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Alternate title: Stickman is tired of doing math. Make computer do math. Alternate, alternate title: this is apparently how I relax after an hour and a half to two hours commute home. Anywho. Put this together. Feel free to copy it. I just wanted to plug in the values that I read off my...

So. I found a killer deal on some NPN germaniums. Got a good little batch, and wouldn't ya know it? They're all pretty well P-H-U-C-K-E-D. Leakage in the 2ma range. Meh. But...hey. these are vintage. From about 1969 or so. Probably not perfectly stored over the years. So I'm...

A'ite, I was at the big boss' house today working on fixing his wine cooler split system. Got to talking gear with him. Dudes sorta retired, spends a bunch of his time playing in a cover band. He's playing bass at the moment, huge fan of CCR. Told him about my little hobby, gave him a...

Aite. So, I'm in the process of ruining a ruined old pedal. I picked this guy up. May have over paid, now that I see the thing. Somebody on reverb had an old Wau Wau Fuzz *way* below market price. The only caveat? It looks like it's been out in a damp shed for a few decades...

Behold! I've been on a tear recently, as vintage pedals have pissed me off with their vintage-ness. Ooohhh, you're all old and shit. Laaaa deeee dahhhh. Well, fuck you. I'm gonna make you worse. This one I bought simply because it's dimensionally similar to a colorsound...and the circuit...

Thread title. This is the result of my long running Feud with Mike Matthews. You know what you did, Mike. So, I took apart his shitty pedal, and totally purposefully destroyed the el rad inductor that I was trying to pull off the circuit board to measure. So with that being the case, and...

Just wanted to share this one for anybody who's interested. It's trivially easy to add a variable Q control to the Parasite wah. I picked this up by dissecting the Hiwatt wah pedal: that one's based on the tychobrahe Parapedal, but with a couple of small changes to the circuit. Basically...

A'ite. Question. Let's say you've traced out a circuit. Like, you've got the board, you've peered at the traces for hours on end, used a meter to confirm continuity, and built a schematic from that board. Whatcha all do to *verify* that your schematic is correct? Make a list of all the...

A'ite homies. I'm giving PCB layout a shot. This is my first, complete board layout. @Chuck D. Bones posted these in the Boneyard: it's his PNP Servo Fuzz Face with his Simple Relay Bypass. Because good artists borrow, great artists steal. ANYWHO...fuckin, brutalize me. Let me know what I...

A'ite. I've been down an inductor rabbit hole for some time now. I've been able to demystify a fair amount about how these things are built and designed to my own edification. But there is one mystery that I cannot seem to solve. Who. The. Fuck. Makes. These. Specific. Pin. Terminal...

A'ite. I've got a question here. I've got a Mel9 pedal that is stuck on one voice. The rotary knob doesn't do a thing. I've been doing some research. This is some kind issue with the EEPROM as far as I've been able to suss out. There's a 10 pin header on the PCB that provides access to the...

You like pedals? How bout 'dem pedals? Let out your collective groan here. Now. Please. I live for it. Whelp, here's my Tearjerker. Tweaked to be similar to my RMC Wizard wah. I settled on BC108's. Carbon Fiber baseplate, Sabbadius soul inductor, 10pF caps across the collector and base...

Alright. This one...woof. This took a while. I'm still planning on changing out the knobs. Kinda wanted to do bare aluminum on em to really bring out the contrast. So, the DEFX Larry, a clone of the Mu-Tron Flanger. Mu is the 12th letter of the greek alphabet, and the suffix -tron tends to...

*multiple edits made as of 11/25/24* Alright folks, I've been collecting wah inductors as I've been working towards a few different expression pedal projects. So, curiosity. How do all these compare? I might put together a little trial wah pedal and cycle a bunch of these one-by-one, but I'm...

I've had this one in the backburner for a couple of years. Finally, we have lift off. First 1590B I've done in some time. Kinda wanted to go even smaller, but meh. No sense in getting crazy. I'm a cat guy. I'm also a "boy, humanity isn't great a lot of the time" guy. So, I find a...

Aite. Another entry in the"horror movies I loved" theme Talk to me is *very* recent. Like this year recent. It's certainly not a perfect flick by any means, but it has some of the most mirror-neuron-firing scenes in anything I've seen since The Descent or Green Room. Zennials talking to the...

I could have gone "last of us" for this one. But, meh. As a dude who loves horror movies, I've never been into horror games. Nope. Not gonna do it. Too active. I'll watch other people play horror games, thank you very much. But, now that I have outed myself as an absolute wuss: Yup. It...

A'ite. Another one done. This is a bit of an homage to one of my favorite more "recent" Metal bands, Zeal and Ardor. Their original conceit was to marry Black Metal with "Black" music. Rootsy gospel, call-and-response bluesy chants, and you know. Black metal. They occupy a high-concept...

Two new builds. Did five 10s last week, which left absolutely no time for anything like...else. These two didn't come out great. The wavelord in particular was driving me up the wall...trying to get the laser engraver to work properly, being a bit sloppy with my drilling, hell, I even put an...

Boy howdy. This one has caused me a ton of problems. So: this is my second attempt. First attempt was an absolute failure. It's part of why I switched back to leaded solder: the unleaded stuff is unforgiving, and de-soldering is liable to lift a pad. So, I bought another board and gave it...