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I really like the stock superfuzz that I built on a Moonn pcb but it's never seen much action. While it's a fun time on bass, especially considering the era it comes from, it doesn't actually rank that high on my own shelf of bass specific doom. Getting my mitts on a bassified version was most...

This thing is described as fuzz for people who don't like fuzz. One could say it's a neutered tone bender but that wouldn't make for good ad copy. At max gain it is definitely a fuzz but backing the gain down gets you in to fizzy OD territory pretty quickly. I a/b tested with a few things and...

So I'm not super familiar with Lemmy, I had to look him up when Steve Buscemi said "Lemmy IS god" in the movie Airheads. My own ignorance aside, it's definitely an interesting pedal. My only thoughts are that the controls are somewhat subtle but that also means that it's hard to dial in a bad...

So now that my HOG is 20 years old and I've never taken it off my board, I was compelled to hack it up before it becomes "vintage" and worth money. It's only a foot controller after all. I only had to lengthen the led wires so I took the opportunity to change the yellows out for greens. Much...

I definitely didn't need it but I built it anyway. I've already built the Steddi and Nobelium and love them both but I couldn't go on living with only 2 out of the 3 C2CE bass DI boxes in my possession. This one is pretty similar to the Particle Accelerator tonally with the added utility (and...

As one would expect, this thing brings the noise. Glorious, ear splitting, yet useful noise. My only struggle was choosing between a momentary or a normal 3pdt for the oscillation. I've had this weird smaller stomp switch that has a a somewhat unpleasant feeling click in my stash for years that...

My drummer has been using a contact mic on his snare drum as well as a kalimba and some other noise makers with piezo pickups a lot lately. He's been loving the woodpecker for a few months but we struggled to find a distortion that played nice with all of the instruments before landing on the...

My first vero project was a Phat Phuk B and I have really enjoyed that pedal for my hint of grit tones. With the bias backed off its pretty clean so it's also very nice as a boost that adds a fair amount of coloring to the sound. It's designed more to be a grimey bass booster than a real dirt...

First thing, I gotta acknowledge that this is a spite build. Spite aside, I kinda don't hate it. Well... more accurately the things I dislike were fully known to me going in to it. I'm not big on clean blended fuzz so the constant presence of clean signal isn't my jam but it is a good sounding...

It's time again to adorn the clown makeup, a comp hater built yet another comp. Thankfully it's awesome. I was resistant to building this until Robert got the chips in the store. I had seen a few folks mention it as being particularly nice on bass so I did a little digging around on talkbass. I...

My Nobelium has been my go to pre for a while now and I did not build this with the intent to replace it. I look at the nobelium as a platform for my pedals while I probably won't be attaching the Steddi to a board. Maybe a mini rig in the future but my goal is for a more minimalist recording...

This combination of Moonn projects isn't so much about two circuits that needed to be paired up, rather the Try Hard could be added to any other dirt box for some fun times. It's an LDR controlled filter so your highs disappear entirely unless you're in a well lit room. This means it's not...

A friend of mine recently inherited a bunch of gear from a friend who passed away. I went over to help sort through the pedals. There was a lot of good stuff, some W&C muffs, an analogman yats, the wonky dunlop tremolo in a wah enclosure. Most interesting was about 4 or 5 pedals previously...

This is the 4th iteration of the ocelot that I've built. I use only the oct1 voice, no oct2 or dry but find my stock build with this setting too quiet for live use (just like my mid 90's boss OC-2). Most of the methods I tried to increase the volume were flawed, introducing noise and/or...

One of my closest friends told me he had found his favorite dirt sound which was a stack of a Lightspeed into a Blues Breaker. He said "it nails the Neil Young thing." I figured he'd be more likely to use that sound if it only took up one space on his board. No mods, just the two stock circuits...

I've built a few versions of this circuit including the "Fat" one with a single toggle for the fat setting. I'm not sure how that compares to the fat control on this thing. I don't know if this gets any fatter but I'm really enjoying the additional versatility here. Somehow the most subtle...

Happy Halloween y'all! I've been looking at this orange and black enclosure from sbp on my parts shelf for a full year thinking "eh it's not Halloween right now" every time I need a bbs/bb2 so I really was motivated to finish this one up today. I think the Flock happens to make Halloween...

I've now built 3 versions of the Escobedo Ugly Face - the 4 knob from Moonn, the one with lfo control from DEFX and now this nutty thing. The expression control along with 125b footprint makes this my favorite by far. They're all tonally similar but the blend lends to tamer, more useable tones...

Hey @vigilante398 I forgot to order this value for my steddi. I have in hand: 51r 1/8w 53r 1/4w 47r 1/4w Do I go over or under? I don't want to just assume it's audio path and the 1/8 watt will be fine.

Here we have a clone of the Last Gasp Art Laboratories Ripplet. I really enjoy the weirdness of LAL circuits in general but this one's my favorite so far. It's simply a tremolo whose speed is determined by the intensity of your playing. What's more interesting is that you can dig in and...