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I have an old one and the Waza one. The original I removed two caps that I think disables one of the gyrator mid peaking filters (too lazy to look it up) and it makes it much more usable as a distortion or boost pedal. the custom mode is nice on the Waza, more modern/refined sounding and it has...

thanks, I think flat head just generally look a bit nicer than Phillips, and I love how brass looks as it ages. And I figured that color would work well with the body color.

No floyds? Too bad! This is an American deluxe from 2006, bought new and it was my first electric guitar after a couple years of playing only acoustic. It’s always played well but I was never been super impressed by the sound, so it didn’t get a lot of play over the years. Eventually I sat...

There must be something in current production that says LM308 on top, whether it is authentic to the originals or just something else relabelled, who knows. A few of the cheap Chinese rat clones use an “LM308” and the Mooer black secret (also rat clone) uses an SMD “LM308”. Never seen an SMD one...

In my opinion, load box + reamp is the way forward. there’s good reason why the likes of the TAE, and power station, are so popular. I built a reactive load box (tweaked values to match the impedence curve of my cab), I run tube amps into the load box, then reamp using a solidstate power amp so...

Voltage and current levels within a pedal are typically too low for any noticeable crosstalk between traces, as far as I know. At least I’ve never had a problem (that I know about)

Hard clipping needs to go to ground. That drawing would be a coring circuit like D4/D5 before it and it also wouldn’t do anything unless you cut the trace between those to joints. if you want to do switchable hard clipping, remove D6/D7, and put your switch in place of one of the diodes. for...

Very nice, looks great. Love the knobs. I almost bought some repro ones like that on eBay but couldn’t quite stomach the price. As much as I love the 125b enclosures, it just doesn’t feel right to use such a small enclosure for a muff, so mine is in a 1590bb.

Nice, I love seeing stuff like this. I tried making a small ‘single step’ attenuator (-7db, if memory serves) based on JohnH’s design but at the time I was focused mostly on taming my Mesa rectifier in modern mode, which has no negative feedback in that mode, and the less negative feedback...

sounds like there may be a wiring issue or a wrong part somewhere, my Triangulum is about the same output as my integral with the bass at zero, and my real tc pre with bass at zero. actually, the integral preamp is slightly louder than my real tc pre. the 33/grind modes should sound almost...

The 33/grind settings cut bass by design, meant to make a loose high gain amp sound very tight with a guitar. I doubt the fortin 33/grind settings will be useful for bass. the tc preamp setting won’t cut bass unless you turn the bass lower than noon though. So that should be useful with bass as...

I haven’t built this specific model, but I did build the Triangulum (just the 33) and the Integral (tc pre clone) as well as I have made tagboard tc pre clones in the past and have an original. They’re all the same circuit but with a fixed eq for the fortin models, rather than adjustable. the...

I wish boss would have implemented something like this with the Waza pedals, I’ve seen people like VFE have selectable relay true bypass or buffered bypass on their pedals. I don’t see a reason why boss couldn’t. I find having a buffer at the start of the pedalboard to be preferable but 5...

New germanium diode pedal name - the leaky Russian

Thermionic distortion here also. That’s a vintage pcb these days.

This looks cool, it’s going on my list. I’ve been considering lately, buying like 100 SMD j201’s and 5457’s off mouser, and some of those adapter boards, and doing my own, at least I’d be set for a while, and not have to pay £2 each. But is a normal soldering iron suitable for tacking on SMD’s...

I’ve got one of those mega328 testers and i think they have trouble with jfets, I tried testing some brand new SMD j201’s and it also thought they were BJT. I bought them from a reputable seller and I’ve never heard of fake SMD j201’s as they are still in production and dirt cheap, so I used...

Jeez you guys make me feel a lot better about myself. I usually only order about 5 or 6 PCB’s at a time, and order parts in batches of 3, then when I sit down to do a pedal I’ll usually complete it start to finish in one day. I never order more until the current lineup is done, really want to...

30 pedals later....