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Fwiw, I filmed a couple quick demos of pedals I made years ago. Apraxia combines a procrastinator into a chalumeau with a feedback control. The procrastinator makes it very hard to know what you will play given the pitch bending of the chalumeau. The second is Everyone Loves Hypnotoad with...

He was right down the middle! So this build was something I had sitting around during my break from pedal building. I put together 6 arachnids in series and it sounded as good as you think it did which is to say not at all. So I put two pairs in series and thre them in parallel. I ordered...

One Leprechaun and one Organ Donor with a series/parallel switch. Shout out to @Brett for providing a diagram for that and making this build possible. I'll try to do a demo but I'm down two fingers having sliced off my fingertips on my ring and pinkie finger tips catching a mandolin that fell...

Hello all, I bought this DLY module from synthrotek since it has two CV inputs for time and feedback and I wanted to make a guitar pedal where there are controllers for both. That said it has this 10 pin connector wiring that handles power. This doesn't jive with the plain ol' 9V plug format...

Sometimes at night I wonder what a drowned cat sounds like. Other nights, I make those sounds a reality without the cruelty. Enter the Catfish!

So eq's, compressors, and reverbs together make for some incredible clean sounds. I originally built a pedal called the Soundboard that combines the 6 band eq, delegate compressor, amp cab simulator, sproing reverb and dry blend that is a delight to play. So much so @jjimi84 still has not given...

I want to hook up a sequencer to a the time control on a delay via the cv output. I know it should be possible with a vactrol. I hate to ask but would anybody be able to illustrate the hookups on a picture/ diagram of a vactrol? I would greatly appreciate it!

I am currently working through one of the most frustrating streaks of having consecutive issues with my builds. It's all I have not to give up. This guy tried my patience. With the amount of boards I have fried I feel like I am opening my wallet only to have a gorilla come up and punch me in...

I put together a few pcbs to make a really raucous fuzz. It all went south after putting it into the enclosure. I know something is shorting out but my question has to do with the bypass; I am having the opposite problem that newbies have! Bypass works until I plug it into the 9V plug. The...

I built the magnetron and there is no audio at all upon firing it up. The rate led works in conjunction with the controls. All the voltages in the ic chips were good. I swapped chips to check for bad ones, no dice. So I decided to use an audio probe. Pin 1 of R2 had a modulated signal but pin...

Double Guitar PCB D'lays that is. Don't persecute me but I took the photo before realizing I forgot to hook the wires to the power jack. Also a quick video of the pedal in action. Both pedals are in parallel so varying the rates produces an excellent texture effect like the Hydra. The benefit...

I have a dual hydra build going. One works just fine (I damaged a trace on the feedback pad of lug 2 and had to jumper it to the fv1 chip). The other one is throwing me for a loop. It is very low volume. Increasing the value of the volume pot from b100k to b500k does increase the level to unity...

I am building an electronic acoustic that uses a L.R. Baggs preamp with a piezo and a active pickup. I will be using two 9V batteries to power the thing. Where I stopped in my tracks is where to connect the negative terminal of the second battery powering the pickup. The preamp has positive...

Fun discovery, you can put an effect into a feedback loop! I am not sure if all effects work but the chalumeau does. This build features a unison double tracker into a Leprechaun. Then there's the feedback loop. It can do the lush chorus thing and some pretty unpleasant stuff. Like a cat...

Another three in one. This time it uses two organ donors in parallel capped off by an arachnid with various patches from MAS- Effects. The draw of using the two organ donors is the lag control. Putting the controls on either pedals at opposite ends makes for a cool arpeggio effect! I threw in a...

I am building a couple electro/acoustics and am using the LR Baggs Ctrl X module as a mixer for piezo and magnetic pickup signals. The module has a plunger switch on it. I misplaced the buttons for it though. I don't think they are specially made. Does anybody know what part this might be...

I built @jjjimi84 a guitar a few months ago. When we discussed the neck, he sent me a warmoth strat neck to copy the specs of. The warmoth neck was his favorite thickness and radius. He didn't gel with the all gloss finish however and it sat before he sent it to me to copy. After Goldie we...

It's been a stressful year for me personally. The holidays also bring out the humbug in me. I felt for a long time I got away from being hands on with my pedals and the source of my inspiration, which is to combine different pedals and see what useless singular sounds they can produce. Well, I...

Hi everyone! On one of my past builds, the Hydra keeps cooking L78L33s. All resistor values and capacitor values are correct. There are no cold joints or bridges either. I've tried with both TL072s and JRC4588s and get the same results. No delay signal, only the dry signal. R7 and R16 don't show...

Hey y'all. I am planning one of my stupid combo builds with circuits in parallel in the send/return loopnof a buffer. I want to include the option to switch the two pcbs to series. Would the wiring in the diagram below work? Any input and verification would be appreciated!