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I’d say the Boss BD-2 isn’t necessarily a must have but a rite of passage. I’m assuming most people who ever took more than a passing interest in pedals have experienced a BD-2. So if nothing else, it makes sort of a common touchstone among pedal enthusiasts. There’s no shortage of folks for...

I couldn’t tell - some of you don’t like using the Mouser or Digi-Key parametric search? Or did I miss the sarcasm? I find using those search tools really satisfying. I wouldn’t go so far as to call it therapeutic, but it is a bit of a treat when I get to search for (some) parts. Although...

Looks great! Although I suspect it doesn’t sound like much without the opamp. 😉

From the article: @StompBoxParts - aren't your pots made in the USA?

Those all look great, thanks for posting! What kind of knobs are those on the Titania2?

That SMD soldering looks pristine! Did you do that by hand, or have someone like JLC do it?

That demo’s coming at me like a dog in heat! Eh, what do I know, I’m just another white man with a sick and empty head. But for real, great build and great demo! Thanks for sharing!

What are you doing with the SD-1 enclosure? If it’s looking for a new home, I’ll take it off your hands!

That looks great! You might also consider giving Chuck's Tube Bender Deluxe a try. I built one using @szukalski's "Wooden Ewe" PCB. I have spare PCBs, I'm happy to drop one in the mail for ya!

This is great, thanks for putting this together, @Cybercow. Even putting aside the film versus ceramic in the signal path debate, quality 1uF and up ceramics are actually kinda expensive. I mean, you can get cheap ones, but if I’m using one in the signal path, I like to go 50v or even 100v...

I had the exact same thought. And then I took a closer look and noticed it’s a “Hi-Watt” battery, that’s like head exploding awesome!

I think it’s similar to the principle at work with dad jokes. The somewhat perverse satisfaction that comes as much from eye rolls and groans as laughter. So it goes when I show someone something I built and they say, “Can’t you buy this for like $5?” Yea, but that’s not the point! DIY...

From that statement alone I knew I was going to love this build report, and it did not disappoint. This is all kinds of awesome! If I put a dollar amount on my time, plus parts and equipment, I've probably "spent" more on DIY gear than if I just bought it. But I can't put a price on the...

Ha! Good catch, I honestly hadn't noticed that before. At least it's not on the enclosure artwork, like the last time you caught one of my typos. I call it progress. :)

Another great build @rwl! I love reading the bird trivia you include in your build reports. The male Mergansers do remind me of the loon, which are fairly common in the northern midwest. Does the Merganser have a distinctive song/call like the loon?

Yup, more expensive and higher RDSon. A lot of those power mosfets are in the TO-220 package, which is huge (for a guitar pedal anyway). But I read the specs for TO-251 and saw it's barely bigger than TO-92. I even did an image search because I was initially somewhat incredulous. In terms of...

Says the rest of the forum, "Sheesh Matt, haven't we seen this a few times already?" Yes, but I finally got it right! I started with the Aion Cepheus. Then I made a custom PCB version of the circuit that had all kinds of problems, and though I got it working, it was too nasty to post a build...

Another update: still not getting 100% transfer on the first try on the green enclosures. Thus far I've done: Three bare aluminum (unfinished) enclosures - all transferred perfectly on the first try One pink enclosure (see above) - transferred perfectly on first try Two green enclosures -...

In reading about/trying to learn more about tone stacks, I came across this: TI TL082 Datasheet: Under the "Typical Applications" section, page 12, Figure 28, it shows the circuit for "Three-Band Active Tone Control". Looks to me like the 3-band Baxandall tone control.

I may have made a bad assumption. I was presuming that you are currently using the NE555 for managing the footswitch logic and engage/bypass relay. So my thinking was that it would be minimally invasive to - loosely speaking - swap the NE555 for a microcontroller. But if the ESP32 is already...