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  1. gonzo

    Potential Dark Riff Board Issue?

    Took me a bit to troubleshoot the delay only repeating once, until I found R10 and C10 weren't making contact. I tried reflowing to no avail, so I ending up adding a jumper wire to the two points ( see the bottom most wire hanging off the board). After looking on here, I've seen a few people...
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    The homemade capacitor

    Saw this today. I've seen some people try it with success, but probably limited to guitar electronics as the value probably is hard to get right. Anyone ever wrap their own capacitors?
  3. gonzo

    Silvertone 1484 Pedal Build

    Finished this up this week. This is my slightly tweaked version of an emulation or recreation of the drive gain circuit of a Silvertone 1484. There are a bunch of schematics of these online. Looks like something Run Off Groove would post. I can't figure out where it originated from. It's a...
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    First Tube Build

    Found a value tube 12au7 for ¥100 at a shop here in Japan($1). Thought I'd give this old layout a try after many years of wanting to. Basically similar to the Chandler tube driver's tube end section. Which many of you know as a Matsumin valvecaster. I started breadboarding the Chandler up...
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    Tube pedal with parallel tap. Voltage regulator or voltage divider

    I've made a simple tube overdrive with a single 12au7. Which has a 9 pin that can split the two heaters in pins 4&5 to run in parallel. So I can run the two heaters at 6 volts each to total the 12 volts the tube likes to see. In series I run it at 9 volts and it still sounds great, just less...
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    Can you prolong a germanium transistor's life?

    So I've had these AF106 transistors for many years sitting in a bag. The other day I decided to just make some rangemasters out of them. Might sell a few, but I'm worried about their lifespan. One was low gain a year ago and now it's dead. The other two are fine. I was reading these are a...
  7. gonzo

    Brass master build

    Took maybe 10 hours to build and another 10 to trouble shoot one loose resistor. Lots of parts for a Vero board, but I managed. Sounds killer on guitar and even better on bass. Might be my new favorite bass fuzz. Used oddball transistors 2sc1815 and 2n5306 Darlington, everything else stock...
  8. gonzo

    Haarp build with modes notated

    She was a success. Fun pedal to get lost in. I tried my best to notate the modes and the scales or patterns based on a c note being played, if it helps anyone.
  9. gonzo

    Organ donor success.

    Finished this and a haarp in 4 hours flat. New record. Easy straight forward build. Love the sound. Always wanted a POG, but this gets pretty close and tracks better than my digitech whammy pedal. The quirks that make it sound like an organ is an extra bonus. One of my bands has a tune...
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    Heterodyne mini build

    Finally finished mine after sourcing all the parts here in Japan. Cd4046 was the hardest to find from the chips. Still have the wrong switch for the dpdt, but it works in two modes for now. Only setback I had was the Tl072 wasn't connected enough. It was working one minute but not the next...
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