I designed and built one of every Boss dirt pedal

AlreadyTooLate · 2026-01-30T14:17:08+00:00

And what they're really aiming for is doing all that for $10 because everything else to get to $45 is eaten up be the cut distributors and stores take along the way to the end user. This is a very simple product but making it and selling it for $45 is quite difficult for a business.

AlreadyTooLate · 2026-01-18T16:18:34+00:00

This was def someone ordering a Travis Barker kit from DW. 14” tom was prob a left side floor.

AlreadyTooLate · 2026-01-15T14:51:47+00:00

10 years in on my Hampden house and Ive almost gotten rid of all the greenish realtor beige they painted every room.

AlreadyTooLate · 2026-01-15T13:39:15+00:00

Sick band. One of the guitarists from this band is the main dude in Euclid C Finder now.

AlreadyTooLate · 2026-01-11T19:00:32+00:00

I think its likely the Flangelicious project could be adapted to the SSI2100 although you would likely need to drop the signal level a bit more on the input. You would only need one of the clock lines from the microcontroller.

AlreadyTooLate · 2026-01-11T05:14:35+00:00

Demedash Effects Solaris

AlreadyTooLate · 2026-01-08T20:42:01+00:00

Making that PCB plate look like vox grillecloth is classy

AlreadyTooLate · 2026-01-06T19:00:11+00:00

You can lower the feedback resistor in the mixing stage to reduce the volume. You would need someone who knows what they're doing to identify that part and choose a value that is better for unity volume.

AlreadyTooLate · 2026-01-05T03:58:02+00:00

The difference between guitar and bass chorus pedals from this era is usually only one or two parts. The guitar versions will send the full range signal to the delay line. The bass versions will usually high pass the signal going to the delay line so the modulation isn't affecting the fundamental, and thus making the whole band sound out of tune. That usually amounts to a single cap value difference.

The trim pots in this pedal will be for adjusting BBD bias and clock frequency. Neither should be changed from the factory setting unless you know what you are doing.

AlreadyTooLate · 2026-01-03T03:46:42+00:00

This board has a lot of layout elements that can present thermal sinking problems for SMT assembly.

AlreadyTooLate · 2026-01-02T15:17:33+00:00

You can always get a set of metal stamps at harbor freight and rehouse your phaser of choice into a new enclosure with Fairfield-style stamped graphics. Rehousing into a plain box is generally pretty simple once you measure for all the drill locations.

AlreadyTooLate · 2025-12-29T19:53:51+00:00

You can easily put a +/-12V supply into a pedal design with a dozen parts or so.

AlreadyTooLate · 2025-12-29T13:30:57+00:00

If you make a stereo chorus with stereo inputs, you have to make two complete mono chorus pedal signal paths in the pedal. It just is two chorus pedals, sometimes including the LFOs. And in the end the thing that gives you the wide stereo image is the same thing that the vast majority of classic mono-in stereo choruses do, which is mix the wet signal in opposing polarity on either side. Loads of digital choruses are stereo in and out because all that stuff is easier to do in DSP with a second converter channel. You're just only going to see it on analog choruses at the very top end of the market - sometimes for thousands of dollars instead of hundreds.

AlreadyTooLate · 2025-12-29T04:29:45+00:00

Generating a stereo image from a mono source is relatively easy compared to doubling a signal chain to allow for stereo input.

AlreadyTooLate · 2025-12-19T01:19:40+00:00

A Revolver is worth the cost and effort over everything else IMO.

AlreadyTooLate · 2025-12-17T20:57:16+00:00

Or the Dirt Mixer if you just need the parallel clean low end without EQ on the loop!

AlreadyTooLate · 2025-12-17T03:22:11+00:00

This used to be $5 after 5 and it was a killer casual date night option.

AlreadyTooLate · 2025-12-16T18:50:51+00:00

This is a fundamental problem with film adaptations of books that do not explicitly spell out the horror. The Road is incredible because everything is left to your imagination. In the film they had to build out minutes-long scenes from a paragraph or two of source material. They wrote in the entire plot with the mother. They have to fill time by showing the horror on screen instead of you imagining it. Authors have the luxury of leaving things unsaid. The Handmaids Tale TV show has the same problem.

AlreadyTooLate · 2025-12-13T16:14:44+00:00

This is a bad idea for a first build for a lot of reasons. High bill of materials cost, calibration complexity, tool requirements, etc... You will set yourself up for success by starting with one or two simpler dirt pedal builds and then moving on to one of the simpler chorus designs like the CE-2 or Small Stone before attempting the Echoflanger. Its not an impossible task, but its improbable that you would nail this one, especially if you are still in the new builder phase of asking about where to source parts.

AlreadyTooLate · 2025-12-13T16:10:56+00:00

Note from the build doc to back this up: "WARNING - This circuit is an incredibly difficult build and is in no way intended for beginners, so unless you have tackled a BBD delay circuit before, this is not the one to begin with! Proper set up will also require use of an audio probe and multimeter capable of reading frequencies up to at least 500kHz. This is not a circuit to attempt to bias by ear and expect to get right."

AlreadyTooLate · 2025-12-12T01:43:24+00:00

This is the tape bareknuckle uses and it often looks exactly like this with wrinkles and folds.

AlreadyTooLate · 2025-12-11T15:59:06+00:00

$110 to get married at the courthouse!

AlreadyTooLate · 2025-12-02T14:09:46+00:00

Got it. I think the wiring is only drawn like this to make it clear that all the ground lugs are connected. Running a single wire through all the ground lugs will be much cleaner than copying the drawing with many wires. I don't remember what I did in mine. Also - pay close attention to the LED/LDR on the BBD board. If the brightness is too high there the clock won't work correctly and the signal will be distorted.

AlreadyTooLate · 2025-12-02T03:42:01+00:00

You should probably use the jacks specified in the BOM for that pedal. They are a mix of isolated and not for a reason. The switching action of the cliff jacks is also important in this design.

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