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Ive heard that transistor matching is important for the bellum, biasing and looking for a lower forward voltage drop? I havent built it, its been sitting in my todo bucket for about a year because my impression is that its a pretty finicky circuit.

Thanks for the replies, unfortunately i only have the heckin chonkin DC jacks, but I also just noticed something... The new pcb layout for the Muriodea is significantly larger. I had very recently helped my friend build a rat PPCB i had ordered like perhaps a year or two ago, he accidentally...

I reaaaallly didnt want to come here with this one.... but im about to pull out my hair. I've f*cked up the drilling on TWO 1590b enclosures now. I've scoured the internet and downloaded at least three 1590b templates, but they all run into different problems by freaking millimeters. Ive...

heh, so you guys were totally right, it was absolutely backwards. Fixed that, popped new IC and LEDs in it and its working fine. Dont solder at 2am I guess :unsure: But Bretts help there was still super valuable to me and I hope others, I got (many) pedals that ive bungled through the years...

Holy smokes, thank you so much for that! It makes a ton of sense, thanks for the clear and concise reply. I'll tackle this first thing tomorrow morning with fresh eyes. I think building an audio probe too will help me understand some more circuit concepts. I have another pedal, a portly provoker...

Hey gang, I think I need some help with this run of LGSM I just finished. After a long haitus of the hobby, I finished three I had started months ago. Two worked, one with a lot of fanaglling, but the third... The third had one pot that had lugs, and i forgot to heatshrink those lugs. When I...

As a live engineer, i have trouble understanding why youd want a crossover on a pedal? I could maybe imagine a really over the top guitar rig with a 2/3 way speaker split, but most amps connected to those cab configurations already include the necessary ‘crossover’ points. Mostly external...

Schrodinger's Irish Spring box. Which LDR is inside? Wont know till ya open it! Thanks for the heads up (y)

+1 to the Thumbsucker, Green Russian, Dirt Transmitter, Parentheses, Bit Crusher and 2 sticks of derm. Cant forget a Rat with either a bass toggle switch or just lower the input cap i think. Honorable mention to the Unison Double Tracker for modulation. Gonna try a fuzzwar and fender blender...

Not to hijack the thread topic, but hows Effects Layouts, any other suggestions for PCBs from them? Obviously this is home base, but I ordered a ‘portly provoker’ cuz i wanna expand some horizons and all the part counts seem to be low, plus i have one more 1590b to fill somehow. I like the idea...

Ive been using Affinity Design and its been super useful and pretty intuitive even though i have no idea what im doing. Havent tried Inkscape, but 30 minutes with GIMP was enough to send me elsewhere!

Haven't done a build report before really, but I thought I'd share some of the new direction I've been going with my builds. Been pretty happy with the consistency and process of designing in Affinity and printing on waterslide decals. TS808 is pretty stock with green LEDs, sounds great! Built...

D’oh! 😅 Guess my monkey brain only sees shiny! I was also thinking of the Gov’nator build, which has very visually obvious and kinda fun LED clipping, but i guess the difference is hard vs soft clipping? Thanks for the continued information, I always had a suspicion that the green ones were my...

I was just reading another thread where CDB posted a handy dandy chart on this subject, guess I should be more discerning about my greenies! I had a quick question; will the size, like 3mm and 5mm, have an affect on the related Vf readout? Maybe, but not as much as the color? Also, I put some...

So this is like becoming a franchised pedal builder? Ie; I used to make sandwiches, but if i call it subway i can enjoy the built in demand of a pre established license? its an interesting idea, although i also wonder if build inconsistencies and coordination could be an issue. Not for me, but...

I feel like the TS808, Rat, guvnator and BigMuffs are great offers as people have stated. Theyre totally what i started with too, and honestly recently ive been going back to just trying to really nail these builds after my dalliances with modulation/verb. But I also wonder if its a kind of...

Damn thats a huge drag, DHL usually got it over in a few days rather than a few weeks for just a few dollars more, spoiled me i guess! Has anyone tried https://www.surplus-electronics-sales.com/ ? I found it the other day but havent made an order yet, apparently theyre out of Ohio and have no...

Thanks! My enclosure process is pretty tedious, but I basically Hodgepodge comic strips as a collage onto the enclosure and then spray it with varnish/acrylic like usual. It's fun and contributes to each one being unique and kinda 'arty,' but takes exponentially longer per pedal as I go out, buy...

Not proud but got mine from amazon, 20$ seems like the going rate

Im curious about this too. As a (former, damn covid) live engineer, people would always bring in their Boss guitar pedals and look at me with an impotent, blank stare, holding the mic cable and the pedal up, asking me 'do you uh, have the thing to make this work'? Yes I do, but instead how about...