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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...

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...

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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?

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...

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...

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...

Nice low-part-count overdrive. It's pretty transparent, and doesn't have much gain on tap. But it sounds good for adding some grit or boost, and I can see why this is a popular pedal--I was really enjoying the sounds I got when testing it, stacked with a prince of tone. I biased transistors...

I repurposed an old Disarray pedal. The Disarray is from an early batch of pedals I built after discovering PedalPCB. At first, I liked it, but after building a bunch more drives, came to realize I'd never choose it over others that cover the same ground (and it was very dark sounding)...

The blue side of my Pro-10 is really loud, especially in contrast to green side. Unity volume comes on really early (like 8'oclock) and just gets super loud from there. It uses a 5K volume pot, and I'm wondering if swapping it with a 100K pot would bring the range into what I find on most...

I don't have a lot of experience with octave circuits. I built a Green Ringer once, but I didn't like it at all, and ended up pulling it so I could use the enclosure for something better. I saw some demo of the Foxx Tone Machine and it sounded really good, so decided to give this circuit a try...

I've been building a Dead End FX Eva circuit. I put the holes for power and jacks off to one side to allow room for the Ge transistors. However, I neglected to notice that there are box caps there, so my hole locations won't work. Now I'm looking around for alternate locations, and I don't...

Hi, sometimes octave pedals work better when some components are matched--for example, I hear the Fuzzy Foxx you should try to get diodes with the same Vf. Does Octrarock have any components that should be matched?

I was reading the last Premier Guitar issue (the pedal issue), and there's an article that walks through how to build a BYOC delay pedal. One thing that caught my eye was this tip: Do you really shutoff your iron between steps? I only shut if off if it's not going to be used for like 30...

I've built a handful of fuzzes, and while they've all had their charms, I'm not a regular fuzz user. When I built the Fuzz Aldrin, I found it way more versatile, mostly because while it does the fuzz thing, dialing back the fuzz yields some great overdrive/distortion sounds that rivaled any of...

Has anyone built both and done an A/B test? They both have similar mosfet boost stage. From what I can tell, the Modus has a slightly different gain structure (adding a cap to the gain path), and adds a post buffer+filter. What does that extra stuff actually do?

I had high expectations for this pedal given I like MIABs and several people here sing its praises. So far it doesn't disappoint. I used j201s, except for Q3 where there's an out-of-spec 2n5457 (following ChuckDBone's advice to ensure it has higher ISS than Q4). Kudos to Robert for putting...