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 …
Another big one today! It hasn’t even been a month since we released the Lovetone projects—but they sold out in four days, so you can imagine that provided a bit of motivation to follow up with something equally …
Independence Day Sale All PCBs are 20% off from now through the end of the day Monday, July 5. No coupon is necessary – the discount will be taken automatically at checkout. New releases In addition to the …
If you’ve been following Aion FX for awhile, by now you’ve probably gotten the sense that it’s about much more than just PCB layouts and innovative kits. Over the past few years, I’ve begun to focus in on …
Kit day! Six new ones are available now, based on some of our most popular DIY projects. It’s been two years since we released any new kits, and in fact these were all supposed to come out last …
A few new circuits dropping today going into the USA Memorial Day weekend. Hypercube: BOSS FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz First up: the BOSS® FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz. This is a beast of a circuit, definitely the highest part count of …
The Catalinbread CB30 was first released in the summer of 2011 as their Foundation-series take on the Vox AC30. The tireless heroes at Freestompboxes traced it within a few weeks of release, with extensive photos detailing the process. …
Spring Sale PCBs are 20% off from now through the end of the day Monday, March 22. No coupon is necessary – the discount will be taken automatically at checkout. New projects We’ve got a brand-new project for …
The Karma Suture is Catalinbread’s take on the Interfax Harmonic Percolator, a unique and extremely rare fuzz/drive from the early 1970s. As with most of their pedals, they don’t settle for straight clones, instead using classic circuits as …
Today we’ve got eight new projects for you to check out. The first four are rounding out our Catalinbread series of projects, including a brand-new trace of the Karma Suture (both silicon and germanium versions). Only a few …
Black Friday Sale PCBs are 20% off from now through the end of the day Monday, November 30. No coupon is necessary – the discount will be taken automatically at checkout. New projects It’s Catalinbread® day… eight new …