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I just built a FET City Drive today - it sounds great! But I want to hear other folks experience of this pedal - I can't find much. Mine is quite noisy unless gain is low - Has anyone else experienced this or am I just shit at building PCBs? It also doesn't do low gain - would using 2N7000...

I have finally got around to building the Jump Drive PCB I have had sitting on my desk for ages, and I am so glad I did! It's excellent! I have played and repaired a few old small box '68 50W Plexis and they are one of my favourite amps. The amp I use daily is based on that circuit, built into a...

See this why I love building my own... I really like the BJF designed Baby Blue Overdrive but it sounded a bit thin with my Strat. So Chuck suggested how I could add a bass pot. This circuit is kind of fuzz-meets-overdrive. It's not a particularly twangy or "transparent" OD (Sorry for the TGP...

I'm building a Sandblaster Fuzz with one of Robert's lovely PCBs. I'm wondering about the transistors - I have some BC182Ls which I believe from my research are pretty much BC182Bs with a different pinout. So I'm wondering whether I should do the twisty leg thing with those or just use 2N3904s...

After loving the Diamond Peak and modding it to add a bass pot with Chuck's inestimable help I looked around to find more interesting Skreddy designs - Marc Ahlfs is an incredible designer. And I apologise if I spelled his name wrong! So when I saw my local music shop had an Animals Pedals...

Lately I've been building Red Llamas with the CD4069 chip - because I was given a bunch of 4069s by a friend. It probably sounds exactly the same as a 4049 but at least the 4069 is two pins smaller! The two-knob version seems to sound better to me and it really does sound good with the 4069...

I've been amazed at just how good the Kalundra sounds, and how versatile it can be. I have made a few simple mods to mine which make it even more usable (for me) as I am no shredder or user of high gain. All I have done is get rid of the Width pot and R6, change R4 to 10K and change the Gain...

A while back a friend found a heap of obscure ICs and knowing that I dabble in amps and pedals he brought them around to see if I could use them. Amongst them was a tube of 4069UBDC 14 pin ICs. I drew up a layout for a version of the Red Llama to try with this chip then promptly forgot about it...

I am looking at the schematic for the White Washer Distortion and C3 and C4 are two 1µF caps in parallel to VRF. Surely I could just use a single 2µ2? Is Mr Black using up his bulk shipment of 1µ caps?

I actually built the electronic parts of these almost a year ago. I built the cabs and then they sat there most of the year as I psyched myself up for the tolexing. And now they are done. Both are 1x12 combos with Celestion G12H speakers. I have posted pics of the interiors before so here are...

Reading @MichaelW 's post about his TS-808 build reminded me about my own experiments with that circuit. As someone who uses very few pedals in a chain and dislikes most buffers I wanted to try building a TS-808 without the transistor stages. Then I thought that I might as well add a Bass pot...

Having built a Kadundra Distortion I was quite impressed with the overall sound, but found it way too gainy for a Gretsch player like me! I wondered if it could become virtually an overdrive. I also wanted some control over that ferocious low end. R5 and C4 are, I suspect, a big part of the...

I can't believe it's an original design. I've been experimenting with the circuit and getting some decent results. Anyone see where it's come from? I can't put my finger on it.

I'm thinking of building a Hen's Tooth Distortion which calls for a JRC5534. As it's a single op-amp chip I thought maybe I could use a TL071 or CA3130. But looking at the schematic it looks like the compensation cap goes between pins 1 and 5. So do I need to buy a JRC5534 which I will probably...

Being based on the Rat pedal the Honey Bee uses a CA3130 single op-amp chip and a 2N5457 JFET. To over-simplify it's a two gain stage pedal. Could we make it with a dual op-amp chip like the TL072 etc? Obviously it won't sound exactly the same but how close could we get? And is there a dual...

Just built a Zorkmid but it sounds a bit weird. Do we have a schematic or at least a pic of the PCB with values written on it so that I can check my work?

Looking at the schematic it looks like the second chip does barely anything - is it there just to bump up the level a bit? If I was to build it with just the one IC would it be a bit quiet?

If so I think it's next on my list of things to build.

I can't imagine it would be easy. I have a Boss DM2-W which I really like except that whenever I plug it in it really affects my signal. I can hear that the guitar sound I have gone to such lengths to make as good sounding as it can be has lost punch as soon as the DM2-W gets involved. I like...

I'm looking inside a pedal I like and it has this tiny component I assume is a cap. As far as I can tell the markings are MRL and 650 - it might be MAL. But I think MRL is more likely. Is this a 65pF cap?