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I'm working on a Chunk Chunk at the moment--here is the enclosure that I came up with. Truck bed liner on the sides with a poorly executed engine turned finish on top. Then a standard water slide on top of that. I'll post some real pics when I actually finish this thing...consider this a placeholder.

Russ

I've been looking for the Wampler books for a good bit, but I've never been successful. Is anyone aware of any place that still has these things?

I'm currently in the process of cleaning up my shop/man cave, and man do I have a bunch of components/parts laying around! I've tried various approaches to keeping my components organized and "searchable", but I haven't quite found the best way.

What do you guys do? Parts bins, bags, boxes with compartments?

In my quest to learn the "why" in a lot of these circuits, I've decided to build a little box to assist with testing cap and resistor values. I've seen plenty of kits for this, but I thought it would be a fun little tool to build and I already have a bunch of components laying around. I'm going to use a chunk of bread board with a rotary switch. The bread board will let me swap out a group of values quickly without having any permanent values in this thing.

A couple of questions for the group:

1. For the rotary, shorting or non-shorting? Not sure what is appropriate for pedal circuits.

2. Connecting to the circuit. I'm envisioning a couple of alligator clip leads, but is there something out there that is designed for quick connect to through-hole type boards? Some sort of springy pin type deal would be awesome...I could just "plug" the leads into the appropriate holes on the pcb and test away...

Russ

Here's a dumb question...

I've never ordered from Tayda before, but their prices looks very enticing. I noticed that all of their alpha pots have 6mm knurled shafts. Have any of you used these pots with set screw type knobs? Any issues?

Not too long ago, I jumped into BYOC type kit builds to gain some basic electronics knowledge. The intent was to eventually start doing some tube amp mods and building, but I'm hooked on the pedals now! I have some boards from both Brian and Haberdasher (awesome customer service) on the way for my first Madbean builds, which I am looking forward to.

In my quest to learn this stuff, I found this article on Beavis that basically did an analysis/walk-through of a booster.

http://beavisaudio.com/techpages/HIW/hiw1.gif

It was very helpful in understanding how the input signal is actually routed and changed as it passed through the circuit. I learned quite a bit from this, and I'm curious as to know if any other walk-throughs like this are out there. I'm totally comfortable with the solder-by-numbers approach, but I'm a nerd at heart and I truly enjoy "understanding" what I am building.

Great forum by the way....

One of the big Wampler distortion pedals would be a cool advanced build. We already have the Chunk Chunk; so maybe not the Triple Wreck, although this would still be cool.

The SLOstortion looks pretty cool as well as the Pinnacle.