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I haven't tried a ton of chorus pedals, as rack units were always my thing when I was gigging on bass with effects. The old Rocktron Intellifex was by far my favorite back then, FWIW. But these days I am using pedals occasionally, just as much for the fun of building them as the actual utility...

Thanks for the shout out. There's an undocumented option for adding a "normal" treble band to the Bass/Mids board in the open source pedal design via a small daughtercard. I've done quite a few onboard preamps that way, but I also have an all in one three band job that looks like so: I'm...

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Cool. I still haven't gotten around to doing my first one, which will probably be the stock guitar config since that might work better for a more immediate use case. I "won" the board in an @fig giveaway a couple of years ago, but somehow doing my own designs always seems to come first.

I'm only an hour east of PDX but it still feels like the boonies sometimes when it comes to stuff like this. FedEx has always been great for us, but my wife worked there for many years and I did a few holiday stints and a year and a half as a full time courier, so we might be have been getting...

DHL is by far the worst as far as timely delivery to my location,I think they only come out here once a week. Tayda's slowest boat typically only takes a day or three longer, and if I need something in a hurry Tayda's not where I'm getting it from anyway.

https://www.jbcapacitors.com/Plastic-Film-Capacitors/JFB-Metallized-Polyester-Film-Capacitor.html

Those “eyelets” are through hole vias and mission critical for connecting front and back traces, they are not meant to accommodate any other function. Decoupling needs to be done right at the power pins for max effectiveness anyway, so just do that.;)

In the pic I posted above you can see some of the many utility daughtercards I've had made over the years. They come in very handy for components that I might want to swap out during the prototyping phase, and this is one application where OSHpark really shines on cost effectiveness. It also...

1: I often use Nomex sheet or fish paper to wrap the PCB, then double stick gel, foam, or velcro to secure it: Those are just temp wraps secured with 3M electrical tape, which allow me to do mods to each board without even removing them from the pedal, or replace individual modules pretty...

I misspoke a bit last night, I've now revised the bit about the bass/treble section. It sometimes helps to have the treble section first so that it has less noise in front of it to get boosted, but as usual it comes to down to managing your trade sets. You can do noise analysis in LPspice but...

Best practice is to include a series resistor just in front of the output cap, something in the 200R-1k ohm range is pretty standard. This stabilizes cable capacitance drive issues. You may want to go a bit higher on value on the voltage divider resistors too, I generally go with 220k for my...

Cool, looking forward to seeing that datasheet and more info on applications as you get to it.

For starters, work through the various options here: https://www.jensen-transformers.com/schematics/ Jensen is primarily known for very minimally colored applications, which some people might call "sterile." This is exactly what I prefer in a DI, personally. There's been a strong trend in the...

I'll have to wade through some stuff to find whatever I have, as I swapped computers recently. But it was a super simple build and I've been contemplating doing another one since I still have the buffer and a different Jensen trafo that might actually work even better. You could build your own...

Jensen has or at least had schematics for a few nice passive ones on their website, definitely comparable to the JDI. I may have copies if you can't readily find them. I also made a very good sounding active one using a Creation Audio Labs Redeemer buffer coupled with a Jensen line level...

I have a Goldtone Dojo (banjo dobro hybrid) wired like that, it works great. One caveat is that you want to keep the output cable as short as is reasonably possible if using an unbuffered piezo element. I've done a variety of breakout boxes and blend/EQ boxes and settled on this one for the...

For SOIC-8 to DIP-8 I just buy half a dozen through OSHpark every year or two, at $0.95 for three, shipped. As you say, doing your own layout is dead simple, and there are probably design shares at OSH if you look hard enough. But I'd just buy bigger ones from Robert if I were already ordering...

Yeah, PPCB first of course, but I have various open source utilty board designs ready to go for stuff like that. I don’t have them up on Github and Oshpark yet but it wouldn’t take to make that happen. All of them use SMD opamps and resistors though, if that’s a deal breaker. Notthing super...

I'll probably be in for a few of the discounted ones, but I still haven't even broken out the one with the edge connector you sent me since I have been plenty busy with the original version. Yet another heat wave may keep me out of my shop for the rest of the week, but getting set up for stereo...