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These are Philips MKT capacitors, 5mm pitch, but I “adjusted” the legs with a plier to make if fit the e-cap spacing. I think I bought the 1uf from eBay!

What a fckn pedal to dial in. Soldered every component without a socket, but the damn CD4047 was dead 🫠. A few hours of head scratching and cursing and I got a nice sounding analog delay. I need to say it is pretty bright for a BBD pedal.

For diodes, resistors a and transistors I do exactly this, do the “blob” method or sometimes I heat both sides quickly (with just one soldering iron) to make a component sit straight. For opamps and such I go with the hot air tool.

Thanks man! I was never really pleased by any of the logos I used before that one ✌️

I’m really glad you liked the video! Almost everything I know about pedal building, I learned on the internet, mostly from reading on forums and I learn a lot around here, on top of being inspired by so many beautiful builds and creative and knowledgeable people around here, so I feel it’s time...

I always see people commenting around the forum that soldering SMD jfets is hard and frustrating. The truth is that it is really easy and quick, it just takes some practice. This is how I do it: The Brazilian accent is because I’m Brazilian

Spot on! Higher HFE on Q2 also makes the germanium FF clean up more gradually and don’t get that glassy cleans (and I personally prefer the more gradual cleanup)

Your blog Is a really awesome resource! One thing that is cool to add (and is really important on how the Zonk will be voiced) is the internal capacitando of the transistors used. After more than 30 Zonk Builds I have concluded that, specially for q1, the selection isn’t really paint by numbers...

Killer build as always, mate! Glad to see you back at full power with the builds

Looks great, very clean build! And I gotta tell you, the build using just carbon film resistors gave me REALLY nostalgic vibes, from when pedal building was based on etching your own PCBs, you could buy thru hole J201 for cents. Cool times!

Looks beautiful!

Sounds really good thru a Marshall almost dirty too, but yeah, sounds like ass on a clean Fender style amp

Thanks a lot 🙏🤘

You can increase r4 to, say, 1k. It Will change the tone a bit, but the output will be higher

The main thing about fuzz faces (and tone benders, Zonk Machines, Fuzz Rites) is: the key is to buy a bunch of transistors and experiment a lot. The leakage affects how the fuzz face will clean up, how gradual is the cleanup, the texture of the decay. The internal capacitance of the transistor...

I don’t usually care for mojo components, but when it comes to fuzz, I really enjoy building with old, big, colorful and overly expensive components 😂

I always like to try different finishing on existing products of my lineup… looks like I’m always trying to find new ways to get a headache, 🫠. Anyway, I really liked the black finishing with the black 3pdts and golden artwork with golden knobs! I ended up building this one for my own pedalboard...

Thank you 🤘🤘

Finally got a PCB made for this project. 1/2W carbon comps, Styroflex 2n2 at the input and Tropical Fish for the 47nf and 100nf. The transistors are Toshiba 2SB54 for q1, GT310b for Q2 and a TI 2N404 for q3. Sounds really awesome!

This!