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Silence Your Guitar Amp: Variable Voltage Regulator
A variable voltage regulator lets a loud tube guitar amp keep more of its core feel while behaving better at home volumes.
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High Gain SLO/Ubershall: 1 Intro
An overview of the main high-gain amplifier platform: a heavily modified SLO/Ubershall-inspired build with a long list of switchable ideas.
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Dumble Overdrive Special: 2 Headshell
A woodworking-focused Dumble Overdrive Special entry covering the amplifier headshell build.
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Dumble Overdrive Special: 3 Mods
Dumble Overdrive Special: 3 Mods covers the effects loop, switching options, heaters, and other practical refinements beyond the base clone.
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TrainWreck Rockette: 2 Headshell
The TrainWreck Rockette headshell stage begins with an old VOX donor amp, teardown work, and heat-management prep.
Pedal Progression
A growing series of guitar-pedal builds and experiments, grouped as a progression of different circuits and design choices.
Pedal Progression: 1 Range Master
21 November 2022
In this series I revisit and re-build some of my favorite guitar pedals. Here a treble booster is given some of the best vintage parts possible, protection circuitry, power supply filtering, a negative voltage supply, some indication circuitry, and a, very, shiny…
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Pedal Progression: 2 Suhr Riot
24 November 2025
This another one that was pulled out of the drawers, a "amp in a box", decent rock-box at least 15years ago, still today. Horrid drilling, ok soldering but missing pots, a broken diode and replacing parts, ceramics to start. For this, I…
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Pedal Progression: 3 Zendrive
1 December 2025
This is another pedal from almost two decades ago, a Hermida zen drive, repairing and rebuilding with better parts. A great overdrive more body and fuller than your standard overdrive. "dumble-like"-comes to mind. As with all old leftover pedals it's plagued by…
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