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Another sweet project from @szukalski. Thanks Dave!!!

I recently built yet another Honey Bee OD based on some new tracing information from Kevin at Aion. Apparently there have been some mistakes in the original DIY trace that's been propogated through the years and many variants that trace their lineage back to that original DIY trace. (See what I did there? :) It's an interesting read here. And I can confirm using the corrected values results in an almost completely different pedal, much richer sounding.

Well turns out @szukalski read the same article and whipped up a version with the changes. (I built mine on a GPCB board).
So of course I had to beg him for the gerbers and have some made up!! These came lightning fast from JLCPCB!
Wooohoooo!

Maybe I'll do a demo comparing all the versions at some point.

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Another sweet project from @szukalski. Thanks Dave!!!

I recently built yet another Honey Bee OD based on some new tracing information from Kevin at Aion. Apparently there have been some mistakes in the original DIY trace that's been propogated through the years and many variants that trace their lineage back to that original DIY trace. (See what I did there? :) It's an interesting read here. And I can confirm using the corrected values results in an almost completely different pedal, much richer sounding.

Well turns out @szukalski read the same article and whipped up a version with the changes. (I built mine on a GPCB board).
So of course I had to beg him for the gerbers and have some made up!! These came lightning fast from JLCPCB!
Wooohoooo!

Maybe I'll do a demo comparing all the versions at some point.

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I’d be interested in hearing or knowing the difference audibly.
 
Definitely interested in what you think of the Chase-a-logMan.
Honestly? I think it's really, really, really, really good. Sure it's a BluesBreaker / King Of Tone. And I built like 6 clones of them over the last couple of years and even had an original KOT because my name came up on the list like two years ago. I sold all of them because I thought they are boring. But IDK this ones different. Maybe it's because Chase Bliss are my favorite pedal company (I have 7 of their pedals on my board currently) or maybe it's because I got a bit older since I've last played a Bluesbreaker type pedal. In the last year or two I rebuilt my pedalboard for MIDI stuff and half of my pedalboard is now controlled by MIDI so it was a no-brainer for me to at least try it. Also the built in Beano Boost pedal feature sounds sooo good. I can kind of see why people think the stuff Analogman does is a bit "snake oil" stuff - honestly I think so too. But they also released this short documentary on how this pedal came about which I thought was incredibly wholesome and both Joel and Mike seemed incredibly genuine.
 
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