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When I read the start of this I thought, "Pppphhhtttt, you think you've got that many boards?"  Then I saw the picture and I immediately thought of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdyFEQeMYCU

Thanks for sharing that, trem.  I really enjoyed it.

You should learn the relative norms of the pedal building community--it makes buying parts much, much easier.  For film caps (usually used for 1000pf to 1uF), you're basically looking for caps with a 5mm lead spacing.  You have to be roughly aware that some 5mm spaced caps are really tall or wide and might not fit, but basically that's what you want.  If you want a kit, then Small Bear makes a lot of sense because it caters to these norms.  But in the future you're going to want to source your own caps on an individual basis, so when you look up a part on Mouser, as an example, just check the attributes for lead spacing and size and you're off and running.

Aion has a great little overview of parts sourcing that you might find useful.
https://aionelectronics.com/resources/where-to-buy-what/

If there's a better resource for this I hope someone will post it.

I find metric is easier for math, but harder to understand... For example...

Can you conceptualize a pound?, a psi? a psf?  Likely.

But tell me what a kilonewton feels like.  Or a Pascal.  This convenient system of measurement

Then again... what the hell is a slug?

Is that just upbringing though?  I have no idea what a pound is.  I can easily conceptualise a kilogram, and a litre, and can vaguely judge how many metres away something is. 

I have no idea how many miles per gallon my car gets, but I do know how many litres per 100km it uses. 

It was years of wondering what an oz was before someone told me it's pronounced 'ounces'.   

That! A thousand times that! Imperial measurements are so damn illogical if you are brought up with metric. And I reckon its worse for us, because I get the impression that in the US and UK you at least are taught and use some metric in addition to imperial, whereas us Continental heathens are taught only metric. Some things are in imperial for some odd reason, probably because they were invented in the US or UK. TV screens are measured in inches, but I reckon that means little to us other then a bigger number in inches = a bigger screen. And bigger is always better. And feets seem to be still used in aviation. And those crazy mariners love their non-metric nautical terms.

I can't speak for the UK, but my impression is that it's pretty close to the same as in Canada.  When you go to school here you're taught metric just about exclusively, but the culture and (for us, especially) our close proximity to America and American culture means you end up picking up both.  I'm basically equally comfortable in both worlds for this reason.  The result is that you end up using metric in some contexts and imperial in others.  In construction, for instance, it's really common to use imperial.  Commercial, or even at home woodworking, you're probably doing everything in imperial (on tools made for the US market).  But I don't buy any idea that imperial is somehow easier to conceptualize.  I agree that nobody can conceptualize a newton, but we don't ever talk about force.  So that's just based on what you use enough to get a firm hold of. 

By chance (and in all likelihood because our new tech overlords' survillence of my life and interests), this popped up for me this morning.  So there are people like me who are face blind, but there are also people who are facial recognition superstars and apparently never forget a face.  Reminded me of an episode of 60 Minutes I saw years ago about people who can remember every minute of their lives with full recall.  For those who might want to take a "glass half full" view of the subject of memory:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/11/super-recognisers-police-the-people-who-never-forget-a-face

The major reason I never progressed in this hobby was my memory. By progression I mean once I got the easy basics down I quickly realized that I can't seem to recall the more difficult (to me) stuff. Shit simply doesn't stick with me unless I'm going over and over it for months/years on end.

I'll guess I'll probably remain a real good follower of directions and a real good implementer of others ideas and can build them but that is probably as far as I'll be able to go in understanding this electronics hobby.

Knowing my memory has never been good, this goes back to being my 20's, I'm in my mid 50's now, I realize that is just my DNA I guess. While I did get an MBA you would not believe the amount of studying I had to do to accomplish this. I never skipped class, listened and took notes both undergrad and MBA and I'm here to tell you I then had to hit the books and hard. I'm guessing I'm no genius 

But, this makes me want to ask: To what extent do you believe that memory is tied to IQ?

