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Any chance of a pcb? Sounds great!

I like the masked off black top design. Method?

Gotta ask, is it 8ball/ts/8ball or fabulanche/sparkplug/barber? I'm a bit confused..

That looks great. I have to ask: what's your finishing method?

That's awesome, and the finished pedals look good.

But for me personally, it's worth all the extra $$$ not to have to do all that!

Going back to the small board.

It's a good question.

For me, a lot of my builds are multis so calling it a PlexiGainKlon... isn't probably that bad an idea for the most part, but a simpler, somewhat related, name is easier for reference purposes.  A few times in the past I've referenced the source pcb or design in the artwork for my multis:

http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=21840.msg215150#msg215150
http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=15890.msg150320#msg150320
http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=18020.msg173204#msg173204

Single pedals I *usually* use the PCB/schematic/commercial name and effect type.

http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=22011.msg216884#msg216884
http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=18724.msg180364#msg180364

That to me feels like the right thing to do - I can't go claiming I designed the circuits imo, but these boxes are my implentations on it.

I'm reading some of these build docs.. I'm thinking you might have needed moar sleep in the process!

BTW, it's great to be getting such positive feedback from some of the guns (aka legends, aka gods) on this forum.  I've been doing this on and off for a few years now and I really feel like I'm getting to a level that I feel is semi-pro and fairly acceptable, especially since I've admired their work since I started.

I can see the appeal of metal washers with this one.  They look great on the FCV and Mos/Sil switches and really pop out, so metal all round would really look great.

Now with knobs (so hard to keep a phone camera in focus), stolen from Terminus:

Yeah, I have a fairly hefty tayda order for the knobs. Probably blue and/or white for this one.

Gudday all, here's my Deadringer built from a Haberdasher etch (sorry it took so long to finish mate). Worst pedal name to get any inspiration from.  I tried some cartoony dancing skeletons and skull clocks but I just don't go for the gothic bogan style that a google search would bring up.

So, remembered Pratchett's Soul Music and figured DEATH playing a guitar and a suitable quote might be the go.  It'd be a neater build if I'd left more wire there from before the rocking for the boxing but it came up ok.  Not convinced this is a super neat layout but I got there in the end.  10k on the blue LED, still too bright, 2.4k on the red (my normal value).

Generic sticker paper through an injet, for some reason the black ink seems to repel the clear laquer - it takes a lot of coats to even out, and even then I gave this a cut and polish to bring it up to code.  But before you get to the flat stage it feels embossed - thicker on the white and other colours, thinner on the black lines.

Anyway, thanks to the guys in the Deadringer switch thread who helped me work out the correct wiring for the FCV switch.

There are a million better things to worry about when building a pedal, starting with what color wire you want to use from the in jack to the switch

Well, see, I try to keep it uniform in the pedal at least, if not between builds... One colour for the in/out jack tips, one for ground (black if I've got it), one for power (red if I've got that), one colour for all the pots...

Are your voltages with or without the transistor in place? You should not be getting 0V at B.

That's with the tranny in place and measuring each leg.

+1 to that, or tagboards version of the Crackle Not Ok, which is much the same thing but without crackle. That's my go to boost.

Surprised your Ne-1 is quiet, I built one on vero from paulinthelabs layout without issue. Love that for bass.

Sorry to hear about your gran, jimi.

I have to laugh though. Your 'slapped this together' is better than my 2 weeks work.

In regards to the English Gent: Testing the transistor on the PCB:
C: 8.35
B: 0
E: 0

On the vero
C: .01
B: .53
E: .01

Built the EM-Drive off this layout here:
http://johnkvintageguitars.homestead.com/Effects/Fuzz-ODs/Emerson/Em-Drive-with-trimmer.png

Pretty rough and quick build.  Used a 2n2222, 20k trimmer and a 2.2m resistor, only had 500k pots so I shoved a 470k across pins 1 and 3 on both.  Took longer to wire the offboard than it did to find, populate, and solder the vero.  Lots better with a buffer in front, farty fuzz when the gain is maxed, probably better when the guitar volume is down a bit, and still a bit bassy.  Might look at a proper 2meg resistor or lower gain transistor.

What is funny is how well it will do pinch harmonics when the gain is flat out.