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Tbh I'm probably not going to get it anytime soon, I've already got a TC-1 and like I said, don't really need an oscilloscope. But if I do need one at some point, this seems like a reasonably priced option, if only for the oscilloscope itself. At least I haven't seen or heard of any...

Did you end up testing it on better germanium transistors? I ran into an ad for this too, and while frankly I don't need an oscilloscope, it's the cheapest I've ever seen (not that I've looked very closely). The signal generator having issues is not a problem for me, I'm mainly interested in...

Mine doesn't either, the lowest resistance setting works fine.

That sounds like what we usually call "a scam". Well, it could just be a shitty product, but drawing the line between the two is not always easy. Tbh I simulated a tonestack from a pedal in LTSpice and it was faster and easier than I expected, and it felt like I would get a lot faster if I did...

I don't think it's buffered? Since the left side also works when toggled on, all I can think of is that one leg of the footswitch (the input-bypass-leg, I assume C3 in the schematic or pin 9 I guess) has a cold solder joint? Or the footswitch itself has some issue. Input and output both...

Not strictly speaking true, because the switch is a DPDT that also changes the resistance coming from VREF. So if I understood it correctly, it lowers the headroom of the op amp when the high pass frequency is set to a higher value (so less bass). Technically it could cause flubbiness if you...

Yes, you got the first part right. The layouts on the left are for perfboard, you basically create the connections with solder (or wire I guess) as shown on the image. Google perfboard and it will make sense. The bottom right is for etching your own PCB at home, I don't know the details but I...

It's not that they're all shit - I'd even argue that the vast majority of them probably work just fine, and the ones I've built have been fine from a layout perspective. But you can either buy PCB's from people who do actual verification builds and fix issues with them, or you can buy from the...

"I get more pedals done in less time? That does sound better!"

Switch wiring seems fine to me, that was the first suspect. An audio probe would be very useful here, do you have one or can you build one? It's very simple, just a few wires and a cap (100nF would be fine). The schematic shows how the dry and wet signal both arrive at the output mixer, if...

It's vaguely related so I'll share an anecdote. I built the Effects Layouts Sunnbeam a little back, and it was pretty noisy. I thought it might be the random RC4558 chips that were from different places and I wasn't sure if they are all legit. I replaced them with RC4558's from LCSC first (no...

FWIW "a piezo" is basically a contact mic. Acoustic (well, electro-acoustic I guess?) guitars often use them, and you can get bridges with built-in piezo mics so you can add it to a normal guitar. Might need a separate output or extra circuitry otherwise, though. With a bunch of extra...

Well... not really, in practice. There might be some special cases where it might be true (and for some FV-1 based digital effect pedals like the Pythagoras, you switch out the EEPROM which holds the code - so in that case it will be extremely different, but it's a very special case). But most...

I would definitely start by poking wires to see if something has gotten loose. I don't think I've had it happen after a month, but some cold solder joints have come loose after some time. Or rather, maybe they were already loose but were still making contact. However, it's usually intermittent...

The Cioks can literally output 18V though, so no need to do anything fancy there.

There's a couple factors here. For one, low noise isn't really a huge focus in guitar pedals. Guitars are noisy (especially single coils), and a lot of pedals are fuzz which will for a lot of them be noisy no matter what (unless they're gated), so it's not usually worth it to chase low noise...

I forgot to reply to this earlier, but I absolutely agree that if you want the best results, you should probably breadboard it first and figure out which parts you want to use, and then build it straight away with those. Sockets do sometimes help (or would have helped) avoid issues with...

I mean this in the least offensive way possible, but you're basically saying "Ignoring that it doesn't really make any difference in the sound, should I use X or Y?" Just go with what feels best for you IMO, if you want carbon comp resistors because it makes the pedal feel cooler, use carbon...

For future reference, a 10k pot is a 10k pot, you did not change the pot values. What you did change was the pot taper, which basically means "where are the values distributed through the pot's travel". For a clarification check the graph on this page...

It's been pretty much the same price to Finland for a while now too, maybe small increases but more in line with general inflation and COL increases. Not sure how it's right now since IIRC a lot of my DHL packages came through Qatar for whatever reason, so... might be alternative/slower route...