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Hey all, I found trashed First Act guitar and thought it would be fun to make it into something cool. Here's the current headstock: ...which I think is the ugliest thing ever. I've been playing with recutting it, and my favorite design is this: Question: Would this just rip itself apart...

If you took a Quad-channel op amp IC (like the TLO74) and ran channel one into channel two, channel two into channel three and channel three into channel 4, would you have the world's simplest 4-stage distortion, or would you just have a dead IC?

more than meets th.... sorry... Also sorry for yet another one of my endless questions. I've been working through @Chuck D. Bones's posts, trying to learn the ropes. I think I'm finally making some headway with distortion circuits and EQ circuits. Lately I moved on to wah circuits, which I...

I assume I'm not the only noob with a bag of fake germaniums? I was wondering if something interesting (and probably ugly) could be done by... uh, measuring them and maybe running them in parallel? Maybe something in the spitty Shin-Ei range, or remaking the Reuss Muzzbox or something? ...or...

Just checking my math here... If I wanted to build a (louder) always-tone-bypassed two-knob big muff, would I just bridge from Q3 past C12, or would I leave C12 in the circuit?

I'm building a pedal with a Box and All EQ and Two Sticks of Derm fuzz in the same case. I'm putting in an order switch, and I'm curious if you had that pedal, would you want a footswitch to switch it on the fly, or is that pointless and you'd just use a toggle switch? (Note: The Box and All...

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I have a project where I'd like to use a dual pot to control two different circuits, but one uses a A100K and the other uses a B1M. Can I, uh, take two apart and fit them together? Or is there another solution?

Could one replace the mid control in the Box and All with a Maleficent Mids? (or better yet the Airis Effects Target Mids.) The world needs an EQ version of the Fuzz Factory, no?

Anyone ever build/use one of these circuits? http://www.muzique.com/lab/pickups.htm I use a lot of different fuzzes in different configurations with a pedal switcher/looper (which has a built-in buffer) and I've been thinking about building a few of these to go in front of fuzzes. I wonder if...

I feel like I should know this, but... Playing with parallel distortion units (and I don't have a buffered splitter), so I ran the guitar pedal a mono Y-cord into an Arkaim Fuzz and a Behringer HM-2 clone. I was expecting tone-suck and/or uneven volume problems, but I was surprised to find that...

Hey, wondering if any of the experts could articulate common things to expect when shaping tone before the dirt part of a circuit. I get that a lot of circuits cut bass before the dirt circuit, but are there common effects one gets when you don't do that? (as opposed to rolling off bass after...

(Yet another) weird question... So... working with a pickup guy, I did a weird thing with my baritone guitar where I had him respin a humbucker so one tiny coil outputs two strings separately so I can run it to a pitchshifter and output that to a bass amp. I have a stereo jack in my guitar...

I know some folks have issues with Josh Scott, but this video was cool and informative:

Hey all, I'm building a pedal board and I need to split my guitar signal (twice!) I think the best place to do the first split is immediately after the guitar (or at least after the tuner.) One of the signals will immediately go to a fuzz most of the time, and I hear many fuzzes don't like...

I feel like every time I look at a new distortion/fuzz/overdrive, I'm always hearing "it's a Rat clone" or "it's based on the Tube Screamer." (especially the TS.) And I get that different parts and power and configurations can radically change the sound and feel of any given pedal, but I still...

Hey all, I've been thinking about the overdrive-into-fuzz/fuzz-into-overdrive strategy for adding mids to bassy fuzz pedals. (I love wall-of-heavy doom tones in general, but want to give myself some tonal variety options.) It seems like the classic logic is to use a Tube Screamer or a Klon for...

Since the Punkifier/Pacifier is basically a blend of a full-on fuzz with an overdrive, is there an easy way to throw on an extra pot to control the fuzz?

Hey all, I'm about to build a tester setup, which will probably help me get further, but I wondered if folks could give me some initial insights based on the pictures below. CONFESSION: I already built this into the case (I know, I know...) and the lower knobs cover half the board, so if I...

So, I finally decided to socket my transistors like a real grown up, and .... the transistors just fall out! I measured the depth of the socket and trimmed the transistor leads in a way that felt appropriate, but ... am I missing something? Halp!