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Fairfield About 900 This is an interesting one. Huge range of sounds, and I like a lot of them. This one is going to hang out on the pedal board for a while. The interesting part is that dialing a particular sound is not that intuitive. Lots of knob tweaking and head scratching. I took a...

The EQD hype machine convinced me to build yet another muff. This one gave me some trouble. It worked right away, but (at least on bass) it was doing some weird sagging and sputtering that didn’t seem right to me. After the third re-boxing and a swap at Robert’s suggestion from 2n5089 to 2n3904...

In honor of the big red big muff everyone’s talking about, I thought I’d throw this Liquid Crystal Fuzz together in a red box. Everything works, but it sounds bad. It’s doing some weird saggy, bloomy, sputtery stuff that I’m pretty sure isn’t right. I pulled it back out of the box and did a...

I bought my first bass about a year ago. I haven't played it a ton, but of course as soon as I got it I started making a list of bass related pedals to add to the build list. This one seemed to get some good reviews from the actual bass players, so onto the list it went. When I first plugged it...

Another cool one from @Aleph Null ! Definitely the most fun of the Belton verbs I've built. The Sway and Saturation controls are particularly nice. Nice layout, great build docs, the only hiccup in the build was that the output jack location lined up the jack tip with one of the tabs on the...

Earlier this year, Benson did a signature fuzz-delay for the band Deep Sea Diver. I watched some videos about it, and fell into a brief internet crush for Jessica Dobson who fronts that band and does some cool stuff. In one of her Rig Rundowns, she said there was some magic in a pedal I hadn't...

I spent a lot of time this summer prepping enclosures, but this is the first pedal I've finished since I did a Magnetron delay in April. I let a friend buy that one, and I've been missing it. I was hoping this would fill that void for me, and it definitely does. Weirdly I've built some noisy...

Hey, Anybody who's hand-drilled a Nobelium want to save me some time and share a scaled printable template? I'm a luddite who likes to hand drill/ mill everything and I don't have any CAD skills. @fmcc @vigilante398 thx!

I’m a little shocked at how good this sounds. Especially considering the relative simplicity and cost, this is really impressive. My favorite kind of dark and dirty delay tone and can do a pretty long delay time without any annoying high frequency noise problems. Also sounds pretty great in...

This would be more fun if I knew some heavier riffs. I spend too much of my time playing acoustic, and nothing I do there sounds cool going through the chainsaw. I had fun with this for a couple hours, but it'll probably end up living in the drawer unless I learn some new chops.

Just noticed this thing on the Tayda site about discount coupons on Facebook. Anyone following them on Facebook? Is that a real thing?

This is my second paragon build. The first one was great, but it sold pretty quick and it took me a while to get around to building a replacement. If you’re considering building one of these, definitely spend some time reading the posts. I’m sure a stock build is fine too, but there’s been a...

I forget who’s build report got me to order this, but I’m glad they did. The only other one-knobber I’ve tried (acupulco gold) I really didn’t vibe with, but this thing sounds awesome. It sounded super gated at first, particularly at anything below full guitar volume. Turned the gain trimmer...

Better late than never! I started working on this ages ago, but I forgot to order one part which pushed it back, and then I just started skipping over it. Once a project gets stuck in procrastination purgatory I have a hard time ever getting it going again. I was also pretty intimidated by the...

@dan.schumaker ’s take on the Boss DM-3. If you scored one of these boards when Dan offered em up, you should build it. It’s great. I’ve been on a mini analog delay journey and this is my favorite of the bunch so far. I started with a skoolie from Madbean. I dig the modulation, but I need to...

I’m still in the honeymoon period on this one, but so far I’m excited about the sounds. I’ve definitely made snarky comments about overdrives not needing this many controls, but in this case I feel more like there are a bunch of nice tones to choose from, vs fighting with a bunch of controls...

I'm getting my parts together to build a Viceroy, and reading through @Chuck D. Bones development thread for that circuit: https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/monarch.5066/ Chuck used PF5102 JFETs (Which I have, so far so good) and recommends something with a Vp no larger than 2V. Following...

I built one of these in 2023 and I remember liking it, but I sold it pretty quick. I ordered another board right away, and I had an extra faceplate from the first build, so I could have done another one pretty quick, but It’s always a little less exciting to do a repeat build. The build went...

From the GCI site: DS-1 with HM-2 EQ Inspired by the pedal stacking of early Swedish death metal pioneers, the GCI HM-1 combines the distortion and tone stack of a DS-1 with a boost-only version of the HM-2 tone stack. My brother in law requested a Metal Zone last year, so I ordered some MT-2...

This is the third one of these I've built over the last couple months. Way back in 2023 when I ordered these boards there were some gnarly troubleshooting threads going on that made me nervous that maybe all of these were cursed, but all three of mine were smooth sailing and sound great. The...