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Thanks! I used 1N34A in this build, perhaps I should have socketed them and experimented though!

Yep fair point, I think I have a DC jack to battery snap connector so will give it a go, as well as unplugging the guitar and report back, thanks! I was just reading this post on diystompboxes and wondering whether its potentially out of my control if the pedals I've built don't have...

Cheers! I use a Carl Martin Pro Power which should be providing good quality isolated power and hasn't given me issues before, however on my new pedal board I have two and their mains leads connect to a single IEC socket via a Y splitter. I was assured by some reading on the subject at the time...

Had a question about my experience with this pedal so far, I love the sound of it but having trouble stacking into it with my OCD (other way round sounded naff), I'm getting a high pitched oscillation quite easily, neither pedal anywhere near max settings, is there perhaps just too much gain in...

Thanks Barry! Cheers dude!

Hullo all! Hope you're keeping well! My latest effort is the Tyrian distortion after being recommended it by none other than this site's owner! This is a full on gain monster! Need to spend more time with it but my cursory test flight certainly gave me a smile! Hoping to use this as my main...

Let me know if I can help or give any tips, been doing these sorts of etches for a while now so know my way around it. Also have an etching tutorial in my sig that I know has helped people in the past, its for a 'normal' etch but the process itself isn't all that different, mainly just how you...

I find with mine I have to basically have both gain pots set high-ish and volume set to max to get a decent level out of it, trimmers are fully wound also. I'm always wary of the success of a build when I have to do stuff like that, did you find the same? I've read other reports of this circuit...

Cheers! I just did it by ear tbh, but I might open it up and revisit using voltage measurements

Nice! I'm planning to build a Fuzz Factory soon and was going to do an 8 knob one from Fuzzdog but then saw this in the release thread and it looks cool, I like the sound of the features, which would you go for?

That's interesting, I've just had a relatively quick check between the schematics of both versions, there are quite a few parts differences, the most obvious being all the 10u caps in mine are 1u in the Aion version. I notice though that the PedalPCB one uses 10u, so perhaps that's a red...

Really odd how the output on this seems to vary between people's builds, I read one suggestion that it was actually amp related but I'm running a Twin Reverb so would expect with that amount of headroom I'd get maximum volume? I'll have to try it with one of my more gainy amps just to check I...

Hi all, hope you're keeping well! Latest build is an Ultimate Octave on Fuzzdog board. I built one of these ages ago in a 1590B and always liked it, the foot-switchable octave layout of this kit appealed to me tho. I realise I could have just done it myself on a regular Foxx Tone Machine board...

I might look into that as do like the overall sound, just sounds like it could do with a tweak to make it work for me. I’ve started using it as a light-ish overdrive rather than full tilt and am getting on better with it now. It also stacks nicely with my Sonic Titan which I had originally tried...

Cool thanks for the heads up, I was aware the AC was based on the Guv’nor but not how it had been modded by JHS. I’ve got all the parts for the Tyrian on the way now so will see how I get on with that to begin with.

Thanks for the quick reply! I hadn't actually checked these pedals out before, the Tyrian sounds awesome! I'm chasing an SLO-ish sort of sound (early Helmet or Silverchair rather than chug chug metal), i.e. big and thick with plenty of mids but not too harsh, seems to fit the bill very nicely! I...

For anyone following this thread I had a question; I'm fairly happy with the sound of the AC but its not quite ticking all the boxes after a few hours play, the low end is a bit flubby. I'm also considering the Thermionic Deluxe (or perhaps one of the smaller variants), how do they compare? I'm...

Cheers! Yes its exactly that, the process itself is really no different than 'normal' etching apart from how you do the artwork, but somewhere along the way people referred to the approach as reverse etching and I think its just stuck! Let me know how you get on, any questions feel free to ask!

Good to know, cheers!

Thanks! And also thanks again! I didn’t realise that was the case when it came to the pots, just a lack of understanding and inbuilt fear of something shorting out I think!