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So I’ve kind of been on a “transparent overdrive” kick of late. I think that, despite years of trying to convince myself otherwise, light overdrive is just my jam as far as my own personal playing style. So, while I’ve built a lot of higher gain stuff like the Carl Martin Panama, Kraken, Rat...

I’d appreciate any guidance/tips on properly adjusting a wah pedal. I’ve seen a fair number of comments here that adjusting the travel of the pot in relation to the rack is essential for getting the best tone and performance, but I don’t believe I’ve actually seen any specific tips. Of course...

Well, I had never owned (or even played) a Rat. But given that it is such a foundational effect that had been used by artists I admire (including some unexpected candidates, like Peter Buck from REM) I decided I needed to build one. However, my journey to owning a Rat was fraught. Given that I...

OK, cause I’m currently right in the middle of trying to decide if I I’m going to need to start a full troubleshooting thread or instead write a build report (at any given time, on every build, it’s always 50–50) - I’m wondering if maybe what I’m experiencing as an issue isn’t an issue at all...

Since I tend to be more of a “modulation guy“ than a connoisseur of things like different fuzzes and drives, I’d always had a soft spot in my heart for the sound of a gentle envelope filter. I previously built the Waddle Box (my Quackpot build report) but, after living with it a while, I just...

So, as I described in my build report for this, I had some problem soldering in the AB switch on this and had to desolder and replace it. That didn't do much love for the pads on the component side of the board. Now that it's finshed, it's acting funky and I think I'm going to ned to add some...

Not a whole lot to say about this. It’s a passive ABY box that allows you to run your signal to two different amps either individually or in conjunction. That being said, while it’s pretty simple in function and intent, it’s an indispensable tool if you have more than one amplifier, so I...

Like I’m sure most people in this forum, I rely on Tayda a lot. Sometimes it’s a relatively large order, sometimes it’s a “I don’t need it tomorrow” order where I pay $3.99 to have it sent through the mail. In my experience, Hugo has always been professional, friendly, and oriented to customer...

OK, so I kept hearing people say in threads about various pedals that “it’s just a Timmy with some mods“ but I never had any idea what a Timmy was. Since it seemed like a ubiquitous circuit, I decided to investigate further. Once I found out it was a transparent drive and heard some demos, I...

I’m just getting into breadboarding and, since I’m not quite ready to get a Protoboard, I am thinking through ways to handle offboard wiring (I’ll use my Auditorium for power and I/O). At the same time, I’m also still doing stripboard builds and that can also be a real hassle to wire up pots...

I know this forum is mainly for smart people to teach stuff, and not necessarily dumb people like me to ask questions but I wasn’t sure which other forum would be better for this. Obviously I work a lot with PCBs and, of late, more stripboard builds. But stripboards really come with their own...

Now, I remember reading right when I joined this forum to avoid ICs from Tayda - so while I did order some before I joined this forum, I immediately segregated them as “last resort” ICs and only use ICs purchased from Smallbear, StompboxParts, GuitarPCB, etc. But I was building a verified...

If you have followed my past build reports, I’ve been hunting for a good vibe sound while steadfastly trying to avoid building an actual optical vibe. Even though I’ve built easily more than 50 pedals now, I think the thought of all the special parts sourcing – as well as parts I never worked...

So it’s been close to a year since I built my last pedal (although I still check in on this forum daily). The reasons for taking time off or multiple. First, I had built about 45 pedals in the span of two years, many of them just different flavors of the same effect, and felt that I had pretty...

I believe this is the first GuitarPCB board I’ve ever built. I already have a couple of “sort of“ vibes – there is one on my Lectric-FX Karaoke Chorus and another quasi-vibe on my PPCB Circulator - but I wanted a dedicated build. At the same time, I really wasn’t up for the hassle of dealing...

Working on trying to revive an old Digitech pedal (to the extent I can within my abilities). While it is 90% SMD (definitely beyond my abilities) the caps and certain other components are through hole. I suspect that the problem is that someone plugged the pedal into the wrong power supply so...

I was very lucky to acquire a DS-2 board offered by @dan.schumaker in the trading forum. While I had used some Boss pedals in the past long ago (SD-1, OD-2 and CE-2), I’ve never played around with a DS-2, and the Nirvana connection intrigued me so I went for it. The build: it was a pretty...

The Tearjerker was the second or third pedal I ever built about a year ago, and I built it mainly because I had never owned or played a wah before. Given that the Tearjerker is uber-customizable and contains four trim pots in addition to a set of DIP switches, and given my complete lack of...

This will probably be my last build for a little while. I find the process of building incredibly interesting and relaxing – but I’ve pretty much built everything I want or need right now (in fact, multiples of several of them). So I’m waiting until some of the upcoming projects Robert has...

OK, so when you have built as many pedals as I have (*insert self-important Barney Fife sniff*) and put most of them in your chain, you get noise. So for the time being, I’m focusing on “utility“ pedals like an EQ and this noise gate rather than “effects“. Building this as per the BOM, I had...