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That surprises me. I would have thought the Mouser ones would be better.

Got my Tayda order and the resistors look great. Thicker leads than Amazon ones and no oxidation. Caps seem fine too. Thanks for the help making the decision. Worth the extra cost. I’ll try some of those other resources as well, but these will keep me busy for awhile.

Well, here is where I landed with substitutions. I’ve added the values in with a pen and a red ink dot to show where it is located on the board. I like this result, but might try other amps and guitars before calling it final. I’m open to feedback if you have any thoughts. Some of the values...

Better photos of enclosure.

So, tonight I started building out another one with sockets so I won’t have to breadboard the whole thing. This will allow me to try Chuck’s substitutions but also allow me to experiment and maybe stumble upon a version I like.

This is exactly what I want. Any idea how to go about doing that? I haven’t read the article yet, so if it is all in there, my apologies. I plan to look through it later.

Thank you for this. Lots here to explore.

So many Klon clones are gold because the original Klon was gold. (The Archer, Tumnus, etc.) In the fairytale, everything that King Midas touched turned to gold. Side note: I don’t like gold color pedals as much as other light pastel colors (crème, mint green, surf green, baby blue), so I was...

For what it’s worth, I did measure all the resistors today. (Except for the pots, haha.) Some were a little off, a little over 5% but nothing drastic. I mainly was double checking that I didn’t get Ohms and KOhms mixed up.

I’ll add that, in all fairness, the pedals do sound similar. I’m fine tuning somewhat subtle nuances. I use words like “nasal honk” only to describe the frequency I’m hearing a spike in, but it isn’t a huge difference. It is probably around 500-800Hz somewhere. (This particular batch has...

You’re probably right. Haha!

So, I tried using sockets on the diodes and tried several different ones, but that is not the issue and made little difference in the honky mid-range thing I’m trying to fix. I ended up starting over. In fact, today I build another one from scratch. I built it to spec and it sounds the same as...

Maybe a plexiglass enclosure to show it off. Could be a nice one-off project. Maybe the circuit is a psychedelic modulated fuzz or something to match.

I think those tropical fish caps look awesome. I’d like to build something with those someday.

For anyone interested, here is my order. Would have been a lot cheaper on Amazon probably … but worth a try to me to see if the quality of inventory is indeed better. I realize I may never use some of these but I’m new to it and just don’t know. I also realize the leads are 10mm on some of these...

Speaking of measuring ceramics, I bought a kit awhile back that had 3600 ceramics and they arrived mixed up. For the most part I can tell them apart by the code but in many cases the code is worn off or missing. I bought a Fluke multimeter to help sort it out (knowing I’d use it quite a lot in...

Good point. Kinda like also,… if I build a LoFi pedal, why would I use HiFi parts? I mean, I guess it could be like with recording when you track in a super deadened room so you can control the reverb to a T. Like having a perfect environment as the spring board to build from. But, I agree, if...

I almost bought some of those but it was going to limit the number of inventory units I could purchase by quite a lot. They were 40 cents each on Tyda. Maybe someday I’ll upgrade to Wima or just order to the build when necessary. But today, I only had $600 to work with and was trying to fully...

I know from past threads that people like those box film ones since they fit nicely in place on the board. I have a decent amount of those, but sadly I had ordered them from Amazon. I’m not sure if they sound great as there isn’t anything around to compare them to. I’m still building my...

Should I stock up on the green caps or the red? Which is better? How do they compare?