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I've really loved all of the Boneyard designs I've breadboarded and/or made PCBs for so far. They have all been great, but there are a couple so far that jump from great (A Tier) to amazing (S-Tier). The first of those was the Timbre Man - dang I love that thing. The second is this one. As...

I'd recently done a King of Tone... and I have a King of Tone related layout that I've been working on behind the scenes (which isn't quite ready for the full light of day), but I hadn't done a Prince of Tone... so I figured it was time to fix that... For this build I'm using a PCB laid out...

When I was first learning to use EasyEDA I wanted a couple of straightforward designs to practice on, so I decided to take a crack at laying out the Harmonic Percolator... with a dinosaur twist, of course! I neglected to get a good shot of the PCB before I dropped it in the enclosure, so I...

I'd posted just the populated PCB on the Boneyard forum - but after testing out Chuck's "Mona Lisa Simpson OD" - I knew I had to get it built up... The layout itself is fairly simple as there aren't too many components. There's only 12 resistors and 8 capacitors on the main board. Throw in a...

I'd picked up the AionFX Lithium project when it was first released, but it sat in my build queue for a while. I finally got around to building it, and honestly I really like what he's done with the circuit... The original Small Clone only had one knob (rate) and a depth switch (which...

I was looking for a way to take one of my own pedal designs and streamline the production a bit. Most commercial pedals, and honestly many of the independent one-person operations, are using predominantly SMD boards. While these aren't nearly as much fun to build (and aren't nearly as cool in my...

Okay - so... say Steggi wanted to be "fancy" and use an Mercury Magnetics transformer for the 5E3 build... Looking at the wiring diagram: The red, blue, brown, yellow, and black are all pretty clear... But the MM transformer has different wire colors... and only has four coming through the...

Yes... I now officially have the bug. Between my new Marshall and the 5F2-A I just got finished (not to mention my AC15), I've suddenly discovered the joy of real tube amp sounds... So now I'm trying to decide what to build next (realizing I'll likely eventually build both) before I start...

So... I'm finally getting into amp building and am looking at some of the higher wattage amps that I likely won't be able to use straight in the house... I've been looking at various attenuators, and they vary greatly in price / capability / mode of operation... Any one have thoughts? Advice...

A little over a year ago I finished up a build of a really high gain and doomy Big Muff variant, Frantone's The Sweet. I had used a hand etched board from Effects Layouts and it came out pretty good overall. It sounded pretty much like all of the demos I found online. I'd tried to etch a couple...

Updated with one last photo at the bottom of post #1... :D Once I had several pedals under my belt, I decided I wanted to try my hand at amplifiers. Unfortunately some of the amps I'd like to build eventually aren't exactly "beginner friendly." So I went in search of an amp I liked that would...

Any amp experts... I've gone back through this circuit about 4 times and still can't figure out what's wrong. I've been trying to finish up this Mojotone 5F2-A... Passed the dim bulb testing, etc. but when I put in the tubes I get a high pitched squeal that scales with the volume knob, and any...

A couple of years ago I built a partscaster using a set of EMG DG20 pickups. It sounded decent clean, but when I went to stack it with my various Gilmour inspired effects and amps, it just didn't work. Over time I really didn't play it as the active pups just weren't doing it for me. I had other...

Okay - so... Now that I have this (in case you haven't been down in the general chat sandbox): I want a good cab to go with it... Right now it's running with my two-rock 2X12 cabinet and it sounds great - but that's for another project, and really isn't well-matched to this amp... and this...

One of my favorite enclosures and pedals was the Steggo take on the Zendrive (which has since been re-introduced by Warm Audio as the Warmdrive). I'd initially used the AionFX board for my builds, but my friend at South Obolon FX released a version of this board and was kind enough to make me a...

Any chance of adding an EasyEDA sub-forum to the PCB design area? There are a lot of classic bits that may need parts / templates for EasyEDA... or the ones they have may be wrong / hard to find.

So I've lamented in my recent KoT build that I'd really like a version with all of the controls up top... Sooooo... I'm trying to lay one out... I think I've managed to get the circuit diagram correct... but now trying to lay it out I see why people haven't gone this route! *lol* Here's the two...

The Dimetrodon Distortion is based on the venerable MXR Distortion+. The original versions of that pedal would have used all "vintage" bits - so I figured it would be fun to try and build a Dimetrodon Distortion using parts similar to the old school Distortion+. I'd also built a couple of...

One of my earliest builds was a clone of the King of Tone pedal using a Musikding kit and a PCB Mania board... and I actually got it to work! However, this was in my "pre-dino" enclosure days, and I'd always wanted to circle back and make a real "dino" version of the pedal, so I finally took the...

I'd ordered some enclosures for my Lot Lizard board, but unfortunately one of them was misprinted at the factory. This is a fairly rare event, and Tayda always makes things right, but I wondered if it might be possible to use this particular enclosure for something fun - so enter a special...