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I dont know if you noticed but the photos backgrounds are obviously edited 

Nice!! These are all super nice. Are those switches on the pork barrel from an Atari?

The slider switches are vintage microphone switch replacements i found on a local shop and i found the knobs in my fathers storage along with other 20+ years old electronic components 

Madbeanpedals forum taught me most of the things i know about pedals since day 1 and helped me a lot when starting this completely new hobby-passion in my life! This is my way of saying ''thank you for everything guys'' by posting my first and my last builds showing all the fun i am having all these years.

First Build WTF fuzz  :


Pork Barrel:
Great pcb is great!!! I cant find a pic of the populated pcb at the moment. I remember i drilled the back cover of the enclosure because a capacitor was so tall it couldn't close and it doesn't stick out just barely. (I ll post it later if i find it or just take a new photo).


Custom Bad-ass Modified
Diy clone of the "MXR custom badass modified O.D." on veroboard with freestyle marker artwork shielded with a clearcoat varnish.


Deep Blue Delay
Diy clone (on vero) of the Deep Blue Delay. Decorated with 24k gold leaf for classier sound    . A momentary footswitch is added that engages "self-oscillation mode" for as long as you step on it. The self-oscillation can react with changes of the effect's controls in real time with very interesting results. Inside though its not that good looking  i put some pieces of foam around the spaghetti wires to stabilize the pcb!


P.S. All of the above builds sit now in my pedalboard adn are getting abused every day (poor golden delay - i didn't clear-coated ), the fuzz obviously had an extreme make over and after that was put in a new enclosure. 

Your repeated experiences of failure of pots could be due to poor soldering technique.  Make sure you give the pot time to cool down between making each solder joint, and set the pot somewhere in the middle of its travel when soldering it.  And of course, don't take longer than necessary when soldering them. 

If you really really need good pots, buy Bourns or CTS.  But, generally speaking, Alpha are perfectly fine.

Thanks for your reply. I ll try to be as quick as possible when soldering pots, although I dont think i abuse them (maybe in the first couple builds when applying solder and handling the soldering gun was still something new to me) now i got a ''helping hand'' a pre-tinned cable and pot lug and  i try not to overheat things  .

It seems i have better luck with these pots a few times i used them. Does anyone have a better experience with this type of pots?

Dear friends!

As a young pedal builder, most of the problems i encountered before and after completing a pedal build were related to pour quality building materials.  I learned from my mistakes and i started buying good quality hardware (switches, jacks, foot switches, enclosures etch)  but i dont know where to find good quality pots. One out of 5 pots (the ones i am using right now) will fail in some way immediately or after a while.

Are the small pcb mounted green pots most reliable than the ones i already have?
Where i should check to buy my new assortment of pots?

EL34/Hoffman amp forum. Those guys will butter your bun and flip your pancakes at the same time.

These guys not only did they butter my bun and flip my pancakes simultaneously...but they also solve the problem in a couple of replies after posting my voltage readings. Thanks a lot!!!

For the record it was a burnt resistor (r69) that caused a problem in the bias voltage thus red plating the output tubes. On top of that you cant even hear the footswitch now.

You are right. The cap was meant to go between the white wire and ground BUT  i wrongly connected it there.

I thought that the cap was charged and released the charge as i was switching on and off and that it cooked some component in the vibrato section that had as a resault to have it always on. But the power tubes is a mystery for me

I ll go and make a post right now. I will keep watching this one as well. Thanks for your reply it cheered me up a bit

[For those who would bother with the extra info read a brief description below:]

Dear All

As the title states i would like your advice on where (in this forum or anywhere on the internet) i could post for Guitar Amp tech help for my DRRI. Thank you in advance.

For those who would bother with the extra info read a brief description below:

After reading on a hurry some advice on the internet ''I did something stupid'' . I tried to eliminate the popping sound that the vibrato foot switch was making when turning on and off on my modified DRRI by wrongly connecting a 220pf cap to the white and the grey wire of the vibrato/reverb foot-switch.

After that turned the amp on and quickly realized that:

• The vibrato effect stayed always on, no matter what (even when i removed the cap and disconnected the switch)
• The Power tubes started to glow bright red hot (something is going really bad)

I closed immediately the amp to prevent extra damage.The current state of the amp is:

• Power tubes get red hot when opening the standby switch
• Sounds comes from the amp normally (with the exception that Vibrato is always on)
• Reverb is working
• Controls are working
• No sign of burnt or damaged internal components(visual inspection)

The amp was biased properly components are all new (caps, transformers, pots, tubes, reverb tank, switches and sockets) and was working great up until now.

I have built some pedals and amps in the past and i know that you should never do something you are not sure or does not understand completely (especially in a hurry) but it seemed like a simple fix with not much risk at the time and i feel really really bad that i damaged my favorite amp with my stupidity.

P.S. .The closest amp tech is located 400km away so i think i have to do it by my self. My soldering skills are up to the task but i don't have a deep understanding of of the amp circuit (just a basic understanding of how some components can affect the signal path).

+1 for doin it yourself

good trade.

that build is excellent hands down

man please make a video showing what this awesome pedal can do.

now i want a green russian...really detailed and nice build sir - well done

cool etsh is cool. I hope my first etch to look that good