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  1. falco_femoralis

    Loop switcher for sharing effects loop pedals with multiple amps

    So you want something that will take a cable from the FX send of each amp, go into your switcher, which has a send/return for your pedalboard, and then output the signal to the FX return of each of your four amps? You'll need something with 4 inputs and 4 outputs, plus a send and return for the...
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    Pedal Selling Questions - Testing and Customer Service Mostly

    Oh man. Dealing with customers is an art that takes years to develop. Don't feel bad about it. First, for returns, do your best to communicate with the customer and determine what the problem is before they send it back. Apologize they are having an issue with their pedal. Tell them you want to...
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    LED Orientation

    There was a change in convention on some of the boards. Don't worry about the square vs round solder pad deal, just follow the letters A and K https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/led-polarity.5/
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    Skylight Overdrive Change to Dual Gang 20k

    If you could speculate, is there a reason the original manufacturer went for a dual gang pot over the single gang? Both circuits connect to ground so it's not like there would be any backfeeding? In the overlay picture for the PCB listing, it shows a B20k pot. Is that correct for this? I ask...
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    Rick Beato interviews David Gilmour

    I have a soft spot for Jay Leno due to his massive and all encompassing car collection, as well has his considerable efforts in restoration and documentation. But I get the "pandering to the masses" sentiment. and yes, he does have a massive chin
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    Byzantium rebuild from scratch

    Yes, when you are looking at the pedal with the back off, viewing the lugs of the switch, from left to right the board and switch daughterboard leads are audio in, IN, GND, SW, OUT, audio out. The main PCB has audio in/out pads at the top that connect to the audio jacks so all you have to think...
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    Distortr

    I've seen those 16mm pots with elongated leads. I wonder if those would be a better fit for these kinds of switches. I realized the fit issue right as I was done drilling and had a @$#@% moment. But it all worked out. And yes, too much thread makes me uncomfortable and sweaty
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    Rick Beato interviews David Gilmour

    I liked him for a while, but the more I watched his vids the less they made sense. It's ok if you like him, but check out the two vids I linked and read back about my comments on his interviewing style. But again, if you disagree that's fine. There are lots of spectacular interviews on youtube...
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    Distortr

    Here is my Distortr build. I tend to like discreet transistor circuits and I had to add this to the collection. It sounds great, very open and lively, not at all compressed like a lot of overdrives. Pretty much the opposite of a tube screamer. The gain switch adds a bit of volume as well as...
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    Skylight Overdrive

    Hi all, here's a Skylight OD build. I made a Resinite OD and liked it a lot so I tried another Mad Professor style creation. It's interesting in that it has an external impedance control, which loads the pickups like a fuzz face and allows the guitar's vol control to clean up the distortion...
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    Rick Beato interviews David Gilmour

    This guy is really good for music theory concepts. He has a lot of nice examples which he plays in the moment, rather than glossing over most of it like ...others do
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    Paragon/King of Tone diode effect

    I've had that effect before with my AT+ and its clipping selector switch. I had to turn down the gain in order to hear the difference
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    Byzantium Flanger Parts Identification, Source, and Build Documentation Issues

    Here and here are some on amazon. I like the second kind as they are a bit shorter, just be mindful on the male pin of which end goes into the solder pads as they are slightly different diameters and the solder pad side is thinner. The way you do it is assemble both boards, then break off the...
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    Paragon/King of Tone diode effect

    This is normal behavior. When the diodes are in soft clipping arrangement, you need to boost the volume to compensate, and then in hard clipping, they cut the sound even more so you have to turn the volume up again. It's not the different diodes that change the sound, it's how they are...
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    Paragon/King of Tone diode effect

    There is a difference in sound - one switch enables the hard clipping diodes and the other is for soft clipping. Or you can leave them both off and turn up the gain control. The difference can be subtle. To my ear the hard clipping isn't as smooth. I don't know that I would use 4001's, but...
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    Rick Beato interviews David Gilmour

    I can't stand beatoff. He asks the same obvious questions everyone else has already asked like it's the first time anyone's ever had those thoughts. I was on the fence about him until I saw his video on I-9. They were a super talented original up and coming band, yet to be signed, and he...
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    Very high soldering temperatures and components/boards

    This is my setup as well. The fan really helps to prevent clouded judgment if you're spending some time soldering away into the night
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    Kliche Mini worked... and now no sound?

    I reuse socketed IC's and maybe stuff I don't normally have duplicates of, like certain transistors, but the rest of it like regular resistors and capacitors just isn't worth the effort of pulling them out. I've learned to always socket my IC's. The trick with them is when you're soldering them...
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    Wire Wars

    When I build pedals that are really tight, the flexibility helps things come together. They also don't retain bends etc, making it easier to rework the wire into another shape And in a normal pedal, you embrace the curvature and make the wires flow It was different at first. I'd always...
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    Pastel Preamp no output

    If you have signal up to pin 1 of R31 (the pin that has continuity to the Master pot) then I would check the pot for resistance and continuity thru its range and see why it's not passing signal. Also, see if your VREF (pin 3 of IC1) is shorted to something, like ground
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