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I recently commented on Sunnyscopa film-free laser jet waterslide decals in this thread: Waterslide paper suggestion. There it was mentioned that there is new/different glue that now comes with these waterslide decals, and that it's process is different than the old glue/aka transfer agent...

This is my build of the Aion Cepheus Amp Overdrive based on the Cornish CC-1. Aion's description of this pedal and Cornish pedals in general is good; he goes into even more detail in the tracing journal. The same board can be used to build the higher-gain GC-1; Aion's build docs have the BOMs...

I have someone who wants me to build a phaser, either a clone of the EHX Small Stone, or the Boss PH-1R. Looks like Aion has boards for both of these, the Sunstone OTA Phaser and the Emerald Resonant Phaser, respectively. I haven't even played a phaser, let alone built one, in decades. The...

A few years ago, I build the PedalPCB Ember Boost, which is based on the TC Electronic Spark Booster. This is marketed as boost, which it certainly is, but the "fat" and "mid" modes also make it useful as a light overdrive; the Baxandall tone stack gives it a fairly flexible EQ. The core...

This is yet another revision of my "Hard Rock Pinnacle Purebred Drive", which is a @Chuck D. Bones modification of the Animals Diamond Peak Overdrive. Here is the build report for the first PCB revision, here is the second. I actually did a one-off third revision, see here. The third revision...

Here's my build of The Fingers Overdrive. This is a PedalPCB original. I believe it is essentially a Timmy, but with discrete transistors instead of opamps. I actually populated the board several weeks ago, but never got around to boxing it up. I got the incentive to box it up when I...

The default resistor footprints in KiCad are basically just rectangles. This, at-a-glance, makes them look very similar to the box film capacitor footprints. It appears other programs have "shaped" resistor footprints. For example, I think all PedalPCB PCB resistor footprints are not...

Here's my Tube Bender Deluxe. This circuit draws inspiration from the Dinosaural Tube Bender (offered by PedalPCB as the Pipe Stretcher), but has been given the hot-rodded treatment by our resident circuit expert, @Chuck D. Bones. (I haven't built or played the Pipe Stretcher or Tube Bender...

Here's a PCB that's been sitting in my "to build" pile for over two years. Is is the Dragons Breath Boost, based on the Catalinbread Naga Viper Boost. The Naga Viper is of course an evolution of the Rangemaster Treble Boost. What motivated me to finally build this was reading about the...

It works! See here for the background: Plug-n-Play Buffered Electrical Bypass Using CD4053 and Momentary SPST. In short, it's a dedicated circuit and PCB that does two things: (1) always-on buffer, and (2) electrical bypass via CD4053. This is essentially how Boss pedals do buffering and...

Not directly a pedal question, but I know many around here have changed their electric guitar's pickups and/or pickup wiring. I went to simplify the wiring of one of my guitars (change a 5-way pickup switch to 3-way). The stock wiring basically uses the metal case of the pots as a ground bus...

A couple weeks ago, I started a thread with the same title over at DIYstompboxes: Plug-n-Play Buffered Electrical Bypass Using CD4053 and Momentary SPST. I want to create a buffered electrical bypass scheme activated by a momentary SPST switch (similar conceptually to what is found in most Boss...

This is my second Aion Amethyst build. Here's my first. My wife got me the MN3005 and the CT3101 from @Cabintech for Xmas. My previous build used the (much cheaper) 3205 BBD. The main reason I was interested in the more spendy 3005 BBD chip is that it can run at a higher voltage, and I...

I'm fortunate to live on a street with several people who play instruments and like to play in bands. So every year, a few other guys and me get together as a band to play our annual neighborhood block party. I made this Paragon as a gift for my friend/neighbor (who's a great player!). He...

There's no shortage of positive feedback around here for the Mercurial Boost - add me to the list of endorsers! I built this with the intent of generally using it as a lead boost. I've been using my Prismatic EQ for that role (and it works great for that). But I thought the Mercurial/Vario...

This is my second Aion Hexeract, I built my first about 2.5 years ago. It feels like it was much farther in the past that I built that! And looking at my Reverb sales, I let it go early this year - that also feels much longer past! This is of course a clone of the EHX "Hot Tubes". What's...

I briefly owned the actual Boss version of this a while ago. They are readily available, fairly cheap brand new, and super cheap used. So with this circuit, going DIY is absolutely about the love of DIY! I remember being not terribly thrilled with it, and sold it fairly quickly. But when...

I just checked my order history - I've been sitting on this PCB for over two years! It's the AionFX Andromeda Deluxe Natural Overdrive, based on the Nordland ODR-C. Plenty has been written about this circuit's predecessor, the Nobels ODR-1. The Nordland ODR-C attempts to retain everything...

This circuit - the Ibanez MT-10 Mostortion - has had some hype on gear forums, after some Nashville super-player hype (similar to how the hype for the Nobels ODR-1 got its start). AionFX does a great writeup on this circuit on the Quantum MOSFET Distortion product page. Incidentally, I...

As I've mentioned in a few recent posts, I'm really taken with the modified Animal Diamond Peak drive designed by @Chuck D. Bones. I created a PCB for this circuit earlier this year, and called it the "Hard Rock Pinnacle Purebred Drive", see my build report. I recently revised the PCB. The...