💖 Stay Alive ✨ Top Five of '25 💖

I made so few this year. The ones that stand out are the...

Drebbel Bass Preamp/EQ - works for every situation and can very quickly doctor my bass tone for any room. The boost switch isn't my bag. It's plenty loud already. But just about everything else has a time and place.

Kewpie Fuzz - pretty much stopped my obsession with making muff circuits. However I loaned it to someone pretty quick after building and never got it back. Easy come... easy go.

Deflector Reverb - one trick pony? I don't think so... I really like this when I'm playing in a big space getting some real room reverb. If I want a flavor change this does the trick and is tweakable enough to actually sound pretty subtle OR do the huge washy infinite space thing. Works well for ambient swells too.

I recently dusted off the iron and have lots of things in a partially built state. Hopefully 2026 is a bit more productive
 
I probably finished around 30-40 PCBs this year. As far as top 5 circuits? In no particular order, I will start with:

Chop Shop: Killer Overdrive. I only built it because everyone said it kicked ass. I haven't boxed mine up yet, but I knew it was a keeper the second I hit the first chord.

Dwarven Hammer: Another one I knew right away it was a keeper.

3-way splitter: Essential for running my rack effects in parallel.

Face Melter: This is the Steel Panther Pussy Melter. I don't care about steel panther, but I love melted pussy, and the pedal sounds good too!

Blackhat BTF Chorus (CE-2): I built several other chorus circuits this year but this one came out on top. Simple, straightforward lush chorus.
 
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