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Been a while since I did a build report. Figured I'd post this one on account of a couple changes made to the build. Starting off, it's a fantastic sounding pedal. Kind of surprised me really. Has a nice classy fuzz quality about it. The Sustain works really well across the range. What's...

Just built the Nutty Fuzz but its exhibiting problems. When on bypass, it exhibits feedback and distortion. Even weirder is that the knobs affect the feedback, which is really odd. When engaged, it feels like it doesn't want to work properly. I feel like there's some sort of bleed-through...

Hey folks, just finished a Schadenfreude a few days ago. I think it's working...but I'm getting a weird tap from it whenever it's engaged and I'm not playing. It's at a rhythm of ever 2 seconds and appears to be coming from the CD4046BE. I switched it out and it doesn't seem to fix it. Could it...

Talk about Cornish pedals seems to come up now and then around various guitar-related forums. A few of them have been on my wish list, including the ones at AionFX. Ended up getting the PedalPCB options because...well...I like the PCB's better and there's an extra option that AionFX doesn't...

Out of the latest batch of stuff I built comes the XS Drive and Cannon Fodder MKII, two pedals that I probably wouldn't have normally built if I wasn't so damn curious about them. The XS Drive was pretty straight-forward to put together...although I had to use a different pedal template to get...

When I heard about the Fingers and Wilhelm Scream overdrives I knew that I wanted to play with them...especially since they're PedalPCB originals. I've built a number of TS-based overdrives with the Greengage (EQD Plumes) being my current favorite. All of the TS-based clones I've built (Ibanez...

Hey folks, I'll post some pics of my build in a few but wanted to get this out. Want to make sure this is normal before going further with it. Basically, I'm seeing an issue where the volume seems too low. To reach unity gain requires cranking the volume to around 3 o'clock. That's even with...

Not too many new builds lately...but I do have a few personal ones to post. One of them is a bass pedal based on the Boss ODB-3. I read about the ODB-3 recently and, after listening to a few demos, it sounded quite interesting. I was about to just buy a used one to play with but, after a bit of...

So, this little project started due to an open spot on the bass guitar side of my pedalboard. I have room for a mini pedal so I figure I could stick something there that could prove useful over the long run. Initially, I thought I would put an octave pedal there but couldn't find anything that I...

Two more I finished a few weeks back. These were more experimental than anything. The Boneyard Edition PCB's are intriguing and wanted to see what the Viceroy was like. I've also been playing with various Dumble pedals so the MDMA was an obvious choice. The MDMA is a bit of a strange bird. It's...

So I've built a few dual overdrives: a Paragon and a Pro-10 green/blue combo. Both have their perks and sound really good. But after thinking about it, I really came to the conclusion that having separate pedals made more sense to me. I like the Protein...but really wish the Green channel had a...

I built this one a few weeks ago. By far one of the most original distortion boxes I've tried yet. At first, I wasn't sure if it was working right. The problem was that setting the gain up high causes it to clip with a gated effect. It's actually a pretty cool effect...but unexpected from a...

These two came about after some updates to my pedalboard. I originally was running my drives and such through one of the effects loops of my HX Stomp. That didn't work out too well. Just too damn noisy. Effects loop really only works well after an amp so...I rewired everything so that all drives...

Hey folks! So...finished putting together a Delegate compressor last night. But after testing it a bit, seems something is askew. One thing I noticed is that the LED isn't changing with the signal. It just stays on no matter what...not even a flicker. Any suggestions on how to test things to...

Yep, this is the super-duper plaid edition of the Plaid Preamp. I wanted it to say "PLAID" when you saw it. Goal accomplished! :P Tone-wise, it sounds pretty darn good. Quite different than what I would expect. The interesting part is that GAIN 1 is actually pretty low in gain. It seems to be...

When AionFX announced their latest batch of Boss clones, I didn't pickup on them right away. But after contemplating them, I decided to get at least 4 out of the 6. Only ones I wasn't interested was the Sapphire (BD-2 Blues Driver) and Aurum (OD-2 Overdrive), both of which I already had...

I kept seeing the EHX Hot Wax pedal popping up in various guitar related posts and articles. The Hot Tubes side is pretty well known and a solid circuit. The Crayon side is another pretty popular one too. So, the idea was to take the two pedals and combine them to make something that's better...

My previous builds of the Parentheses Fuzz sold pretty well on Reverb. So much so that it warranted a new batch. For this batch, I wanted to improve on the design and build a bit. The previous design had what I think of as a play school quality about it. While it's cute and fun, I wanted to...

Lately, I've been exploring octave pedals. I finalized my search though and ended up with a Foxrox Octron3, an absolutely fantastic analog octave up/down pedal. However, I still ended up with a Squidward board in the process. The idea was to replace my Parentheses Fuzz with a stand-alone...

Ok, so...I have a handful of 12AX7 tubes I got so I could try out different ones in the Maxon RTD800 tube drive pedal I got. None of them worked as well as the default EHX 12AX7 so I held onto them for a later day. Figured that one day I could put together a BK Butler clone and try out different...