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Love love love love it! I just received one of these boards, I've also wanted to build one of these since @Guardians of the analog posted his awesome Distortion Supreme build report and demo. I usually don't play with that high of gain. But check this out: Guitar Pedals Visualized: Boss MD-2...

That looks great! It’s always satisfying to have a working pedal that you built yourself. But there’s something special about the very first build. So much learning, and the anxiety of “Is it going to work? What do I do if it doesn’t?” And then to have something that actually works - I don’t...

I’m only halfway through your clips, but so far I like it all! To me, it retains the core goodness of the Timmy, which is letting the guitar and amp shine through - but it takes versatility to the max. I feel like this could be all the dirt most people really need. That settles it, I’m going...

I’ve looked at this thing numerous times and still think it looks absolutely killer. The gator’s LED eyes are sweet. Fantastic work!

The short and practical answer is to follow Aion’s docs. Indeed, ceramic (mlcc), film, and mica caps aren’t polarized, and therefore you don’t have to worry about polarity. That said, I’ve read a bit about film caps potentially having a slight difference in noise performance depending on...

Absolute beauty, as always! Even though it’s only kinda-sorta, vaguely similar, your artwork made me think of Black Sabbath’s Never Say Die album cover.

That’s 100% badass! Great job, thanks for sharing!

That looks great @Chuck D. Bones! I'm curious about how you modified the relay bypass circuit. And the lack of ceramic caps - I can hear the improvement from 2k miles away! ;)

100% agreement. I think I rambled too much about Boss circuits in that first paragraph. Indeed, dynamics/pick attack/volume cleanup are the selling points of this circuit, much like the Boss BD-2. But the tone of the Diamond Peak is definitely its own thing. Thank you for the compliments...

Update: thanks to the help I received here, this pedal has officially replaced the Boss DM-2w on my board. The only remaining "problem" was the kludge I did to use my own bypass circuit while allowing for the few effect circuit components that aren't actually on the Amethyst PCB. Even though...

I edited the previous post to include a picture of the front panel and also that the through hole transistors are 2n5172.

Here are some pics of the Major's internals. The two TO-92 transistors are 2n5172. The third transistor is SMD and appears to have "1QI" (one queue eye) on it, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

I have acquired an Animals Pedals Major Overdrive, I'll post pics later today or tomorrow of the guts. I just posted my build report for this circuit built around a PCB I made: Hard Rock Pinnacle Purebred Drive. I have a handful of low-gain silicon transistors on hand. Very few are down to...

This is pedal is based on a PCB I designed myself, based on the @Chuck D. Bones-modified Animals Pedals Diamond Peak Overdrive, discussed in this thread. I call it the "Hard Rock Pinnacle Purebred Drive". As you can see, I'm late to the PCB party for this circuit. There's a good reason why...

I finished this up today: Zorkmid Overdrive, based on the PaulC Zefram Overdrive. (For others building this pedal, this thread has both the BOM and drilling template). I built it exactly per the BOM/silkscreen printed values except for R10, where I used 3k3 instead of 4k7, per the advice from...

I'm happy to report success! I was planning to do just that, but first I spent a little time reading other forum posts (not just here) talking about biasing the DM-2 and potential sonic differences between the OG DM-2 and the Waza version. I came across someone talking about biasing by ear...

@Guardians of the analog - do you know if/when Effects Layouts will be offering this board for sale?

I recently watched this YouTube video with Tom Bukovac talking about his "secret weapon" aka the Boss GE-7. I got the impression he was directly responsible for the XTS creating their GE-7 mods (the intent being a midrange-specific EQ). Anyway, what he said he wanted was a subset of a 31-band...

One potential problem with overly-large capacitors is that they can act like an antenna and pick up RF/EMF noise. Assuming your circuit is going in an aluminum enclosure, you have some implicit protection. And if you're building something designed to distort (e.g. overdrive/fuzz), absolutely...

I'm joining the PCB party. I fired up my prototype last night, it works great (except that I wired three of the pots backwards). It sounds awesome though! For low gain silicon Q2/Q3, I used these 2n4123 parts from Tayda. Cheap and plenty of stock. The one I happened to measure on my CCT...