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Hi, I have a few Boss and other pedals (some analog, some digital) in my rack that annoyingly power up with the effect disabled. I believe this solution is the least-intrusive way of solving that issue - it simulates a footswitch press after a short delay when powering up. I would have been...

A really unique touch-sensitive, transparent low-gain OD/boost. This gives sparkle to cleans, grit to low-gain and stacks beautifully with amp drive or other pedals. The output volume has plenty of headroom to push an amp into overdrive. The sag control helps to bring in a bit more...

This was a fun build. The switches are a bit fiddly - might try traditional toggles next time. Sounds great as a DI and is amazingly diverse. Bit of noise on the high gain settings but that is to be expected. If you want to use larger box film caps, you can fit some on the underside to...

Hi, I am planning a project involving trying to fit the Arachnid FV-1 PCB into a Boss enclosure. Not sure whether anyone has tried this yet and I couldn't find anything similar in the search. Basically, I had a spare PH-3 enclosure laying around and haven't built an FV-1 pedal yet - I...

Hi, I finished building the Kliche Mini today and it's a great circuit. Something odd happened though. I boxed the circuit and set it up for final testing, having made sockets for the germanium diodes (but I FORGOT to actually add them). It not only worked, but actually sounded fine, even...

Hi, several more downsized builds - this time the Greengage, Spirit Box and Roboto: The Spirit Box PCB is about 1mm too wide for the 1590B enclosure, so it had to be mounted sideways with 9mm pots (and flying leads). Bit of a headache to build in this size box but it turned out well...

I managed to get this PCB into a 1590B with top jacks. Fantastic sound. Tayda drill template I made is here if useful to anyone: Informant 1590B drill template Note, if you try this you will need to use the same (or similar) hardware as the tolerances are slim. I used a compact 3PDT...

This thing is absolutely crushing. I used a Motorola LM308N IC from Smallbear and ended up with a matched set of D9B diodes (after testing matched D9B, D9E, D9K, BAT41 sets). The only issue I have is that when I set the distortion and octave controls both to max, the signal cuts out on heavy...

This was my first KoT build. Unreal sound. Socketed the money diodes and gain setting resistors. Currently using high gain on red side and trying to optimise the switch settings at the moment. Has anyone messed with OPAMPs on this circuit? The NOS Japan 4580s sound great but I have...

Hi! I made a couple more miniaturised builds today. The Teddy Rupture fuzz is to go underneath my pedalboard (activated from a loop-switcher up top) and I couldn't bring myself to make the Thermionic Distortion with internal pots, so decided to meet in the middle with a compact 1590B build...

Hi, I've built a number of circuits designed to fit underneath my mini pedalboard as part of a modular loop setup. This one is the Mercurial Boost which I use as a late-chain EQ. I have a micro loop switcher on top of the board that activates the loops mounted beneath. As I only have about...

Hi, I recently finished this Spirit Box build and extremely happy with the sound and how easy the board was to work with. I made a couple of resistor modifications and replaced the TL072s with OPA2134 ICs which sound as though they have slightly more headroom. I am also quite happy with how...