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Great build, as always! Are those knobs black? It might just be the lighting but they look kind of silver. Good look, either way. So how does the mids control work? I feel like the mid-scoop of the Big Muff is core to its sound… but it’s also the Achilles heel when it comes to fitting in a...

Agree with the above comments: great looking build period; stellar first build. I’ve built a lot and mine still don’t always come out this nice. Thanks for sharing and welcome!

Perhaps homing pigeons in training could be called honing pigeons. They haven't yet fully developed their abilities to find their way home, so they are still honing that skill. Hence, honing pigeons. :)

It's been a rough day at work, I can't wait to get hone. I'm going to relax by sharpening my knives. I find homing a good edge to be very cathartic.

I'm not 100% on this, but I seem to recall Kevin/Aion saying that he has those resistors custom made. They are high-quality/name-brand 1% (or better), he has the values printed on with numbers, to make it more approachable/eaiser for new builders who don't want to have to reference color codes...

Nice build! It looks like you hard-soldered it to buffered bypass... this is the way. :) I really like this drive too, enough that I created my own custom PCB for it. I would never pay $600 for a retail version, but it's worth a DIY build for sure. It does appear to be a somewhat unique...

No sound when engaged is likely a short somewhere. Remove power, use your multimeter/continuity checker and look for a short between ground and the signal path. Even before that, look for an obvious short, e.g. pot housing touching an I/O jack, solder bridges, unclipped component lead touching...

With tube amps vs solid state amps. the output transformer is born out of necessity rather than for tone-shaping. Tube circuitry runs at extremely high voltages and relatively small currents. The output transformer lowers the voltage and thus increases available current to drive the...

Nice box of antennas, that. Surely that spaghetti mess is more susceptible to EMI/RFI noise, input-output coupling, etc... i.e., all the stuff a halfway-decent PCB layout helps defend against? Or it just goes to show how forgiving (some) effect circuits are?

Looks great, appreciate the shout-out. Lots of great, friendly, helpful and generous folks on this forum. One of my earlier builds (before I joined this forum) was the Aion Andromeda, which is their take on the ODR-1 circuit. I love the sound of that drive, but could never get the EQ to sit...

That sparkly green looks great! Where can I get one?

I can no longer edit post #38: I just had another total failure. This was on a bare aluminum enclosure. When I started to peel away the transfer film, it initially looked good, but then the dried DSMP that was stuck to the enclosure "ripped". So then it became such that there were huge...

Here's my clone of the Barber LTD SR. I used the PedalPCB Sliver schematic, along with @Route14's Sliver -> Barber LTD SR component value swaps to turn it into a LTD SR ("Special Recipe"). I call it "Special Haircuts, LLC". I know, terrible name. You might be thinking, didn't we just see...

Related: someone on TDPRI posted a gutshot of the Orange Super Crush 100 in this thread, Solid State amp recommendation needed. You can't see it in the picture, but the poster says there are two TDA7294 chips. (He also mistakenly says these are class-D, which is incorrect, so take his...

I never created such a design, but it's always been on my "want to do" list. It should absolutely work, and makes the actual 4053 wiring cleaner because you save on coupling caps and bias resistors.

Ahhh, so classic discussion forum noise that boils down to "my opinion is objective truth, and everyone who disagrees is stupid and sucks!". Common on web forums, and before that I saw it on USENET, and before that I saw it on dial-up bulletin board systems. I try to adhere to the actual real...

What's a "BCA type"? Thank you!

I’ve since sold that build. What scratched the itch much better for me is the Aion Tachyon, which is the lead side of the Boss SD-2. I can also get fairly close to the Tachon/SD-2 lead side with the Old Fashioned (tweaked Skreddy Major), either with the gain cranked, and/or boosted with another...

I finished up my Delegate Compressor (Boneyard Edition), based on the Earthquaker Devices The Warden. Here's Chuck's Delegate (Warden) Upgrades thread where he describes the changes made to the circuit. The build itself was unremarkable, everything went together and appears to work correctly...

I keep meaning to post pics, but: I've since done two more enclosures where, before applying the actual decal, I first applied about three coats of Dishwasher Safe Mod Podge (DSMP), waiting two hours between applications, and then baking for an hour at 200F. The difference between these and...