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Thanks! I hope some of the mods can inspire other members as well!

It’s easier to describe 10 at once. :D

I build the Shin’s Dumbloid Special overdrive outside the enclosure and landed on the jazz setting and thought something was wrong with the pedal. :D In the end I removed the switch because it’s a useless setting with the large cap and sounds like sh*t. The pedal has some amp like tones and with...

The Cobbler (Victory Copper) is an interesting take on a Vox type of pedal. It’s not one of my top favorites but it’s quite useable for chimey Tele sounds to dub guitar parts. ;)

The Modus Operandi (Jackson Amp Mode) is a great boost that keeps the original tone in tact and has a huge amount of boost on tap. Easy build in which I still had to learn to wire the 3PDT. Have found a trick now to do it easier. ;D

The Paragon Mini was quite some work to source and build. I did the drilling in 2 steps to be able to position the 3PDT switches more to the side. I used the warmer mod and carbon film/comp resistors from @ckaudioeffects documented here. One one side I used BA282 and 1n914 and on the other side...

@MichaelW was so great to send me the Cattle driver PCB when he send me some Germanium diodes. The Cattle driver is an easy build and it really delivers some “tube driver” like tones. Nice pedal to have in the stack! The copper enclosures are from Banzai music which are a little thinner than...

I’ve build a Simulcast a few months ago and really liked that pedal. I again hand sanded an aluminium enclosure which I now tend to avoid because it’s too much work. :D I build the Duocast this week and it’s again a great sounding boost to overdrive/fuzz pedal. The two sides make it a little...

I build the Mystery Meat in a BB enclosure and used the same layout as the PRS Horsemeat. I used red band germaniums which I got from @MichaelW and these sound really great in this pedal. It’s a unique sounding pedal with a grainy overdrive that is sounding best for me on a bridge humbucker. ;)

The Dane (Fordoble) is a nice low gain overdrive and boost and the build went smoothly. I don’t like the germanium diodes on the Arche boost side so I keep the switch on the zeners. The mod I made is a top mounted on-off-on switch with on one side a 47nf and the other side a 68nf to reduce the...

I’ve bought a J. Rockett Dude a few years ago and thought it was a cool pedal with lots of gain on tap. I did notice there was some kind of “metallic” character to the sound so I send it back. When I read the mod @HamishR did to it by changing the soft and hard clipping 1n4148 pairs to...

I recently build quite some pedals using Robert’s superb PCBs. Here’s 10 of them. ;) Left to right: - Abider - Fordoble - Mystery Meat - Duocast Left to right: - Cattle Driver - General Tso’s - Paragon Mini - Modus Operandi - Cobbler - Special overdrive I will detail some of them below...

Not sure if you know but you can buy the PCB for the pedal here: https://www.pedalpcb.com/product/pcb517/

Just want to support this mod from @HamishR ! I wired the 2x 1n4148 pair locations on the PCB to a DPDT on/on switch and one side I used 2x 1n4148 symm for both locations. On the other side I uses the suggested 1n4148/1n4001 symm pairs for both locations on the PCB and that really opens the...

What is your favorite way to control and/or reduce brightness in a pedal design? Note that the Arche boost of the Fordoble is followed by the drive side so it can be a too drastic reduction.

I just build a Fordoble boost and overdrive and the Arche boost side is too bright IMO. I discussed this with @HamishR and he suggested using a 2n2 cap in parallel across the 51k which is just before the output which he also mentioned in a forum thread. I tried some higher cap values and IMO...

Great comparison vid Mike! I really like the ADHD, Mojito and Splendiferous which all share a fatter/meatier (chewier ;) ) sound. Maybe some upcoming builds. ;) The difference between the 2 honey bees is indeed obvious. I build my AION HB on the darker side to fatten up single coils for which...

Great build and cool pedal! I use it as a slap back in front of the amp. ;)

I think I did some of the Bearfoot mods. Thinking about building a Mojito next. :)

That’s a cool build and a nice sounding pedal indeed. I’ve build that a while ago on the legacy board as well. It might be interesting to compare some of the values and components I used after experimenting because I get plenty of low end on my build: - I used 2x green 5mm leds - 220nf instead...