Striking the Final Chord: Crafting Your Own Marshall Blues Breaker Pedal—The Grand Finale
The conclusion of our 3-part series on how to design your own pedal PCB! As a reminder, this project is 100% free and open source for...
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Ryan
- Jun 7
- 5 min
The Alembic Strat-o-blaster: The Preamp That Helped Shape the Grateful Dead's Sound
Jerry Garcia was a legendary guitarist and a founding member of the Grateful Dead. He was known for his unique playing style, often...
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Ryan
- Apr 20
- 2 min
How to Design a Pedal PCB Like a Pro
I am starting a series on designing a PCB! For this project, I am going to use the Marshall Blues Breaker as a platform for these...
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Ryan
- Aug 10, 2022
- 1 min
Out-of-Stock Components?!?! 😠Let's Fix That....
I made a quick video guide for any of my Mouser project links that might have a component or two out of stock. I do my best to keep the...
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Ryan
- Jun 1, 2022
- 2 min
Black Triangle Overdrive | Compare to Vemuram Jan Ray
Desinging a 4-layer circuit board with the Vemuram Jan Ray circuit and some of my own tricks :-)
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Ryan
- May 26, 2022
- 3 min
Above Top Secret | Reverse Engineering the Vemuram TSV808
Reverse engineering a Vemuram TSV808 and creating my own circuit board based off it called "Above Top Secret"
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Ryan
- Nov 22, 2021
- 3 min
Fairfield County Signature | Cloning a TR Jonn Mayer Signature
Now that I sort of have PCB design figured out, I figured I would brush my notes off for the TR John Mayer Signature and see if I could...
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Ryan
- Sep 22, 2021
- 2 min
Mini-taur? Shrinking the footprint of a 1:1 Klon Centaur Circuit
A lot of the circuit boards I've been designing lately have been to address my own needs. One of those is a smaller footprint Klon...
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Ryan
- Aug 26, 2021
- 2 min
Improving the Klon Centaur Circuit Board | The "BFK"
For a while, I've been meaning to do a Centaur-based circuit. I have built quite a few of them in the past including an Aion Electronics...
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Ryan
- Jul 26, 2021
- 1 min
Valve Screamer Waitlist Update!
Hello! For those on The Tone Geek TS10 Valve Screamer waitlist, I’m excited to announce that I’ve partnered with Frog Pedals to put the...
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Ryan
- Apr 22, 2021
- 1 min
Build Your Own Original Tone Geek TS10 Valve Screamer
Unleashing my original SMD design for the DIY crowd. I will not be offering kits however I made a very easy-to-follow BOM here....
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Ryan
- Apr 17, 2021
- 2 min
LOMARK MN3005 AP-2 Analog Delay
LOMARK AP2 MN3005 Circuit There were two major revisions of the original Aqua Puss and this pedal is representative of the second...
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Ryan
- Mar 20, 2021
- 1 min
Thru-Hole Valve Screamer, based on Ibanez TS10 Tube Screamer
Thru-hole valve screamer (TS10 PCB)
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Ryan
- Feb 15, 2021
- 4 min
Aqua-Puss MK1 AP2 (1998) Style PCB Now Available
Cloning a 1998 Aqua Puss MK1 AP2
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Ryan
- Jan 13, 2021
- 2 min
Pseudo Eagle Preamp | Unity Super Buffer & Treble Boost
This has taken WAY too long for me to complete this project however, timing is everything! When I first set to replicate the JCF preamp...
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Ryan
- Oct 29, 2020
- 3 min
Valve Screamer TS10 by The Tone Geek!!! | Join The Waiting List!
The waitlist is now closed while my partner, Frog Pedals, fulfills the waitlist orders. Look out for an email from Mark @ Frog Pedals for...
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Ryan
- Jul 6, 2020
- 4 min
Ayan Enterprise Smooth & Slim Style EQ Device
This device is so cool! I first learned about this fun device when I first started going down the rabbit hole of John Mayer's tone circa...
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Ryan
- Jun 2, 2020
- 3 min
(SOLD OUT) New SSS #002 Chassis Run!
Very excited to announce a new chassis run for my SSS #002 project! This is intended for USA delivery only due to logistics challenges....
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Ryan
- May 2, 2020
- 1 min
SSS #002 Eyelet Updates
"Final" updates to my SSS #002 eyelet layout. I've shuffled components around slightly to accommodate 5w wirewound resistors on v2 and...
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Ryan
- Apr 4, 2020
- 1 min
Diving Deep How-To Add Pre-Amp Output to a Fender AB763
I'll do my best to explain the approach using the 114BX. With the 114BX, there is a tip and ring connection (typically used for stereo...
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