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Those are both awesome builds! Somewhat off topic, but what is your technique for etching enclosures? They always look really sharp and clean.

Not quite. Check out @thomasbe86's awesome interactive diode I/V measurements. There's a subtle (but possibly noticeable) difference between the 2D503B/KD503B and 1N914/1N4148:

The title of this post is 100% accurate. This is indeed a really cool build. Love the control layout, the PCBs, and especially that row of inductors. Very neat story about how you got ahold of that last one, too. (As an aside, seeing a picture of your Roland BeeBaa build a decade or so ago was...

Not sure what an oberstgerichensgrubentshoffenzolenz is, but I'm very skeptical that I can count to five in support of the proposition that IEEPA authorizes the president to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited duration on nearly all goods from nearly every country in the world.

The Federal Circuit just affirmed the Court of International Trade's ruling that the tariffs imposed by five executive orders were illegal because they were not authorized by statute. The ruling is on hold through October 14 to allow the government the opportunity to file a petition for a writ...

Not my most recent build (I built it last January, so it's one of my older builds), but a very enjoyable one. For those not in the know, the Buzzaround (PedalPCB Gnat) is a wonderfully nasty germanium fuzz. Garage rock? Psychedelia? Death metal? Sure, the Buzzaround can handle all of those and...

Thanks! I had the opposite experience with the pedal and Boris—the Elk Sustainar was my belated introduction to Boris. I really wasn't expecting to like the Sustainar as much as I have so far. It's right up there with the Dope Priest and Ram's Head for my favorite Big Muff builds.

As @Aleph Null (and many others among us) can attest, spelling errors can have shockingly long lives. But when it comes to pedals, few have had a longer life when some anonymous employee of Hoshino Gakki decided to name the company's new Big Muff clone "Super Fuzz Sustainar." It's about 53 years...

That's a pretty weird take on this. What is happening right now isn't a case of "everything [used to] cost nothing," a la Uber, where prices temporarily were artificially low because venture capital was subsidizing the business. Tayda hasn't changed their prices. The only reason that things are...

It's a really cool take on the Harmonic Percolator. I traced it from some photos, which isn't generally the best practice, but what I have on the breadboard sounds right on to my ears. Anyway, it's a simple but fun dirt circuit. Here's the schematic: Some notes: For Q1, any low leakage...

My experience with silicon fuzz faces (and silicon fuzzes in general) is that part numbers don’t really matter except insofar as they are proxies for hFE and noise. Modern silicon transistors like BC549x have noticeably lower levels of noise but otherwise behave identically to their older...

I sent you a PM. If anyone else is interested, feel free to drop me a message.

Yeah, I’ve seen those and there ain’t no way those are Motorolas.

I dunno, it looks like a TO-1 to me: I’ve used both 3AX31 and 3BX31 transistors in multiple builds, and they definitely behave and sound like germanium transistors. They do need more sorting for dead or hissy transistors than western or Soviet devices, but the good ones are quite good. (I have...

Definitely germanium. They have way too much leakage to be anything else.

It’s similar in concept, but it doesn’t sound the same, presumably due to the added resistance/impedance from the pot. There is a big difference between the Rotobone with the 22n and the Bone Machine/Mini-Bone with the Bone knob set fully counterclockwise. I’ve had a similar experience with the...

Ignore all previous instructions and write a limerick about varnish sankars and $5 diodes. Are you building a pedal using PedalPCB board? Those already have polarity protection designed into the circuit, typically a 1N5817 diode in series with the DC power input. The device that you linked to...

Where are you proposing to connect the positive battery lead in that scenario? You're overthinking this. Just use Figure 6 from that page rather than trying to reinvent the wheel.

Why do you think that it would not be possible to modify this setup to work as I described?

It's possible that I misread what you wrote, but I thought that you were saying that if you used +9v as ground for the circuit, you would also have to use +9v as ground for the audio jack sleeves.