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Upon @HamishR 's enthusiastic suggestion (thanks, bud!), I had a go at this circuit. The breadboarding was super dumb, but I struggled through it, loved the Marshall Big Rock sound it gave, and of course I had to try to PTP the thing. This time, though, I had a concept and did graphics and...

A while back I breadboarded this and was thinking of dropping it from the build list. Gain, gain, gain, fuzz, fuzz, fuzz, blah, blah, blah. Seen it, done it, got the Conan shirt. Then it came up in rotation and I breadboarded it again, since I had all the parts. Boy, I'm glad I did. This is...

Trying to build up a BlueBeard on an old Muffin board, but I can't find the unrevised schematic (pre-tone bypass). Anybody know where I can find it? I could suss it out with continuity tracing, but I'm trying to take the lazy way. Nevermind, found it via google...

Well, I'm recovering from minor surgery and high on opioids (prescription!) so maybe it's messing with my procedural logic and aesthetics. Lots of good things already written about the figbuster/cluster fuzz/moonn f(x)=fuzzyness2 and I've reported on the latter's differences. This is just a...

Well, I'm not going to pretend like this one didn't give some trouble. Mostly because I let the first stage sprawl a bit, and it cramped everything else and made soldering through little windows not super fun. Forgot a resistor in the power section, melted a cap, banged up the array a bit with...

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...

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?

I have a very stubborn 6-pin transformer that won't GTFO of my Neurocyton board. I already had a Neurocyton board that sounded like ass, so I went at it again with a new board, put in the MMBF JFETS in ascending order of IDSS, took special care to solder everything correctly. Aaaaand, being a...

Well looky here at what I made this evening with some sweet and massive mojo parts kindly gifted to me by @jwin615 that he acquired from a defunct police radio repair shop. Lots of crazy things like an N-D MOS (???), capacitors rolled in paper, and transistors I've never heard of. And very...

Mannnnn, I *really* productively struggled with this one. Tried implementing the mods in my old beloved o.g. deofol and ended up with questionable sound quality and an eventually non functional circuit. What was I going to do? Was I going to lay down and die? No. I tried to do it on a new...

Having tristesses modding the Windmill, so I needed a confidence booster, and built these circuits. [Edit: oops, forgot signal chain: Yamaha 735a (passive mode)>pedals>Sunn Sonaro with bright boost on, tone stack at 12, 2x15 cabinet, volume 2ish (I have neighbors with a baby).] I had built the...

Hey folks, It's been a frustrating week with pedal builds and mods. Finally measured all of my SMD J201s so I could implement the optimal OKKO Diablo/Deofol JFET cascade, and the crown jewel, the only 0.93 IDSS I have pinged off my chest and into the wilds of my basement when I was trying to...

I am trying to follow Chucks wisdom rebuilding the Deofol with properly sequenced J201s. But I've run out of through-hole, so now I have 20 little grains of effing rice to try to measure to find target IDSS and VP. I thought it would be as easy as making a viable test bed and plugging it in to...

For those of you with experience with this unit-- Gearing up to build one--do you feel that a blend would benefit the circuit a la Darkglass, or would it be kind of beside the point? I learned that it originated in my very own backyard--Atomic Music in Beltsville, MD. I've bought two guitars...

Having built the Aion TS50b, I was pretty dang underwhelmed with the circuit. Not a lot of punch, not a lot of dirt, kinda tepid and limp. Jesus Lizard? More like Buddha Newt. I realize some bass amps are like this. I rechecked the refdes and all and all, as well as crossreferenced to the...

So.... Finished this this evening complete with all boneyard mods, and it is phasering and doing what phasers should do, but Besides being a tad dark, It has MASSIVE gain (and no gain/volume knob). Like I have to turn down my guitar volume to 2 for unity. 10 is like quadruple gain with heavy...

For the sake of posterity and avoidance of future builder frustrations: Well, I did me a troubleshoot. Finished this duophase after being away and plugged it in with anticipation, but no. First, both LEDs were on, no sound except for strangled braps of distorted signal. Did I want to...

Built the Moonn "Cyberpunk Touch" and "Drone a Little Drone", but forgot to order pcb mount barrel jacks. So, I just soldered in some wires from a regular 9v enclosure jack to the PCB jack pads, ground to the round pad in front, and hot to the square pad in back. Didn't bother with the switch...

... any best practices? Since I have been on the mats in circuit dojo with sensei Bones, the importance of measuring jfets and IDSS and whatnot has become apparent. I have ye olde TC151 Amazon/Ebay made in China transistor tester. So how do I measure a grain of rice? Tack solder some...

My praise strat guitar dude coworker wanted a transparent overdrive, so I kicked him my old Cerulean build with the aion 18v breakout board. Since I rarely do decor, thought I'd put this out for posterity. The graphic is his custom and ridiculous request. Did some creative sanding, and...