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I did my own version with all the controls external, including hi-gain mod. I also used another inverting opamp stage to align the input and output phase as well as give it some more available output. Easy to understand why this design is so popular. It's extremely versatile and sounds great...

Sausage and beans. Yum. What LDRs did you use? Haven't gotten around to mine and I need to do it.

Whoof. $1,500

From what I'm reading, tube supply should rebound before too long, though I don't think prices will be as low as we've gotten used to. A lot of the problem is panic buying - including me, who got caught without a backup set el84s. @vigilante398 you never cease to impress me. That was fast...

I'm curious about these, but I'd need knobs for knurled shaft and I was hoping to keep using the standard Rickenbacker design.

I'm seeing CTS guitar pots with a "J" taper. Thinking that might be the ticket for a volume pot.

Looking for recommendations for some really good guitar pots: better taper, quality feel. I know there are some companies speccing out 'premium' pots and I'm not sure what's out there and what's really worth the extra dough.

I went back and breadboarded the Azabache not too long ago when I was messing around with biasing. Didn't like it nearly as much as I remembered, I gotta say.

Funny this came up. I recently met up with a guy who has a Fuchs ODS and we A/B tested the ODS submini tube preamp pedal I made using the Fuch's loop return. We both thought the pedal preamp actually sounded just as good, if not a bit better! I'm suspicious the depletion mode, high -voltage...

This is the part I really identify with. Nice work!

I 100% agree there are a lot of good Russian people who are suffering at no fault of their own, and it's tragedy. However, speaking for myself, I can't in good conscience add any money to the Russian economy, and it goes waaaay beyond what's happening in Ukraine right now. A few bucks spent on...

What about buying Russian transistors from countries other than the Russian Federation and Belarus?

Can't just drop that on us. Building a phaser? How you gonna test? Can you talk me into buying a DCA 75 and Windows machine so I can match JFETs with the curve-tracing feature?

I've had fancy, audio-grade parts backfire, sounding worse than the basic, everyday parts. My best advice is just to not skimp on electrolytic capacitors. Generally, though, I've found no sonic advantage to audiophile parts in low voltage pedals. I use them for fun and aesthetics, like in this...

There's a good example of a JFET phase shifter in the vibrato edition of Stompboxology - Vibratomatic IV

It's got this famous 'mini booster' drawn out - in 1970.