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I built this board almost a year ago but it kept getting pushed to the back burner in favor of more exciting (drive) pedals. I'm making a big push to complete my backlog and this is part of that. I wasn't sure what to expect from this pedal as all the demos online are kinda funky and weird, but...

Here's my second time building one of these. Univibe is my favorite effect but my Photon Vibe is down at the moment (when will they be in stock so I can redo it? I have an enclosure painted and drilled waiting for it but something is wrong with my board and the LFO doesn't work) so this will...

This is an interesting little fuzz. Like a Fuzz Face, the Fuzz dial you pretty much have to dime the Fuzz control to get a good sound, but it's a bit smoother than a FF. It sounds like a more vintage (less refined) version of my Sour Grape fuzz. The tone control is a nice feature. The Fuzz dial...

I've been on an "amp in a box" kick lately and just finished up this Brownout Overdrive. The pedal art on the original is AC/DC themed with their font and the lightning bolt, but AC/DC was never known for using a variac, so I'm not sure why Subdecay chose that name. The "Brownout" name also...

Hi all, I'm getting no sound from my recently built Powersound. I audioprobed it and I have signal up until pin 2 of Q1, but nothing on pin 3, which makes me think the VCC is wacky. What voltage should I be getting at pins 2 and 8 of the 1044? I'm currently getting 4.5v at pin 2, 8.9v at pin 8...

Here's one from my most recent batch of pedals. A while ago found a guy on reddit who does custom knobs, and I asked him to make me a set of transparent orange 1" MXR knobs. When I painted this enclosure I realized they would be perfect for this color scheme. i went back and forth between...

I'm trying to do a thing with a pedal that has a spdt on/off/on switch. I'd like to use a dpdt instead and use the second set of contacts to illuminate two LED's depending on switch position. So pos 1, green LED on, pos 3, blue LED on. But here's the kicker - pos 2, both on. Is there a clever...

I did this for a fellow on reverb. He wanted his Eddy pedal to have better knobs, so we did this. He also wanted to make the vibe/chorus toggle switch into a footswitch. Here's where we start. Two of the pots didn't survive diassembly Controls are on one board, while most of the other stuff...

Here's my build of a Circulator. I built a Phasor 2 a while back and thought it would be fun to make this one, with LM13700's. These chips were hard to find at first - I could only find smd versions and I was pricing out adapter plates, and then I saw they are in stock at PPCB! Here's the gut...

I bought this board a while ago as it's small and I wanted to see what kind of enclosure I could fit it in. This is what I came up with. I've built a lot of 1590G's in the past but they are kinda disappointing because they require side jacks and that makes them end up with a bigger footprint...

I'm checking out the design for one of the relay bypasses available on the site, and IC2 on this one is a 9v power regulator used to establish VCC for the circuit. My question is what is the point of having the regulator if the voltage coming in from the power supply is also 9v?

Here's another one I've been working on I bought this and the Special Sacue almost a year ago. I completed the Sauce a few months ago but I wasn't feeling this one at the time so I put it off. Inspiration finally striked (strook?) and I ended up with this enclosure. When I was building it...

Here's my Levitation build. I've had this PCB for almost two years and it's finally boxed up! I made a Spirit Echo (or whatever its called) as one of my first pedals. This circuit is meant to be an evolution of that idea with more controls. I like that it has the short/long toggle switch, and...

Today I thought "wouldn't it be nice to just design a layout for my knobs and stuff on a computer program and send it to a CNC so I can change layouts around as I wish rather than wasting time on templates, or even worse, spending what seems like an hour drilling out each enclosure checking each...

This year I've been doing mainly outdoor projects - making a new workbench and storage setup in the garage, car projects, cutting up a drum kit. Today I needed to clean up out there so I could make room for phase 2 of the new storage setup, but I took one step outside and about faced right back...

I've been trying to put this together for like six months I've tried 4 times to get the colors right for this. It is hard. I'm going for a yellow and brown tweed inspired thing but these two colors hate each other. The brown always comes out too dark or too light and the yellow is usually too...

I tried out a couple new primers, in addition to changing my work flow so that I scrub my enclosures with iso moments before painting them. This one worked pretty well. Two mist coats followed by two heavier coats. This was a customer request, and he wanted a metallic blue finish. One of the...

I had a guy message me on reverb asking for something like the CTC Unobtanium. I sent him a few Dumble circuits and we settled on the Gladio single channel. He asked for a Fat switch for the Klon, which changes the value of C7 to something like 150nF. I haven't had the best luck with my primer...

I'm putting one of these together and came across C3, C4, and C100 & C101. C3 and 4 on the silkscreen are 220nF but have the footprint of small electrolytic caps. In the build doc they are listed as tantalum. I don't have 0.22uF tants but I do have 0.47uF. Can I use this instead? Are they just...

This didn't start off as a spite build - it became one. I've been working thru the backlog of older boards. This was my first attempt at SMD soldering. It was a little scary at first but I watched a couple vids and it wasn't that hard to pick up. I built this before the weird voltage chip...