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It’s been a whirlwind of a year, but here at the end of it, we’re giving a window into what we’ve been up to and where things are headed. There’s a lot to talk about, so we’ll jump …

As part of our Black Friday sale, we’ve got four new 1590BBS-sized projects launching today. Two of them are adaptations of the Lab Series® L5 preamp, isolating each channel as a standalone circuit. Then we’ve got two metal …

Along with four brand-new projects, today we’re also releasing an updated PCB and kit of our Cerulean, based on the Marshall Bluesbreaker. The Cerulean has always been one of our most popular projects since it was first released …

Today, six more of our most popular PCB projects are graduating to full kits. They’re all themed around the sounds of the ’70s, with five of the original circuits actually released during that decade and the sixth (the …

Today is the 31st anniversary of the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind. In conjunction with this weekend’s sale, we’re releasing three new modulation projects, and by pure coincidence one of them is based on the EHX Small Clone chorus …

Four exciting new projects are releasing today, a set of single-channel preamps in a new 1590BBS platform! The L5 Preamp and IVP Preamp have long been two of our most popular projects, and each of these new releases …

Four new projects are releasing today, all based on brand-new traces with accompanying tracing journals so you can read an extensive write-up of what makes them tick. Last month we released an extremely popular project based on the …

In this journal we’re covering three related pedals from King Tone: the Duellist, Soloist and Heavyhand. (We also traced the Blues Power, which is covered in a separate post.) The Duellist is a dual pedal that consists of …

In tandem with the Duellist-Soloist-Heavyhand triple trace, we’re also doing separate one for the King Tone Blues Power. Once again, here’s the official demo from Jesse Davey: The Blues Power was originally released in 2017 and described as …

New projects available today! Six are brand-new, and three are redesigns of legacy projects in the 125B format. Our release schedule so far this year has been a little more relaxed than the frenetic pace of 2021, but …

COVID has seriously interrupted global shipping channels for the past two years, and the situation in Ukraine has amplified this even further during the past few weeks. There is a lot of global instability right now and unfortunately …

Today we’re launching the first new kits of 2022. They all follow something of a theme. Good germanium transistors have been hard to source during the past 12-18 months. Shortly after COVID hit, Small Bear Electronics became too …

Today we’re releasing six new projects, all based on BOSS® classics. Four of them are circuits that no one else has done in PCB form before. The original timing would have been legendary: National Boss’s Day was October …

There’s a theme going today: six of the eight new projects use overdriven CMOS inverters for clipping. We’ve got classics like the Hot Tubes and Red Llama alongside modern interpretations like the Darkglass Microtubes B3K and the Mad …

Here’s an interesting one. The Darkglass® Duality is an all-original bass drive circuit that features two parallel fuzz paths that can be blended together in any ratio. Here’s a demo video showing what it can do. The first …

We’ve traced a whole bunch of Catalinbread pedals, and we’ve still got a few more on the way. The Supercharged Overdrive is an earlier design from their first few years as a company, predating their “Foundation” series of …

We’re releasing eight new projects today. Four of them are brand new, while the others are updates of existing projects. Along with these releases, we’ve got two new tracing journals for you. The first new trace will no …

The gear community is not known for restraint when hyping cool pedals. But you don’t have to be part of the DIY pedal scene for long before you start to understand that very few of the drive-of-the-day pedals …

Some companies like to keep their product line as small as possible so customers don’t get choice paralysis. Xotic is not one of those companies. Think you might want a BB Preamp? Well, a few minutes of research …

Almost two years ago to the day, in September 2019, I quit my day job and went full-time with Aion FX. The past two years have been a whirlwind—on one hand, it’s hard to believe it’s been that …