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Does anybody have the part numbers or filter criteria for the mini electrolytic caps at Mouser? I'm usually pretty good at finding what I want there, but I'd like to be sure after my DIP switch mistake. I ordered wrong and got some usable but very tiny switches. This time I don't want to end up with jumbo size caps.

This could be a cool project.

For $50 I'd say grab it.

Check the BST subforum there are a couple of people who are okayed to etch and sell most of the discontinued pcbs.

I just made my first order and took advantage of the sales 

but why are the catalinbreads, Neutrino, Sunking and Silverfox discontinued? those were all on my "soon to order" list
Not enough interest?

I have no experience with Tayda's stripboard but was considering adding some to an order I'm making. How did you test it?

magnatone vibey sort of thing ?

ooh wah yoo hoo

The Vanishing Point is a sequencer designed by the Tone God at DIYSB. There are several threads over there, just do a search. Maybe there is no demo, didn't look that hard. Perhaps the OP meant the Point Zero.

Well then, a big belated

Happy Birthday Madbean

and many more happy and healthy ones.

the SB banner is way cool.

I've been interested in these for a while. Are the guts gooped? If not a quick photo or two would be appreciated.

Tom

Brian,

Do you have a picture of how this would look?
If not, I may have to try it and post some pictures. It sounds like a cool look.

Tom

I definitely like the Sharpie!

Now, if you get bored of that some time, crumple up a little aluminum foil, douse with Acetone and start spotting the Sharpie ink. It will melt away the ink lines and make it look like a translucent finish.

Matt,

If you can  post the layout or a link to it and some pictures and or some more info I'll try to help you out. I'm sure there are other folks here that will throw their thoughts. PM me or reply to this and we can move this to the tech forum and take it from there. Debugging can be a frustrating affair for sure but if the problem is reproducible (as it appears to be) it's easy to start eliminating variables and get this working.

Tom

I am reasonably new to electronics and building pedals, but I learned a LOT from Brian Wampler's book "How to build effect pedals"  Great and comprehensive guide to the meat and veges of pedal building.  He has 2 other books as well for the more advanced.

http://www.indy-guitarist.com/diy
If your gonna buy one make sure you sign up for the discount here first
http://www.indyguitarist.com/free/

If you have a few builds done I wouldn't recommend these books.  I bought the beginners one and the advanced one for the discounted price (thankfully).  While they are ok they really don't tell you "how things work"  I kinda feel like I wasted my money here and much more free info can be found on the internet.

I'm inclined to agree with that. I think the "how to build effects pedals" book is a decent reference, but leaves more questions than answers. It seems to suppose an intuition or prerequisite knowledge that beginners don't have, in its brief coverage of certain things. When I tried to do one of the vero projects, the "smooth overdrive", I did the build twice with all different but identical components. There's something missing or lost in the translation - info about grounding or something, because they both howl and oscillate like crazy, in the same way. This is whether or not it was hooked up to a switch. Hours of experimentation and troubleshooting led me to trying to get tech support, which they make a daunting procedure. They told me this was a topic for the forum, so that is where I posted it at least a month ago and have still been ignored to this day by anyone on there, except for one well intended but irrelevant comment. There's tons of info online, and just spending time on these forums helps you stumble on to knowledge.

+1 on the Beavis site. Schematic to reality and the How does it work on the LPB articles are great for everybody not just noobs. I still find something new there that I missed before.

EO,

check out Freestompboxes.org and http://www.beavisaudio.com/techpages/
Most of my noob learning has (and continues to) come from those places...particularly from FSB's library section and reading those informative/layman's-written articles on B.A.R

VIBE AND REVERB!!! 

Brian, I am both happy and sad that I found this site. Happy, because I have found building pedals to be immensely gratifying and fun, and sad, because this is killing my wallet!

You have to pace yourself (says the guy who just ordered 4 new boards, OK , so I had the parts for 2 of them and was planning on vero builds until I randomly checked the projects page. Perhaps there is not just electronic wizardry going on.). I have to check if I am on the mailing list  to get the updates.

Tom

Very cool. What language is the code written in?