Recent content by slowpogo

You'd be surprised what you can make fit if you're determined, sometimes you just need to tilt or rotate something. I have a lot of bigger components leftover from amp and hi-fi projects and sometimes, they even seem to sound better. (F&T and Sprague make 25V caps which are not that huge) I also...

ah I misunderstood, thought it was meant to facilitate breadboarding. Thanks, I'll take a look! edit: I measured the leads of some components I have, and a lot of them actually go beyond what the headers can handle (0.68mm). For example F&T caps, Russian PIO caps and larger carbon comps are all...

Still just interested in sockets that fit bigger leads, as I explained above… if anyone has that info I’d appreciate it

Appreciate it, l’ve used a breadboard before but it doesn’t fit my preferred process. I typically will build the pedal using default parts, put it on my board and use it in a variety of scenarios, swap in different parts at my leisure if/when ideas occur to me as it sits on the board. Sometimes...

When building pedals I use SIP sockets all the time in case I want to try different parts or values. But the standard size are too small for parts with larger leads (like higher voltage parts, old carbon comps and other "mojo" parts) Are there SIP sockets that are made to accept bigger leads...

Ah, that makes total sense. When the RAT is off, the whole shebang is in true bypass, doesn't matter what the SHO is doing. Seems obvious now but wasn't seeing it, thank you!

I'm building a dual circuit pedal, a RAT with a Zvex SHO boost running into it. I want them to have separate footswitches, but I only want the SHO to work when the RAT is on. Because I will not be using them independently and don't want to accidentally blow my ears out. If possible, I'd like...

What boost circuit do you think works well in front of a RAT? I owned the Zero G IOD Algernon, which is basically a Turbo RAT with a Reutz knob, plus a boost knob in front of the circuit. Great pedal, sounded awesome. Especially with the boost maxed and the RAT gain down low, super saturated...

Think I solved it. I ended up putting 10k trimmer on R4, the Source leg of the J201. Turned out lowering the value to around 2.4k notably increased gain. Enough that any difference to the demos could be chalked up to pot tolerance. JFETs seem really finicky this way. I had a similar issue when...

I built the Pastel using the stock transistors. For my 2N6429s the hFE measures 725-750 so well within specs. However the gain level of the finished pedal is quite a bit lower than what I see in demos of the JHS Crayon. In Crayon demos, with all knobs at noon you already have a very healthy...

I'm seeing some 2N6429A transistors available on ebay. Is the "A" variant the same as 2N6429? Sometimes that denotes different gain levels but I'm having a hard time finding out definitively

I'm curious about the Backfeeder's status, is there a (tentative) timeline for when it might be in stock again?

Built the Taqueria this weekend. The build went fine and it worked straight away. I socketed most parts just in case. The only mod was to use 100k for the Volume pot, because I already had it and it's used in other Superbolt clones...works just fine. I'm very happy with the build itself, my...

As for BOM, am I right to assume it's the same as the Super '64 but with an extra set of trimmers and the 3PDT toggle?

Someone on reddit posted these readings from a Superbolt V2... Basically 9.5V for all three JFETs TP1: 9.55 TP2: 9.47 TP3: 9.51