My education is in law, so take that as a disclaimer.  I know a lot of IQ tests are designed to avoid specific factual knowledge, but in practice it matters, and it especially matters for the kind of quasi-IQ tests you need to take to enter the professions or to get ear-marked as management material in the corporate world.  The Wonderlic test is an example.  Memory is a huge factor on that test.  And the reading section of the LSAT and the verbal section of the GRE have major memory test components.  In the reading section you read something at breakneck speed and then rush through questions that mostly based on what you remember from the assigned passage.  You don't have time to re-read.  Can't remember whether the second paragraph emphasized time constraints or sampling errors?  Too bad, no law school for you.  Can you remember the definition of pusillanimous?  No?  So much for grad school.

Are results on the tests strongly corrolated with success in school or in your later work?  Not really!  But hey, we've got to trim the herd in some way, so I guess this is as good as any (that's pretty much word for word for how the dean of admissions at my school justified the system when questioned).  But it's pretty sobering that so much of the gatekeeping in our societies are based to heavily on something like this, particularly in an age when technology is rendering a lot of the emphasize on memory obsolete.

I like the stickman on your bosstone.  Cracks me up.

I haven't had much time to play with it.  I was pretty pumped to get it working and wanted to post it right away. 

First impressions: it sounds really nice, I've built the EM, as well, and I prefer this one.  I ordered a new MM with better frequency range, I'm hoping to get it dialed in even better.  The odd/even control is really dramatic and gives you pretty distinct sounds, one hollow and the other round.  The threshold control is different, you can set up a crazy flange sound and gate it.  The rest is pretty standard flange controls, so, the sound quality would depend on your personal taste.

Well, now you're whetting my appetite.  Thanks for that.

Lightning is a spiffin' amp build for sure. 

Do it.  And let the English see you do it.

Sweetness.  Congrats on the build.

Can you describe how it sounds?  More to the point: can you somehow begin to describe what sets the ADA flanger apart from the others?  I've always wanted an ADA but at the end of the day I already built an Electric Mistress that I never play.  So I need the encouragement!

I had no idea Alvarez had ever made electrics.  That's cool.  Their old acoustics are rad--especially the ones from the 70s.  Actually, even now they made rad acoustics under the Yairi name.  Where is yours made, anyway?  For the original price I'm assuming it's Japanese.  Is that right?

My Octagon has some noticable noise when the mix knob is pushed towards the maximum settings.  Bugg told me this was normal--a limitation that is part of the FV-1 chip.  But provided the mix knob is below 2 or 3 o'clock it's fine...comparable to any of my other pedals.  So I agree with the other comments.  It sounds like there's something wrong with your build.

Sometimes with these things it's not necessarily memory at all.  I thought my memory for people's faces was terrible, but it turned out that I very likely have prosopagnosia or "face blindness"--the inability to recognize faces.  I got to take the test for it at my university and failed it.  Epically.  I was crusing through the questions completely sure that I was answering everything correctly, but in the end I scored...zero.  Even blind guessing should have gotten me 1 or 2.

It actually made me feel better about not being able to remember names.  Because it's likely not the name I'm forgetting--since I can't recognize the person's face to begin with, there's no starting point for my memory to begin with.

I don't have anything technical to offer.  I just want to say that I think this is a great idea--one of those things that should have been kind of obvious but evidently wasn't or it would have been done a long time ago.  I admire the subtle kind of cleverness it takes to see refinements like this.  So kudos.

That's a good catch with the master.  This pedal is great but it has a few...irregularities?  Some of the knobs work in a bit of a counterintuitive way.  The compressor is that way.  Make sure you turn it off when you first test, and then read the bit in the build docs about it to get a better sense of how it's supposed to work.  If memory serves, the distortion trimmer can be finnicky too.  Make sure it's not too low when you fire the thing up.  Between that and somnif's patented EZ-probe, you should be in good shape.

Good luck with the move, neets.  Those damn things are always a big job.