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So I'm doing a surface mount board for the first time. I've done a few dozen though hole projects, etc. It's going to require a different strategy I guess! In my through hole designs it sure is nice to have the option of FRONT or BACK (2 sided board) due to the nature of "through holes"...

you've seen the FrogPedals? https://frogpedals.com/index.php/product-category/pcb-products/tube-preamp-pcbs/

I'll never do etching again.... its not just the etching, the drilling, cutting, etc ughhh. The pcb software (I've used Kicad) takes a bit to get used to but with a bach of 5-10 small boards for ~$10shipped (pcbshopper) I'll never do etching again. May take awhile to get em, but saves me a ton...

options 1) photoshop it, print it on transfer paper, iron it to bare PCB, etch PCB, drill PCB. Several hours, lots of work - outcome depends on how good you are but will probably look like crap. alternately use a sharpie on the PCB and then etch. old skool style! 2) point to point on perf...

they dont really "cut" very easy btw. File - maybe a little, just be careful of the "dust" (dont breath it) Make SURE there are really no traces for you you damage- they can be pretty small, and covered by the solder mask. I think most of these are double sided tracks, but there's usually one...

I know way off topic, but the forum has a really nice clean look to it. Is it custom or opensource or ??? I used to do websites but that was AGES ago. I'm probably pretty far behind the times....

looks like a cool pedal to build - any place (USA) that you can get the V3207 though??

just thin 0.040"-0.,060" cut and polished aluminum with clear waterslide decals and clear coat.

yep - huge holiday everything shuts down

I honestly didn't have enough time to really compare before I got lazy and just installed the VTL. They're nice but hard to find. I had some left over so though might as well just go with them and be done with it. The Aion Electronics version of the compressor specified them vs making a...

This might be interesting - but sounds like your's is working fine I tested a bunch and just wound up going with VTL54C that I had left over. https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/what-green-leds-for-general-tso.2729/ Very cool!

thanks - I thought the "B" might be ok but wasnt sure. Tayda has those.

Need a bunch of BC560C (not B) for a project(s). Mouser/Digikey are phased out (they have the BC550C) and tayda has the BC560B. Any sources that are reliable? Looking for about 40-50 parts. There's China - are these likely counterfits or too cheap to bother...

keeping my eyes peeled.....

The good old inxpensive TL072 is FET input just like OPA2134. Im running it in my optical compressor and it sounds great. I do have some of the OPA2134s but have not seen (heard) the need to swap it in

I've used it (code blocks and GCC) to develop an entire suite of DLLs for some of our test equipment (frequency response, plotting, spc, dsp, etc.) and it's been very robust. This is on Windows though -just checked and yeah: last windows update was march 2020 and mac was dec 2013! o_O:(

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How many do you need? I have about 1000 metal can 2N2222's. Just tested a handful with my cheapo tester and they range from 100 to 200

My thoughts exactly

Thanks - I'm just going to use the MLCC. Especially since this is not exactly a "hifi" type of pedal like a compressor or super clean boost or anything.