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I harvested my tants from a failed project so I've done my good deed for the year

I drew this up - it's the same circuit as before (Mastema Drive) but laid out on a 1590bb with everything mounted to the board. If this were a pedal I would make, I would use the audio jacks that have a collar nut that secures from the outside. The power jack would be recessed, and the LED trim...

That looks great! I love the striking blue PCB

I love seeing old Fender and Gibson guitars that have a big ceramic capacitor for the tone control. I think of this kind of discussion every time. https://www.rickn-guitars.com/electricals/gib_electricals.html NOS High Voltage Ceramic... "excellent sounding" It may be that the limitations...

I use MLCC when the only alternative is a ceramic cap, or if there isn't space on the board for a film, or if for some reason the build doc calls for it. For instance, I'm building an Aion Xenotron, which needs 100nF MLCC's for the power supply and BBD filtering sections. Typical values for an...

It's okay. It's worth taking the time to do it slowly and cleanly because it'll save you more time later on This is a Skylight Overdrive, it's a Mad Professor Sky Blue circuit. Just remember with soldering, go slow and try to enjoy it. You will develop speed thru repetition.

The most common culprit is poor soldering. In your power jack alone you can see stray strands of wire. That kind of thing needs to be cut short. When you solder, start by stripping off 1/4" of insulation from the wire, twisting the strands together, then tinning the wire. Tinning is when you...

I've noticed what seems like your earlier layouts are 1590b sized and the component fit is very tight, like on the Seabed Delay. I like these boards as they look great and are very satisfying to build. The (presumably) later boards have components spaced further away from each other. Is there an...

Go in and clean up your wires esp at the power plug. Also your input jack connections are backwards. The ground is correct but the bottom lead in your pic should go to the battery

I have a couple sets of these which I like because they are configurable - the drawer housings come apart so you can set them up however you want. I also have two of these, which take up a lot of space, but it's really nice having an entire drawer for each resistor value

Dang, I never even thought of that. I'll try to keep that in mind with the next one. The power is DC and the signal path is low voltage so hopefully it'll be ok!

This is my first shot at a PCB - I went for an MXR Il Diavolo, one of the first pedals I really liked. I wanted it to be a certain layout so it can fit it in a double board project I have in mind. It was difficult to figure out the priority some of the components need when being laid out. Also...

That looks much better! I've never liked any of EQD's modulation pedals... or their dirt pedals. I have a Sproing Deluxe coming up that uses an LED and a photoresistor that I'm excited about. Try the Moonshot Tremolo for a more traditional trem

I can't decide whether I like harmonic tremolo or not - it's neither a vibe, nor a real tremolo Try some of these knobs

If you're still new to this, pick up a couple boards from Aionfx - his board docs are very thorough and friendly to newcomers who aren't familiar enough to be able to put the pieces together on your own. I hope you can understand that without any info on what board you have or the ability to...

I would just send the company your question about the board and see what they say.

All you need to do is conduct a study using your own pedals as a sample. How many of them have you had to retighten a year down the road? The only thing I've had to retighten are power jacks - both the bigger and smaller type, as they do not have a retaining washer, just a thin nut. So for my...

Yeah, it's true. The spring force they put on the nut acts as a lubricant for the rotational force that undoes the nut I just tighten mine up with a regular washer. When I mount my jacks, I do it so the inner housing of the jack rests against a wall of the enclosure so that if they do come...

Double check that none of the solder pads are passing signal to the ground plane where it's been nicked Generally a lack of signal means the signal path is shorted to ground somewhere so probe around to see if you can find it Look really close and see if there are any fine strands of solder...

That's really cool. I've been working on a template strategy in my head for a while now and one of the questions is should I size the holes to match the smallest diameter of the step bit for the hole, or the largest? The step bits tend to wander so I don't think matching the smallest step is the...