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 …
Today we’ve got four new projects for you to check out. The first two are brand-new traces, accompanied by tracing journals documenting the process and describing the circuit in greater depth. Along with these, we also have one …
We’ve got a trilogy! The very first tracing journal we ever did was the Dinosaural OTC-201 Opticompressor back in August of 2019. A few months ago, we took apart the Tube Bender. And today, we tackle the last …
Here’s an interesting one. The Crowther Hot Cake is one of the original boutique distortion pedals, dating all the way back to 1976. They’ve been hand-built by Paul Crowther in New Zealand for the past 44 years. And …
I got to hang out (virtually) with Todd, Jared and Tony at The Guitar Knobs for an episode of the podcast that dropped today. Check it out: A few of the topics we covered— Fender’s new reissue CuNiFe …
Just over a year ago, I was able to quit my day job to do Aion FX full time. This followed a career as a web developer, something I’d been doing my whole professional life. (Or longer, really—I …
Last year went over pretty well, so we decided to try it again. Not one, but two new Cornish pedals traced and releasing today!
Cornish says the CC-1 is an all-original design, but how accurate is that? Have a look underneath the goop.