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Love the G&L love! My #1 is a US-made G&L ASAT Special. It was a custom job that popped up on Reverb for a killer deal: ebony fretboard, quartersawn neck, body contour cut, stainless steel frets. I added locking tuners and sent the body to Ilitch Electronics, who installed a passive...

At slightly higher cost, consider the LP2950 regulator instead of the 78Lxx series. The actual dropout voltage is smaller, which makes it a bit more efficient/waste less power. AP7375 also looks good, but I think it's surface mount only.

Great-looking build and great writeup! I think your daughter's design does look more "artistic" or "professional", for lack of better words, but I do like the Forest Gump design too. This appears to be the v1 Tim... @Robert, has there been enough breathing time yet?

I called Chuck's Hybrid Fuzz Driver Deluxe the "Fuzzy Mutt", but I like you guys' 70s classic rock- and fantasy-inspired names better. I just finished Jordan's entire Wheel of Time series, and am looking for more epic fantasy. I'd never heard of the Elric series before this, and it looks to...

Welcome to the addiction, err, I mean club! My first builds (emphasis on the plural) definitely didn't look that good. One thing: maybe it's just the camera angle, but it looks like the resistors that go to the indicator LED are awful close to the switch wiring (the LED cathode ("K") in...

The bias trim TR1 10k trimpot - is there a target voltage for one of the nets? Or is it trim to taste?

I think this is how it looks with the midcut omitted. At least at a high-level, the topology now looks a lot like the Diamond Peak/"holy trinity" circuits, but with the added output buffer. Not saying it's the same of course. The OG trinity all have the same topology but not too much sonic...

I built all three of the "holy trinity" a few years ago... and I still have a Yankee Screwdriver Deluxe Turbo PCB in my "needs debugging" pile. But I've been rocking the Animals Diamond Peak circuit for over a year now, which is a record for me. So I'll definitely want to give this circuit a...

Technically, the schematic in post #73 above, but it's essentially the same as #1. Ahh, yes, I should have caught that! I suppose the parallel trick probably works best for linear taper pots, right? Anyway, thanks! Great circuit, and I have spare PCBs for anyone who wants one!

I built up a prototype based on the boost-only schematic posted above. Some questions... For the J113 Vp, per these instructions: In this scheme, the JFET source pin is left open (only connected to the DMM), right? Assuming I measured the the JFET correctly, the closest to the suggested...

How does the Zefram fit those toggle switches at the top of the enclosure, without interfering with the input and power jacks? @Robert did you happen to take a picture of the guts? I'm guessing those must be super tiny switches and connected to the PCB via wires? Or maybe all the I/O (jacks...

This is yet another revision of my "Hard Rock Pinnacle Purebred Drive", which is a @Chuck D. Bones modification of the Animals Diamond Peak Overdrive. Here is the build report for the first PCB revision, here is the second. I actually did a one-off third revision, see here. The third revision...

I used it on a gig Saturday night, worked and sounded great! I used it for lower-gain/edge-of-breakup stuff, and also to push my Hard Rock Pinnacle.

Here's my build of The Fingers Overdrive. This is a PedalPCB original. I believe it is essentially a Timmy, but with discrete transistors instead of opamps. I actually populated the board several weeks ago, but never got around to boxing it up. I got the incentive to box it up when I...

A trivial design correction, two weeks, and a non-trivial amount of cash later, I now have fully working buffered bypass modules!

When I just want an image of my PCB layout, I use my OS'es built-in screen capture tool.

I originally started with Eagle, back in 2016. At the time, KiCad either didn't exist or I simply wasn't aware of it. I was active on diyAudio back then, and Eagle seemed to be the default everyone recommended. I didn't have any frame of reference for comparison, having never used any...

Agreed, woeful was probably too strong of a word. Honest question, as I've never done either: what's the effort and final result difference when comparing self-etched PCBs against vero board? This absolutely, 100%! I definitely got a little out of the book, but even if I didn't get anything...

I got this book as a birthday gift, and read it. I agree with most of the comments above: it's not bad by any means, but is woefully out of date. I kinda-sorta have been doing his "stamp" method, though having it explained explicitly was useful. In particular, it seems obvious now, but I like...

The default resistor footprints in KiCad are basically just rectangles. This, at-a-glance, makes them look very similar to the box film capacitor footprints. It appears other programs have "shaped" resistor footprints. For example, I think all PedalPCB PCB resistor footprints are not...