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I've been rather delinquent with posting build reports because things have been crazy. I don't post fancy demos and I don't have a ton of unique insights to share, so here's a great big dump of the pedals that I've most recently finished. Forgive my lack of cropping. Chuck's Bass Klon Lots...

These are three pedals that I did early on in my building adventures. A friend wanted to buy them, so I opted to rebox them in order to get them UV printed and I wanted to switch out the hardware for the high quality ones that I'm currently using. Gut shots are in the original build reports...

I'll squeeze in one morereport before the end of the year. There are quite a few build reports on this one with different opinions. The actual build itself I wasn't super excited with. To start with the build docs have the wrong dimensions for the top jacks and the expression jack. The...

I'm not much of a bass player (I'm not much of a guitar player either for that matter), but I have a bass player friend who was interested in pedals and I needed an excuse to order something from Madbean. I spent far more hours on the artwork for these than I'd care to admit, but I think they...

In the spirit of sharing mistakes... I'm going to guess that I'm not the only person to ever do this, but I do feel like today's screw up was pretty dumb. I've been working on some of the Madbeans bass pedals for a friend and I have a couple in flight. I started populating a board today and...

Nothing ground breaking here, but I did include the FV-1 Clock module as well as the dry mod. For the dry mod I didn't want to have an external switch (mostly because I already had the enclosure printed and random switches on the side totally upset my sense aesthetics. I'm also quite...

This is a fairly high parts count build so I was putting it off despite totally wanting to share the finished product. I wanted to keep the purple from the original and come up with something appropriately metal for the graphics. UV printing and machining was done by @amplifyfun . When I...

This is my first FV-1 build. I'm not quite sure why I had low expectations, but there are a lot of fun sounds in this thing. Soldering the FV-1 chip was no big deal, I just did it one pin at a time. I initially built it with the FV-1 Clock Module, but when I fired it up it was noisy and had a...

A while back I was buying something at guitarpcb and saw that they were blowing out the Sunn Model-T preamp boards for ~$2 so I picked one up (I do love me some doom). I don't know why everything on that site has to be labeled "The Best", but I noticed that they released an updated version and...

@peccary kept going on and on about the Mercurial and I'm too much of a hack to have strong opinions about anything guitar related, so decided to give it a whirl. It's a super easy, low parts count build. The enclosure was printed and drilled by @amplifyfun. I honestly haven't played with it...

Ah yes build reports, what we did before we spend all our time trying to win ProtoBoards and talking about what's in the mail :) Getting all the parts together for this one took a bit of time. In the end this is probably the most expensive pedal that I've built. It doesn't have a very high...

I've poked at this one several times now, boxed it up, unboxed, rinse, repeat and I'm finally throwing it out there to see if anyone has any tips. This isn't the first time this has been mentioned: https://forum.pedalpcb.com/threads/mini-heterodyne-receiver.462/post-2722 The ticking only...

I really like Chuck's FET/GE boost pedal from this thread and since it's a pretty simple circuit I decided to try my hand at Diptrace. Here's what I've got. Layout style for the schematic and PCB are obviously heavily influenced by our fearless leader. I've read enough threads in the forum...

This isn't necessarily an endorsement, just sharing my experience. I picked up a some MP38A and P28 transistors from this ebay seller: https://www.ebay.com/usr/alexer1 https://www.ebay.com/itm/192849585657 https://www.ebay.com/itm/202649761724 I grabbed 20 of each (The listing quantities...

I'm doing my best to avoid all the meme worthy troubleshooting behaviors with this one :) In my SeaMonk Build Report thread I noted an minor issue that I wasn't quite sure about. I decide to revisit it to see if I could resolve it or at least understand why it's happening. Here's the scenario...

This was my first time doing an AionFX board (Quadratron and Spectron are on deck). I have mixed feelings about the board itself, but that's probably just because I've become accustomed to PedalPCB layouts. It seems like the holes on the Aion board are smaller and I had a harder time getting...

Pulling together a couple of threads here for no particular reason other than I spent a bunch of time testing JFETs and felt like I should do something with that info. In the Small Bear Grab Box thread I mentioned that I got a bunch of JFETs and @bowanderror said that I probably made out better...

Catching up on a backlog of builds over the past few months. Bellum I - I was really excited to build this after hearing the sample here. I didn't have any 2n5088s in the 350-370 range as noted, but I had 7 in the 410s so I went with those. I'm still not sure how I feel about it. I haven't...

I was checking the Vf of some D9E diodes that I had and the numbers I was getting were way off, so I checked them with my DMM and got something more reasonable. I started testing a bunch of different diodes and here's what I found: Component DMM (HT118A) TC1 Difference 3mm Red LED 1.76...

After Chuck's recommendation I wanted to build a Seamonk. At first I thought it wasn't working at all, but it turns out that it is, but the volume is pretty low compared to the input, even with the level pot cranked all the way. I've done some probing and can find roughly where the level...