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This looks fantastic. I may move this one up to the front of the line once I can afford to get more enclosures.

Curious, did you test the transistors beforehand? what were the hfe values?

@benny_profane with the slam dunk!

Nope, nothing that I've noticed. But most of my time since then has been spent building rather than playing. @Feral Feline thats a great anecdote! I will probably leave it as is and see if I can sell it cheap. I want to try the etching process again, because maybe fate didn't want me to etch a...

Oh shoot, I nearly forgot to talk about the easter egg. To fit with the theme, I sanded the aluminum in an "X" pattern. So, in the portrait area, the background is made of a million little double-crosses.

This is a dirt simple circuit and Acapulco Golds aren't in short supply so this was mainly an opportunity to practice different fabrication methods apart from the board soldering. For the graphic design, I took some inspiration from the earlier Acapulco Gold that had the gunslinger graphic. I...

UPDATE: For anyone like me who couldn't find it, I finally found the forum post that introduces the relays: Intro and Relay differences Full BOM. Note that there is a transistor difference between the two.

How does this work? From what I can tell, it lets you put a soft footswitch in the place of your typical 3PDT click-monster, and it may also allow for those cool "press and hold" temporary effects. But I have no idea what parts I would need, or what a relay even really does in the electronic...

For most of my stuff, I have been just ordering the Tayda UV printing service. $6 to not have to deal with self-printing is a bargain. For stuff that I print myself, I usually do a simple waterslide decal. For my Big Muff, I painted the enclosure and used metal letter stamps. In any case, I use...

That melted cap is C10. Looks like you also melted a bit of C1, near that left trim pot... which also seems melted. For C10, it looks it wouldn't kill the signal if it were removed, but it would if it were shorted. I don't really what it looks like on the schematic if film caps fail via...

Hey, I'm going to resurrect this thread instead of posting my own nearly identical thread... I'm specifically after that piercing "Time" solo tone, so I am thinking of either using B109Cs for both, B108s for both, or a mix of the two. Do I care about the hFE values for these since they're...

Sweet, glad I just pulled the trigger on a drill press! Savin' $4.50 at a time

DAMN, that's a neat layout. What gauge wire is that? I'd love to make something so tidy inside!

IC meaning transistor? For diodes I used 1N914s, and I think I used 2N5089s for the transistors.

Thanks! The LED is a simple 5mm UV led with I think a 4.7K clr. I've seen a lot of perfboard for sale while I was hunting down vero to try. Do you have any examples of pedals built on perfboard?

So, over the weekend I just made a Big Muff modeled after the Violet Ram's Head schematic. That may not be so noteworthy, but it is my first time using veroboard, which I wouldn't have even heard of if it weren't for this community and in particular @Chuck D. Bones. This was also the first time...

I just started my first vero board project thanks to this thread, and it feels like both less and more work than my average build. Maybe it's just because I had all the components handy when I decided to start building. (although it's a Big Muff and not a Monarch/Viceroy) I am going to try to...

If you're talking about the figure I just drew as replacing C14, then if the switch is open, the whole thing looks like 33nF between the two right leads. If the switch is closed, the two capacitors are in parallel so it's 101nF.

Wait I think I figured it out... Does this look right? This assembly replaces C14 via the two leads on the right.

So, you're switching the value between 33nF stock and 101nF Phat? If so, could I do the same by wiring a 33nF and a 100nF to a spdt switch and connecting the two ends of the switch to the holes for C14? I'd have to think of how to make a switch that adds a capacitor in parallel but is an open...