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I believe this is the first GuitarPCB board I’ve ever built. I already have a couple of “sort of“ vibes – there is one on my Lectric-FX Karaoke Chorus and another quasi-vibe on my PPCB Circulator - but I wanted a dedicated build. At the same time, I really wasn’t up for the hassle of dealing...

Working on trying to revive an old Digitech pedal (to the extent I can within my abilities). While it is 90% SMD (definitely beyond my abilities) the caps and certain other components are through hole. I suspect that the problem is that someone plugged the pedal into the wrong power supply so...

I was very lucky to acquire a DS-2 board offered by @dan.schumaker in the trading forum. While I had used some Boss pedals in the past long ago (SD-1, OD-2 and CE-2), I’ve never played around with a DS-2, and the Nirvana connection intrigued me so I went for it. The build: it was a pretty...

The Tearjerker was the second or third pedal I ever built about a year ago, and I built it mainly because I had never owned or played a wah before. Given that the Tearjerker is uber-customizable and contains four trim pots in addition to a set of DIP switches, and given my complete lack of...

This will probably be my last build for a little while. I find the process of building incredibly interesting and relaxing – but I’ve pretty much built everything I want or need right now (in fact, multiples of several of them). So I’m waiting until some of the upcoming projects Robert has...

OK, so when you have built as many pedals as I have (*insert self-important Barney Fife sniff*) and put most of them in your chain, you get noise. So for the time being, I’m focusing on “utility“ pedals like an EQ and this noise gate rather than “effects“. Building this as per the BOM, I had...

This will be kind of long because hopefully it can provide some useful tips for others. This was a fun build (until the end, see below)– mainly because it was so different from most of the PedalPCB builds I have done. It was fun working with sliders rather than pots for a change, as well as...

OK, so I have a question about pedal draw power in milliamps. The reason for my question is that I bought a 1Spot tester because I have a shitload of pedal now and wanted to make sure I wasn’t starving any of them. (I was going to build the tester that Robert is going to make available, but I...

So, for various reasons (some probably not particularly well-thought-through), I purchased a 3PDT Breakout Board with Buffer Switch to add a switch to my General Tso to disable the buffered bypass when desired. But since the Tso is the only buffered bypass pedal I've ever built, I have two...

Like probably a lot of people, I find that I build my pedals more than actually play them. I'm trying to change that so I set aside some time to play with my Celsius. Because I have it running iin a 2-in1 build with my chorus and I’m not really a fan of the overdriven sound of the “high” mode on...

I’ve never owned a fuzz. I never wanted a fuzz. I don’t like the sound of fuzzes. But then I heard the demo for the Mayonnaise over in the project wish list forum and, like a lot of people, I was kind of blown away by it. And so here we are. The build was very straightforward. It was actually...

This was a quick and easy build, although it used some ICs that I’d not run across before (LF347 and LF353), so at least now I will have some extra in my stash if I ever run across another build that uses them. The sound: because I’ve only ever really played through Fender amps (and some Vox...

Fairly short (for me) build report. This is the Waddle Box, a clone of the DOD FX25 envelope filter. This was a nice, quick, and easy build. My only variations from the BOM were that I subbed an NE5532P for the LM1458, and I changed the value of C2 from 1n to 3n9 per the recommendation of...

First of all, let me make clear that nothing I say about how this build went is a slam on AionFX. I actually owe them a lot and respect them a lot; the very first project I ever built was an AionFX kit and the documentation educated me on what the various components were, how to solder them...

This is a Pharmacist I built as a gift for a friend. He had told me he was thinking about getting a Dr. Robert and, since PPCB made the Pharmacist, I told him I would build one as thanks for generosity he has shown me previously. I’ll be honest that, before he brought this up, I had never heard...

So, having nothing else on my plate this lazy day after Christmas, I got up this morning and decided to build my Clandestine Preamp, which is based on the Chase Tone Secret Preamp. I was never really happy with the BBW (BBE Sonic Maximizer) that I have at the end of my chain as a “sweetener“...

So, a couple of things people have probably gleaned about me from my prior posts: first, I had never picked up a soldering iron before February 2023; and second, I am a big Brian May and treble booster fan. So far I’ve built about five boosters and like all of them for a different reasons, but...

I built this pretty much stock except for a change to the rate control. The BOM calls for a B100K but I found (as others have noted) that this results in most of the turn having very little effect on the speed until the last 10% or so, where everything is bunched up. So I desoldered that pot and...

I’ve become a big fan of Sunnyscopa Film Free Decals. However, when I went to re-order from Amazon, it appears they no longer carry them (Sunnyscopa sells other items there still, but even the link from my last order now redirect to a normal filmed waterslide decal product. I went to...

OK, here’s something that seems like it would be relatively straightforward, but I can’t find any clear answer via Google: how to wire up a power on/off switch for a pedal, specifically one that will be driven by battery only (no DC jack). I’m building a strap–mounted treble booster, which...