Sometimes it’s the switch…
I’ve had pretty good luck with those blue 3PDT switches. But this switch was bad on the first use! I can’t believe it. Just soldered it up and it was stuck in one position. I only needed a DPDT switch…
Mitchell
Parentheses Fuzz #4
This is a clone of the Earth Quaker Devices Life. Which is a great octave fuzz. The foot switches left to right are: Boost, Octave, Bypass, The knobs left to right: Boost, Distortion, Filter, Volume, Octave. The center top knob…
PedalPCB 1981 inventions DRV clone
This is a build of the PedalPCB Informant, it’s a clone of the 1981 Inventions DRV, which is a great sounding evolution of the ProCo Sound Rat. I’d call this a beginner to intermediate level project. The PCB is easy…
Boss Muff
I love Boss pedals, they are bomb proof, have a great form factor, work well, and look great. They don’t make a couple effects that I like. For example you can’t get a Big Muff in Boss. I had the…
Haunting Mids project
What’s Haunting Mids? Haunting Mids is a Big Muff variant. In a nutshell it’s the input buffer, and first two clipping stages from the regular Big Muff circuit. It drops the tone control and the output buffer of the original…
Parentheses Fuzz postmortem
What is it Parentheses Fuzz is a PCB from PedalPCB that is a clone of the Earth Quaker Devices Life pedal, with some mods. Originally designed as a sort of signature pedal for the Band Sunn o))). What does it…
Work in progress
I always get into something for a while, then need to take a break. There are a few hobbies I always seem to come back to. Pedal making is one of these! I dug out a few of the boards…
Boss Enclosures
I got the bug to put some circuits into Boss enclosures. Boss makes a really solid pedal. The pedal itself is bomb proof with a nice form factor and circuits are pretty good. The switch has a nice feel to…
Those low profile switches
These look good and come in a few varieties. I tried these out when first saw thinking the would allow a little more space for components. These days I’m not including a battery 🔋 and making batter layouts with two…
The Fulltone 3PDT
When I got started in the DIY pedal hobby the switches that were available were the Carling DPDT. These were about $9 but didn’t allow for easily wiring an LED and true bypass. Small Bear Electronics started offering a 3PDT…
That blue 3PDT stomp switch
The Specs*: (from Lovemyswitches see my notes below) 3PDT Latched Foot Switch Nickel plated solder lug Two hex nuts, one plastic washer, one lock washer 50,000 cycles 12mm mounting hole Solder temp: 482°F / 250℃ max for 3 seconds 3A…
Tayda mix up
I order some parts on 1/4/21 a big box showed up on 1/20/21 and nothing on the box was anything that I ordered. It was all pedal making parts. Including: 5x 125B enclosures knobs resistors caps 2x PT2399 4x TL072…