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A little late to this thread, but if you're looking for just a small test tube amp, I've heard good things about the Supro 1w delta kings. They might have more of a specific sound, being that they're Supros and all, but they're tiny, have separate volume and master controls, and can easily by...

For me it would be something like: 1) Low Tide Modulator--This was my white whale back when I first started building. It's probably the most interesting pedal in terms of sounds that I've put together, and feels like a reasonably do-able build all things considered. 2) Chop Shop Overdrive--I...

Honestly, and this is just my experience so take it with a grain of salt, but shielded wire seems like more trouble than it's worth. It's super clunky, and I didn't really find that it made all that big of a difference in terms of cutting down noise. Granted I probably didn't use it correctly...

Also, a friend suggested I try building one of these to isolate the noisy spots on the board. I didn't end up building one but it seems like a useful tool for helping figure out where to avoid putting wires. If anyone is interested.

No need to feel bad! It was a good suggestion, and I was getting to the point of needing to do that anyways. This whole process was a good lesson in how LFOs generate noise and how to run wiring with particularly noisy builds.

Alright so I'm marking this one as SOLVED. I feel a little silly, but after all the buffer building, shielded wire mishaps, etc., I just completely re-did all of the wiring and the way it was laid out. I tried out @Erik S 's suggestion of having all the input and output wires be much longer than...

Like just moving them up to the 'top side' of the board? I originally had them all on the component side of things and was still getting a fair amount of ticking.

Honestly at this point we should all know better.

So I've grounded them all and it doesn't really seem to make a difference. The ticking is still coming through regardless of whether the shielded wire is grounded or not. I even swapped out the shielded input wire for a normal wire and it still had the same amount of ticking. I built a couple...

Yea that a good call. I'll try grounding just the input shielded wire and see if that fixes it, or maybe running the wire underneath the board rather than above/to the side.

I'll give that a shot! I've also found that putting my Informant overdrive before it gets rid of the ticking entirely, so I'm planning on putting a little buffer circuit in there as an always on type deal. This is a whole other can of worms, but I'm going to try a jfet buffer first since those...

Ah yea, I swapped out both the oscillators for 022s already. It definitely helped lower the ticking noise but didn’t get rid of it entirely. I’ll try wiggling some of those wires around to see if maybe they’re touching the underside of the board

So this is how I've got it wired currently: I tried to ensure that all the wires that weren't shielded were running underneath the board and away from the LEDs. The input wire from the switched jack is running underneath it and on the left side of the switches. I'd hoped that would be enough...

I attached a wire from the shield to the ground lug on the input jack, and then another one from the output wire to the ground part of the footswitch. Should I just ground one of them? And I just used it for the main in/out jacks. It's a lot more clunky to work with than I thought, and I've...

Just out of curiosity, would the 8038's that are available through you directly need to have pin 6 lifted?

So I gave that a shot and somehow it made it worse? haha. When I turn my amp up or play a guitar with higher output pickups the ticking is pretty noticeable, from the IC B side of the pedal specifically. I'm gonna try putting together a simple tiny buffer and run that into the pedal input to see...

Some great options in this thread! A while back I built a Benson Preamp into a SS/BS Mini for someone. That was a super fun combo, especially with an added order switcher.

Awesome. I'll give that a shot when I get home and that should hopefully be enough for me to mark this one as solved.

Man, that enclosure art is killer!!