Welcome to The Dam — The Drunk Beaver Blog Is Live
Build diaries, Pedal Drop stories, circuit deep dives, and workshop updates — the Drunk Beaver blog is live. Here's what's coming.
You know Drunk Beaver for gnarly tones, hand-built pedals, and city names that tell Ukrainian stories. But product pages can only say so much. There's a lot happening behind the scenes — in the workshop, in the circuits, in the cities behind every Pedal Drop — that I've never had a proper place to share.
Until now. Welcome to The Dam. This is the Drunk Beaver blog 🍺.
Why a Blog? Why Now?
I've been building pedals for over five years, and this online store for more than two. I designed every circuit, sourced every component, hand-built every single pedal, and yes — I even coded this website from scratch. But all the thinking, the experiments, the stories? They lived in my head, or in short Instagram captions.
That's not enough anymore. There's too much I want to tell you about how these pedals come to life, why I chose specific components, and what the Ukrainian cities behind Pedal Drop mean to me personally. Product descriptions have a word limit. Blog posts don't 😎.
What You'll Find Here
This blog won't be about corporate announcements or dry spec sheets. Here's what's actually coming:
🔧 Build Instructions: Business Card PCB — You know those business card PCBs I ship with every order? The ones with a real working boost circuit hidden on them? We already sent hundreds of those. I’ve been promising build instructions for way too long. Components list, soldering guide, everything you need to turn a business card into a working guitar pedal. This one is coming first.
🇺🇦 Pedal Drop Stories — Every Pedal Drop pedal is named after a Ukrainian Hero City. I want to tell you why — the real history of each city, what it means to me, and the mission behind the whole series: supporting Ukrainian forces in the war with russia. These aren’t just names on pedals, they’re stories of resilience.
🔩 Components & Design Philosophy — What NOS Soviet op-amps actually do to your tone and why I source vintage germanium transistors and diodes from far, far away. How I decide what goes inside each pedal — the datasheets, the simulations, the calculations, the measurements, the thinking behind every choice. “Good enough” components are not good enough.
🎸 Circuit Deep Dives — Myth-busting and real engineering education. Why the OP07 vs LM308 debate actually matters. How slew rate shapes your overdrive character. Oscilloscope captures, frequency response graphs, and the stuff nobody else in the boutique pedal world talks about honestly. I have a master’s degree in Telecommunications and spend my day job as a Lead Software Engineer — I want to bring that same depth to explaining pedal circuits.
📦 Workshop Updates — New releases, Pedal Drop launches, restocks, and what’s on the workbench right now. Short and punchy updates between the deep reads.
A Word from the Workshop
I build pedals after my day job, on weekends, in whatever free time I can find. It started as a hobby — a way to combine my love for guitar with my engineering background. Five years and over four thousand hand-built pedals later, it's becoming something bigger. The dream is to do this full-time, and every order gets me one step closer.
This blog is for you — the people who already rock Drunk Beaver gear. You've been asking questions about circuits, about components, about the cities behind Pedal Drop. You wanted more than product pages could give. So here it is.
Stay Tuned
First up: the Business Card PCB build instructions. You know those cards — you've been asking how to build them since I started shipping them. Components list, step-by-step soldering guide, troubleshooting tips, and everything you need to turn a business card into a real working boost pedal. It's been overdue, and it's coming.
Follow along on Instagram for workshop updates between posts, or bookmark this blog so you don't miss anything. Got a topic you want me to cover? Drop a comment or DM me — this blog is for you, so tell me what you want to read.
Now go plug in your pedals and make some noise 🦫🍺
