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My kinda pedal! Excellent! The only thing I would suggest is to hardwire the voltage regulator for the delay in there. I suspect that if you use the pedal on a gigging board that socket will cause problems soon enough. I really like the concept of the pedal though.

I was trying to work out what it was exactly that i liked about the artwork. Then I remembered the stencil street art I had seen in Europe - that's it! I have a thing for stencil street art. And it looks amazing as pedal art work too. And I'm looking forward to seeing your next builds: Roadkill...

I think you need a better soldering iron. (Not being funny!) It looks like you either don't have a hot enough iron and/or the tip isn't clean or pointy enough. I suspect that will be a major part of your problem. I was having trouble getting good clean connections recently so bought a new tip...

The journey of exploration of a diode's characteristics is a one-way ticket.

That's a clever way to sort your graphics! I like the Raincoat. I'm still waiting for the Anorak Tubescreamer and the Wellington Boot booster though to complete the set.

Kind of a shame nobody will ever see that components. Love the blob transistors - I have some similar to those. I didn't know you could get German 1N4148s. Wow. It must be the ultimate polka fuzz. Knee-slapping good!

Damn - you beat me to it!

That's what people tell my wife all the time.

I would say thats a good guess!

Sounds like a fuzz or dirt through a tremolo. Listen to the Smiths How Soon Is Now and it's similar. I suspect some delay or reverb is involved too.

It's funny - I have a degree in design but can't be bothered to do graphics for my pedals. I have no graphic software for one thing. Almost all of my builds are dirt pedals so I put the knobs in the same places every time so I don't have to remember what they are. I have one pedal with...

Oh I got your point! That's why I said I don't think you have to worry. I was just trying to express how unnecessarily complex a Tubescreamer is for what it does. I agree with you about the lack of originality in a lot of commercially available pedals. And there are loads of boutique builders...

Oops! - good catch! I must have been looking at the wrong schematic! No I meant C3. I like 1nF there.

If I try to think of the most "metal" bird it would probably be the cassowary. It's one bird I hope never to see in the wild. I've seen them in a zoo and that was fine. I just googled it to make sure I spelled it right and CNN have labelled it "the only animal Australians are afraid of." And...

I don't think you have to worry! :p Actually IMO the Tubescreamer is unnecessarily complicated for something so bland. There are many pedals with a more complex sound and which have better control which have way fewer parts. And the JCM800 2203 and 2204 are actually very simple amps. A lot of...

It's not difficult to add a bass control to a Tube Screamer and man does it make a difference!

Well it was a while ago, but if I look at the schematic I believe you would delete C5 and C6 and replace C7 with a 1µF. Then replace R5 with a C1M pot. The spot where C2 meets R5 goes to Bass 3 (lug 3 of the Bass pot) and Bass 2 goes to the other end of R5, where it joins the gate of Q2. So you...

Actually I think it was HousTom who wanted the demos! I don't mind - I know what these things sound like. :-) And I bet yours sounds spectacular. How could it not?

I have built it with a bass pot rather than a bass switch.

Fair enough too! Dylan's Narrowcast isn't bad either but you gotta give the buyer what they want. :)