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Straylight kit now available
Our most-requested kit is finally launching today! The Straylight project originally released two years ago and quickly became our fastest-selling PCB yet. But the kits take a long time to develop, and not only does this one use several parts that we hadn
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Seven new projects releasing today: Cornish BD-1, a few phasers, a flanger, and a parametric EQ
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 overdrive. Th
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Tracing Journal: Cornish BD-1 Bass Drive
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.1 There are a few others in his lineup, but they're all situation-specific u
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Shipping update: live rates and UPS now available
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 and the prices were gre
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Halo kit now available in four classic Big Muff variants
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 a kit corresponding to any of these historica
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2025 in review: new packaging, tariff troubles, and a Linux shoutout
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. It started off with something completely unpredictable: in January, we go
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WIMA 1μF film capacitors temporarily discontinued
Short version: The 1μF WIMA capacitors we use in over half of our projects have been temporarily discontinued. We have sourced a few thousand old-stock pieces and are selling these directly in the mean time. We also have per-project recommendations on sub
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Six new kits releasing today: Mu-tron III, Cornish classics, Phase 90 and more
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 circuits and the Nordland ODR-C
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Four new traces + five new projects releasing today
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 the original trace. Based On: Darkglas
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Tracing Journal: Pigtronix Philosopher's Tone Micro
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 a demo video of
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