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Crushed it all around 🤘! Looks great, sounds great, and I’m glad you’re enjoying it.

Thanks for the kind words.

In my quest to push myself further with pcb design, I decided to go into the world of BBDs. For my first attempt, I went with a boss CE-2. A little more complex than the Small Clone but, still a right of passage in my eyes and relatively simple as far as delay based effects are concerned. I...

Wanting to expand my journey into pcb design, I asked @Guardians of the analog what circuit he’d like to build or see come into fruition. His response was a Boss FZ-3 fuzz with more volume on tap. Armed with this idea, a few conversations with Chris, and some breadboard sessions, this is what...

Yes! Embrace the BF-2 🙌.

If you remember a few months ago, I built this very same phaser on a @szukalski / @Guardians of the analog collaboration pcb. This one is essentially the same thing but, I did the layout and had the pcbs made. I used Dave’s pcb as my guide and layout wise, it’s very similar albeit, a few...

That wiring 🥵. You’re welcome and I’m glad you’re digging it. You give me way too much credit though. I’m just a monkey playing with some computer software. And… If this were a college exam, I would’ve failed due to plagiarism.

How old is this CS-1? On early boss effects, the led does not stay on. It’s a literal “check” light and only illuminates when the foot switch is depressed. If this CS-1 was manufactured in 1978 like the service notes you linked, this is normal behavior.

Yes! Embrace the BF-2 🙌. I too live and die by the Boss flanger.

In all seriousness, I've never seen a round aluminum enclosure outside of the large fuzz face. Hammond makes round enclosures but I'm pretty sure they're ABS plastic.

I’ve already talked at great length about the mighty saguaro cactus before so, I’ll spare everyone that long winded story. What I will talk about, is how this particular build came to be. The truth is… I’m out of steam when it comes to this hobby. I’ve built over 50 pedals and successfully...

Nice! Glad you sussed it out and found the source of the problem.

It sounds like you’re confusing which trimpots do what. Each bias trimpot controls the bias voltage to its respective BBD chip. They are not tied together. If you adjust the bias too far one way or the other, yes… the signal will sputter out like you described. The gain trimmer is just a...

If you’re overall output volume is quieter than you like, you can change that by turning up the BBD gain trimmer. Keep in mind that increasing the gain into the second BBD will also affect your feedback control.

When I see Bio77 and flanger in a build report title, you know I’m clicking on it but, hot damn John… this one looks killer!

Thanks Will. I can’t wait to see yours 🤘. Thanks Joe. I digging the hell out of this fuzz. Many thanks. I should also mention that a 5mm red LED sounds pretty badass too. It also lights up 🤩… and I’m a 🤡. Thanks Rob. I hereby christen drunken elk official Abduction Audio abductee...