Earthquaker Plumes Teardown! See what's inside! 

Pro tip: heat the solder pad and stick a tooth pick through it. Will open them up, no desoldering gun required. Solder doesn't stick to wood.

I'm loving your vids! Would have been cool to hear the before and after.

Very interesting,so glad theres people who understand all this cos I dont have a scooby doo.

Excellent series, thanks for putting these together

The W taper has an S shape (confusing, I know). Pot value changes slowly at the ~10% beginning and end and quickly / linearly in the middle of the pots turn. It smoothes out the tone circuit, which isn't linear (at least not to our hearing).

Just disassembled my Plumes yesterday to install a .047 uf capacitor across the volume pot to reduce the brightness, and to my surprise everything is now super tiny surface mounted components. They were so small I could not find the clipping diodes or LED’s. I can only assume this was done to save production costs. The capacitor worked out great. I just wish the other components were able to be tweaked. Bummer 😩

I've found that LED's are sometimes an acceptable option; what I do generally avoid or replace are the Silicon stages.My first experience with this was way back with the Swollen Pickle, which offered an internal trimpot to choose between LED and Si.Pretty cool circuit, with an arguably nsg sound ( better for bass).

Desoldering braid works a lot better with a bit of flux and high heat. You can even clear those holes without a desoldering gun with flux and enough heat.

I'm curious to see how a Horizon Devices Precision Drive is put together.

Hi, thanks for the video! I would really like to see a teardown of Electro Harmonix “Germanium 4 Big Muff Pi”!

when a pedal has no surface mount components it is very satisfying to watch

very cool...was looking for this type of video specifically. subbed!

Next time add a lil bit of solder to the via’s and tap out the solder. Works like a charm …. Then use the braid to clean up the holes.

Try some 9V zener diodes as clippers/ The sound amazing!

Not silkscreen graphics. That's UV printed in-house at EarthQuaker in Akron. Much more durable than silkscreen.

Had it in my head that Plumes was when they moved to SMD, I stand corrected.

Replace the momentary switch with a latching to get rid of the goofy flex switch function

How could you not answer the most important question about the mod: how does it sound with the hitachi diodes??? It’s like your favorite show, season finale and it ends with a massive cliffhanger 🙈😂

Great segment. I've got a basic question; why would a builder use a TRS input when guitar cables are mostly TS. Wouldn't that add to the cost? Wouldn't they have to jumper the Sleeve and Ring so their customers don't require special TRS cables to make a connection. (told you it was basic, ha)

At some point they switched to SMD construction by the time I got one in October of 2023.

What’s the deal with most of these pedal manufacturers always using the red color Panasonic film capacitors? They don’t seem to be in production anymore and no longer available of Mouser, Digikey etc. Is there something about this red Panasonic film capacitors?

GRAY BENCH, Adding in the Voltage Inverter TC1044 will give more Op amp Headroom using the Op amps at +9vdc and at -9vdc compared to an Ibanez Tube Screamer they use the Op amp at +9vdc and Ground 0 volts for the headroom?

Did the LED's have any attenuation with them to make them the same volume as the other diodes?

Do you have Vid that show your choice of tools? what de soldering gun was that?