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I’m going through some mental health stuff lately and building pedals has been so helpful to give me small manageable projects. Some of my new meds are making it easier to attempt the more ambitious ones. Thanks for all the kudos, it means a lot.

Full tweed coverage for the enclosure really makes this pedal. Nothing to say about it, super straight forward build and it sounds exactly how you expect. It’s now the first drive in my chain, crunching everything up when I slam it on. The toughest part was being precise with the tweed, I had...

That’s beautiful thanks for sharing!

Mind sharing your schematic? I want to build something like that in a Princeton chassis.

I think I did pretty good for my second try at water slide!

This is based on the Shrapnel overdrive by PedalPCB, a clone of the ThorpyFX Gunshot. I was interested because I found I love my compressor which is a clone of Thorpy’s General comp. Once I put it together I loved the sound, but didn’t know how to do it justice with an enclosure. So I put it on...

They are the exact same circuit, just a different layout.

I only tested a few of the bunch, not all. The smallbear estimate is close, mine were 0.2 ish

Oh of course, I didn’t even think of that. The volume pot is after the buffer, so it isn’t what is distorting, it’s the board itself. I did try it without the buffer and didn’t notice much volume loss, so maybe I can eliminate it… that would save space in my enclosure!

I haven’t played much with it yet, so I’ll get back to you once I dial it in. I have noticed distortion at higher levels, so I might try to set a max gain from the buffer circuit. No, this board takes 3.3v or 5v only. I have some other more powerful boards that I’m going to use to build some...

This is the board: 2pcs Robojax Audio Amplifier DIY Board Module XPT8871 Super Mini Digital Amplifier 5W (Mono, Single Speaker) https://a.co/d/63mzcAm

I wanted something to be a backup to my tube amps, and something I can easily attach to my pedalboard. Reading through the thread on the TPA3118 power amp board, I realized I could do it! I found some tiny simple amplifier boards that run off 5v, so I can use the USB port on my Fender Engine...

They both have a bunch of buffers, so that’s absolutely helpful haha.

I have thought about building this pedal for a few months now. The Blues Driver was the first drive pedal I vibed with but me being a tinkerer, I had to modify it. I went with Monte Allums’ mod as it was my first mod, it blew me away, and I was hooked on the modding/building hobby. The Tumnus...

Oh and I chose some new knobs so I could tell which side is which when it’s off 🤣

Well I torched this board, I think the same thing happened as with my first life pedal build, a short to ground from a scratch through the surface of the PCB. So I knuckled up and bought a new board, pulling the components I needed from the old board. Last build I used 1n34 diodes in both...

I deleted the 15k resistor at the end of the reverb side before going to the switch. This brought the volume back up to unity. I’m thinking it might work if you replaced it with a 1.5k resistor, but I don’t notice a difference just deleting it. This puts the pedal back on my board.

Oddly I get the opposite, a volume drop when reverb is engaged. Edit weeks later: I realize now that we were both describing the same thing, only from different perspectives, and I just realized it today 🤣🤦‍♂️

I had previously built a standard Kliché mini but it just felt bland, nothing appealing enough to knock my Tumnus off my board. The Kliché Special Edition is the klone I needed! When I saw the mock-up, I knew I wanted to build it. Look at those pots tastefully arrayed in a nonstandard...

I had previously built a life pedal but it never quite worked correctly, the boost had an odd delay before kicking in. It sounded amazing, but the boost bothered me. So I attempted to repair it, broke a pad and somehow solder leaked to a tiny scratch which shorted the signal to ground in a...