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Thanks guys!  I've been really having a lot of fun spook-a-fying classic designs.  It's a fun challenge to try and match the original.

Circuit was nonfunctioning with these in them. Still waiting on replacement clock. Like I said not much experience with this sort of thing so yeah, I could be wrong. Are there any other ways to tell for sure you have legit ICs?

Best way is to put them in a circuit you know works.

Thanks, gents!

That looks fantastic. I need to look into they UV printing stuff. The outside is fastly becoming the part I don't look forward to.

Highly recommended.  There's a bit of a learning curve, but once you get it dialed in, you can really get some awesome results.  It's not too spendy either.

Awesome! The design is great and the color contrast is striking. Nice addition of the sticker inside!

Thanks, Grant.  Brian's peace sign came off when I cleaned the board 

Super nice build!  The pics are great too. 

This one came out super nice, very stoked on it.  It's going on my board. Enclosure is a Tayda UV print.

I decided to skip the DI because I have a DI on my bass head, but I added the components for that section in case I want to add it down the road.  Word to the wise on this build: Be careful with the placement of the jacks.  I placed mine too close to the lid and had to do some bending and add some electrical tape to the lid so it wasn't making contact.

That's really sharp, great build!

Killer builds and damn cool of you!   

Great build!

Is your regulator in upside-down?  It's hard to tell from the pics. 

Aside from that, I think you should be adding a bit more heat before you flow in your solder (either more time or a higher iron temp).  Ideally, you want the solder to flow through the hole to the other side of the board. 

Looking sharp, as usual. I'm a fan of the CS9 after a friend asked me to build him one because apparently John Scofield uses one. This was right before they started up with the reissues, I believe.

This and the FL9 flanger seem to revolve around the same circuit, but the LFOs have different speed ranges and the feedback loop. I wonder if there could be a happy medium in the LFO to make a twofer out of this. Then you would have the LFO delay control as well. As for the feedback loop, I would make it to where you get positive or negative feedback by running through a JFET out of different legs like on the Lovetone flange. One last tweak would be to have a blend knob that goes from 100% dry to %100 wet like Madbean's Florist. On an unrelated note...I might have to fire up Eagle...no reason at all...

Thanks DC! I did a first version of this with the blend circuit from MB's Pork Barrel, but I never really got it to work right (link below).  Alas, Bean is way better at this than me.  This version, I wanted to strip it down but give the vibrato option. As far as blend knobs on choruses go, for me personally, I end up setting them at ~50% or 100%.

I've been looking at the FL9, recently.  I was wondering if the gate from the CS9 would be a nice addition.  I'd guess that took it out for space, but in a 1590BB, I'd like to add it.  Another thought I've had is a 2 LFO FL9.  I did the BC9, not too long ago, and it came out really good. I'd like to hear what a flanger sounds like with that set up. 

I'm using KiCad now, but if you need any flies from me to get started, I'm happy to send them.

First Version: https://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=33035.msg317647#msg317647
BC9: https://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=33837.msg325005#msg325005

Badassatude! 

That looks great! 

Thanks everyone!

Dang, those knobs and that footswitch placement-
you really know how to balance a layout- that looks awesome!

Thanks man. I took a bunch of elective photography in college, I feel like I dip into that with my compositions.   

Thanks guys. 

How're you finding the circuit?

It's a weird one for sure, but there's some good sounds in there.  I think the vibrato is my favorite, it has a small clone type metallic timbre to it, if that makes sense. 

Finished the Worm.  I had a bunch of hiccups but it finally worked out. 

The zebra effect on my graphic was not intentional, but I thought it looked okay.  My no-film transfers have been unreliable, lately.  I think they might have reformulated the glue.  Anybody else having issues?  I might just go full UV print from here on out.  Those things look perfect.