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This is a report on my build of Dylan159's "Dudson Narrowcast", based on the Hudson Broadcast. I was curious about this pedal because it's supposed to sound like the Hudson Broadcast, but it has no boutique or unusual parts (no OC71, no transformer, no 330U capacitor). You can download the...

More complicated than I expected!

I build pedals. I never said I could play guitar! :) But maybe I can do even better. Here's the gerber files and documentation if you'd like to hear it live.

I read it. IMO it was not worth it given the $40 printing cost. If you have it it's worth reading and some of the iterative examples are good. There's some other good content but it's really out of date - the book is from ~2002 or something. It's really intended for home etching. IIRC he...

I used Getting to Blinky, which is recommended all over the place. It's free and about 3 hours to complete and covers a bunch of aspects of KiCAD, including laying out PCBs and schematics, creating footprints, and creating symbols. Pretty much taught me everything and forum members have been...

Related: are there any good tutorials on tracing? I've looked at the tracing journals from Aion and they're interesting but not really teaching me anything.

It arrived today! Sounds great. The only problem is the cluster of 1U film caps in the center is a little bit too tight. Just a little...

This is a report on my build of the AionFX Azure, based on the Boss CE-2. This was among the top chorus pedals I saw people talking about, so I was excited to build it. Inspiration The inspiration was straightforward: Aion called it the "Azure", the Boss pedal is blue so why not go with the...

I'm by no means an expert, but here's some changes I'd make: Orient all the electrolytic caps the same direction. Makes verification easier and looks tidier. In this case it's natural to put negative down since two are already oriented that way and the other two won't be worse. The lower left...

This thing is a beast...

This is a report on my build of the PPCB Greengage Overdrive, which is based on the EQD Plumes. It doesn't seem like people talk about this pedal much here, but it's a very popular "beginner pedal" recommended on Reddit. As a result, this was one of my very first builds, but it took me a while...

Side jacks?!

I heard about this one when I was researching the Katzenkoenig circuit, but couldn't find a schematic. It sounds like a great pedal!

This is a report on my build of a Catalinbread Katzenkoenig. I'd seen this recommended in a few places, but there's no PPCB board available so I figured I'd give the layout a shot myself. There is an AionFX version (the "Poseidon"). But I like laying out PCBs so here we are. This thing...

Thanks for sharing. Not done, but I'm excited about this one. I haven't built a harmonic tremolo!

Thanks for sharing the build doc! This is a work in progress. :)

I might use it - I have two pedal boards at home, one for the basement and one for upstairs. And now I have two compressors I don't mind using (I really didn't like the Oceanid). I also have the Aion Quartz, partially built on my workbench. But I'm not likely to build another compressor after...

This is a report on Dylan159's "That" Compressor. It looked like an interesting circuit to try putting on a PCB, so I figured I'd give it a shot. I don't know what I was thinking - great idea to put a compressor on a custom PCB when you're the kind of guy who can barely tell compressors are on...

Awkward! Seems like something might have gotten garbled since I resumed the post from a saved draft. Should be there now.

This is a report on the Muffler noise gate. I've been looking for a noise gate, but the Muzzle was out of stock for a while and also relies on a THAT4301 that I can't seem to find anywhere. So I figured I'd try this, although not many people are talking about it. Why not? I don't know. This is a...