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Love those enclosures. Great job! Interesting about running it in stereo, as I have a friend asking me to try that too and maybe build a stereo unit. I just finished a regular Low Tide and have a Mini here waiting on a few size-appropriate parts and headers. Looking forward to boxing it up.

Hoping to do that soon! Just have to get parts to finish my Low Tide Mini, then I was going to take them both to a friend who has a real Shallow Water

A friend suggested I try this pedal on synths and so far so good! Was thinking about trying it on vocals too

Thanks so much! I enjoy colourful/unique looking pedals. Ha

Nice. I haven't used acrylic too much on mine, but do a lot of hand drawing with paint pens and have been experimenting with DIY stencils for spray painting. Looking forward to trying the Gravitation.

Wow. Missed these. Beautiful art. Are they hand painted? Working on a Gravitation board as we speak!

Through a few big parts orders and the kindness of @Laundryroom David, I finally got all the parts together to build this Low Tide board I've been sitting on for a while. Seemed to work fine, but I noticed some farty/distorted output depending on the settings. Figured it would be the SMD...

Yeah, makes sense. I've got a large stash of through-hole components, but have started dabbling in SMD more and more as that stash dwindles.

Ha. Thanks! The good news is I have about 10 through-hole J201s that seemed fine, but will measure them all at some point to be sure. Also seems like a good time to keep making the switch to SMD.

Haven't had the chance to actually measure them yet--just popped them into my Low Tide to see how they behaved. I'd say a few sound more out of spec than dead, but most of the "bad" ones cause a huge volume drop and distorted signal. I'll do some actual measurements at some point and see...

Yeah, these are ancient. Been hoarding them for a while. First time I've had issues using one from this batch, but I must have gotten lucky, as half appear to be bad.

Yeah, thanks. More just curious if others have had experience with bad J201s in the same batch. I hear about fakes often, but haven't had a batch of a particular component where half were bad before

Long story short, it looks like half my through-hole J201s are bad. Short story long: I was troubleshooting my in-progress Low Tide build, as it had farty, distorted output, which pointed to one of the JFETs. I assumed I had done a poor job soldering the surface mount 2Sk208, but my audio probe...

Ha. No worries at all. Glad it was helpful

You folks are making me jealous I don't have any metal can LM308s (just one lonely DIP left, then I'm stuck with OP07s, but haven't a/b'd them yet)

Oooh nice. I love a Fuzzrite, but haven't built one for myself yet. Also love Gorva enclosures, but haven't had the pleasure yet. Looking at the amp they are making with Templo Devices at the moment too.

Hey, welcome! Yeah, keeping the 4K7 on the board will mean it is in series with the built-in resistor in your pre-wired LED, so it will likely be dimmer than you want. I'd imagine you'd have to remove the 4K7 from the board and replace it with a jumper, otherwise you are breaking the connection.

For what it's worth, Tayda gave me a $10 credit in my account when I reached out to let them know about the issue. Thanks for all the suggestions!

My Tayda issues are usually with their powder coat, as I find some enclosures very delicate. This is one of the first times I've been unable to screw an enclosure shut (I've had to give some elbow grease to a few before, but not usually this bad).

Thanks for the tips, everyone! Long story short, I was able to get the screws in with a combination of trying a self-tapping screw first, then working a different screw back and forth a bunch. Unfortunately, the more stubborn hole took more work, as my test screw snapped off inside of it, so I...