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I’ve used little sections of tagboard on these pcb pin pots before to attach solid core wire but it was more trouble than it’s worth, so now I just buy whichever pots are available and solder some solid core wire to the pins, like above. Never had a failure but also I’m not selling them nor...

great primer on how tube circuits work. With this info you can pretty much analyse how all tube amps work since they’re all just variations on this theme. Just add more or less stages, more or less interstage filtering, different component values, etc. Now we can look at the JCM800 preamp and...

I’ve been saved by my own cheapness in this regard before, a lot of my pedals I just bought the cheaper solder lug pots and soldered solid core wire to them for pcb mount, so they’re only a quick snip away from salvage.

No, I’ve been on a tubescreamer kick for a while now so I kind of abandoned the idea. I don’t recall what the result of the R6 adjustment above was but I’m pretty sure I tried it.

Latepass but I’ve only just now been looking into this widow maker of a pedal attached to a piece of plywood… is that tube stage worth adding? Does it add anything that a clean boost before or after just the muff portion can’t?

Good call to use the LED section of the switch as the external switching. I guess the only downside of that is no polarity switching. Edit- actually you could still do the polarity switch if wired like in the pedal pcb build docs if you left the link to the input off. The input of the pcb would...

the real 33 uses a 4pdt switch rather than the usual 3pdt, so I presume all it is, is using that extra switch section wired to a jack. I’m on a phone right now so this is the closest I could find on google For a polarity switch use additional spdt switch - remove red wire from jack - attach...

I bought a couple PCB’s from them about a year ago, the orange jfet preamp, the life pedal clone, and the sunn beta preamp. The orange preamp went off without a hitch, only issue being the 12 position rotary switch only used 6 of the positions so half of them were ‘no sound’. I later found out...

I always get real annoyed trying to test any electro larger than like 10uf with my multimeter, having to sit there and hold the leads while it thinks about it. I got one of those mega328 tester kits off eBay for like £8 and I use that for electros now, way faster. Also it seems more accurate...

personally I wouldn’t as my experience with charge pumps is they are not at all tolerant of over voltage. If that’s the only power supply you have to use, you could try running a string of a few diodes in series with the +12v to drop the voltage closer to 9.

I wonder if boss does have any kind of trademark or patent on the case shape. ISP use roughly the same shape for their decimator noise gate, so I would guess not?

That part forms the low cut in conjunction with R8, you do need it. Though you can change the value. Larger would increase the bass response of the pedal, smaller would reduce the bass response. You would probably be best off waiting for the right part to come in. However depending on what...

Like @chongmagic said maybe they manually put that charge pump in last and cooked the cap with the hot air gun? I bet that charge pump is the most expensive single component in there. How do the victory pedals sound anyway? I’ve never really been that convinced by solidstate preamp pedals...

R8 and C4 1.8k/100n set the low cut a bit higher than stock, 884hz vs the standard 720hz of the 4.7k/47n. Maybe larger input cap plus more low cut to compensate is what is doing it for you.

I dug out an old tubescreamer clone (a dwarven hammer that I didn’t really like so I just converted it to stock ts9, and also the rotary switch broke so I hardwired it to the standard low cut). I added the extra diodes with 220k, and since i used a DPDT switch I also put the clipping diodes on...

Interesting I haven’t seen diodes like that before. Ive made a lot of modded ts’s and my favorite one has a pot in place of R8 (with a series resistor so I can’t drop it to 0 ohms) and the lower it goes the higher gain the pedal gets (also the low cut frequency goes up but that is somewhat...

Stephen Fryette misspelled his own last name on the pcb in my Fryette 2/50/2 power amp. It reads ‘Fryeette’ on one part

I have an arion tubulator (ts clone) I got back in college when I was poor, it has the same ACA thing going on. Easy way to tell, plug it into a 9v regulated supply buy itself, then daisy-chain another pedal (non-aca) using the same power supply. If the indicator LED suddenly gets brighter when...

Just saw this one on the coming soon page, is there anything actually interesting going on with the circuit? I don’t know enough about tracing pedals to glean anything useful from the sample pcb layout picture.

A pedalpcb high voltage supply? Interesting. Maybe two or three years ago I made a tube buffer (copy of VHT Valvulator) using one of those cheap boost converters off eBay for the high voltage, powered by a 12vdc power supply and also powering the heaters with the same 12vdc. It worked (but...