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Alright, I promised I would give some more info on this when I had more time to play with it, so I guess now is the time to do that. I backed this thing on Kickstarter almost a year ago now, and I've had the printer for a couple weeks, and I guess I've had the ink for one week. One of the main...

I've had this one ready to go and actually had boards on hand since about August, I just couldn't be bothered to write the damn build doc. I got it all together today, so this thing is up for sale now. It's kind of a neat circuit, it's pretty similar to a Fender Bandmaster/Alembic F-2B preamp...

It's getting close to that time again. I'm not going to be exhibiting this year, but I'm thinking seriously about making the trip just to hang out and network. Anyone here planning to be there?

Got back from vacation Monday and found the Q-Tune box sitting on my doorstep, finally got around to putting it together tonight. I used machined sockets instead of the included leaf-style ones as I've had bad experiences with those, and I also decided not to socket the relays as I figure...

Hey everyone! @bean has been super cool in hosting a year-end zoom call meetup the last couple years and it's been awesome to hang out and talk shop, and in the last call it was mentioned that it would be nice to do these more often, so the idea was put out to do a mid-year call! What: Open...

Previously those of us in the US have been spoiled; imported goods from China have been exempt from import duties if they were less than $800 in value. I had gotten used to breaking up my large PCB orders to make sure each one is below $800, since the 25% duty always ended up costing more than...

For the past several years I've catered largely to bassists, since they tend to be largely underserved in the pedal world. One thing that pretty much every bassist needs is a good sounding D.I., because nobody is going to bring their 8x10 stack to a bar gig for $50. Nobelium is still hands down...

I'm a simple man, I like subtle reverb. I don't need to sound like I'm playing in a massive underground cathedral, I just want my reverb to sound like spring reverb. But none of my amps have reverb, so I need something. I came up with this circuit years ago but never really did much with it, so...

Quick heads-up for everyone that didn't hear the news already, C2C Electronics will be taking a break starting June 15. The break is mostly for me to focus on some changes to my production pedal lineup, but I also want to get some work done on the C2C end like build docs. One big thing I'm...

I got a message on one of my reverb listings that surprised me until I saw the name at the bottom (which I've redacted). This guy is one of the guitarists in my band and one of my good friends, so the message made a lot more sense. We proceeded to haggle and discuss the economy in general.

Matchless has always been one of my favorite brands out there, so I guess it was only a matter of time before I got to this one. The Matchless Vibrobox is an all-tube tremolo/clean preamp with a vaguely Vox-ish flavor. Mirage Tremolo takes the Matchless circuit into a 1590BB enclosure, getting...

I was hoping to have a tube tremolo project for everyone, but I built it up last night and I hate it. So until I can get you something else to play with, I had a couple requests for a Bassman preamp and something Kingsley, so I spun up Bassdude and King Nothing. These have been fully verified...

I was trying to decide which thread I wanted to keep spamming with this, then I remembered I have my own section here, so I can leave everyone else alone and post my garbage here. I'll start with background: Six months or so ago I picked up a 15W "Stage Right" amp from Monoprice when they were...

Time for my annual "is anyone going to NAMM this year?" post :P It's a little earlier than usual this year since I'm finally getting a booth, so I have to plan further ahead. I'll be in the "Innovator Showcase" with all the other little guys in the back, I'm booth 4246. I'm mostly going to be...

This is one I've been working with Jeff (@C2C Electronics ) on for months, and I'm finally ready enough to mention it. I did the general design and let Jeff handle the PCB, and we're both really proud of how this one turned out. It's obviously not based on anything in particular (*wink-wink*)...

One of the guitarists in my band uses a Victory V4 Countess for his main tone, and we always talked about having me trace it and build a clone that's smaller and more convenient, but nothing ever became of it. Well on tuesday night we had practice at my place, and we're practicing again here...

It was requested that I put together some Tayda drill templates for my DIY projects for those that are inclined to use that sort of thing. These have all been verified for fit with the corresponding PCB. Please tag me in any build reports using these. Not because I need them for my records or...

I'm in a meeting for my day job and one of our suppliers was talking about a PCB fabrication issue they were having, and they used the term "head-in-pillow defect", which I had never heard of before. It's more or less unique to SMD so it's not something we come across often in hobby stuff, but...

This one was mentioned in another thread, and it got me thinking that it would be a pretty good DIY project. This will be based off the original Hotbox, which is not true bypass. The footswitch switches between two channels, clean and gain, and it will all fit into a 1590BB. I'm not done with...