Along with the Independence Day sale, we’re releasing seven new projects. We’ve got something for everyone: a brand-new Cornish trace for bassists, three optical phasers, an analog flanger, a parametric EQ, and of course a regular old guitar …
Today we’re hitting something of a milestone: we traced the last of the standard Cornish pedals, the BD-1 bass overdrive. This is our eleventh Cornish trace if you can believe it. There are a few others in his …
Since day one, we’ve been using USPS exclusively for both domestic and international orders. Ten years ago, we could send a First Class package domestically for under $3, and Priority Mail boxes were around $6. Service was reliable …
The Halo kit is getting an upgrade! Since its original release in 2018, the Halo was only available in one variant, which was a Violet Ram’s Head. Today we’re splitting it into four versions, so you can choose …
All in all, 2025 was a very eventful year… but we barely touched our social media and email list, so you may not have known it. Here’s what we’ve been up to over the past 12 months. Linux …
Short version: The 1μF WIMA capacitors we use in over half of our projects have been temporarily discontinued. We have sourced a few thousand of an equivalent type from Kemet and are selling these directly in the mean …
Today we’re releasing six new kits, which represent many of our most-requested projects. Yes, we do pay attention to the vote counts! Four of them are circuits we traced ourselves over the past few years, three Pete Cornish …
Today we’ve got four new tracing journals to share, and five new projects in total. We’ve also got an update for the Polyphemus (Pigtronix Philosopher’s Tone) that fixes the volume issue that goes all the way back to …
This one’s a bit out of the ordinary. The Philosopher’s Tone was released in 2009, an original design by Howard Davis, who designed many of Electro-Harmonix’s most famous effects of the 1970s including the Deluxe Electric Mistress. Here’s …
Sometimes people get the impression that these tracing journals are our way of taking a swipe at commercial pedalbuilders. It’s true that once in awhile we do come across circuits that have been misrepresented by the builders, and …
Today we’ve got a two-for-one tracing journal: the Darkglass® Alpha Omega and Alpha Omicron. These pedals were released in 2017 and designed in collaboration with the Australian bassist Jon Stockman of Karnivool. Here’s a demo of the Omicron: …
Along with our Black Friday sale this year, we’ve got five brand-new traces with tracing journals. Each of these is a never-before-seen schematic, and we have PCBs available so you can build each of them. There is also …
Today we unravel a mystery! For context, last year we traced the Cornish NG-3. That tracing journal has a full history of all of the “NG” circuits (the N.G. Fuzz, NG-2 and NG-3) and we will only be …
The Xotic Super Clean Buffer (SCB) and Super Sweet Boost (SSB) are two mini pedals first released in 2019. They combine a high-quality Cornish buffer with a straightforward boost whose frequency can be shaped with a combination of …
The Mr. Black Thunderclaw is a high-gain distortion with a two-band EQ originally released in 2014. Here’s a straightforward demo of the Thunderclaw by The GAS Station: It was traced by PedalPCB and released as the Kittywampus Distortion …
The King Tone Octaland Mini was originally released in 2019, an update to the big-box version from 2013 with added features. Here’s a demo video from Jesse Davey: He’s pretty up-front about it being a hot-rodded Octavia, which …
We’re launching a new kit today: the Gladiator, based on the King Tone Duellist. We first traced this pedal in 2022, and since then it’s become one of our most-requested kits. Our version is true to the original …
Today’s trace is a bit different than our usual process. Back in April, we released the Halo Deluxe, based on the Cornish P-1. We did not release a tracing journal along with it due to time constraints, so …
Today we’ve got a few new Cornish traces to share. Along with the P-1 detailed in another post, we have not one, but two versions of the Cornish G-2. The G-2 was originally designed by Pete for Lou …
Today we’re releasing the details on three new Cornish traces. The first one is the Cornish P-1, based on the very first Big Muff that Pete integrated into a rig for David Gilmour. We figured out the exact …