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I think if you have been through cancer you're allowed to blame it for trifling stuff like this! What sort of hot plate did you use for the SMDs? I'm thinking I'll have to work out a way to use SMD transistors because it's getting difficult to find through-hole JFETs. I still have a load of...

I've been called anal on this forum for my wiring by many - even myself. But you take clinical to the next level. Love the riveted plate and even the colour of the enclosure too. Have you ever wondered about rotating the out jack 180 degrees so that the ground is next to the in jack's ground...

If I squint it looks a bit like R6... Could that be right??

I had a feeling that was the case! Thanks for the advice in this thread. I would probably never have built this pedal without it. And now I have a great pedal to mess around with.

I finally got around to building this! Now that I have built an IDSS tester I felt confident to try it - that and my successful build of a Diablo. And now, after a brief test, I can see why this is a PPCB fave. I made a couple of mods according to the teachings of the Church Of Chuck and it...

Quick question: where are you hiding R4?

They seem to have got tired of it all recently! They're a bit, um, eccentric. Serious attitude there.

Cool! Handily I have a whole bunch of J113s!

I am thinking of building this but the through-hole JFETs you mention are hard to get here. One place has suggested subbing BF256B JFETs because they have them in stock. I don't have a clue if they would work or not. Do you have any experience with the BF256B?

I would guess from here: https://schutone.com/ You might need to email Dan - the address is in the OP

I am a lover of both bass and treble controls, but in the case of the Red Llama I much prefer the version without the tone control. It doesn't really need it and the tone control takes away something IMO. But you have just made me wonder about a Red Llama with a bass control... Hmm...

That's it! We went the two nights in a row it was that good. I had an old fashioned variation called a Diesel. It was possibly the most aggressive flavoured old fashioned I have had - it was my kinda cocktail. Kufstein is kinda halfway between Innsbruck and Salzburg, and it's close enough that...

I my art class we had a furnace so that we could cast aluminium. So you would carve a piece out of polystyrene foam, add sprues, pack it in sand and cast it in aluminium. I never did get around to trying it. But I did have a painting exhibited in town and received a certificate signed by Syd...

"Bottom line, opamps should be auditioned for this circuit, even opamps of the same part number" As I found out! I often build two of any pedal I think friends will like to try, so built two of my version (which isn't all that different from Chuck's) and found they didn't sound the same. I...

I didn't even know that using Blutac was a thing! I wouldn't mind a kinda heat-proof thimble or something but if I have any nail on my left hand that works just fine. Otherwise it's back to my callus. I never would have thought of using blu tac. Tic tac? Sure.

I think it's perfectly legit to make up your own definition for SACUE and then you can glare menacingly at those who accuse you of spelling errors. Just say it's French for scrotum or something.

Just a word about desoldering braid: not all braids are the same. The stuff Tayda sells, for example, is useless. I use a Japanese one I get locally which works spectacularly well. I think it has plenty of flux in it which makes a bit of a mess sometimes but it's easily cleaned up with some IPA...

Damn - thanks for the heads up! I use BAT41s quite a bit.

Got any 2N5952s? They should work if you turn them 180 degrees.

Depends how hot it gets I guess.