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The Mondo Power Unit has "got what amps crave", according to the PCB. It's a circuit that Dunwich Amps designed and described as "a simple little bass preamp/OD but it has a massive low end bump." That bump, or boost, is supposed to be at 50Hz. It sure does go BOOM when you hit the Bass Boost...

On one of my strolls through the impressive catalog of dirtbox layouts I stumbled across a strange kind of Japanese late 60ies thing, the Shin-Ei ME-7, a "multi-effect". The acid must have been pretty good back then, I mean the idea behind this thing is just far out, they were like "let's make a...

I grabbed this PCB with my last order without really knowing what to expect. I was surprised at how much I liked it. The "Octave" is a very cool square wave synth type voice, it sounds like an overdriven organ and the (monophonic) tracking is pretty good. A lot of different sounds are...

This was a no brainer. Lemmy in a box. Delivers in spades. Headroom à go-go. Louder, faster, harder! Yeah!

This is a vero layout I found on dirtbox. The circuit is by Bluff Chill devices. Ring mod on the repeats sounded like fun - and it is! Dirty, noisy robots and stuff. I went with the recommendation to add a boost at the input and up the Freq control from 5 to 10k which gives a bit more range and...

So, when @Morbidpale presented his Overloader he had me at "bass boost". ;) I mean, anything Muff related already has my attention and this sounded right up my alley. And it indeed is! Such a great circuit. The amount of bass this thing can spit out is amazing. I tried it with my Ampeg setup...

I'll just say it up front: I really don't like building on vero board. All those cuts and links, then rows to be missed, also wires everywhere and just generally too many occasions to fuck up something. On the other hand, some circuits are not available on PCBs (or I didn't find those), so I'm...

Sometimes, I get PCBs from the chaps at Fuzzdog, mostly only if I can't find something anywhere else, because I generally don't like their side jacks and power" approach. Going for top jacks and power often means that all the controls have to be moved down ... or do off-board wiring. So, this...

I had another of these PCBs, so why not build it? I prefer the Dunwich take on this circuit (also with clean blend) for bass. The first Blood Letter, I gave to my drummer and they used with his other band in the studio, on a song, distorting synth sounds. Anyway, the Blood Letter is based on...

Here are two more boards from my last Moonn order. First up is the Schaller Sustainer, which Nils describes as an "old ass german fuzz pedal with a blend control". It's a nice fat fuzz and the blend control is actually pretty good implemented, I'd say. Although it sports 5 x 2n5088 (1 for the...

This is the PedalPCB Parentheses Mini board, but two foot switches on a 125B is not my cup of tea, so I went with a BB enclosure. I used an OP07 and matched the Ge diodes (OA1182, 330mV). Sounds great! Maximum volume yields maximum results.

I somehow missed this PCB on my last order - or maybe it wasn't out yet when I was ordering? Anyway, I wanted to build it, so vero it is and here we go. Filter and Input are good to have, on bass I roll back the Input and put the Filter on the (not too) dark side. Those MPSA18 are filthy...

Heres the other one, I got from @Aleph Null - the Peacock, a parallel fuzz that features a tweaked Percolator, that brings the mids and the other channel is a Fuzz Face with a Muff style mid scooped tilt EQ. Parallel fuzz is a great thing to start with and this pair is well voiced to sing...

Bring the noiz!!! Another one from Moonn, says it is a clone of the 4MS Noise Swash Mini. It's a very cool distortion and/or noise machine, that can throw in some oscillation as well. I have the oscillation on a momentary foot switch. If you're into that kind of sounds, this one is a sure...

More PT2399 goodness for me! This one brings all kinds of woobly pitch shifting sounds! I really like it. Can go crazy or just make your notes feeling a bit seasick. I had some trouble with the internal LED at first, meaning it would do the pulsing while the pedal was off and when engaged it...

This is a pretty nifty delay, designed by @Aleph Null who was kind enough to send me a PCB over the pond (I also got a Peacock). You can read about this delay in detail here. It's a PT2399 Delay with envelope controlled modulation and an interesting tails implementation, meaning the TAILS...

Another great circuit from Fairfield! @Mentaltossflycoon said more or less what I think, if it comes to how it sounds, so just read his report, it's better anyway. I still had exactly 3 through hole 201s, that I bought quite a while ago, in my stash. I'm not sure where I bought them, probably...

Mmmhhh, bass preamp based on the B-15? Sure, gimme-gimme-gimme. Of course, I've never played a real B-15 and I am not even chasing that sound at all, but boy-oh-boy, this pedal sounds good. I fattens up your sound in a lovely way, gives you some well tuned tone controls to play with and if you...

So, more bass dirt, yeah! This is some kind of muff-tortion, to my old ears. It's more on the muff side with the tone control engaged, I'd say - and if you bypass the tone control, the mids jump out, things get clearer and it sounds more like a distortion than a fuzz. I like both type of...

I've made another one of these, including the "secret mode", letting you run Fuzz I and Fuzz II. Sounds great and will probably end up getting sold.