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Whoooeeeeey, another interesting name for a pedal! But I suppose it's easy to guess what this pedal is all about! This is another BoneYard contribution and you can read about it here. I built the PPCB Jump Drive a while back and initially was underwhelmed with it. But I went back futzed with...

Man, with a name like "ThunderGunExpress" you'd expect this pedal to bring the thunder!..............and it does! :p This is @szukalski 's layout for the Apocalypse Audio Thundertone with some significant mods by @Chuck D. Bones. This was in the BoneYard and you can read about it in this...

Following close on the heels of my Distortion + build. The Sheepy Love Gape Drive is essentially a one knob Distortion + It's based on the BMF Effects "Great Wide Open". From a quick perusal via Google, I see that they've built this as both a one knob and a 2 knob versions. Comparing it side...

Seems I'm always following in the footsteps of @Guardians of the analog with his constant FOMO'ing me with his most recent escapades. I built the Distortion + many years ago when I was just starting out. That first one I built to DOD250 spec's but I added the clipping option of using GE diodes...

This is an older board in the PPCB catalog. I can't believe I missed it in my quest to build every PPCB OD/Distortion hahahaha. This was a recent purchase in my last batch from @Robert I have never heard of Dawner Prince, but they're a pedal maker based in Croatia. It's a super high gain...

This circuit came from a TWOBB thread from the time frame when I was on my hiatus. So I missed it originally. I wasn't completely sold on the idea of a CMOS based distortion/overdrive as I'm generally not a fan of them. In my mind they all sound like Red Llama's. :p But Dave @szukalski kept...

This is one I was not planning to build. I'm generally not a big fan of JFET based overdrives but @bluedmc777 twisted my arm so hard that it popped out of the shoulder socket. Once I jacked it back in place by slamming myself against the wall, I ordered the board....... :ROFLMAO: So despite my...

I can't believe I never posted a build report of this. I had every intention to, and thought I did. I just pulled this out again after sitting on the shelf all year and just floored at how great it sounds! This is the early 50's 5B6 version of the Tweed Bassman, not the more familiar 5F6A...

Well it's been a minute since I built a compressor.:) I actually built the Thumbsucker a couple of years aso. Build report here. I was just so enamored with the General Tso at the time, and I didn't really know how to use a "more knobs" compressor very well. I wound up gifting it to a buddy...

I got this board some time ago and sat on it for years. When I found it in my stash I had to try to remember why I got it hahaha. But one look at the MojoHand website reminded me, it's supposed to be a Gilmour tribute. I have to admit it has taken me some time to warm up to this fuzz. It...

Couple of fuzzes to report. I finished this one up yesterday and still learning the curves on it. As with most Fairfield circuits, the controls are super interactive. There's an "Input" control that adjusts the gain going to the first MU amp stage. The "Fuzz" control is actually an "input"...

This is yet another obscure circuit that didn't get as much love as it should have. @szukalski is naming all his overdrives based on the year it was released. So this one came out in 1987. The original had a couple of extra IC's. One was for Yamaha's switching schema, which has been dropped...

So back to older, obscure circuits, which I usually LOVE more than the "homogenized" sound of newer circuits, this is the Ibanez CD5 Distortion from their brief toy-like "Soundtank" series. Some of which were actually pretty cool circuits. The Cyborg is definitely one of the cool ones...

Another Animal Pedals build report. Shout out to @HamishR for bringing this one into the fold. See his build report here. Another Marc Ahlfs and Animal Pedal collab. And another tweaked familiar circuit in the same family as the Diamond Peak, Hybrid Fuzz Driver and Lunar Module. This sounds...

The is the second of the Animal Pedals "Diamond Peak" that I've built. The first one was using one of @MattG 's boards. (Build report here). I really should have spent more time in that demo on the Diamond Peak. It's been my staple goto "fuzzy overdrive" and such a great sounding pedal! For...

Continuing on my build report catch up. This is the second channel of the discontinued Cornerstone Gladio, which was a dual channel OD with a Timmy based circuit on the first side and a Zen based circuit on channel 2. Channel 1 is available from @Robert as the "Scenario Preamp". Which is cool...

Here's another one I built a while back and never got around to posting a built report. Shame on me since it's such a great sounding pedal. So, yes, it's just another YATS with the input buffer stripped out. The soft clippers is a 914 + 1N4005, or otherwise known as the "@HamishR Clipping...

I built this a while ago and just now realized I never posted a build report for it. So better late than never! This is the latest creation from Paul Cochrane. From what I've been able to glean reading about it, it's not another Timmy/Tim but at the same time has the same design goals for a...

I've been sitting on this board for at least 3 years and finally got around to building it. The Abider is a well known Dumble ODS style pedal. In my mind that always says "ahhh it's another Zen drive variant". Well, this isn't. And given JRD's penchant for squeezing out new pedals based on...

Day 2 of Mike Wong's build report dump......:) This is @szukalski 's layout of Dylan159's (from FSB) PT2399 Delay. I've been pretty much a die hard analog BBD delay guy with my goto being the pair of MadBean DMM's as well as @blackhatboojum's Boss DM-2 and @dan.schumaker 's DM-3. I'd left...