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Hi all, so I’m curious if anyone has any insight here. I’m looking to use my trusty Ernie Ball VP JR as an expression pedal, specifically with my HX Effects. I’ve seen mixed messages on the matter; some folks say it doesn’t work, others say it works with reservations, others say it works with...

So I had a pound spool of Kester that lasted me for YEARS and ran out recently. Decided to give a cheap Amazon brand a shot (“Maiyum”) and it kinda sucks. Doesn’t really “flow,” just kinda melts and turns blobby if that makes sense. It’s like a quarter of the cost but I can’t stand it. So I’m...

I really like this pedal but would also agree that it can be a bit on the bright side. I generally have the cut about 3/4ths or thereabouts to get it sounding right to me. That said I also find it’s definitely one of those pedals that feels more tuned for “in a mix” than soloed/isolated (and...

Hopefully a fairly simple question here. I’m basically just wanting an AB switch with a volume control on each input - something to be able to quickly swap between two guitars but compensate for differences in each instrument’s outputs. It doesn’t necessarily need to be buffered but wouldn’t...

I’ll give another vote for the Hakko 888 or whatever the number is (lol). Can’t overstate how much of a total game-changer it was for my soldering game.

I have a feeling that a lot of the differences we tend to notice are also influenced pretty significantly simply by KNOWING there's a difference, know what I mean? When I swap a TL072 in for a 4558 obviously I'm aware of that change being made. And I suspect that alone causes me to "hear" it...

I've really wanted to try this guy. I don't know exactly how to describe it but some of these effects like this that are a bit simpler or "old school" often feel like some of the most "musical" to me. In particular this guy feels a bit like a poor man's Strymon Flint (and I don't mean that...

Kind of the experience I had. Huge Zeppelin fan and had a guitar wired up "Page-style" a years back. Maybe I had it wrong or something, I was pretty new then, but found the same...just not a ton of use for me beyond the novelty of it. Fun to mess around with but practically speaking didn't offer...

The nice thing about this community too is that people are generally happy and willing to help you with any mods/tweaks you might want to the "stock" PPCB board, too. Just might have to ask... Like if you buy a basic TS808 board but came on here and said, "Hey, I'm wanting this 808 to sound...

Not OP but here's a crummy drawing of a vaguely phallic LED and how I arranged mine. I did also do the same with heat shrink and sealing the top closed though. Works fine for me, used green diffused LEDs FWIW. I'd be curious if there is any appreciable difference between the different methods!

I've been curious to try this one out. I don't know how similar/different they are but i LOVE the original LTD and Half Gainer (which I believe is more or less two LTD's)

SD-1 has gotta be one of the most underrated pedals out there for me. Not just a "good for the money" (as they are VERY cheap) but just a really good sounding drive in general. I know they moved to SMD somewhat recently but the old through hole ones were really fun mod platforms too. A lot of...

For whatever reason the V1’s (BB sized, boost foot switch) are way hyped up too. Maybe it’s just that it’s the discontinued version and people always seem to tend to think that a discontinued version of XYZ is better than a current production one but… they’re like $400 second hand nowadays and...

At work at the moment so can't try out BUT this kind of echoes my experience prior. In testing shortly after building it seemed to me like the treble control by itself doesn't do a lot for me; if I just have my guitar going into the comp and into the amp, treble knob doesn't do a ton. When I add...

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Hi all - finished my General Tso's a few weeks back and I really quite like it for the most part but I'm finding the treble control seems extremely subtle, like to the point where I can't even tell for sure if it's doing anything at all or if I'm just tricking my ears into hearing something...

I know it's super obvious by just plugging in a cable but I still always find myself second-guessing with switched i/o jacks to the point that i usually end up just putting a jumper between the switched/unswitched lugs just in case :P

Looks like you might just have your output's tip and sleeve backwards, I believe the "right" out pad on the PCB goes to the tip and left to the sleeve. Try swapping the wires going to your output jack?

A DOD250 kit from BYOC was my first ever pedal build. I printed a photo of a mushroom cloud on cardstock and mod podge'd it to the top of the enclosure. Then I played it through a solid state Fender Rumble bass amp (which was serving as my guitar amp at the time) and thought it sounded godawful...

I have a few others on my board for different “flavors” but it’s not uncommon for me to find myself only using the Pro-10/Protein for multiple sets… it covers a whole lot of ground. Of course it’s a dual OD so maybe that’s cheating. If I had to pick one single sized drive to cover just about...