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Build Reports / Re: MicroSynth Fuzz
Last post by jwin615 - Today at 12:25:02 PM@LaceSensor, missing the value for R7 in the BOM and it's in the shadow of a cap in your gut shot so I can't reliability band count. Think there's orange brown and black there but not sure...
And man, you pulled out all the odd all resistor values. I think I used 4-5 values for the first time. 😂
There may be a few caps in the BOM that are non-existent. Had to use my fingers and toes to count them so I may be wrong. I'm about 5 caps and R7 away from being done.
Thanks again for sharing this!
And man, you pulled out all the odd all resistor values. I think I used 4-5 values for the first time. 😂
There may be a few caps in the BOM that are non-existent. Had to use my fingers and toes to count them so I may be wrong. I'm about 5 caps and R7 away from being done.
Thanks again for sharing this!
#2
Open Discussion / Re: Check this BYOC news
Last post by matmosphere - Today at 08:18:18 AMQuote from: madbean on October 22, 2025, 11:47:19 PMQuote from: matmosphere on October 22, 2025, 04:51:39 AMI am guessing that somebody brought the business from them or something to that effect. I thought smallbear was going to be gone, but they got bought and have reopened (did they even close?)
Pedals have become a big business these days. Google says the market size was $3.6 billion in 2024, but in 2020 it was less than 1 billion, by some estimates only about 500 million. That is a huge amount of growth in the market. It may not have made sense for somebody to buy it a couple of years ago when they were closing up shop but with the pedal market probably doubling in that time maybe somebody decided the math was more in their favor.
Can verify. I made $1B this year.
Sweet, bet those lambo payments are nothing now.
I still don't get why in an industry full of custom guitar and amp builders that charge a premium over factory built stuff (rightfully so), there is no real market for custom pedals. I'll stop the rant now.
Either way, I would be happy to see BYOC back, if for no other reason than it would mean the original owners probably got a nice payday out of selling the business.
#3
Build Reports / Re: MicroSynth Fuzz
Last post by matmosphere - Today at 06:52:23 AMAlready got mine, thank you sir!
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Open Discussion / Re: Check this BYOC news
Last post by jwin615 - Today at 04:44:32 AMQuote from: jessenator on Today at 01:48:19 AMIs Iceland so bored they've resorted to a scam economy?Apparently that site is a "buy your doing business as address here" kind of thing. Probably for tax evasion and also secrecy.Grow your bananas, you geothermic hooligans
P.O. box for shell companies.
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Open Discussion / Re: Check this BYOC news
Last post by jessenator - Today at 01:48:19 AMIs Iceland so bored they've resorted to a scam economy? Grow your bananas, you geothermic hooligans
Grow your bananas, you geothermic hooligans #6
Open Discussion / Re: Foxx Tone Machine / Wolfsh...
Last post by jessenator - Today at 12:59:03 AMCool. I'll have to breadboard that one up. Not sure if I've got a Wolfshirt board or not.
#7
Build Reports / VFE Choral Reef Build
Last post by pedalbob - October 24, 2025, 11:15:15 PMHad this PCB sitting around for awhile waiting its turn behind other projects ... very happy with how it sounds. Need to get ambitious one of these days and get some of the older VFE boards made using the free Gerber files ... I love most of their older designs.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fb1igq60h5dyh5jxmuint/Photo-Oct-24-2025-6-49-05-PM.jpg?rlkey=2l988nmbbp4hgkin97bil7fto&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qnkkvdihwkpdoac72csos/Photo-Oct-24-2025-6-48-00-PM.jpg?rlkey=t19dxtqkltekf5n0v4sgz77dh&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/fb1igq60h5dyh5jxmuint/Photo-Oct-24-2025-6-49-05-PM.jpg?rlkey=2l988nmbbp4hgkin97bil7fto&dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/qnkkvdihwkpdoac72csos/Photo-Oct-24-2025-6-48-00-PM.jpg?rlkey=t19dxtqkltekf5n0v4sgz77dh&dl=0
#8
Open Discussion / Re: Check this BYOC news
Last post by jwin615 - October 24, 2025, 10:17:03 PMThe whois mailing address is Kalkofnsvegur 2, Reykjavik, Capital Region, 101
If you Google this address, there are a ton of scams associated with it.
If you Google this address, there are a ton of scams associated with it.
#9
Open Discussion / Re: Foxx Tone Machine / Wolfsh...
Last post by Doorlord - October 24, 2025, 09:08:25 PMI'm gonna have to give that a try, once I find that Wolfshirt I populated a few years ago. I never boxed it because I have having too much fun with my vero Foxx Tone Machine. Well technically its in a box with a bunch of other unfinished & un-started boards.
#10
Open Discussion / Foxx Tone Machine / Wolfshirt ...
Last post by BillyBoy - October 24, 2025, 07:53:21 PMIt's been a while... Hope all's well with everyone. I'm somewhere between "still building" and "retired", with no good idea of what "retired" might actually mean...
Thought I'd share an easy mod with you. I discovered it by putting the wrong size of capacitor in a build and ended up with something very different that I liked better than the correct circuit. Maybe some of y'all will enjoy it, too.
In the Foxx Tone Machine / Wolfshirt, there is a 1n capacitor between the base of Q1 and emitter of Q2 (C3 in the Wolfshirt schematic). Instead of 1n, make it 100n. The result doesn't really remind me of any other pedal circuit I can think of off the top of my head. Dark and nasty OD with an octave? I only tried it with single coils, not humbuckers yet. It might get pretty heavy with humbuckers. I have it on a switch to go between the original 1n or adding the 100n in parallel to it. Probably the easiest way to try it is to temporarily tack the 100n onto the back of the 1n to give you 101n. To really do it right, perhaps the tone control should be tweaked a bit, but it's OK enough as it is that I've lost a couple afternoons with nothing much to show for it other than a smile. "Beware of the dark side."
Thought I'd share an easy mod with you. I discovered it by putting the wrong size of capacitor in a build and ended up with something very different that I liked better than the correct circuit. Maybe some of y'all will enjoy it, too.
In the Foxx Tone Machine / Wolfshirt, there is a 1n capacitor between the base of Q1 and emitter of Q2 (C3 in the Wolfshirt schematic). Instead of 1n, make it 100n. The result doesn't really remind me of any other pedal circuit I can think of off the top of my head. Dark and nasty OD with an octave? I only tried it with single coils, not humbuckers yet. It might get pretty heavy with humbuckers. I have it on a switch to go between the original 1n or adding the 100n in parallel to it. Probably the easiest way to try it is to temporarily tack the 100n onto the back of the 1n to give you 101n. To really do it right, perhaps the tone control should be tweaked a bit, but it's OK enough as it is that I've lost a couple afternoons with nothing much to show for it other than a smile. "Beware of the dark side."