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Aaaaaaaand the post just delivered the boards. Wow that is sooo freaking fast, thanks Brian.

By the way do I see pads for an effects loop on the current lover?!?!

You are a indeed both a madman and a madbean. I ordered yesterday and within like 15 minutes received a shipping confirmation. Supercool.

is that blakemore blake? pm your address dude I'll send a tested pair to check your build. I'm sure we could work out an easy trade if you wanted to.

by the way I'm cryptosonic from hc

Yea I ended up socketing the entire tone stack, still playing around with parts values...

Hahaha I did exactly the same thing RE Ge parts in wanting to gather up a collection. Then the more I thought about it the more I understood I really only need like 6 trannies for my planned builds and maybe another 5-10 just to have around for shiggles.

I just posted to most of the usual suspect DIY message boards and in a few months had all I need for a rangemaster, fuzz face, tonebender and about a dozen extras to keep on hand. Think I spent around 20 bucks and traded some enclosures I wasn't going to use anyway. Beats spending too much and sorting too much!

Just finished an Urchin build and my Tayda 2399's are locking up on me which shouldn't really be happening with this circuit. Power it up and hey no delay signal. Cycle the power and hey there's my delay signal! Strange because the 2399's I got from Tayda sound and function just like my 'reference chip' I got from smallbear. That is until the Urchin build. Hmmmm.

They'll fit a .25" shaft no problem. 16mm refers to the diameter of the pot body.

That is brilliant! What if you could make a pt2399 based delay and process the repeat signal only with modulation effects before they are blended with the dry signal and sent through the feedback! Holy smokes this may be my next project...

That pretty much what the mixer does with the help of the dry kill mod on the Echo Base. Now I am totally hooked on what kinds of crazy things I can do to delay repeats: filter, octave, fuzz, true chorus! The list goes on and on. One really terrific benefit of being able to effect repeats only is EQ. I built up a SBEQ which is a tad subtle up front but perfect for brightening or darkening the EB's repeats. Plus when one cranks the SBEQ volume the EB input section overdrives pretty nicely for that gritty, dark sound. I like the EB so much it is staying on my main board but I am building up an Urchin with kill dry to go permanently on the 'weird' board along with the parallel mixer, upcoming Lowrider and some kind of filter which at this point will be Taylor's Meatball clone. I am more excited about this stuff every day. Can't wait for Brian's reverb project to get some soupy, reverb-on-the-repeats type sounds happening!

My start with this hobby is pretty convoluted but it's fun. I had just sold my El Capistan in anticipation of the Timeline release when Strymon sold out in like a minute. After getting over my disappointment I  began thinking about a delay pedal that costs as much as a refrigerator, painful sales tax as I am 30 miles away from Strymon and used prices unlikely to drop below retail for a long time, if ever. This lead to thinking about alternatives to the Timeline while still getting some of those sounds and just how many pedals I could build for 500 bucks so I started researching builds and ordering parts.

Now I have an Echo Base happily living in a parallel effects mixer with phasers and trems and [soon] filters. All of my commercial effects have been sold and my DIY dirt collection is growing nicely. This has lead to a nice little unexpected benefit: While I have never gotten along well enough with Muffs to justify a pricey boutique variant I can most certainly justify having a 48 dollar Muff that has been well tuned to my rig. So now I have pedals in the build queue that I never would have considered owning at 200 bucks but 50 sits really nicely!

PS: phase modulated delay repeats are about the coolest sounds around!

I've been kind of hoping Peter would just make his whole daughter board available. VFE guts have gotten so good over the last while.

Yea the audio app method seems like the best way to go, wish I had thought of it!

When I tested my Echo Base build I also wanted to know the max delay time I was getting. The stopwatch method was pretty lousy so instead I downloaded a free delay VST that features a ms readout of delay time then cranked the EB delay time while matching [close as I could] the VST delay time. Not a precise method by any means but I'd say it was within 10 ms or so, close enough for bedroom work.

Hope I understood your question!

Wow those look terrific! You have inspired me to move the Lowrider and one of Taylor's Meatballs to the top of the build queue. Funk!

So I built up a Mudbunny last week following the Triangle Muff specs with added mids control, no other mods. For the most part it sounds good [gain monster!!!] but my tone control might be acting funny. The sweet spot is very narrow and lies at around 3 o'clock. Is this normal and if not anybody have some tips on widening the usable range of the tone pot and maybe shifting the 'balanced' low/high point more toward noon? Thanks!!

Yes I am no big fan of the nascar beers but 175 calories a bottle for the good stuff means a lot more running for me QQ