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That's a slippery slope. Standardizing things helps save time and parts costs, modification and customization will eat up your time. When I first started building seriously I only had one model, but I offered it in a bunch of different finishes, so even though the PCB was the same I was putting...

This is the way. My builds are the same if not better quality than they were when I started selling, but I can build them way faster now. Once you're famous you can get away with spending a week on every pedal and charging accordingly, but as has been said before, until you have a reputation...

Huge +1 to this. Even if you have the coolest FV-1 algorithms out there, if you don't have some reason to stick out among all the other boutique FV-1 based pedals then you're going to have a hard time "breaking into the market." And if you find a way to get into the market, if you don't have...

Absolutely, I'll dig through my old documents in a bit and post what I've got.

Exactly this. I think it's interesting and could be fun to get into, but I barely sleep as it is, I think another hobby would likely kill me.

That's literally the main thing their pricing is dependent on. They charge by the square inch.

I was unaware of this, this changes some things. I have a couple STM32 dev boards I was doing stupid stuff on, this could make them a lot more useful for my caveman brain.

I've done a little bit of playing with STM32, but not much. They're not terrible to flash, but you have to be set up for it, including an ST-LINK or similar device. I use ATTiny for my switching, JLC has a pretty good stock of them. ATTiny can also be flashed by Arduino which is a lot more...

Your context doesn't include what pedals are in the chain and their combined current draw. If you have multiple high-current pedals in the chain and the supply doesn't have enough to cover them, you'll be getting noise. If I had a dollar for every "my 250mA supply is usually so quiet but I'm...

I'm not much of a camping dude, but the good news is we'll be in a country where the kids don't speak the language, so it will be harder for them to do any shopping without mom or dad translating.

Just a quick heads up for everyone, I'm going to be on vacation June 25 through July 21, and while some PCBs are running a little low, I will not be restocking until I get home, so if something runs out before I leave, it's just going to be out for a bit. Also, in case it wasn't clear, I will...

I picked one up, I'll certainly post my thoughts when I get it together (though I expect others will beat my to it as I'll be out of town late June through mid-July).

Ah geeze, thanks for letting me know. That was an accidental carry-over from my template and is not part of the build.

Yup, these guys nailed it^ Obviously there is no reason you can't use high voltage caps in those spots if you have them around and have room for them, but you're not dropping the whole B+ across the plate resistors, so it's not necessary.

Try removing all your ICs (besides the LT1054) first so you can check an "unloaded" voltage from the charge pump. Then you can insert the ICs one at a time (remove power before inserting) and see which one is pulling the rail down. My guess is that there's a problem somewhere else that's trying...

Yup, I was open to leaving, but every alternative I found was more than a 175% increase in price while also being slower.

This sentence hurts me on a deep, meta-physical level because that is exactly how we operate at my job as well.

I've been shipping to Europe with zero changes to my process, packaging , or documentation. One customer (in Austria I think?) said the package was on hold and that customs was requesting a "declaration of compliance" before releasing it. I did a little reading and was able to put something...

Aaaaannnnnnndddd reversed on appeals, temporarily at least.

You're never going to get a completely flat response out of the Bassdude, the tonestack in that one is different from the typical Fender/Marshall/Vox stack where setting treble mids bass for 0-10-0 is flat. Can I ask why it's important to get a flat response? The goal of a pedal is to change...