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This is a report on my build of the EQD Acapulco Gold. This was one of my very first builds, and I've now built several. I started with the PPCB El Sol Distortion, but ended up making my own PCB for this one. I saw this in some "favorites" lists when I first started and I think this might still...

I made another one of these for sale, including the border and shift label. It's definitely better than before, but still not quite what I wanted - the border is a little too black rather than being a brownish. Maybe if I get a third one made :)

This thread has inspired my to get pre-cut wires. Will see how AliExpress works - my part orders from them got cancelled and never delivered. I think push-on knobs tend to look uglier, and my supply of pots is partly 6mm and partly 6.35mm. I have seen some knob positioning tools that at least...

I've started making a modest number of pedals for sale at a local guitar store - dropping off 3-4 at a time. I'm doing this to basically try to break even on the hobby, use up spare boards and parts, etc. I really enjoy soldering, and don't mind placing resistors, capacitors, ICs, transistors...

Since this is a pretty simple build, and it's not just another fuzz/overdrive, I figured I'd try to sell some at a local music store. This gave me a chance to make a few of the tweaks I wanted. This is what I ended up with, and I'm pretty happy with it, though I think I might change the name to...

I've been making a few of these to sell at a local music store, since it's a pretty unique-sounding pedal, and I started tweaking the fonts a bit. I ended up with the design below, which I'm pretty happy with.

I should visit Australia again

This is a report on my build of the Tube Bender, a circuit that was first published by Dan Coggins in Guitar Magazine, in 2003, and which I think received some changes to become the Dinosaural Tube Bender. You can find the gerbers here. Inspiration For this pedal I went with an allegory based...

I put it onto my pedalboard in the effects loop, and did some testing. There was no difference in tone whatsoever after two different types of muff, a harmonic boost, a KoT, a Sweet Honey and a Bluesbreaker clone (I didn't muck around with settings much so this is really contextual). Basically I...

How embarrassing. I've added them.

This is a report on my build of the Electrovibe Mini, based on the Shin-Ei Uni-Vibe. I knew I had to build this canonical pedal, and it's pretty widely recommended on this forum. Inspiration I wasn't sure what kind of bird to base the pedal on, but a sort of pun based on the 'vibe' in the...

Not sure I understand what you mean. If you're referring to the version I posted here compared to the github layout that has Cybercow's tweaks... I used the LM358 rather than RC4558 and updated the caps. I personally preferred the 2N3904 to 2N5088 for transistors since I don't really care for...

I'm revisiting this pedal! This was one of my favorite fuzzes, and such a straightforward circuit. But I was never very happy with my enclosure design... it was among my least favorite. The pyramids were weirdly skewed, which always bugged me, and the falcon was basically just a posterized image...

This is a report on my build of the classic Home-Wrecker Nurse Quacky circuit. I built this pedal because I had a little voice whispering in my ear. A voice that said "this is it. This is your chance to be the very first. You could do it. You could create the first Mary Tyler Moore-inspired...

I am not at all an expert here but I've laid out between 35-50 boards and none had the problems you've described (besides some hiss on circuits that are described as noisy in the original pedal). I make mistakes but it's usually mislabeled components or poorly sized footprints. I basically...

PMed, thanks!

Do you have the build guide for the Tonitrus?

Nothing seems more Texas than grackles and HEBs. There's some very mechanical-sounding birds. Red-winged blackbirds are really mechanical. Starlings sound like aliens.

This is a report on my build of Dylan159's Pelota2, using a board from @szukalski. You can find Szukalski's gerber here. I made this pedal about a year ago and thought I'd already posted a build report, then realized it was missing. Here you go! Inspiration With a delay pedal, I wanted to...

No update recently. As Cybercow mentioned, he and I have been looking at this, I've double-checked the schema, the layout, the components - and I'm not sure what's going on. If I could sit down for a day and really dig into it I might be able to figure it out, but I haven't had the time. If I...