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#51
General Questions / Re: Board layout for original ...
Last post by jwin615 - October 26, 2025, 12:35:40 AM #52
General Questions / Board layout for original vers...
Last post by Mark0614 - October 25, 2025, 11:28:24 PMHi
I was going through the box of parts and came across an old Mad Bean PCB for the Smoothie MXR phase 45 clone.
Going through the archives I can only find 2015 layout for the Smoothie, and a more modern layout.
https://madbeanpedals.com/projects/_folders/StandardSeries/pdf/Smoothie.pdf
The layout that I have is the one shown in the link.
https://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=3807.0
If you are able to assist me, I would greatly appreciate your help.
Regards
Mark
I was going through the box of parts and came across an old Mad Bean PCB for the Smoothie MXR phase 45 clone.
Going through the archives I can only find 2015 layout for the Smoothie, and a more modern layout.
https://madbeanpedals.com/projects/_folders/StandardSeries/pdf/Smoothie.pdf
The layout that I have is the one shown in the link.
https://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=3807.0
If you are able to assist me, I would greatly appreciate your help.
Regards
Mark
#53
Build Reports / Re: MicroSynth Fuzz
Last post by jwin615 - October 25, 2025, 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!
#54
Open Discussion / Re: Check this BYOC news
Last post by matmosphere - October 25, 2025, 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.
#55
Build Reports / Re: MicroSynth Fuzz
Last post by matmosphere - October 25, 2025, 06:52:23 AMAlready got mine, thank you sir!
#56
Open Discussion / Re: Check this BYOC news
Last post by jwin615 - October 25, 2025, 04:44:32 AMQuote from: jessenator on October 25, 2025, 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.
#57
Open Discussion / Re: Check this BYOC news
Last post by jessenator - October 25, 2025, 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 #58
Open Discussion / Re: Foxx Tone Machine / Wolfsh...
Last post by jessenator - October 25, 2025, 12:59:03 AMCool. I'll have to breadboard that one up. Not sure if I've got a Wolfshirt board or not.
#59
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
#60
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.