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I fear I will not have time to do justice to every build I have done. Here are a few I have made for other people recently. 1 – Ju Ju Juice This is a clone of the Sustain Punch Creamy Dreamer. Jude from the band To The Bones wanted something to replace her MXR … Read more

Well hello again. About time I wrote about my Aqua Puss pedals. I was able to source two New-Old stock MN3005 chips from eBay. I was also able to source 2 New-Old Way Huge Aqua Puss PCBs that were developed by a gang of awesome folk over at FreeStompBoxes.org What is an Aqua Puss? Only … Read more

I recently purchased a Dirtbag board from Madbean on which to build one of the most venerable delays ever crafted, the Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man. First up here is the populated board Its a pretty serious build. I didnt read the manual properly (skim) before starting, but thanks to experience I populated the board … Read more

I’ve been busy. Busy for weeks and weeks. As well as the aforementioned Commissions I have also been endulging my biggest pedal building passion – Lovetone! People reading this blog know just how much I love the big colourful British wonders. Im lucky to have a well paid job, but even as it stands I … Read more

Damn its been too long. I got reminded recently that people still read this blog. Really genuinely lovely to hear that, and also that people are finding it a good read, which is important too. Not just reading it to laugh at my efforts making effects pedals. So what have I been up to you … Read more

Ive been getting into these Madbean PCBs this week. I also received a massive email off a guy called Gee through some contacts. Guy is a full on pedal fanatic (kinda like me and I guess others reading this blog). He has a massive wish list that included a Fuzz Factory, so using beans Zombii … Read more

I’ve done a number of pedal builds now, most of them Vero. Vero is awesome. Its cheap, its fun to work with, and it feels really old school and DIY to me. Sure its a lot of work sometimes, but its so accessible (you literally only need a tool to cut traces with and thats … Read more

I managed to successfully put together my Big Cheese layout, and it fired up first time – honest – no messing about here. I dont think there is any need for the large layout so I wont bother with that one, the 28×18 is pretty accomodatable in a BB size enclosure. So here it is, … Read more

I thought I would give something back to the community that has afforded me so much education, excitement and enjoyment over the last 6 months. Sure, I’ve just rejigged the OLC PCB layout for the Big Cheese, but damnit I’m proud of myself and noone else was going to do it (!) Its very wide, … Read more