GuitarPCB | BQFS | Activity https://guitarpcb.com/members/bqfs/activity/ Activity feed for BQFS. Thu, 21 May 2026 23:46:43 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 21a58d7cb6e12652b0e59bc399196289 BQFS replied to the topic Paramix: zero sound in the forum GuitarPCB Build Support https://guitarpcb.com/community/topic/paramix-zero-sound/page/2/#post-37832 Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:42:29 -0500 Thanks. The enclosure looked so good, I thought that you might have purchased it, as is, from someone. Should have known better. Anyway, it looks great!.

]]> 0 22862b8b1d285a9a12a27fc4108f8292 BQFS replied to the topic Paramix: zero sound in the forum GuitarPCB Build Support https://guitarpcb.com/community/topic/paramix-zero-sound/page/2/#post-37819 Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:31:46 -0500 A paramix is coming up on my list of things to build. I was hoping you could tell me about the enclosure – what is it, where did you get it, did it come that way with graphics, etc? The more you (or anyone else) could tell me about it, the better.

Thanks in advance,

Bud

]]> 0 a41ecee6955989f7d10f11cd232ba964 BQFS replied to the topic Tube Screaming Ultra in the forum Show Off Your Build https://guitarpcb.com/community/topic/tube-screaming-ultra-4/#post-37139 Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:36:55 -0400 Thanks, Barry, for clearing that up.

Bud

 

]]> 0 d3e98cbdaab2807be73fca576ec13700 BQFS replied to the topic Tube Screaming Ultra in the forum Show Off Your Build https://guitarpcb.com/community/topic/tube-screaming-ultra-4/#post-37133 Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:03:25 -0400 I’m pretty new to pedal building, so if this is the wrong place to ask my question, I would appreciate some guidance as to where I should have posted this.

I am just completing a build of this excellent board, and decided to build it close to the original TS 808. The build instructions are confusing. In several places, it refers to using a B500K…Read more

]]> 0 b8ea3719dfb87d4cbcf2a0e118ad94f1 BQFS replied to the topic 2112 Issue (solved) in the forum GuitarPCB Build Support https://guitarpcb.com/community/topic/2112-issue/#post-36553 Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:40:13 -0400 The best way is to inject a signal (I use a signal generator, but you can also use a looper pedal or any other way of putting a guitar-level signal) into the input and follow the signal path starting from the input and working your way towards the output using either an oscilloscope or an audio probe. If you don’t have either one, there are TONS…Read more

]]> 0 d0b06a2f25256925ec539482b7558cb4 BQFS replied to the topic I'm Confused - Which goes first the Emexar or the Emerald Ring? in the forum GuitarPCB Build Support https://guitarpcb.com/community/topic/im-confused-which-goes-first-the-emexar-or-the-emerald-ring/#post-36461 Sun, 08 Jun 2025 23:23:41 -0400 Too late. I tried it driven by the Emexar, and by itself. Just not the device for me. Definitely in the donate pile.

Thanks for everyone who got back to me on this.

Bud

 

]]> 0 53f9ab1f311fd43ffb514b6e25d37ed6 BQFS replied to the topic I'm Confused - Which goes first the Emexar or the Emerald Ring? in the forum GuitarPCB Build Support https://guitarpcb.com/community/topic/im-confused-which-goes-first-the-emexar-or-the-emerald-ring/#post-36447 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:35:31 -0400 That figures. I read all rave reviews, then I build the thing and find it just sounds weird. Definitely not interested in playing bass through it. Well, at least I didn’t waste an enclosure. I use the testing tower from MAS Effects which is very helpful and faster than trying to kludge together an ad hoc test box.

I think both board are going in…Read more

]]> 0 309377e999ded53f2835a4a7b0c529f5 BQFS replied to the topic I'm Confused - Which goes first the Emexar or the Emerald Ring? in the forum GuitarPCB Build Support https://guitarpcb.com/community/topic/im-confused-which-goes-first-the-emexar-or-the-emerald-ring/#post-36442 Fri, 06 Jun 2025 07:31:17 -0400 Well, Barry, thank you for your helpful response that sure explains why the build instructions illustrate it one way and say it another, and why I have since learned people def. build them either way. It just makes more sense to me somehow, so I went ahead and wired it so that the Emexar comes first and that drives the Emerald. Its on my test rig,…Read more

]]> 0 7053084cd08f9283b203330fdcac4650 BQFS started the topic I'm Confused - Which goes first the Emexar or the Emerald Ring? in the forum GuitarPCB Build Support https://guitarpcb.com/community/topic/im-confused-which-goes-first-the-emexar-or-the-emerald-ring/ Fri, 06 Jun 2025 01:16:21 -0400 I was looking at the build guide for the Emexar and Green Ringer, and it says in the Ring guide “By driving the Emerald Ring with a Fuzz Face or other circuits such as…..Emexar.”  Now, where i come from driving something with something else means the “something else” comes first in line so it can drive the thing that comes next, so I would…Read more

]]> 0 787dec169d39fca58032fc32116a3822 BQFS replied to the topic Buff n' Blend Confusion... in the forum GuitarPCB Build Support https://guitarpcb.com/community/topic/buff-n-blend-confusion/#post-35308 Mon, 03 Feb 2025 21:34:17 -0500 Well, Billy, I enjoy helping others when I can. I regularly participate in various forums on Talkbass. I enjoy sharing my knowledge and will help anyone who need it, if I can.

On Reddit, I encountered a guy who was selling off his inventory and quitting pedal building. I bought all his stuff which included the first two I built (the STFU and…Read more

]]> 0 a5cddc416a61cbb3333f538525b5bb78 BQFS replied to the topic Buff n' Blend Confusion... in the forum GuitarPCB Build Support https://guitarpcb.com/community/topic/buff-n-blend-confusion/#post-35299 Sun, 02 Feb 2025 05:09:06 -0500 I see that now. Thanks for the guidance and quick response. For me this is one of those things that I only figure out after I do it wrong. At least it wasn’t a very costly error.

Thanks again for the assistance. I am very appreciative.

Bud

 

]]> 0 0e545195f27b158d1daf003790dc004a BQFS replied to the topic Buff n' Blend Confusion... in the forum GuitarPCB Build Support https://guitarpcb.com/community/topic/buff-n-blend-confusion/#post-35297 Sun, 02 Feb 2025 02:05:16 -0500 Well, believe it or not, that was it! I looked over the circuit board build instructions and I see how I made my error. On my board, where the LED connects, there are three holes, one of which has the rectangle symbol and the other two do not. Seems to me, the logical (but incorrect) thing to do is to place one of the LED leads into the rectangle…Read more

]]> 0 144cde84f9f42f87727ceaedd16431f3 BQFS replied to the topic Buff n' Blend Confusion... in the forum GuitarPCB Build Support https://guitarpcb.com/community/topic/buff-n-blend-confusion/#post-35290 Sat, 01 Feb 2025 20:38:50 -0500 Thanks for your quick response. I didn’t know it would even be possible to wire it like that, so I will have a look before I post up more info.

Thank you for raising this possibility.

Bud

]]> 0 5129c02b80722a9fa8b4301b0217a2bb BQFS started the topic Buff n' Blend Confusion... in the forum GuitarPCB Build Support https://guitarpcb.com/community/topic/buff-n-blend-confusion/ Sat, 01 Feb 2025 20:08:50 -0500 Hi –

I am a retired electronics tech. with over 50 years experience working on basses and all sorts of ampification, but am new to the world of pedal building. I was on Reddit a few months ago and found a guy who was quitting building with lots of parts for sale, which I bought. That purchase included a LOT of circuit boards. I am making my way…Read more

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