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This is the way. You can get a top notch PS for less than $200, and it's a very good investment.

Also: 1. You can't go by eyesight on LED and LDR pairing. The LDR begins reacting to the LED output before it's visible to the eye. 2. LDRs are far more sensitive than you think. The light from the bypass LED will cause "light pollution" inside a pedal. Instead of elaborate shrouds over the...

I've had good results with the NSL-32 in this circuit. I don't like much of Thorpy's design choices, though, and made my own version that uses a similar side chain to the Fat General. A great alternative is the Boneyard Delegate comp here on PedalPCB.

Another level would be replacing the spring with 3 washer magnets. MX compatible maglev switch

No sweat. If anything, I need to find some simple instructional videos on the basics.

I finally started taking a shot at this myself. I got this AVR programmer shield for an Arduino UNO and some ATtiny85s. Spent a day working at it and I can't get the boot loader to burn. The shield is working enough to power the LEDs on it, giving me a red error indicator when I try to burn the...

Checked AES and they've got an output transformer for $20.

Just spitballing: Could be interesting to use a 6BM8 tube. It's a triode and 3.5W pentode in one tube. 1. A single-tube, 3.5W single-ended amp. This can be clean, or thought of as a power amp to be used with other tube preamp pedals. 2. Add another 12ax7 for a total of 3 preamp stages into a...

100% normal. Nature of the beast on that one.

Forward voltage drop is not what needs to be considered when comparing Ge and Schottky diodes. The factor that matters is the Ge leakage. For any Ge setup like that, you have to imagine a resistor in parallel with the two anti-parallel diodes. Leaving out this resistance will alter the...

I absolutely love the EF86 Vox/Matchless hybrid amp I built. Sounds amazing on its own and takes pedals like a champ. An alternative to the EF86 I've been eyeing is a 12AU7 wired as a cascode. I'm a devotee of Merlin's books and he's backed that option as sounding almost identical with none of...

Win for the search function. I was looking at that schematic today and wondering about this setup, since my first thought would have been tying pin 10 of the relay to V/2 and roll without the capacitor.

Since it's Chuck's design, I'm gonna defer to him for how he wants to handle PCBs and files. I think I'm pretty much done, though. Even got most of the 3D models looking pretty close. The connections match with the basic PedalPCB 125B layouts, so all the foot switch boards on the shop here will...

Been trying to learn EasyEDA this week and I'm really liking it. This might be goodbye forever for Eagle.

Can't resist. Gonna have to make a layout for this one.

This has a lot going for it for our purposes. The TI application note even mentions guitar pickups.

Deeply impressed. That's a work of art, bud!

Meh. Needs 8 rotary switches and a footswitch to toggle one group to the other.

Low voltage and no heat makes them very attractive. It'd be easy to fit a pair in a 125B - just mount them on the backside of the board and put the rest of the components "over" them.