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Very amp-like and very responsive to/ expressive of guitar elements. Big range of gain from light edge of breakup to gainy clipping. Can do tight chugs, can do doomy fuzzyness. The bass and treble knobs are key.

Well looky here at what I made this evening with some sweet and massive mojo parts kindly gifted to me by @jwin615 that he acquired from a defunct police radio repair shop. Lots of crazy things like an N-D MOS (???), capacitors rolled in paper, and transistors I've never heard of. And very...

Good to know even legends have their off days.

Update on the fizz and the J201s: I really disliked the fizzyness, so I desoldered the j201s and tried switching the order. Still fizzy. Then I put in some sockets and tried doing substitutions with through-hole J201s (~38-46 IDSS--my through-hole j201s by interfet are much more consistent...

Like so:

Even then, you can just bend cap legs to fit. The cap will sit proud, but as long as the legs aren't touching each other/other metal, it will work fine. I've not paid attention to sizes and ended up having to make "capacitor gardens" before.

Apparently they especially love a good little SMD component

It's basically an earlier version of this, but I never clear coated it, so it's faded. I'll redo it or figure out a graphic that will go along with the extra pot. I do have a tendency to leave my enclosures unfinished, though.

Totally cool, Michael. I appreciate a good derailment. On a derailment of the derailment, I've noticed a high end fizziness especially with the treble boost engaged, with both of my last builds. It is not present in my through hole builds. I really don't like it. Could be the standing...

Hosannah!!!

Mannnnn, I *really* productively struggled with this one. Tried implementing the mods in my old beloved o.g. deofol and ended up with questionable sound quality and an eventually non functional circuit. What was I going to do? Was I going to lay down and die? No. I tried to do it on a new...

Build report bonus: I built up the two "extra" Obsidius...es, both with Q2 slightly higher than Q1, which is what is reportedly desirable for JFETs that feed into one another. One I built with .068 and .079 odds. The other with .053 and .057 idea. The difference in the nature of the breakup...

Thank you. I learn something new every time.

Just so I'm clear, the final schematic also *changes C5 to 470nf from 100nf *changes body spdt on-off-on switch to c50k pot *deletes r7, R8, and r25, *adds c22 100nf after c13 10uf *subs 1n5817s for the 1n4148 diodes at D2 and D3? *Volume pot changes from b100k to a100k *R19 is replaced with 50k...

In addition to D2 and D3, my build also needed to get rid of d1 on the PPCB board to work correctly Just a note for future modders.

The mod man gets the nod, man. That was it! Like magic, except not at all

And a small gift for everyone: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day I will leave it to y'all to find the common threads with certain contemporary politicians

Will do!

[Edits for clarity] Well, it's definitely bassy! Especially with bass boost engaged/toggle up. Running Ibanez ar with humbuckers and then an Eastwood sidejack baritone > Obsidius> Orange little cube amp. My standard test platform. With gain and blend dimed, I didn't find the distortion...

Chugs and thrash it is. Will report back in a bit.