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K, I've never been a wah guy. Only had a considerable amount of time with whatever was programmed onto the POD via the simulated foot controller thingy, and it was awful. I know. Digital effect, but still, just wasn't ever my bag, but I'm thinking about it now.

Couple questions about it all.

1a- The potentiometer
So ICAR just means it's adjusted to compensate for not being able to mechanically (by extension, electronically) move through the total wiper range? Places like amplified parts have wah-centric pots from 100-200k, with 100k being log taper, the others being linear. A bit confused here.

1b- continued
If I've never been a wah guy, am I really going to "notice" the pot's behavior not being "the right way" if I somehow get the "wrong one?"

1c- continued
If I want to avoid the MiC product out there, what's a decent one that isn't going to cost upwards of half the cost of a decent wah shell kit? (I've seen >$20 ones and struggle to understand)

2- to avoid contention (based on what I've seen elsewhere on the web), I don't want to start a "what's better" war, but what's the general character differences between Fasel and non-F style inductors?

3- Weener or neener?

Hi Chris, i was hoping someone would enlighten us both. I can tell you abou
My first wah is a vox v847 that i bought in the 90's based on ones opinion that it was the "real" wah. I added a dunlop crybaby and then way later built a few project including madbean wah project (The one madbean project i did not like much).

I had to make a few fix to the vox to add a 9v dc input that mine did not have and a led bc you want to know when this thing is on. I changed the pot bc it was scratchy, i ordered the part in the "wah part" section of musikding without giving it any thoughts and did not notice anything different.
https://www.musikding.de/Blacktop-Deluxe-100k-ICAR_1

On the weener wah, the madbean project, i used a eye rock inductor supposedly wounded by hand during a full moon night under a rain of unicorn tears. Did not blow my mind but i would fault the builder first and i never cared enough to revisit it.

At the end of the day i prefer my vox wah to the dunlop if played side by side, i can't tell them apart as soon as volume, focus on playing or other musician are involved.
Most of the time i have to take it out of its cute mustard bag to plug it, so most of the time i don't bc i'm lazy. I was even thinking of buying this micro Mooer wah bc at least it can stay on a pedalboard that is not the size of Canada.

I would go for a used crybaby, there's ton of them. They're cheap, the shell will outlive you and you'll have something to experiment and destroy.

Under the VFE section, I've added the option to purchase these individually:

TrueSoft 3.4 PCBs for the SPS projects
VFE v3SB PCB for the original projects
MVU for the v3SB

Quantity is small but I will likely be able to add in more soon.

Thanks Brian

Yes the VFE, that would be very helpful. I'll check the store.

Hi Brian, any chance we could order the switch pic that were missing during the last clearing sale?

I'm currently on an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean, can recommend.   

20 hours of flying, i was supposed to go in Sydney and Melbourne over 2 weeks this summer for work. I chickened out bc of the flight duration.

Looks like a good one wat trip.

somewhere in south america?

where in south america?

Could be an island in the middle of the pacific ocean

I started two days ago the annual reset of my home office, home studio, guitar workshop, soldering station, entertainment space.

While you do that, do you also feel like setting the whole thing on fire and restart your life from scractch somewhere in south america?

That's just the pedal building thing, and there's stuff in there i did not know i had.

Am i the only one and if so how are you dividing your space for your different hobbies?

Really cool. Each time.

Not much better here in Germany.

Brian, did you ever consider a deal with Musikding? or a more personal setup. Might be an easy thing?

The problem with Musikding is that they only do kits. The sell the stuff from Aion and PedalPCB and Lectric and so on, but only as kits. That's much more expensive than buying PCBs when you're stocked up on everything else.
And additionally, they don't even have all the parts for the PCBs of which they sell kits (the proper LDRs for PedalPCB's Harmonic Trem come to mind, or 1k trimmers for some of their fuzzes).

They do sell pcbs alone. At least, i remember seeing Aion pcbs there. Don't know if they are the same as in the kits.
I imagine that Klaus does not do that for free so there must be some compensation for him, having him selling kit is not the worst thing.
Until very recently i did not mind ordering kit from him regardless of my stock. they are very reasonably priced and you don't have to buy the enclosure or the knobs.
Oh and Brian, should you consider a EU distribution setup, UK might not be the best option except for our brit friends.
Some shipping companies do offer warehousing & handling of stock as a service. I have no idea of the cost but the management of it is pretty sraightforward and online.

Hello everyone,
I'm writing this post to share the frustration I feel right now that makes me rethink whether the satisfaction of building pedals is still worth it. A couple of weeks ago I was tempted by the new Aion projects and decided to order a couple of pcbs. I know well that shipping costs have increased a lot but even so my desire to build pedals after so much time of inactivity was stronger.
The package has been blocked at Belgian customs for a week and today they sent me the invoice to pay for taxes and administrative expenses: 27.12 euros!
It's not really about the money but finally I think that paying a total of 69 euros (42 for the order + 27 taxes) about 70 US dollars for 2 pcbs is excessive and frustrating!
I don't want to be misunderstood, my anger is only with Belgian customs...but I think this was the last time I ordered pcbs or parts from outside Europe. I wanted to order some of Madbean's new projects but...
And I still haven't received the pcbs. A shame...
Apologies for the long post and for complaining.

Pierre

Same here in France: The shipping companies have now the obligation to collect taxes for every package whatever the declared value.
Which lead to two issues:
1. While it is normal to pay taxes, it kills some deals. Often, small business deals and i don't think it was the point. There was a tolerance for value under 50 euros. It made sense.
Also, if you send a personal package, i don't get how to avoid these taxes. For instance, if i forgot my phone during a business trip and have the hotel sent it back, i might have to paye taxes to get it back.
2. My personal issue is with the flat fee these companies collect. Yesterday i paid 15 euros of taxes, which made sense and 8 euros for "processing fee" which is ridiculous.

All and all, bad news for hobbyist around the world.

Brian, did you ever consider a deal with Musikding? or a more personal setup. Might be an easy thing?

Hi Brian,

Any chance you'll be offering the VFE switch PIC some time soon?

Hi Zach
That probably will work better in the buy/sell section.

Weird object. Very well made, not very good guitar.

Cardboard and epoxy?

Nice to find a familiar friend. +1 on the neon stripes!

That's Gibson "resowwood". Who remember the sonex?

That's a fun one. You know what it's made of?