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Been on the hunt for a new overdrive to use in front of my Templo Nomad amp, as I want something with a tone control to replace my old 250 build. I found the Benson Preamp underwhelming, so I figured I'd try the Lightspeed, as folks rave about it. So far I can see the appeal! It sounds great...

Through a few big parts orders and the kindness of @Laundryroom David, I finally got all the parts together to build this Low Tide board I've been sitting on for a while. Seemed to work fine, but I noticed some farty/distorted output depending on the settings. Figured it would be the SMD...

Long story short, it looks like half my through-hole J201s are bad. Short story long: I was troubleshooting my in-progress Low Tide build, as it had farty, distorted output, which pointed to one of the JFETs. I assumed I had done a poor job soldering the surface mount 2Sk208, but my audio probe...

This might be the most complex circuit I've done on vero in a while. It barely fit in a 125B! VFE Old School tremolo in a glow-in-the-dark enclosure from Tayda (more on that later, argh). Bit of spaghetti inside, but this one is for me and I was excited to get it boxed up (took the photos...

Took a long time off building then came back and built 10 pedals in the last few weeks! Someone asked me for a fuzz with up/down octave options and was keen on a Bit Commander, but the transformer for that was out of stock, so we went with the Parasit Studio Sidescroller MK2, which has fewer...

Does anyone know of a dynamic or touch-sensitive tremolo project, like the EQD Night Wire? I'd love to play around with a harmonic trem, but also something that backs off when playing harder, etc.

I built a few of these old Roboto boards years ago now. I always liked the idea of the pedal, but never really used it much. Part of that is possibly just how unwieldy this can be in terms of noise, etc. while also sounding pretty dull in terms of tone. I read that changing/removing the 470pf...

This isn't a PedalPCB board, but I figured it was worth sharing anyway given the bypass board poll, as it's the first time I used a bypass board in ages (maybe the second time ever). In this case I thought the bypass board was useful, as the Tagboard layout dign't have an onboard CLR or LED...

Looking for some solidarity or maybe just some pity. Basically, I'm pretty sure I'm looking at 7(!) dead FV-1 chips (including 3 I just bought from stompboxparts.com) and multiple PCBs that I can't complete (Deflector, Arachnid). I've been building for a long time and have built some cool...

A small victory in my battle with FV-1 build issues - I got a simple test circuit working on a breadboard, so I can use the EZ FV-1 adapter to check my graveyard of "dead" chips. Turns out the first one works absolutely fine, so that gives me hope. I basically followed the schematic in the...

Another weird delay is low on the list of things i need, but high on the list of fun, so here we are. I figured I'd mess with this one a bit and see if I could go even weirder. Some notes on the stock build: I had some ticking with the 4558s I tried, so I went with a TL062, which cured that I...

Finally! After what seems like eons of troubleshooting FV-1 circuits (still out of luck on those) I've been able to have some fun building something. I tried to keep it pretty straightforward with the Circulator---no relay bypass, no expression jacks, etc. That said, I did end up doing a few...

Here I am with another FV-1 based troubleshooting thread, alas. I've got a populated Deflector PCB here that works fine for a while, then the wet signal cuts out---sometimes a quick stop, others an intermittent sputter, but the effect always stops at some point. The key thing to note here is...

Measuring/drilling is my least favourite part of building. Do you guys use any template/guide, etc.? I just hacked this template together out of foamboard, glue and finishing nails. I slide a 1590a inside, mark the holes, punch them and boom, drill press time. Seems to be working well so far...

At some point a smarter man would give up on this ridiculously cursed build, but I just can't. I've now had it boxed up and "finished" a half dozen times only for something weird to pop up. In this case, I've now got an intermittent crackle/noise that interrupts the signal (doesn't seem to...

The cursed enclosure that claims all who enter has done it again (he says, shifting blame from himself)! ARGH! Excited to finally get this nightmare build fixed and boxed up, I must have tightened the nut a bit too much. It didn't seem like I was applying any extra force, but then I heard...

I'm back with the same Arachnid build. Starting a new thread, as I had marked the other switch popping thread solved...because it was! Everything seemed perfectly fine after replacing C15 (the 1u MLCC in series with the output), but when I got it all back together and boxed up today, I noticed...

I've been trying to build a cart and place an order the last few days, but the site has been showing error messages depending on the page I'm trying to access (sometimes homepage, account page, etc.). Anyone else having issues?

I'm getting a loud pop in an Arachnid build I just boxed up, which is strange, as I've used the relay bypass before and it was absolutely silent---in fact, this exact bypass board/switch was salvaged from a build where it had also been silent. Here's what I've tried so far: Different power...

On the rare occasion that I try SMD work it always amazes me how tiny the parts are. Im sure this is old hat for many of you, but this is a 0603 resistor (actually not that hard to solder with normal tools). I'm hoping to do more SMD, so let me know if you know of any interesting projects!