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Built my first stripboard pedal, an Astrotone circuit with the Analgman specs with the layout from Dirtbox Layouts! For transistors I used a pair NOS 2N3565 from Small Bear that tested at about 212 and 260hFe. I tried a higher gain 2N3565 in Q2 and that gave a little more fuzz but was darker...

Thanks for all the suggestions guys! I wasn't able to find any of the European brand paints here, so I decided to bite the bullet and buy the quart of Rustoleum hammered silver. I'll probably get some use out of it on future projects at some point anyway. Now I just need to get my hands on some...

The Rustoleum quart can that I bought says that it can be sprayed when thinned with 15% xylene

No worries!

Oh interesting! I found a decent Duplicolor metalic light blue at an auto parts store

I hate to spend too much money on aesthetics, but I'm pretty dead set on getting light blue hammertone so I think I'm going to buy the quart can of the Rustoleum brush-on silver and try to tint some of it blueish like I read about on that garage tool forum. I found a lower price on it (local Ace...

Thanks I saw that, but when I click "add to cart" it goes an "Internal Server Error" page :confused:

That would be perfect but seems to be unobtanium as well

This might seem like a very silly question, but I'm planning a silicon Zonk ii/Reeves Zo build and was hoping to paint the enclosure in a hammertone light blue metallic paint like the original. I was thinking that I could drive down to the hardware store or Walmart and pickup up a can, but it...

@TucsonSean So I'm interested in building a Plexifeta... I own a EAE Citadel and love the tone, but I use it as a end-of-dirt-section overdrive pedal, not as an actual preamp and I find the EQ section not very useful when used this way; to get the tone that I want (fairly neutral) I leave the...

I had put R13 back in too I did order up a new pot pot last night though

I soldered the volume knob back in to see if anything had changed; still lower volume, hard to get unity on si clipping. Playing around with the knob I noticed two things: volume was bunched up towards the the end of the sweep (clockwise) and that there is considerable high end roll off at...

Backside, half covered by pots though lol. Second pic is by the Volume pot area

I jumpered lug 2 to 3 and pulled R13 and now there is plenty of volume on tap! Woohoo!! R13 measured 10.01 So I guess I order up a new volume pot and see if that fixes things?

I figured that I'm going to be using it a lot, so I might as well make it nice to work with :ROFLMAO:

Thanks, I desoldered the vol pot, 1-3 stays at 94ohms, 1-2 max 94 min 1.3, 2-3 max 1.3 min 94. So that seems normal right? Volume lug 1 trace to ground 0.1ohms, lug 2 to C11 0.1ohms, lug 3-R13 0.1ohms, also normal right?

Any thoughts?

Swapped an new switch in there and it's working great!

Ok so I put on "10 hours of relaxing sleep music" on Youtube and traced the circuit with the audio probe, I noted where the sound was noticeably different -On IC1-7 I I first get a terrible nasty screechy noise (hereafter referred to asTNSN) -R10 TNSN on the North-most leg (I don't know which...

Thanks, I don't think they were touching, but very close. I just put some electrical tape between them to make sure they won't touch