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Doubly good news for me tonight. When I got home I got my second order of parts in the mail and I just finished soldering the last connections on the PCB for my Orange Squeezer. It’s still got some way to go before I know if it works or not. I’ve got […]

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If you’re building your first guitar pedal, be sure that you buy yourself some de-soldering braid. If you’re anything like me, you’ll likely make at least one mistake and you’ll have to de-solder a joint or two. If you try to do this without de-soldering braid or some other de-soldering tools it’s going […]

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As you may or may not know I’m building my own Orange Squeezer guitar pedal. I’ve never built my own pedal so this is all new to me. The first thing I had to do was to draw a layout since I’m going to be using regular pad-per-hole breadboard instead of a custom […]

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I’ve put in the order for the final bits and pieces that I need to build my first guitar pedal. I ended up ordering them from Pedal Parts Plus since they had all the parts I needed which made it easier for shipping costs. I ended up ordering one of their orange powder […]

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Since I’ve been fortunate enough get a free tube amp, I got a part of my sound needs satisfied. The next items on the list were pedals. Since getting a free amp didn’t satisfy my do-it-yourself (DIY) thirst, I thought I’d investigate building my own pedal(s).
The Orange Squeezer listed at tonepad seems like […]

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