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OK, my above statement regarding the Arche Boost. I originally built it using a 5532. I believe it gave a hard harsh clipping in comparison. I changed it to the OPA2134PA I sourced a couple years ago from China. Real or counterfeit, they sound freaking great in this application. I A/B'd the...

This one just knocked my other dirt boxs out of my dirt chain. I love it. The boost section I like better than the Archie boost. There is 1 resister value difference between the two. The drive is a great one and its tuned really well. I can go either way, boost or drive alone depending. Both are...

Band Setting Review: I had this side by side with my Cobalt Driver which I have been playing more of. Between these two playing live, I kept choosing the Pauper. Its has more clarity and organic definition, be it the diodes or the circuit itself. Im using the dist toggle and gain at noon...

I recant my settings! Both DIP switchs off! That mid lift is actually a type of fat boost when engaged. Parallels a 1uf on a .01uf. I find it too much. Maybe half would be great. The turbo parallels a 10k on 10k into next gain stage. I find it too much too. Trim pot down to 10;30 or 1/3rd for...

Running out of enclosures, jacks, and other things, I was able to complete my Pauper pcb. I stocked a few green globs for kicks to hear any differences. Im a fan now but they are larger and fitting them can be tight. Theres a 1uf box space but its small. No box cap will fit unless mount it...

Id gut the board, build your own modified circuit into it and youll have a sweet little sleeper screamer.

Building amps is like the pedal bug. Problem is post pandemic. Resources dried up, or shut down. Transformers are difficult to source today as Mercury Components closed doors. All the Soviet sources are no longer, too. Heyboer, and Hammond and maybe a couple of others for a good price in...

Yes, its a Sleeper for sure.

Big thanks to @MichaelW for mailing me some J201's (months ago), so I can finally finish this project. Sincerely thank you. Well after the j201 shortages, and trying to source a 250ka ganged pot I was really challenged. My recent rare pot quest was discovered at Stompbox Parts who supplies some...

BAS33 fyi. ready to populate board now.

My diode order came yesterday! However Im sidetracked currently building acoustic panels. I will get at this soon enough and report if I can hear anything mythical or see fairys darting around my jam room.

Looks like it can be used as an easy LND150 amplifier stage too.

I did replace the 2 10u Tant power filters just in case as well as jfets which seemed to test fine on my cheap ebay tester. Same overly muddy results. I changed my instrument cords as well. When it works its great. I did not reflow every point but I have another pcb coming as Id like this...

I have bas33's coming from https://stompboxparts.com/, and thats whats getting hard wired in. I have enough 4148 dirt boxs, lol.

After listening to KOT demos with assortments of diodes, 4148's sound great if not best imho.

I recently built the Cleaver Katana and was liking it. Now it just sounds blatty, muddy, farty in a non musical way. I checked the bias and both jfets, they were at 11v up from 9. I turned them down to 9 and same blatty sound. Should I suspect the 2n5458's? Is there a better jfet for this...

Last Xmas I did what Id never say I do. I was so lucky to get my money back. It was ridiculously horrible. I went with the YouTube videos saying a fret level will do it to these. I think these guys are paid by the Chinese to move Chibsons. Just say No.

Just ordered some, get these projects moving along.

Thanks for the link, I believe thats the answer.

I just discovered I have an old version Kings Hand pcb which calls for BA282's as well.