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Hello all, recently I've been pondering and laying out a DIY option for a junction box with some fun twists. It would be designed to go under the board and act as the central hub for signal routing. Signal flow as follows: 1. Passive In/Out (For Fuzzes) 2. Buffered In/Out (probably going to...

Just wrapped up a Klone, using Bat41s. Overall sounds great. For the artwork, I wanted to make another in the same style as my first pedal build, an Archer Clean (Kliche Boost) clone I called the Seraphim. A biblically accurate Cherubim was the logical choice. Happy with how it turned out, and...

Working through my queue of pedals and a Morning Glory clone is up next. I’m a little underwhelmed with this one. I mainly play worship so I’m sure it’ll be very useful. I was just hoping for a touch more gain on tap. I might try the Parthenon PCB if I do another Bluesbreaker circuit. I forgot...

This pedal build has taken me on a journey. The evidence of this is littered all over this board like a tumbleweed in the wild west. Starting with asking Robert a question about biasing on the Taqueria thread, to figuring out how to rig up an RGB LED to the gain toggle, to troubleshooting the...

Came across this little technique for soldering legs to JFET adapters and thought it worked so well I’d share. Essentially, it’s just inserting 1cm pieces of stripped wire into sockets to hold them in place, then using helping hands to solder them in. I use 22g wire, which fits very snugly...

Not the prettiest, but by golly, it works! And it already paid for itself! I pretty much followed the Tagboard Effects layout. https://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/2014/09/test-box-20.html The only exception is I added some protection in the form of a Polyfuse, 1N4001, and 100u capacitor. If...

Built a Scarab Deluxe clone for a friend and I’m proud of how it turned out. Cleanest build of mine to date. First time making a pedal intended for someone else as well.

Hello, I ordered some parts to put together a Test Box using this page. https://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/2014/09/test-box-20.html The wiring is a bit confusing so I put it into a schematic. Does this look accurate? I'm new to KiCad so I apologize if it isn't easily readable. I also added a...

Hello, I'm having some trouble with my taqueria build. When the pedal is engaged, the signal is very weak. With all 3 knobs turned up to the max, the signal is barely at unity gain. All 3 knobs are reactive, though. At 50%, the signal is extremely weak, very much a cut. What are some causes of...

I originally built this pedal (Build #2) before I knew about the C10 mod, thread linked here. I thought, “Oh C10 was originally included with the Benson Preamp, I want it!” without even thinking about what it did in the circuit. Man the pedal runs hot with it in! I like it in certain contexts...

Hello all, I have what is hopefully a quick question. I am building the Taqueria Overdrive, and I am modding the gain toggle to use an RGB LED with a DPDT Footswitch (Blue for normal, Red for High Gain) I got the idea from Reddit, but it seems the user made it more complicated than it needs to...

Hello all! I'm working on a Cobalt Drive and I'm having an issue getting the LED to work. Initially, when I plugged it into power, the LED lit up dimly, then faded. The pedal is working fine. All of the pots are responsive, and the footswitch turns the circuit off and on, just not the LED. Here...

Hello all. Just wrapped up my first pedal build after lurking for a long time. Learned a lot, had a ton of fun, and can’t wait to build another one! A few things I struggled with: Getting the measurements on the off board wires correct. Led to some wonky lengths for the footswitch wires and the...