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Haha, I'm stumped, and I was definitely into that scene ca. 2002. Sounds like it could be We Ragazzi? I usually think of them as dancier, but the Les Savy Fav-ish chords at the beginning of your demo were up their alley, & they played about a million shows around that time. My original guess was the Detachment Kit, but I guess they didn't release anything that year...

P.S. Visiting the SSF site was a blast from the past. Lifter Puller! Palomar! The whole Frenchkiss contingent!

It's wild that you're mentioning this - I just started moving in this direction over the last month, & I am planning to pair a JC120 pre section w/various power amps. If you're a DIY nerd or amp addict, it kinda feels like a no-brainer.

I had Haberdasher etch the GGG PCB a while ago & am finally embarking on this. Do you have a power supply layout and/or txer suggestion by any chance? The +/-15/+/-12 thing is a bit outside my usual building realm...

Do you know if there will be diy kits again?

Peter has a very limited supply of kits. They are available if you e-mail him.

For that price, I'd buy instruments, amps, and/or recording equipment. No pedal circuit is even sort of worth that much money - especially if you have DIY chops.

They're totally fine for personal builds. Some useful info:

+ Their smooth shaft pots tend to run a bit thin, meaning set-screw knobs will wobble on them. That in mind, I only buy knurled pots from Tayda, which comfortably accept most push fit knobs and thus are more usable.

+ The resistance tolerances on Tayda pots can be somewhat broad, though this is not usually noticeable in practice.

+ Their smoothness of taper is a bit slow/creaky compared to an Alpha pot from, say, Small Bear or Love My Switches.

Caveats aside, I love Tayda pots - they get the job done cheaply and reliably. I've never had a problem with them.

In the case of most pedals, they're basically interchangeable.

In terms of components, here are my go-tos:

+ Love My Switches: Pots, jacks, toggle and stomp switches, power stuff, enclosures, some knobs
+ Tayda Electronics: "Pantry" components (resistors, caps for personal builds, silicon diodes, common transistors and ICs), cheap pre-drilled or UV printed enclosures, 79xx-style power regulators, knurled pots for personal builds, stripboard
+ Small Bear Electronics: Germanium parts, pots that LMS doesn't have, tantalum/silver mica caps, certain ICs (e.g. PT2399s, BBDs), JFETs and BJTs, knobs, some rotary switches
+ Digi-Key or Mouser: Critical/"high-end" components (Wima, Panasonic, and Nichicon caps; Vishay resistors; non-polar electrolytic caps; fancy ICs), JFETs and BJTs, small transformers, inductors, IC voltage inverters/charge pumps (e.g. 7660, 1044, 1054), some rotary switches
+GuitarPCB or PedalPCB, which (I believe) offers SMD JFETs on a conversion board: Obsolete JFETs, some rotary switches
+ Ask around/check eBay: Everything else (e.g. hard-to-find GE diodes/transistors, ICs, BBDs, optocouplers, etc.)

Great PCBs can be found all over the place: Fuzzdog, PedalPCB, Aion, and GuitarPCB all come to mind, as does the rogue's gallery linked at the top of the forum. Search for "[pedal name] PCB" on Google and you'll usually find something reasonable.

Pro tip: Bulk Russian germanium transistors can be great replacements for now-unobtainium usual suspects like the 2N404, AC125, AC128. Just make sure to match the hFe of the project and make sure polarity is the same (i.e. replace a PNP with a PNP, not an NPN).

Enjoy!

Seconding davent & Matmosphere: you should def have a DMM & component reader. Both made me a much smarter, more conscientious builder with a far lower failure rate.

A Beavis Board-style hookup for audio probing and "rocking outside the box" is pretty essential, as are a decent adjustable-temp soldering iron, some quality solder (I use Kester), a Helping Hands variant for awkward angles, a stripper/crimper, decent wire cutters, and an adjustable wrench or socket set (e.g. the Rocket Sockets at Love My Switches). At some point, I also invested in a drill press to make the enclosure process easier. Oscopes can be useful for certain builds (like synths and LFO-based stuff), but they are - for the cost, anyway - overkill in most instances; one can easily build a great-sounding tremolo, vibrato, fuzz, OD, distortion, delay, phaser, flanger, etc. without them.

That PTP work is truly *gasp*-worthy.

Looks great, cool graphics indeed!

Thanks! I've been bare boxing for years, so this feels like a whole new way of thinking about pedals 

Just got my second Pfizer and it's been a doozy - I've been exhausted for the last 24 hours. It's nice to approach some kind of finish line, though.

I don't know if it'd be hard to implement but some kind of "dang I missed out on X board" function might be cool. I know a fair few folks post asking for discontinued boards so if you had 10/20/400 people saying they'd be all over a certain discontinued PCB it could be cool. Kinda like taydas stock notification alert. That is provided it's something you'd be okay with doing I mean!

+1

Over the pandemic, I went through a period of obsessively watching tons of SNL clips from the Bill Hader/Kristen Wiig/Fred Armisen/Andy Samberg/Will Forte era. One of the top 5 was this Forte hallucination from the mid-Aughts:

https://youtu.be/4ALGL4Hm5g8

In a moment of COVID-era mindless productivity, I decided to use the skit as an excuse to test Tayda's UV printing service, which meant whipping up a drawing of its final moments in Illustrator. I'm actually pretty stoked about the results:



I tried a couple different fuzzes, but eventually decided to do a Dirtbox Layouts stripboard of Deadastronaut's monumental X Fuzz. I sold my original build a few years ago, and the circuit's almost-heavy rawkness felt worthy of Tenacious D:



I was a cartoonist/illustrator in a former life, so the fact that Tayda's printing looks great is a true delight. More esoteric pedals to come!