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Hey folks. I had a coworker bring me his ‘66 Fuzz Tone for repair. It’s missing the washer flange thing from the front, and he had a new input cable installed a few years ago by a local shop. Everything else appears to be original. It passes signal when the effect is off, but nothing was coming...

I didn’t socket at first, but gave it a try on several builds, and every one had issues once sealed up. Issues which made for a few awkward moments when I took them to a guitar shop for the owner to try when considering carrying my builds in his shop.

It is indeed an Ibanez pedal I'm trying to recreate, but not one that ever got a lot of love in the marketplace. I still have an original but I'm looking to strip down the schematic to just the absolutely necessary components to make the sound I use it for. If I can do that I'll just have some...

Figured it out! It's a pedal that PPCB hasn't done a board for...yet. Thanks!

Hey folks. I bought some 2SC1815's off ebay a week ago and for the life of me I can't remember what circuit I bought them for. I know I came across a schematic in the last week or two that caught my attention, but searching through my browser history I can't find any evidence of circuits that...

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Right on! I have a JEL-20 along with my Synergy Syn-2, and they both have amazing master volumes so I sold the JHS to a co-worker with a HRDeluxe! Thank you for the recipe!

I used a JHS Little Black Amp Box in the loop of a HRDeluxe and 4x10 DeVille, keeping the Volume at 8 and adjusting Master to taste. Driving it like that might have sounded 5 to 10% better, but it wasn't a night and day difference. When I got my Synergy Syn-2 I fired up the Friedman BE/BB module...

Ditto. I put a WGS ET65 in my HR Deluxe and it was a noticeable improvement.

This one sounds awesome, unsurprisingly. Might be my favorite Marshall flavored pedal ever. Dave Friedman is my hero.

Super cool! Thanks Robert! So on the Crunch Capt. Deluxe, I get what the clipping switch does but what is the Mode swtich doing?

I was just going on a cursory glance at the two build docs in the PPCB store and thought I noticed some slight differences in component values etc. Thanks for the link. On the AA, I'm curious about the "wattage" switch. Is one position red LEDs, one position BAT41's, and one position with no...

I’m kind of fascinated by the sound of my Angry Andy, and I’m wondering if anyone can help explain the circuit a bit and how the component changes between it and the Crunch Captain work/why they were made? I had a Danelectro Daddy-O (Guvnor) as a teen and the AA really takes me back to those...

She is full of secrets… I wanted to use a pedal with as few knobs as possible to really let the artwork shine. As for a story, that photo wasn’t a prop made for the show. It was a real shot from actress Sheryl Lee’s high school years.

Last year I caved and got a matched set of transistors specifically for a Mk1. After another year of working on other projects, I came back to this one and finally put the transistors in and...WOW. There it is. Instantly reminded of why I fell in love with the Mk1 sound in the first place. So...

I’m tempted to replace the relay as I never heard a single click, but that could just mean it’s not getting power and I don’t really want to deal with it anymore anyway since I have a Gerkin PCB and the necessary parts in my shop. When I probed pins 1 and 10 of the relay I had the meter set at...

There are two lugs. It’s the “vampire fangs” style spst switch. I posted two videos because I switched the leads around as I wasn’t sure which was ground. I tried again and I get continuity whenever the footswitch is pressed down and held, so I guess that makes it a normally open switch? It’s...

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Every connection looks solid. No loose cables or anything. I’m not sure how to follow the power with my meter when there are so many SMD components on the daughter board.

Thanks guys. That’s a bummer to hear since I just ordered some replacement footswitches. Well I’ll see if I can find a replacement. Edit: PedalPCB sells these relays as it turns out. Here’s the datasheet.