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Since we have 4 dimensions of futzing here, do you all recommend a standard order of setting operations that can be productively employed before I dive in randomly? Like, set coupling caps>filter caps>transistor biasing>diodes?

Forgive the ignorance. By filter caps, you mean C2, 5, and 8 (the 470pf?) or the caps in the tone section (c10/11)?

Obviously I breadboarded to futz around with the circuit. For those who have futzed with muffs, particularly in the bass persuasion-- any recommendations to try? Right now I have 5088s in for Q1-4 and 1N4148s for the clippers.

Look what I made for the muffin board

Dudes, the Tremulus Lune/Trembling Loon builds are definitely the way to go. Pretty sure it's not harmonic, as I seem to remember a coming soon project that was supposed to be a tremulus lune controls-style harmonic trem. Pendulus Lune? Something like that.

Thank you much, folks. High praise from people who are actually making cool things happen in the circuit world, and notably @Erik S , whose impeccably immaculate wiring skills I can only hope to approach when I grow up.

Et voilà. This pedal kicks. I really liked the sound of the original name. "Animals" just resonated with me.

Well, it's done. I just can't level up past my amateur aesthetics. I guess I have to embrace the way of the blutac, because folks post some * popping * PTP pro circuits up on Reddit and are like, "yeah, second circuit ever. Easy, but could have done better." And I'm like Eff You, you (in...

Progress. I didn't bother doing my blow-by-blow this time. This time I decided to build the whole circuit and then tie it in. It's basically a copy of the schematic as it's been a while and I wasn't feeling particularly ambitious. Ground rail is to the right, 9v rail to the left. Major tie...

Here's the final incarnation of the Obsidius aka Mictlán, and a bonus circulator with boneyard mods aka Xochipilli. 2 are going to a chicano friend from Tucson, so I figured Aztec mythology could be cool, chac mool. Mictlán is the Aztec land of the dead. Heaviness and darkness and all that...

I'm going to pirate * = built this year Last year my list was Corroder Trembling loon Deflector/Afterneath Moonn dromtydning 3 channel mixer *1. Chuck D. Bones mod Diablo/Deofol The OG pedal made my top five in '23, but mein gott, the modded version. I've already gone on and on about it...

Again at the request of forum members, we have arrived at that time of year. ✨ ✨ 💖 Top Five 💖 time!!! ✨ ✨ Now with sparkles. The rules are simple: what are your top five circuits this year? Not 6, not 10, only ✨ 5 ✨. You decide the criteria: ranked/unranked, could be best of five...

If it is in fact a ground, what I was trying to say is that it doesn't matter. You can obliterate the pad, as long as you tie the ground of the component to something connected to ground, then the circuit is happy. You may have fried the component, but in my experience capacitors and...

Or you can heat the pad with solder block for 5 seconds or so and quickly rap the board on something more or less solid. The solder will splat out BTW in my point to point excursions, I've discovered that grounds are not very picky about who they go with or how they get there, as long as they...

Just ordered some breadboards and they are normal with sticky backing; they also shipped with two nonmagnetic steel sheets. Same footprint as the breadboards. What are these for?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/17/music-manufacture-industry-trump-tariff

I hate to retoot a horn, but I just wanted to tell anybody reading this in the future after some decent time playing and exploring confirming my initial impressions: Eff yes, do all the mods. It might be ambitious and a pain in some cases, but it is WELL worth it. The original pedal is great...

A lot of power supplies have 9v and 18v sockets. You didn't accidentally plug into 18v perchance?

Amen to what HamishR had to say about 'Murrica and poverty. Amen to the obscenity that any one living human could own 1 billion dollars, let alone multiple billions. Especially if you think about it in physical terms. And comparative terms. On the origins of America, class, Hamilton vs...