Crowther Hot Cake Guitar Pedal Build (AionFX Anomaly)

TL; DR Built a very classic, clever single op-amp circuit that delivers a minute compressed overdrive into mild distortion (with natural clipping from design, no diodes) [...]

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New NOS Transistor Order is in!

TL;DR Got a new order of NOS transistors in (silicon and germanium)! Let's check out and display the range of gain and voltage/leakage measurements to see how worthy [...]

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Hudson Broadcast Guitar Pedal Build (AionFX Skywave) (with mods!)

TL; DR Built a Hudson Broadcast clone guitar pedal from AionFX with some stock schematic modifications along with a custom clipping section and it turned out remarkably [...]

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Hammond 1590B Enclosure Guitar Pedal mounting plate (3D-print)

TL; DR For all these guitar pedals I've been making using the Hammond-style 1590B enclosure for, it was about time I modeled up and 3D-printed a guitar pedal board [...]

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McPherson Anti-Buffer (Pickup Simulator) Inspirational Build

TL; DR Another absolutely gem of a pedal idea from Waylon McPherson with some innovative changes (Waylon's, not mine!), to combat buffered bypass pedals at beginnings of [...]

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McPherson Green Gizmo™ with modifications!

TL; DR The McPherson Green Gizmo™ is great, without question or complaint. However, at the end of the day, I'm just a Carling-like stomp switch monkey. Although I dug [...]

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McPherson Green Gizmo™ Inspirational Build

TL; DR Built an absolutely killer-idea-of-a-guitar-pedal to micro-tune guitar pickup frequencies (e.g. re-voicing), with full inspiration and credit to Waylon McPherson [...]

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Fender Blues Junior Amp Modification Pursuit: Part 2

TL;DR A very important first step in audio electronics work of this kind (especially with amplifiers, but isn't limited just that) is making some safety tools if you [...]

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Fender Blues Junior Amp Modification Pursuit: Part 1

TL;DR Going to be performing some intensely researched circuit modifications to my 2018 Fender Blues Junior Laquored tweed amp. Back story I used to have a late 90's FBJ [...]

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Trying out the new 'Fish' Atari 2600 Prototype Game just found!

TL;DR From an absolute "cool" factor and nostalgic gaming perspective, I'm not really sure it gets any better than someone on the internet today (in 2025) finding and [...]

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