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Finally got this one done. Sounds good, though I've only had a little playtime so far. I think this will become a favourite. The big red/brown 10pF caps are AliExpress silver mica. I'm sure they are what they claim to be. I didn't buy the suspiciously cheap ones on AE, but these were still far...

PCB obtained with @fig winnings. Well, this one took a while. I used converted SMD e-caps for most, but I didn't have any in 2.2 µF so I went with a tantalum there. And then one of the 10 µF caps broke. The leg was attached (I checked continuity on all of them) and then it wasn't. It broke off...

I tried a bunch of Ge trannies and ended up with a Polish ASY34 in Q3, which sounds best to me. Tamed the worst of the splatter, the remaining splat is part of the experience and I can live with it. Also I tried a few diodes, mostly Soviet era D9Es and D9Ks, but I ended up preferring the 1N60P...

I finished this one a couple of days ago but I've been a bit busy. I have a few footswitch boards donated by @MichaelW and designed by @szukalski so that's what you're seeing here. True to form, I had trouble with the f/s board - the LED refused to work - and tried swapping the LED onto the...

I thought there was a thread on this topic but I couldn't find it when I searched. Maybe it's the solder fumes making me hallucinate... no, probably not, because I have been doing damn-all soldering now that it's brass monkey weather in my part of the southern hemisphere. Because I need an open...

Yeah, the OPA2134 is very expensive and (as far as I can tell) total overkill for an overdrive, so I went with a TL072. Does it sound the same? I don't know. Does it sound good? Yes, very good. I might try some other op-amps for comparison but I'd be fine leaving it as is. I'll compare it to...

I only have ex-Soviet Bloc transistors and I'm aware that the pinout can be different and confusing with those - no problem; I can easily identify which leg is which. What I'm having trouble grasping is which hole is which on the PCB (the Gnat in this case). It's supposed to be for NKT213...

I've got a pretty good idea of what goes in this, but confirmation would be great. Or a pic of the PCB if anyone has one, with the values showing.

I wasn't expecting much from this one, really just ordered the PCB because I was doing some other Boss drives and wanted to add another one. I'd never actually tried a BD-2 so I was expecting something similar to other Boss overdrives, but this one has its own voice. It kept me playing much...

The "35" is meaningless, just me trying to create a unique thread title. It occurred to me at some point that I could have bought a new SD-1 for not much more than it cost me to build this one, but (1) I had the fun of building it and (2) mine's cooler and features a lot more purple than the...

...not that there's any bebop in this thread. Just trying to use an original title. I put my back out recently, and it took a while before I was able to sit down and finish this pedal. I had everything done but the final soldering, and then I had to wait till I could sit at a desk again. Which...

I bought the kit before Xmas, and finally got around to putting it together. It's from Jaycar, who are the sole surviving electronics hobbyist place (ie Radio Shack) in Australia and possibly New Zealand. Jaycar are expensive but it's handy to be able to drop in and grab some capacitors or...

At long last I have managed to complete this build. And - it sounds great. Though at first it sounded pretty broken, a bit of trimmer adjustment got it sounding nicer. I probably still need a little more adjustment time, though, but there are lots of good sounds (and fun "broken" sounds) in...

A lot of folks here rave about this one, so I added it to an order. I'd call it a dirty boost / mild overdrive. I can hear why it's popular; it really sounds like you're overdriving a valve amp, even through a tiny solid state tabletop amp. I used one of the SMD 2222As I got recently...

I've bought some SMD trannies from AE recently, and decided to solder a few to adaptor boards and run them through my Peak Atlas DCA75. 4 x 2222 3 x J201 3 x 5457 Important note: I don't know what these numbers mean. I had some $ to blow and I overestimated my ability to learn about numbers...

I've been working on this one for a few days, finally finished it tonight. Sounds good. Nice overdrive with a midrange peak. It's a classic for a reason. I'm very happy with how this one looks, too. The LED is pink, hard to photograph but it suits the colour scheme well. I used a 56pF cap...

I got it with the FV-1 chip pre-installed, which I recommend, unless fooling with expensive SMD chips appeals to you. It's an oddball effect, and when I first fired it up - fortunately it worked when I did - I was thinking "it's a pretty expensive novelty" but then I got into it and spent 30...

It's been a while since I built a pedal, now that things are happening again I've had some good stuff (gigs with both bands I'm in) and bad stuff (every other part of my life) taking up my time... but here it is: first build of 2023. It's late here now and I've only had about 10 minutes...

I only have 16V 47uF E-caps, but since parts of the circuit run at 18V I'm not 100% certain that 16V is OK. I've had a look at the schematic and it seems to me that they're in the 9V section, but I'm really just guessing.

It's an 8 incher, and it measures around 5.5 ohms so I'm calling it 8Ω, and I wrote that on the speaker which contains, as you can see, very little information. I have zero woodwork ability so I can't make a box for it. I could maybe commission a box from someone who does have those skills. But...