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I hadn’t thought of that… but now I can’t un-hear it!

Sure! It's truly just a little bit - it's basically R11 and C15. C19 at the input also provides a little filtering too.

Here's my submission for most boring build of 2026: an always-on unity gain buffer. It's... delightfully unremarkable! The opamp is an opa1678. Since that's a dual opamp, it's basically a double-buffer with a little bit of high-frequency filtering between active stages. (And the opa1678 has...

Not for through-hole builds. I have a lighted, magnifying headset that I sometimes used when hand-soldering SMD parts. I've also used it for debugging a few times. Although, for debugging, I've found that my phone's camera zoom is actually the best "magnifying glass" I have.

How does this Royal Blue compare to your Bee Sting/Silver Bee? I've been on the fence about trying out the Royal Blue for a while now.

That's just all kinds of awesome! Super clean, I'd call that reference-quality work. Just beautiful.

So I finally had this design fabricated - and it works! Here's a build report where I used it. I actually ended up changing the design considerably from what I initially posted. The overall concept is the same. But the main difference is that I decided to use a microcontroller for switch...

I finally realized the Buffered bypass "quasi-IC" module I've been working on for a while now. This "Dynamic Haircut v2.0" was designed to be the first victim of the module. But of course the success wasn't realized without a comedy of errors. The long-term goal for the quasi-IC is to have...

R13 and C12 make up the bass filter in the final gain stage. I've built the PedalPCB Sliver, which isn't a Direct Drive, but shares a very similar topology. See the schematic in the build doc. At least with the Sliver circuit, to me, the bass trimpot doesn't offer a huge adjustment. It's...

Nice and neat despite the cramped enclosure! Great job!

I always read it was the other way around, that Duane had the lower wattage amp. To me Dickey had the cleaner tone. In the original recordings, Duane was panned to the left channel, and Dickey was on the right. The Allman Brothers are one of the main reasons I picked up the guitar. I love both...

I believe it's supposed to sit somewhere in the middle between a Tubescreamer and a Timmy. We had some fun with this circuit a few years ago. First @HamishR modified the TSV-808 into the Timbre Man. And then @Chuck D. Bones gave it his treatment.

Nice work on the custom PCB and overall build! At least in your pictures, that green "primer" or whatever it is, mixed with the black textured finish, looks pretty cool. It's almost like a hybrid of their Tango Green (one of my favorites) and Textured Black. @StompBoxParts should make a...

Robert: "Hold my beer."

So I spent some time reviewing the original circuit schematic, and one thing that jumped out at me was that it uses red LEDs for soft-clipping (versus the BAT41s that the modded version uses). I suspected the red LED clippers might give me more of the “crispness” I was looking for. So I modded...

@bluedmc777's build report, Sheepy Love Bee Sting (One Control Silver Bee) brought this circuit to my attention. After reading the build report, I immediately went to Sheepy Love's Bee Sting Product Page so I could look at the schematic. I initially missed the numerous references across the...

Yes indeed. I think the Old Fashioned edges it out though, at least for what I want/need right now.

It's great! It's just that I like the Old Fashioned more, and - at least for my purposes - they serve similar roles.

Sorry for my overly-terse previous reply - I forgot to compliment your great-looking build! Those are two classic circuits, I'm surprised there isn't already a commercial version with them paired like this. As for that "splatty" decay on the BD-2... it's been a while since I've played through...

The BD-2 is infamous for the “splatty” or “crackly” decay.