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Here is my Distortr build. I tend to like discreet transistor circuits and I had to add this to the collection. It sounds great, very open and lively, not at all compressed like a lot of overdrives. Pretty much the opposite of a tube screamer. The gain switch adds a bit of volume as well as...

Hi all, here's a Skylight OD build. I made a Resinite OD and liked it a lot so I tried another Mad Professor style creation. It's interesting in that it has an external impedance control, which loads the pickups like a fuzz face and allows the guitar's vol control to clean up the distortion...

I built an uberdrive and it didn't have the same kind of gain as the original boss pedal so it found its way into the cabinet. It calls for a pair of 2SC732 transistors, which are kaput, and a quick google search returned that the sub is 2SC1815. I poked around on mouser using their filters...

I just built one of these but the board I had used a single gang pot for the texture control. The current pic of the board shows a dual gang. I checked the schem but it hasn't been updated yet. What was the change for? https://www.pedalpcb.com/product/skylight/

In ye olden times I owned a J Rockett Boing, which is meant to be simulating a Fender spring reverb. When I got into this I picked up a Sproing to compare it. Along the way I also purchased a Luxury 763 (Lovepedal Blackface) to compare it to my Fender Deluxe Reverb. Then I thought - why not...

I made one of these in the past in a horizontal format but I wanted to make a normal one too. Here's how we started I took off the bottom two pots as I wanted to change the setup. This board also has a random 18k LED resistor so I pulled that out as well in exchange for a 4.7k All the wires...

Hi all, today I put together this Twill Deluxe. I built a Dielectric Boost a while back but I was looking for something similar I could put in a 1590B and came across this. This is a similar makeup in that it's an electra, but there's a toggle switch for different clipping diodes, and one of the...

One of my favorite pedals companies is Jam Pedals. I love their aesthetic and simplicity. I wanted to make something like their Ripply Fall, but modulation circuits are too big to just mash together and call it good. So I picked a cool chorus and put it in a 1590bb along with feetswitch to...

A while ago I had an MXR tremolo pedal that had a setting where the tremolo would happen faster the louder you played. Ie if you strum a loud chord and let it ring out, the tremolo would start fast and slow down as the chord decayed in volume. That pedal was digital. Is it possible to do that...

I took a break from my fail of a Ceasar Chorus build (can't get the relay bypass to work right) to put a new pickup in my guitar. I like my strat but it sounds weak in the bridge, so today I did this I started by making the template This is good I put some glue on the ends of the pieces...

I have a build I'm using one of these for. I'd like to be able to switch on and off the LED indicator by placing the switch on the anode side of the LED, due to the way my pedal is set up. I have the LED connected to the LFO of a chorus pedal and I'm using a tricolor since there are other...

I'd like to get into PCB production but the minimum order of 5 units at JLC is meh. I'm thinking it would be cool to make a PCB for a gain pedal that can be populated one way to produce one type of gain pedal, or another way for a different sound. Like those model car kits that came with extra...

Hi all, I just put together a Ceasar Chorus. I get bypass fine, but when I turn on the pedal, the rate LED is steady and there is no chorusing at all. The preamp is working, and it sounds good, but none of the knobs do anything, nor does the switch. I'm using NOS MN3102/3207 chips from Small...

On the back of the Basic Relay Bypass board there is a drawing for an LED using two of the legs of Q4. What is this for?

I built this board a long time ago and it's been on the back burner until now. I went thru a few different ideas about how to get the pot to go where I wanted it to on the board. I roached one of the solder pads removing and installing the pot going thru different ideas. I wanted the pedal to...

Hi all, today I built this Starting with the layout To make this work, the circuit board has to be slightly off center. The best way to accomplish that is to install the 3 pots on the bottom row like so and leave them a bit loose, but mostly tightened, then fit the circuit board on top...

Hi all, today I build an Abyss. Spoiler: the LFO has issues Marking out the layout. I'm doing a horizontal build for this one Here is some of the wiring. I off boarded 3 of the pots. The RGB wires you can see here are for the top center pot. They go around and underneath to its position...

At home I have a dual tier 20" x 8" pedalboard but when I play out I like to bring a much smaller 14" x 5" board and bring just the basics - a couple overdrive pedals, and I use my amp's built in effects - reverb and tremolo. It's a Fender amp and it has one of these which is a super annoying...

Hi all, I had a request from a customer yesterday about procuring a stereo delay. He specifically wanted a small form factor one, so I recommended a DD-8, but not until looking into it for a bit. In my thought experiment, I came up with the idea of using two DMD-2 boards, one with an FV-1 chip...

I purchase my enclosures from amazon atm, but they come in with somewhat of an oily coating and I have to spend time scrubbing them with isopropyl alcohol until they are clean before I can paint them. Prep is the most important part of this whole process so I scrub them very hard and my hands...