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I assume the second PCB that’s mostly hidden behind the effect PCB is some kind of bypass circuit? Curious about its design.

I was looking at the schematic for the PedalPCB Lamb Chop, which is based on the Way Huge Pork Loin. See also the Effects Layouts Spice Runner, which is based on the Way Huge Saucy Box. Internet hearsay suggests the Saucy Box is a simplified version of the Pork Loin, and a quick glance at the...

I'm sure most of us have encountered a build that required a trim pot: a small potentiometer that is soldered directly to the PCB, often intended to make some one-time adjustment that accounts for variability in another part of the circuit (e.g. bias), or maybe some kind of tuning that is...

Long ago, I used to buy teflon-coated silver wire from "John's Wire Shop" on ebay. I stopped using it though, due to the teflon coating being too slippery to work with my strippers (Irwin Vise-Grip 2078300). I think it was on this forum, someone suggested this tefzel coated silver wire: 22 Ga...

Looks fantastic, thanks for posting! What are you doing with the offboard wiring? I can see what look like little jumper wires at the top where we normally do power input and input/output ground, and similarly at the bottom for status LED and bypass switch wiring. From what I can see of it...

Looks great, thanks for posting!

We can’t like it until we get gut shots! 🤓

Here is my build of the Median Compressor (based on the Wampler Ego 76). This is actually my second build, as I mentioned in this thread, the first build wouldn't bias correctly with the through-hole 2n5457 JFETs I used, and when I replaced them with SMD parts, I lifted a trace. Though I think...

Great build and writeup, as always! "Shrike" makes me think of a character from Dan Simmons's Hyperion novels... which also involves some impaling.

Here's my build of the Stagecoach Overdrive, based on the Barber BUSS fww Edition. I'm not even sure what prompted me to buy this. And I probably would have sat on it, except that, several weeks ago, I drilled the enclosure for it. I drilled the enclosure thinking I had already populated the...

From what I've seen, the main thing most Aion boards expect from the bypass breakout board is power that is polarity-protected and usually has some small filter cap (100nF or 470nF)... if you give up polarity protection and have a known good/low noise power supply, you could probably get away...

Emacs or vim?

Here are some gut shots of the Major Overdrive if anyone is interested. I bought that pedal over a year ago with the intent of tracing it. It's been sitting disassembled ever since I took those photos. Thank you @HamishR, my laziness paid off!

All is right with the world now: I replaced the DC jack that was touching that middle pot with an "outie". It still took a little wrangling to get it all in there. But at least now there's a noticeable air gap between the DC jack and the middle pot. I also took the opportunity to give the...

This is a clone of the Skreddy Lunar Module based on a custom PCB of my own design. A few years ago, I built this circuit using the PedalPCB Aldrin Fuzz board. I also used the Aldrin Fuzz board to additionally build the two variants, the Screwdriver and Hybrid Fuzz Driver (thanks to the great...

Are those organic polymer capacitors?

One of the main reasons I build my own pedals is that I mostly enjoy the process. And I definitely find it satisfying to play through something I built myself. As such, the "more DIY" something is, the greater the satisfaction. And with pedals, that has been a progression of: kits, to...

You’ve become a hater hater, aka a meta-hater! Yes! I’ve had some burritos for which that would be an appropriate name.

NICE BUSHing!

Now you have to make another, but with the Kinglet devouring the gnats! Great build, as always, and great write up (also as usual)!