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I'll be sitting down with my luthier friend in the next few weeks to explore if it would be worth my while. Last time I went was 2020, which would've worked out great if not for The Plague. I had stuff in like 5 different booths, good times.

I use Nomex sheet or fish paper for my modular PCBs with offboard pots and switches. Generally I do origami boxes and then use velco, dual lock, or double stick gel or foam to secure the box to the enclosure. The way I do it often allows doing mods without even removing the board or pots from...

Which ones? I built up a Crystal Lettuce Black Edition with a few mods to tame the gain a bit, which I really like. I had fun with the graphics too:

I really like the results of the dual limiter approach in the SB amps, FWIW. You might also take a look at Andy Field's patents on the Genz-Benz and Mesa limiter schemes, which strive for something like tube emulation a bit. And then there's a very useful old designer's guide for the old...

@fmcc : you might take a look at the online Traynor service manuals for the SB series amps, which use ASX2 power modules and a pretty simple optical limiting format. I've been using an SB200 head for my friend's weekly bluegrass/Americana jam for the last couple of years, it's actually the only...

Cool, and you're welcome. I had a bit of help from some great people along the way, including the US ICEpower rep at one point. I'm planning on doing a powered cab for acoustic guitar next, which should be a lot simpler and cheaper than the high powered bass stuff. I'm not always too fussed...

Go big, build a Brownout 1000:

Lookin' good. I was deeply involved with the early fEARful crossover design work and still talk to Dave Green fairly regularly. FWIW, I've built DIY amps with both the 700ASC (now 700AS1) and 500ASP modules, The 700AS1 already has a decent regulated +/-15V aux supply, which really simplified...

Fluke 179, somehow I managed to get one on eBay for $125 brand new many years ago by combining a couple of different promotional deals.

A razor saw is a good tool for stuff like that. Yeah, one of these days I'll actually buy one...that's the ticket! ;)

Cool, thanks. The Tayda header pins have always worked fine for me in the Mill Max and similar machined contact DIP sockets, FWIW.

Just curious: why are you mounting SO-23 parts on an SO-8 to DIP-8 adapter? Is that a common hack I'm not aware of, or...?

To be honest, I haven't looked at that aspect very hard yet. I went in with quite a bit of experience with Inkscape, a few trial stints with Illustrator, and lots of experience with other Adobe products like Photoshop and Premiere. Within a few hours I was able to get very good results with...

A heck of a lot easier than Inkscape! I use both though, Inkscape has some very useful features for tweaking fonts, for example. I also like the way it handles measurements a lot more.

Roger that, and something to think about if I ever do any more PCB layouts for DIYers. I‘ve had to kit up components for a number of friends in Europe, I also get how different the parts availability is over there. Edit: Mouser does stock Kemet caps in that footprint too, at right at double the...

Heh, I design most of my onboard preamp and pedal oriented PCBs specifically to leverage the smaller size of the 50V Wimas. I use the 1.5uF and 2.2uF ones quite a bit as well. I could see it being annoying if you don't already order stuff from Mouser all the time though! ;)

How about this: https://www.taydaelectronics.com/wima-mks2-1uf-50v-10-polyester-film-box-type-capacitor.html ? That's the smallest 1uF film cap I'm aware of, I buy them by the 100s from Mouser.

Almost none of my favorite opamps are even available as through-hole parts right now, FWIW. If you start with the larger part sizes and invest in a few properly small soldering iron tips it gets easier pretty quickly, I'm over 70 and do fine hand soldering many things without even using...

https://oshpark.com/ If you find something you want in the shared boards section it's as simple as clicking and paying, then waiting about two weeks for your order to show up. They're a US based vendor and so are the board fabrication houses they contract with. For very small boards like...

I highly recommend this one based on my test results so far, but for the moment you would need to roll quite a bit of the build on your own: https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/digital-bbd-concept-looking-for-comments-and-beta-testers.18909/ Mono --> stereo applications have been my primary...