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I appreciate the explanation - you summed up what I've been trying to understand very succinctly! I will end up buying the 78L05, but I'll try playing with the diode assembly for fun

Ok, it's definitely more complicated than I first thought! How do I learn how to calculate the series resistor?

Cap to ground in between Vs and the zener to low-pass, is that correct?

I'm back in over my head again! I'm now good at, and very tired of building, boost/drive/fuzz pedals. I bought 4 PT2399s to mess with, and I learned after they arrived that I would need to feed them a steady 5VDC. I know I can use a voltage regulator IC, but I'm curious why/if I can't simply...

My eventually intended project is a tiny, pot mounted, SMD boost

Yes, TRS jack with the effect ground on the ring.

I haven't had a problem, but I'm using a stack of three coin cells to make 9V and I use them to power an Electra that's inside my Mustang. It's been 2 years and I haven't had to change the battery. Pile still reads 8.97V, started at 9.3V. The compressor was switched out for a proper 9V due to...

I have some leftover ICs and transistors that I don't know what to do with. Anyone have any suggestions for how to use the following? V571D (1) LM741CN (1) LM13700N (1) J201 (2) 2N7000 (2) MPSA18 (5) 2N5485 (8)

Revisiting some old threads of mine, and I thought I should add to this one. This project was a success, and went into a Mustang. I have since stuffed effects into two cheap guitars, one expensive guitar, a bass, and an amp head. For all except the amp head, three coin cells work great! Stack...

I put it on the treble side, since I mostly cut treble (single coils, Bassman, 2x10 Celestion Golds)

Here you go!

That's another reason I'd like to avoid the hacky way of doing it - it would be nice to have the taper be correct

I would do that, but I'm out of 100K resistors

I'll give it a shot, thanks!