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I've been shopping cheap(ish) baritones semi seriously, and one of the cool looking options is this Jet model...

Based on the Black Arts Toneworks Pharaoh - a muffy fuzz with a useful low/high gain switch, nice EQ, and some clipping options. Plenty of low end coming through for bass too. This made it into my cart based on a rec in the Rig Rundown for the band Elder. This has been out for a while, but if...

I should start watching demos before I order PCBs :ROFLMAO: If I had tried this at the music store I would have written it off immediately. The weirdness/ modulation features in this do stuff in a metallic high frequency digital-y zone that bummed me out. It's cooler than some other shimmer/...

This is a cool circuit! I watched the Keeley video to try and wrap my head around what was going on with the controls - I think he said it's based on a tonebender, but with an active 20db boost/ cut eq similar to a metal zone. He also said he's using a Japanese germanium transistor around 100...

I'm in this game more for the solder fumes than the tone chasing. Builds that don't strike my fancy right away usually just go in the drawer and I move on to something else. This was a rare exception where I put a tiny bit of effort into making something sound different. Built to spec with a...

You know how sometimes a friendly dog will randomly meet a person and decide they don't like them for no reason anyone can figure out? Maybe try taking your hat off? Maybe he doesn't like people with beards? Maybe he smells something on you? I don't really like this pedal but not for any...

Harmonic Tremolo? What the heck is that?? Instead of using the internet and spoiling the surprise, I ordered this board and waited a year to find out. Turns out it's a cool vibey sounding tremolo. I guess kind of what I would have expected from the name. Google / AI gave me this which sounds...

I thought I was going to post the first build report of 2026, but looks like @rwl just beat me to it! I'm always excited to check out a new bird-pedal though, so that's cool. I also had a note to shout out @rwl and @temol for some helpful posts I read while putting this chop shop together re...

I added a bunch of overdrives to my wish list about a year ago when there was a "favorite overdrives" thread going, and I'm just getting around to building some of them. I haven't spent a ton of time with this yet, but so far I like it a lot. I've mostly been into lower gain sounds lately, and...

Fairfield About 900 This is an interesting one. Huge range of sounds, and I like a lot of them. This one is going to hang out on the pedal board for a while. The interesting part is that dialing a particular sound is not that intuitive. Lots of knob tweaking and head scratching. I took a...

The EQD hype machine convinced me to build yet another muff. This one gave me some trouble. It worked right away, but (at least on bass) it was doing some weird sagging and sputtering that didn’t seem right to me. After the third re-boxing and a swap at Robert’s suggestion from 2n5089 to 2n3904...

In honor of the big red big muff everyone’s talking about, I thought I’d throw this Liquid Crystal Fuzz together in a red box. Everything works, but it sounds bad. It’s doing some weird saggy, bloomy, sputtery stuff that I’m pretty sure isn’t right. I pulled it back out of the box and did a...

I bought my first bass about a year ago. I haven't played it a ton, but of course as soon as I got it I started making a list of bass related pedals to add to the build list. This one seemed to get some good reviews from the actual bass players, so onto the list it went. When I first plugged it...

Another cool one from @Aleph Null ! Definitely the most fun of the Belton verbs I've built. The Sway and Saturation controls are particularly nice. Nice layout, great build docs, the only hiccup in the build was that the output jack location lined up the jack tip with one of the tabs on the...

Earlier this year, Benson did a signature fuzz-delay for the band Deep Sea Diver. I watched some videos about it, and fell into a brief internet crush for Jessica Dobson who fronts that band and does some cool stuff. In one of her Rig Rundowns, she said there was some magic in a pedal I hadn't...

I spent a lot of time this summer prepping enclosures, but this is the first pedal I've finished since I did a Magnetron delay in April. I let a friend buy that one, and I've been missing it. I was hoping this would fill that void for me, and it definitely does. Weirdly I've built some noisy...

Hey, Anybody who's hand-drilled a Nobelium want to save me some time and share a scaled printable template? I'm a luddite who likes to hand drill/ mill everything and I don't have any CAD skills. @fmcc @vigilante398 thx!

I’m a little shocked at how good this sounds. Especially considering the relative simplicity and cost, this is really impressive. My favorite kind of dark and dirty delay tone and can do a pretty long delay time without any annoying high frequency noise problems. Also sounds pretty great in...

This would be more fun if I knew some heavier riffs. I spend too much of my time playing acoustic, and nothing I do there sounds cool going through the chainsaw. I had fun with this for a couple hours, but it'll probably end up living in the drawer unless I learn some new chops.

Just noticed this thing on the Tayda site about discount coupons on Facebook. Anyone following them on Facebook? Is that a real thing?