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I'm designing my first perfboard layout for an adaptation of a silicon buzzaround from mac over at diystompboxes. I have a feeling the answer i yes, but I'm wonder if I should avoid putting bringing the output signal across the input of the board in order to avoid stuff like cross-talk and...

Hey y'all! Doing a schematic on KiCad for the first time and I'm wondering what other people to make them look pretty. I'd like it to look a little more like PedalPCB's schematics, such as the input points for the circuit and also getting consistent spacing of reference and value of components...

Hey! Many moons ago, I stumbled across a website that contained a calculator for turning linear pots into pots of any response curve. But! I completely forget what the website was called. And I can't find it in my browser's history because I'm using pretty generic search terms, like...

Hey people :) I'm perfboarding a Rufus fuzz and I'm just wondering what the transistor specs I should be looking at for the pedal. I'm guessing the BJTs should just have Fuzz Face HFEs, but what about the JFETs? Is there any particular VGS off and IDSS I should look for there? Thanks in...

This may seem silly, but I genuinely can't find unscreened/non-shielded 2 conductor cable of 24AWG to make DC cables for pedals in any of my regular electronics places (Farnell, Mouser, Digi-key). I mean, I can, but it's always for quantities I don't need like 100M. Other gauges and...

Hello! I recently purchased a Fuzz Dog PCB, a clone of the Reeves Supa J fuzz - itself a silicon based take on the Tone Bender Mk II/Marshall Supa Fuzz. But I repeat myself :P Has anyone here got any info on what value hfe I should be looking at on these? The build docs don't specify what to...

Hello! I recently got a Brassmaster PCB from Fuzz Dog (pedalparts.co.uk) and I was wondering if anyone here has any interesting mods they know of for this pedal. I really like Zachary Rizer's demo of the Hiero B.E.A.D. and I'd like to add some the functionality of that unit to my build. One of...

I've been intrigued by the idea of an all tube fuzz pedal for quite some time. I know that it probably is at least possible, at the basic level it should just be a bunch of cascading stages of preamp tube or a few. One of the DOD guys claims to have built one in the 60's when he was asked by a...

Hello! I was watching a video trying to understand how emitter-follower amps work. In relation to the C-Buffer, there are some things I don't understand - I can't find any model for emitter-followers that include C2, C3, R4 and R7. ( I checked this website and this website) I also wonder...

Hello! I am building a Devi Ever Ruby on stripboard and I want to be able to change from standard 9V input to 6V via a 78L06 with the flick of switch. It should be pretty simple, just have the power strip attached to a switch and flick between the 9V coming from the filter caps and 6V from the...

Hello! Just wondering if It would be possible to add an expression pedal to control a 100k potentiometer to my build of the Hyperion 2, for the oscillation control, in a way that allows the full range of the pot to be smoothly expressed. I know how to wire a switching jack to a potentiometer...

Been trying to find an answer to this one on google, but honestly, I can't find any good resources. Basically, I just want to know how much current is typically passing through clipping diodes either during soft clipping or hard clipping of a pedal, in order to figure out the Vf of a diode at...

Hello! I'm repairing a boss DD-3 whose internal wires are breaking off - they're all 26 gauge and have old, poor quality solder joints, so it's kind of like a game of whack a mole, where I repair one, another starts fraying and going bad as I have the pcb in a position I can work on it, putting...

Hey! I have recently acquired an old (analog) boss CH-1 for a pretty good price. Only catch is that it was probably stored in a basement damp enough to pose a risk of tuberculosis. The circuitry is fine and it works great, but the screws on the hinge are rusted and the spring on the inside that...

I might be barking up the wrong tree here, but I'm looking for high gain fuzz with a 'modern' sound plenty of sustain, but doesn't just sound like mush when pushed really hard. Any DIY projects you folks have tried that might fit the bill? I've got a few fuzzes I own and have tried, like for...

Hello! Because I am an incredibly poor judge of what the best use of my time is, I decided to take a TH Custom NOPE relay bypass board and hook it up to the internals of my Boss DS-2 (that the previous owner apparently modded to make sound worse, but that's a different story) so that the stock...

Hello! I have a second hand boss ds-2 that I am converting to true bypass using a relay (there is no good reason for this - this is in all likelihood a complete waste of time) and I noticed that compared to the schematics, some of the diodes were not as they are 'supposed' to be. If you look at...

My friend and I are looking to put some silly stuff into his guitar - one idea was a simple no knob analogue octave a la the green ringer. I threw out the idea that he could use a momentary push button to either toggle the effect or have it on only whilst holding the button, and it was a hit...

Hello! I've been trying on and off over the past year or so to really try and nail this concept down and it has kind of driven me insane 😂 I'm looking for reliable information regarding how you should calculate the input impedance of a guitar pedal circuit and more specifically, whether or not...

This may be a very silly question, but is there a reason that PedalPCB build docs don't contain any information on stuff like what trim pots are used for? What you're supposed to be measuring for and all that? Aion FX build docs always go into plenty detail in regards to this and even the...