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Hey folks, It's been quite a while since I've finished a pedal and I am pretty proud of this one. Before getting into it, though, I owe a lot of people thanks. This is really just a continuation of the NPN Gnat mod that I became somewhat obsessed with a while back after talking to @Guardians...

A good friend of mine is a graphic designer and pretty great guitar player. He asked me to build him a Klon a while back and while I finished the board a couple of months ago, I haven't had much time to do any artwork. Since he's a graphic designer I asked him if he wanted to do something for...

I hadn't planned on making a build report on this but I'm sitting here today with some extra time and I figured why not? A friend of mine asked if I could make him a bitcrusher and I figured that would give me an excuse to buy a few things I've wanted from Parasit Studios since there were a few...

I've got an old friend who is a huge metal head. He'd never heard of the HM-2 so I offered to build him one. He's a big fan of the Metal Zone and I figured that this could easily kick that off his board. He didn't want it at first, but after sending him some demos he messaged me a couple of days...

These are my first builds in quite a while. I've been distracted pretending that I know how to use a machine lathe and pedals got pushed to the background. My aunt reached out to me a few weeks back asking if I could build a couple of pedals for her: one for my uncle and the other for my...

So as my actual pedal building has slowed significantly I've been putting my limited build time towards other things - namely working on trying to design and figure out the best way to build an enclosure out of folded sheet metal. In doing all of this I had been picking my cousin's brain on a...

A couple of weeks ago I put a line out with my dad asking if he had or knew where to get a sheet metal brake. Given his job and hobbies I expected him to either have an old one or to know of someone who likely had an old one lying around. I have it in my mind that I can make some smaller...

I tend to build more/better/faster when it's for a purpose: the Ukraine pedals got done because of that, and so did this one: an Effects Layouts Great Vengeance. Fifteen plus years ago I took bass lessons from a really great instructor. After a couple of years with him he moved out to Georgia...

So I feel kind of silly, but Electronic Goldmine was having on a sale on some silver mica and, feeling that I needed to buy more to justify the shipping and initial purchase, I did what any decent hoarder collector would do and bought some random stuff I don't need or have any current plans for...

I started building this board probably six months ago or so. It took me some time to get all of the transistors needed and I took a long time going back and forth on the artwork. Initially I wanted to do some kind of play with triangles considering the original design, but wasn't really liking...

I was asked if I could build a Distortion + for a Pedals for Ukraine charity coming down the line and, well, here it is! You all know what it is and what it does, I'm sure. I used a TL071 and 1n4148's since I have plenty of those in stock. I was only able to test it out for a few minutes but I...

I shared this over at MB a bit ago but I was just able to record a sound sample and figured I might as well share it here, too. This is for the Pedals for Ukraine auction and it's a PedalPCB Gnat board modified to an NPN Dizzy Tone as specified by Music6000. A few photos: Sound sample...

I posted this over on the MB forum but wanted to post it here as well, especially since I posted a troubleshooting thread about it here and had some folks help me out! I have been piecing this pedal together for a few months now. Not because there are a bunch of hard to find parts, but because...

Hey everyone, I'm having some trouble with this build and I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Here's the build docs. The pedal works well in Wah mode and Synth 1, but on Synth 2 I am getting very low volume as well as some scratchiness. I went through and measured the...

I finished this one up today which felt nice since I haven't completed a build in a few weeks. @Chuck D. Bones sent me a mini vactrol with a few other goodies and I felt like a tremolo would be a good effect to have so I chose this one (thanks, Dave!). This was a pretty simple build and it...

I'm sure that anyone who has had to go through a bunch of JFETs has already figured something out for themselves, but I thought I'd share this in case anyone else needed something to save their sanity when testing dozens of transistors. I soldered up this little piece of Vero with some solid...

Hey folks, I went in the garage to solder a couple of things quickly this afternoon and when I turned on my soldering station it started making a strange scratchy/buzzy noise. This is the WE 1010 station. I've had it for a year now with no issues. It worked fine today for the 5 minutes I used...

I was pretty pumped with how this build came together. I think the guts look nice and tight and the decal came out decent. Then I realized that I can't actually spell about 30 minutes ago when I was showing my wife 🤣 Anyways, my cousin wanted an unassuming HM-2 and I figured it was a good play...

This was one of the very first circuits I bought from PedalPCB but I didn't get around to completing it until now. The board has been built for probably a year! I owe a couple of people here thanks for this build: @droneshotfpv sent me an OC139 months back to use in this and @SYLV9ST9R did the...

I hadn't planned on finishing this one up till this weekend, but I was having kind of a shit day and I needed something to do to keep me occupied. Since I had the afternoon off work I figured I'd box this one up. @SYLV9ST9R did the artwork on this one as well and I think he did a phenomenal...