steps was "smearing" out (this was after 40 pedals). I assumed because the temperature was causing the...

This is my build report for the Carcass Fuzz, based on the DOD Carcosa Fuzz. This pedal was recommended on the forum and on Reddit on a bunch of threads. This was an early build for me, but took a long time to actually complete. Inspiration With a name like Carcass (and The King in Yellow)...

Thanks, @Brett! I've adjusted the traces for the footswitch to be .3mm (they were .2). I've got a follow-up question for y'all - you seem like wizards here. I'm working on translating a simple board from Effects Layouts (the One Knobber - which supports various versions of a DAM Meathead). I've...

I was wondering if I can get a second set of eyes on my first KiCad project - a basic footswitch breakout. I had to make the symbols and footprints myself (based off some MadBeans libraries), so it seems like there's a lot that could have gone wrong. I wanted the following features that I...

This is my build report for the General Tso's compressor, based on the Thorpy Fat General. This pedal was widely recommended across the forum on multiple threads, and I hadn't previously built a compressor, so I figured "why not?". It's a good pedal, but as a compressor that I like on my...

Well, I suppose both could be fat :). But I can see how it's confusing! Glad the pedal's looking professional. I think it's kinda tricky to really get a professional appearance when you're not designing in a minimalist style.

This is my build report on the Sugarbag, a version of the Beetronics Fat Bee overdrive. I decided to build this pedal after seeing some recommendations. I previously built the Dirt Dauber (Whoctahell) and like the sound of that, so I was also interested in a second Beetronics pedal. I'd highly...

Looks great! Are those enclosures etched?

@temol I tried your process on the V2 board and it worked - the only difference is that the sag knob must be CW. As @Locrian99 said, it's counterintuitive that the so-called sag knob is actually the inverse: turning CW decreases sag but increases voltage (as measured at pin 1 of the sag knob on...

For what it's worth, I'm seeing the same problem. With gain and volume maxed, and sag fully CCW, and grounding my DMM against the DC jack's ground, I only get 4-4.8v, and the volume is very low at max, barely unity. My J201s are SMDs adapted for through-hole, bought from Aion, so I think they're...

This is a report on the Woodpecker Tremolo, based on the EQD Hummingbird. Since I only got into pedals and pedalbuilding this year, this was one of the first I heard about as an "unusual pedal" and tried in a local store, and part of my first order from PPCB. I thought the effect was fun and the...

Very clean designs and the eyelet boards are so unique!

Ooh, I like calling it an eyrie!

What a fun build! This is a report on the 6-band EQ, a generic equalizer (not based on any particular pedal). I selected this build because I want my entire pedalboard to be homemade, and feel like an EQ is a necessity. Also, I wanted to try a build with sliders. Inspiration I struggled to...

@Feral Feline - yep, shortly after posting this and seeing bronomo's response I started socketing most transistors and diodes, whenever they seem to be components people mod. I just use flush cutters with the 40-pack from Tayda, and about half the time part of a socket is exposed at the cut...

An update here: I was reading some other threads and the Mach One kept coming up as a favorite. I tag all my builds in a spreadsheet, including ones that I consider to be "duds" and I couldn't get out of my head that this pedal sounded pretty different from the demos I'd heard. And I don't like...