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I built a cigar box amp based on the Runoffgroove Ruby circuit, and the other one was built by our neighbor. How these came to be: My neighbor's daughter took a class on guitar building at Purdue last year, so has an electric guitar but no amp. My neighbor knows I build pedals and kept...

Built this one based on all the positive reviews it gets here (despite the fact that I rarely use or even need a compressor for my home doodling). I realized when testing it that I had no idea how to work this pedal, but found Thorpy's manual so now I'm squared away. I didn't see the LEDs...

When somebody made a best of 2025 builds thread, I realized I had only built one pedal in 2025, and that was a fuzz face for a friend. About time I completed something new. I was able to wrap up two builds this week. It's been a while--my offboard wiring regressed being rusty, so it looks a...

I saw this posted in tdpri. I usually don't like these kind of videos, but this one was wild enough to keep my interest. I think this crowd will appreciate it.

Off topic for pedal forum, but (for some reason) I like y'alls opinions. Anyone here recommend an inexpensive dashboard camera? This weekend, my wife's car was hit by a car that ran a red light. Fortunately there were no injuries other than the cars. With no other witnesses, the other driver...

This is the Madbean BCFUZZ (stands for "business card", but in this case it's for birthday). The theme is birthday cake and sprinkles. This pcb was freebie that bean gave with some order a while ago. I never built it because I didn't need another Fuzz Face. But when I heard my friend is...

While chatgpt and other AI chats seem impressive, they're also so annoying. You can't really count on them for accurate information, and I can't tell the number of times it told me something that was outright wrong. I was trying to google some information and couldn't find it. So I asked...

Just finished up these 2 drives together. Although I keep telling myself I don't need any more overdrives I can't resist. Both of these made it to my wishlist because I was curious about them, but they made it to the shopping cart based on @MichaelW's write-ups. He is the great enabler. The...

FYI Anything I search for is giving me "A server error occurred. Please try again later."

https://www.chaseblisslegacy.com/legacy-blog tl;dr chase bliss is discontinuing selling pedals with vactrols because they can't be legally sold in the EU because they contain hazardous substances.

https://docs.pedalpcb.com/project/BrownBetty-PedalPCB.pdf

I was playing with Amplitude5, and having a good time with one of the pedal simulation it offers. It occurred to me that I don't know which commercial pedal does this? (Especially if there's a DIY PCB available). Is this what the Chaos Machine does?

I'm thinking I need to build a reverb. Given they need belton bricks or fv1s, the cost is more than the average build, so I'd like focus on one or two good ones. What's your favorite and why?

A very hyped pedal. I haven't used it long enough to determine if it lives up to this hype for me. Sounded good to fatten up my Tele as a boost though. To set trims: I started with the gains full up, and the trim at the lowest, and increased until background noise was noticeably louder, then...

As I was boxing yet another one, my wife asked me if I actually use all the pedals I build. "Of course I do honey, I need them all." If my Mach One craps out, I've got the Timmy, and if the Timmy craps out I've got the Red Herring. Triples is better. The reality is I will use it until...

Here's my Octarock. I wrote a bit about it in a troubleshooting thread. After watching some demos, I concluded that perhaps there was nothing wrong with my build other than expectations. I'd still like to get other's opinions on this if you have built it. Initially, I used a whopper of a...

I just put together an Octarock. When I turn up the lower octave all the way, it's like 33% of the clean volume. I can barely hear it. Also, the higher octave is significantly louder than the clean volume, and the upper octave is a bit distorted like a fuzz, whereas I've heard others claim it...

This one was a long time coming. I wasn't expecting to build it, but around 2 years ago I asked @fig for one of his Fig Labs stickers, and he sent me stickers, picks, and this PCB. When fig gives you a pcb and says "go build something", you go build it. It took a while gather parts because it...

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This is only the second compressor pedal I've ever used. The other is an Orange Squeezer I built over a decade ago. That OS is easy--one knob, you turn it up if you want more compression. The Engineer's Thumb, with so many parameters to control, feels more refined. However, I've realized...