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If you want your signal fractured and untamed like a screaming banshee this is your pedal. Belching and sagging when set at normal levels. When you turn up feedback all the way it is a completely unusable shrieking. If you crank the gain all the way, again, unusable. It is not a difficult build...

What is this, a BB with headroom? This circuit can dial up crunchy overdrive but it does not get classic distortion; it gets overdrive distortion. It really feels like I am taxing my tube amp when I start dialing up sound. If I dime the gain it does not get all the way to distortion, just...

For this build the BOM calls for MA856 diodes but I was sick of looking for them and the MA858 replacements so I used IS1588s. I also did not have the JRC4580D op-amp so I used an LM833. The circuit gets crunchy on the OD and boost settings and it gets creamy mid hump distortion on the...

I love this circuit. A glorious overdrive circuit that can dial up crunchy and transparent overdrive or it can get you to Plexi-territory. I never touched the three trimmers because it sounds great with lots of tones and plenty of headroom. I can roll off the gain and make this thing into a...

Someone asked me to build one, so I built two. They wanted black with yellow labels but it did not show up well so I went with bright white. First impressions of the circuit; it is not overpowered but has plenty of headroom. It does not really clean up by rolling off the gain, it stays crunchy...

Basically a Timmy pedal without a toggle switch. A sweet transparent overdrive and a bit of tube-taxing-crunch. I like it but isn't it just a boost pedal? Or an EQ? It features four knobs: Level, Gain, Treble, and Bass. Having the bass knob is great for avoiding muddy tone. With these four...

This is a top 5 overdrive IMO and that is why I have built different versions of this pedal - but this is my favorite. I wanted to use my favorite Davies 1510 knobs so I moved the pots closer together and used a 3mm LED. I exposed the symmetry switch and used a female pin header to get a...

Great project and the result is a beautiful crystal clear op-amp boost. I give this high marks as a very clear distortion free boost. No difficult to find parts but to get this in the 1590b I needed to use the short ECs from PPCB. 25mm black aluminum knob, and a white 1590b enclosure with a...

Kind of a one trick pony, it does the thing, and.... mainly it sounds like bees in a jar. The crunch switch is subtle and the sustain potentiometer goes from much sustain to even more sustain. The bias potentiometer does not do enough to be an external control IMO. Basically, you cannot get this...

These circuits are glorious. Definitely a top tier OD pedal. I followed the BOM and had an event free build. I am not entirely happy with my graphics - (labels too close to the footswitch). The enclosure was primed, painted and 2k cleared after a film free decal was applied. This circuit easily...

I have built a few PPCB Mufflers byt these PPCB Muzzle’s are in another league. I would say the Muzzle is not just better than the Muffler, it is significantly better. The dual green/red LED is a yellowish color when the gate closes and green when open. There is no sputtering, no harsh cut, and...

One of the first pedals I ever built was a StewMac kit of this pedal. I no longer have it, but I like a tremolo pedal. It has a great tremolo and there are useful places to go. It is also interesting that the Level potentiometer acts as a boost - unity is around 9 o' clock. I love the sweet...

Tayda copper hammer enclosure with PPCB faceplate and PPCB top jacks plate. Lumberg jacks and gold Taiway short-bat switches. Soft click gold footswitch. The mural is the number 29 - I used a stencil and white paint. Switches are Harmonics - Bright - Low. You can buffer and add some sparkle to...

I made a pair of these and they are not designed to be a stand-alone-pedal. The PPCB MicroBoost Clean Boost has no LED or VCC/Ground connections - it has a spot for an A100K potentiometer, an out, an in and a power and a ground. It sounds great alone, so I wanted it to be a pedal. To do this I...

I am on a bit of boost building run: the Enchanted Boost, Fumble Boost and Cracklejack boost helped me get started. I am still smitten with the Crackle! I must be over confident because I boxed this without testing first. This boost was one I saw on many boards in Nashville. This one has quite a...

Works as intended. Sounds like a Q-Tron or a parked wah with an additional mode. The LFO is blue and works with the sample/hold mode - so you have a visual indicator that you are in sample/hold mode and the blue LED's blink rate is your speed. The red LED is the bypass - pedal on red LED on. I...

The more I play with this circuit the more I enjoy it. It is like a Lightspeed with more options. You can roll off gain and get crystal clean boost or tube-taxing overdrive. And you can get some great crunchy overdrive or sustained fuzz-like distortion. You can also make your tone sparkle with a...

I have built this pedal before with a few small mods; this time I built one that follows the BOM. It has surprising power and harmonic distortion. Two gain stages and one potentiometer? What is not to like? I followed the BOM and the only change was exposing a 3mm red led that was meant to clip...

This one gave me a bit for trouble: I had to redo the film free decal after I already clear coated it and I had to unbox the works twice for loose wires. There are many wires and I organized them this way because I used 9mm off-board potentiometers: there is nothing holding the board in place. I...

The image of the board in the build docs is the same as the printed PCB. I think what we want is the map that corresponds with the build docs