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Pedalpcb has a really nice digital s/h eeprom patch on their custom programs. It sounds great, has no set up or finicky calibration.
https://www.pedalpcb.com/product/eeprombuilder/

What a drag. I bought lots of great sets off of him in the past, but his communications became sadder and less frequent over the last year, and then nothing 😕

Sweet! How do you like it? I'm close to attempting this myself.

F'n amazing. Speechless

I've built a few of the pedalpcb fv-1 projects and i notice a fair amount of white noise on all of them with the volume and or/mix knobs past noon. Which is required for unity gain. I feel the low headroom on fv-1 circuits tends us to crank them to hear noticeable effects. 

Haha, i clicked back and forth a couple times, looking for the badness. Too funny!

All the Fuzz Wars I've seen have the Ge diode pair. This might be a way to cheap around not using them.

Far out as usual.... 

It's laser etched, but there is basically zero contrast with this color, so I backfill the lettering under a microscope with a syringe and a 30 ga dispensing tip.

That's how I eat my cereal in the morning as well...

I can't touch this in pedals, your work is great! I do acrylic abstract paintings using syringes and chopsticks/toothpicks.

https://www.pedalpcb.com/product/awfulwaffle/

You old-timers will likely recall that I was a homebrewer before I was a pedal builder. I was so into the hobby, in fact, that I was a regular writer for the national homebrew magazine called Brew Your Own (or BYO). I used to write the DIY column for the guys who wanted to build gear instead of buy it. Shocker, right?   

Anyway, I was assigned to develop a build guide for a hop 'oast', which is a fancy way of saying dehydrator. So for the guys who grew their own hops, this would be a way to dry them in large quantities so they could be preserved and used over time. The pro versions had active ventilation and air-flow, and I wanted that on my home/DIY project as well. But I had no idea how to wire up a fan with an on/off and a speed control. At the time I was riding a train to work, and one of my commute buddies was a white-hat hacker and telephone system guy, and he drew me a schematic of what I should do. This was about 6 months before I built my first BYOC kit pedal.

So here is the top panel of the oast box -- my first actual electronics project --  with the fan, switch, and pot. It's been sitting in my garage since late 2006, and I've finally rolled it out to the curb for disposal.

What?! I cut my teeth on those BYO issues. I ended up parlaying my homebrew hobby into an enology degree. And now i make pedals all day. Thank you for the past blast!

Seems like auto-wah's get limited use.  The only half-popular solo I can recall
was an Edie Brickell song that was pretty much a one-hit-wonder.

I like goofing around with auto-wahs, but for recording and playing live, I much prefer a standard pedal wah.

Stevie wonder, jerry garcia, PRINCE, most reggae, most funk, most disco, the radioheads, primus....

Yep been busy and wanting a Brass Master for practice and was thinking of taking the easy way out.

Both the dead end fx pimp fuzz and fuzzdog  brassmaster are superior projects IMO.

No chrome, custom hardware, or military spec wiring. But I like it just the same. Very nice project and documentation by Dead End Fx. The Ge side plays like a Harmonic Percolator/Face, and the Si side reminds me of the Sam Ash Fuzzz or Roland Bee Baa depending on the tone setting. Mixed together is like a one-man-stoner-band. This has inspired me to experiment with running some of my favorite fuzzes in parallel.

Nice build, I hope you enjoy it.  The laika fuzz is awesome as well, much more gnarly than the Gemini, a bit more like a fuzz factory.

I just realized i mislabeled the tone reverse switch. Fixed that, and played with the bias a bit, but landed near stock. The LOWS the germanium side puts out are insane. Very much a bass fuzz. I just ordered the Laika and went to my local surplus store for all the oddball parts. Got 'em all! 24nf cap, check. 5n cap, check. 4.7uf non polar cap, check. 475k and 499k 1/4 watt metal film resistors, check. Can't wait!

Does anyone have a source for 1/4 shaft toggle flat washers?
I got a huge batch of DPDT from love my switches and they have the locking washers.
I usually order from smallbear and they have the flat washers already.
I don't want to pay 0.10-0.12 a washer, but I cannot find the correct washer at any of the online hardware places like McMaster -carr etc.  I can't really just cut the tab off as it's for production work and the other SPST toggle has a flat washer already.
Thanks!
Josh

Instead of trying to match the small bear non tabbed washer, i just replace all the switch washers with matching generic cheapies from menards/home depot. They have tons with the correct inside diameter and all kinds of thickness and finishes at 2-3c each. I've seen lots of commercial and diy builds that omit the external switch hardware alltogether, and that can look pretty sharp too.

Nice. Thanks for the suggestions. I hadn't seen the pre-bond Smallbear stuff and looks like they have several spool size options, which is helpful.

Wish I could still get Barry's, but if the Smallbear stuff compares well it will also be much cheaper.

I've tried both. The conductors are comparable, but i prefer the small bear insulation.