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I use Reaper (essentially free) with a Line6 Toneport.

I always found the V7 and V8 pickups to be very weak. They're in my Ibanez RG520, only reason why I don't change them is nostalgia.

Anyway, have fun building up that guitar! Gorgeous body!

Great to see you'll be ready to start with 'my' pcb's when I get the build docs done, now that all this will soon be out of the way it'll be a joy working on something small and simple after this.

Seriously: great stuff, insane indeed.

I basically stopped rocking before boxing...works 90% of the times and when it doesn't it's a PITA

I had something similar, same shape (and electronics probably)...made of that weird 'luthite' compound. I had it for 5 years or so and every time I opened the case it smelled like gasoline. It also sounded quite dull acoustically and was quite heavy...Now the proud owner of a Fender Jazz bass with S-1 switching that takes it into Precision/humbucking territory.

Hope yours is made of wood? Otherwise, bring out the gas mask and keep loving it

My most basic setup is:

tuner => some boost => some TS type OD => delay

I can pretty much get what I need from that. Add a wah and I'm super happy. I've been entertaining the idea of a BIG board, since I've got most pedals double once or twice. I would build upon the basic scheme above, but add a volume pedal, octaver, fuzz, phaser and maybe a univibe.

Now if ever I win the lottery, I will also build a board entirely filled with time based effects by Strymon or Eventide...but for now, I'm happy without all that.

So I'm gonna take it at 645° (per my iron) for 63/37 solder is "too hot" then?

Now, as a physics teacher I feel the urge to insist that you should mention the proper units (or any unit in this case) of your measurement. As a European, your post scared the hell out of me: I only solder at 320, about half the numerical value, degrees...Centigrade that is!

Thanks for adding in the Fahrenheit, Pickdropper

I think I like the SuperFuzz better, but both of them aren't really my cup of tea. More a Fuzz Face guy myself.  I liked the octave on the Univox better then on the Tone Machine.

Very cool build! With some extra non funtional metal scrap, that could be made into a real steam punk looking pedal, if that'd be your thing.

Oh that's just nice! Not being able to meet up in yer own country, but going abroad to do so! Hah!
(just kidding...still, whenever you're around, give me a heads up).

A friend is retiring as a builder so this is what I got in the mail.

Good to know some people are able to get rid of the addiction

That's some soldering iron!
I can't build pedals in January, I'll be busy with the Batman Arkham Origins game I got.

Just bought one of those 1000 packs myself. Let's see what turns up.

Back to the pedal industry, Mesa Boogie just released a range of pedals. One or them is a Tube Screamer. I think it goes for $179.

I just checked this out: great $ale$ pitch, it just shows you can sell anything if you throw in enough mumbojumbo.

In principal, circuits themselves are not protected, and judging by the huge amount of TS pedals it is really a grey area and up to everyone's own personal judgement. I have no problem with selling something that I've put time in and tweaked to my or a customer's taste. I'm basically sustaining my hobby.

Selling pcb's is a service and totally legit as long as it's an original PCB design. I think it'a also a different (part of the) market. I've built pedals for guys that spend their free time with a soldering iron in their Les Paul, trying every cap they can find, but can't be bothered to build a pedal.

Personally, I like taking existing designs and adjusting them to taste. If someone asks me to buld THAT pedal, I tell them to go buy that (I live almostnext to a guitarstore), the fun starts when they say they want Something CLOSE to thatpedal, which I think is fair game.