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It allows for a degree of tolerance in assembly. Enclosures are drilled, the pots are mounted to the enclosure, the PCB drops onto the pots and is soldered in place.

Try to find some 2N3440 maybe? They're mostly around 80hfe iirc.

A cool useful box! You might want to use MLCCs for those 100n caps.

This is mostly for my own notes, but after playing this for a while (a year?) I removed the two small value caps (C4 and C2 above) as I found it a little muffled. YMMV, a smaller value might be nice at C2 but I find I normally want more treble not less so here we are. This li'l guy still sounds...

The clandestine preamp might do what ye seek.

Dish soap work well in a pinch, you can cut it with water and iso alcohol.

To the OP's credit, they didn't say anything about the ICs being "fake" or even seem particularly fussed about it.

I really like the BusBoard brand stuff and get it from Amazon. Amplified Parts has (or at least had?) some cool colours if that's yr thing.

Hi all - just curious if anyone has stumbled across a project that combines an attenuator with a plug and play class-d power amp? Essentially - a solid state version of the Fryette Power Station. tyty

I've never heard any meaningful difference between different types of opamps in a rat circuit. The difference between an OP07 and an LM-whatever hasn't been any more pronounced than the difference between two OP07s or LM-somethings. Socket the part and swap to your heart's content, but ime...

Great looking build! FWIW, a simple way to reduce the boominess in MKIIIs is to decrease C2 (per the Vero p2p schem). It gives a much tighter/guitar-focused sound, imo. Putting that cap on a switch with two options gives a nice option for switching between bass and guitar, or "tight" and "loose."

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Tails, please.

You can always increase the value of the starve pot to increase the effect.

It's a cool pedal, I like mine. I've never really dug too deep into it, but my understanding is that it's fairly close to a Tube Screamer with some extra clipping and a gyrator EQ similar to the other hyper pedals and metal zone.