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Me too... :cool: The DIY EQpedal I'm using for clean electric guitar right now actually works really well for jazz vibes and the like, but may not quite right for clean Fender/Vox/Hiwatt rock/blues stuff.

For sure, but doing a tube pedal or three has definite appeal too. ;)

Nah, not my intent at all. But in any case, I'm definitely interested in expanding my tone stack horizons and Hiwatt looks well worth some investigation. I have my model for a stock DR103 up and working now, and will do a proper build thread once I decide on whether to go with tubes or opamps.

I'll take a stab at doing what I mentioned myself eventually, but it might take a minute to get to it as my plate is extremely full right now. But meanwhile, hre's an online sim for many tone stacks including Hiwatt: https://www.guitarscience.net/tsc/info.htm

Cool, just riffing on my usual workflow. For clean stuiff I typically would start by modeling the actual original tube circuit in LTspice, then look at impedance scaling to an opamp circuit as appropriate. The only guitar AIAB tangent I've really worked so far outside of many Fender bassed ones...

Mouser. Always used to be Nichicon electrolytics, Kemet polypro, Wima Polyester, Murata ceramics for through-hole parts. Now mostly ported to Panasonic electros, TDK polyester film, and Kemet SMD MLCCs as needed.

The Alembic F2B clones would be my choice for a Fender AIAB, I think I'd start with the Particle Accelerator. But if Hiwatt is your end game why not just use tubes and work off a Hiwatt schematic of your choice?

Here's a freq sweep of the PEQ section in the blue pedal, with a wide bandwidth setting, HPF full open, PEQ boost at 7.5/10 : Already pretty workable as a bass, mid, or treble control before I even add the resonant LPF or two band Bax EQ sections. Kind of a Swiss Army Knife appliance IMO. I...

My current pedal tangent involves using an internal power brick and +/-15V in the box, but powered by a standard 9V feed: The HPF and PEQ are on one board and I have new refinements worked up for both in the next version. There's also a new high voltage two band Baxandall EQ board layout...

At one shop I worked in we had a horn repair section in the room next door. I'd sometimes have my bandmate who worked in there do Fender chassis grounds with an oxacetylene torch, but I still have an old school 300 watt iron meant for stained glass work kicking around just in case I ever take...

Amplified Fun in Portland for enclosure printing and drilling, Stompbox Parts, Love My Switches or Mouser for most of the pots, and generally SBP or LMS for the enclosures to drop ship to Amplified Fun.

Really sweet! This is the second prototype of my problem solver / Swiss Army Knife EQ pedal: I'm doing a revamp of my old PEQ format for v3, I will definitely have to throw this one into LTspice and see how it compares to my latest try. Right now Q interaction with frequency is a "feature"...

I use mostly relatively larger format SMD parts and do all building myself, without magnification. My only repetitive builds are onboard preamps and/or EQ pedals, pretty much everything else is a one-off. This would be about my most tedious current board to build up, lots of 0805 parts: That...

I wired in the four way impedance switch last week just before going to visit my primary luthier client down in Oregon. He does quite a few "boutique Fender-ish" builds and I wanted to see how my amp might deal with that. The switch did help and it also reinforced that with my designs going as...

Not that I know of. But for my use cases JLC has rarely offered that much advantage over OSH or DK Red, and I haven't even used them for a few years now. Same for Tayda too.