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Can’t help much but I’m curious as to what you find. I built one and found it to be awfully harsh too. Even once biased just right it seemed extremely bright/thin and with a not particularly pleasant breakup. I ended up moving on from it but I’m interested to see if that’s just how it is or if...

Probably not the best way to do it but...I keep some spare screws on hand and just slam one in with an impact driver. That usually clears it right up... Throw that donor screw away and put in the proper one and you're set..

I mess around with woodworking a bit and it reminds me a little of a saying I hear from other woodworkers. Something along the lines of… it’s easy to become a millionaire as a woodworker. Just have to be a billionaire to start!

Kilt is "based on" an Expandora (though I have never specifically seen a comparison of the schematics and/or a trace of either version of the Kilt) As I also understand it the Expandora is itself from the Rat "family tree". All that to say that to get in that Rat, Expandora sort of ballpark...

Interstellar reference?!?

Another fairly straightforward build from yesterday’s spree. Again a special thanks to Ernie Ball and Chicago Music Exchange for the DIY pot insulator material. Obviously didn’t end up needing it on the volume control but oh well. It sounds really good! I pretty much just made sure to swap...

I got a little over-zealous with my glue gun, I know… Fun pedal! I used waterclear green LEDs and these LDRs from Amazon. Maybe I got lucky, but they worked really nice together. I did test the dark resistance of a bunch till I found two that were closest to spec and each other. The leds are...

Pretty quick build here. Got it all whipped up, bypass was fine, LED came on, once engaged - no sound. And here’s the value of visual inspection on display. It’s pretty obvious in the first pic (well, you know, besides not having Jacks…) I’ve done that far more times than I’d care to admit...

I've been curious to give this a try at some point, in particular on bass. I remember years ago Ovnilab listed it as one of his favorite affordable compressors and it's been on my radar ever since.

I don't have any photos on hand but I really like all of Tayda's sand texture enclosures. Good quality and quite durable from what I can tell. On the other hand while I quite like the color/look of the Glimmer Brown Sugar it is perhaps the most fragile enclosure finish I've ever encountered...

Not sure if this will get much traction any further but if anyone has any input on a fairly common bass dilemma... I've more or less settled on getting a P-bass but am going back and forth between trying to find a decent CV Squier or paying up a bit more for a Fender Player series... The...

2 small addendums. 1. I’m not totally sold on the knobs. I went on the smaller size since it’s 6 knobs and didn’t want any space issues but now I’m kinda feeling like they actually look a bit undersized. I’m wanting something kind of lowkey, a bit utilitarian or industrial vibe. Any ideas for...

That is freakin rad

Finished up (mostly) a Sludgehammer build today. I’m working on putting together a bass pedalboard and wanted some kind of ampsim/DI solution. It’s getting partnered with Chuck’s Bass Klon, Broughton HLPF (Frequency Interchange), an M9, and an old mini rat clone I’ve had kicking around. Should...

I would echo some of the same - I don't actually have many (if any) problems with the drilling itself at all. But using a spring-loaded center punch has made the last few chip BAD. I mean like, little chips of the powdercoat noticeably flying off the enclosure with force :P And beyond that as...

I don't purchase enclosures at nearly the volume of some others here, but personally speaking I feel like while some of the metallic finishes have always been a little fragile, it's seemed to me like across the board Tayda's enclosures have just been a bit more flimsy when it comes to their...

Quite interested in how you went about that finishing process (as I fully intend to steal it, tbh :P) Did the miracle-gro application go on the whole enclosure? It looks like the aluminum has a bit of corrosion too. Anything to "seal" it or does copper shielding tape just stick and stay put to...

Nothing too groundbreaking to report, but… I went ahead and swapped all the Strymon big boxes to true bypass mode. As I understand it buffered bypass is required for “trails” but I don’t find myself needing to switch off my delay/reverb and have trails persist enough that would require this…...

Definitely a noticeable difference. Plugging straight in is just fine, exactly as I would expect/want to hear...once everything else is added in - even bypassed - it's just a lot more brittle feeling. Straight into the amp (well, Amp sim - I use an Iridium) has a little bit of compression of its...

I, like many others (I suspect) have had a bit of a complicated relationship with buffers and/or buffered bypass pedals. I spent a long time believing the school of thought that says "True Bypass or Die" and then swung the other direction and said "High quality buffers are good and can only...