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I tried this circuit with the D9E Ge and a 5mm red diffused LED and the sound was glorious. I love this circuit and that is why I keep building it. I love that the PPCB board is small and has very few components yet the sound is full-on. The LED seems to make it a little lower-toned and...

This is pedal number 82 for me and the second Robin Trower OD I have built. It is very creamy with a distinct-mids-tone. I enjoy the overdrive that this pedal produces, but for me I want to go to a lower tone which I do not think I can get with this pedal. This is more creamy Tube Screamer than...

Great pedal. This is the second one I have built and this time I tried to pay homage to the original. I did deviate from build docs, by putting an 18k in R4 and I also made the dwell potentiometer a B25k. I love the sound and yes I am a fan of the Belton brick. For the enclosure it is a Love My...

Glorious overdrive. The toggle up puts this thing into Plexi territory; switch down and it you get lower tones. The pedal itself has no op amp, just some J201s that I sourced from PPCB. I used the Lumberg jacks and a top jack PPCB faceplate. I am a fan of most Wampler pedals and I can say this...

The pedal has only four potentiometers but the build documents call for 5.

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If you were thinking of building one of these just don’t. After building a couple of these, I can tell you they’re just not great. My only snafu in this build was using a 2N5485 that was no good. Grr. Picture below for posterity. Because I built one of these already I know that the build docs...

After going through everything in two of my builds that did not work I got down to the culprit: bad 2n5485s. This was so damn aggravating and I don’t remember where I got these damn things. Consider this a PSA if you didn’t already know.

I keep building these because it is a fabulous circuit. When I saw @kungpow! was able to squeeze this into a 1590b I had to give it a try. There are a lot of holes in this enclosure and no layout guide so I had to think about how to lay it out. And my choices made it a bit crowded inside the...

The Slammer/Jail Guitar Doors Drive + (I call it plus because I added a few extras). This pedal/s original design has two gain stages and one potentiometer. When I first turned the knob on the PPCB platform it opened a portal into another dimension of wide-open-sound. I decided to add a tone...

I built a PPCB Nobels and it sounded terrific. Sent it to my friend in Nashville and he was effusive in his praise. Anyway... today I began building another and I noticed that I had put a 33uf in C21 of my friend's pedal - - where a 3u3 EC should have been. The one I built today has the correct...

I played this through my Vibroverb and Super Reverb. It is a sensational circuit. It can get great (useable) lows, highs and mids. It can get incredibly transparent it and provide very clean boost. Dial up the gain and the circuit will summon the murder wasps. It also has excess headroom and I...

I looked at the empty enclosure for a week. Then I drilled the footswitch hole and D.C. - and looked at it for two more weeks. Then I put it together over a few days. This is a magical and wonderful circuit which I enjoy. I have to thank @Harry Klippton for the inspirational 1590a thread: a...

Some folks do not like this circuit and I was one of them. This build is different. It sounds terrific. I socketed everything so that I could change things out if the circuit sounded bad; It sounds great. I would put this one on my board. It has a creamy overdrive that can get fuzzy if you crank...

I love this circuit and this is the second one that I have built. I realize I never did a report for the first one so here is the second. I tried to give a distressed look to the 125b with layers of paint and sanding, I applied a clear coat over vinyl labels (1/2 inch and 1/4 inch). I enjoy the...

I love both of these circuits. The Article 59 is in the Tayda black hammer 125b enclosure with a blackout LED bezel a black footswitch and dark gray anodized aluminum knobs. It sounds absolutely terrific. It is the fifth time I built an Article 59 and I wanted to make this one a bit more classy...

Lovely circuit that thickens chords and colors my tone slightly. I used a bitcrush blue enclosure from Love My Switches. There is a kid at my local store who plays bass and I am going to gift this to him - if he wants it. I did not secure the board in the enclosure. Since it has no potentiometer...

Thanks to @Feral Feline for the advice and direction for making use of the Muffin crumb amplifier stage (MCAS). I messaged them after seeing this thread about Muffin Crumbs. The Mini Muffin Fuzz is notoriously underpowered with unity at fully cranked. I previously built one and it was weak. I...

Thanks to @itstimtime for the build report - I referred to your report a few times Like Itstimtime, I too cherry picked some of the @Chuck D. Bones mods from this thread. I was not feeling ambitious enough to add several of the other mods. I used a Tango Green powder coated enclosure from...

Great pedals and they sound wonderful. These are two of the Pythagoras v3 pedals that I built. I previously built the Radium Springs. These are all FV-1 pedals which means they are fairly pricey (about $36 for each board with FV-1 and EEPROM). The build for FV-1 pedals is fairly easy and they...