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Yes, it's just a sliding metal drawer for 19" rackmount. I bought it from a local Australian supplier - there are a few options online though so you should be able to get hold of one fairly easily.

You could always store them in an actual rack unit (whilst still wired into a remote switchbox!).. I'm trying to hold myself back from building another 3 or 4 of these units for myself and stacking them..

From my perspective, this was a purely diagnostic approach to working out what the issue was. Once identified, I felt responsible to share this with others who may benefit or provide insight (hence 'In case this helps anyone else..' in reporting back afterwards - post no. 5). I don't feel...

They may be genuine of some sort, I can't confirm either way, but they definitely return very different resistance readings when compared to the LM308N (and clearly don't work as an LM308N in this particular circuit). I have posted the readings below (several of the LM308ND vs an LM308N on the...

I mean, I kind of accepted it may be some odd variant/equivalent of the LM308N without a documented history, but didn't expect to receive a batch of chips at that price that literally do not work in an audio circuit: First half of the clip is the smallbear IC, second half was recorded about a...

In case this helps anyone else, the 'cutting out' on max gain problem was due to the LM308 I used. It happens with any of the 'Motorola LM308ND K8505A' chips in the recent batch from Smallbear (pictured left side). When I used another type of LM308 (National Semi - pictured on the right) it...

You are brave for trying this mod. Yes, best to leave town and lie low for a while. When you get back, we will have a safehouse ready for you to try it again.

Awesome build and I love the design. May I ask, did you use the Tayda UV template and if so, did you print to the edges or leave a gap? I notice you got the outline radius in the corners perfect! I am about to place my first printing order and apprehensive about getting the edges/corners...

If Tayda supplied it, I recommend reaching out to them with an image and your order details. If they came from them, they should replace them. I am told there was a slip in procurement/testing somewhere recently and some fakes slipped through the cracks.

Probably completely unrelated to the issue in this pedal, but just letting you that 1AZ14QW OPA2134 are confirmed fakes.

Is there a Tayda drill template for this?

Hi, it's definitely a complete cut-out for about 200-500ms on heavy pick attack. Not the usual fuzz sputter. It seems to be an issue with the green ringer part of the circuit cutting out on pick attack when dialed up. I'm thinking maybe a bad transistor - sadly I didn't stop to test or socket...

This thing is absolutely crushing. I used a Motorola LM308N IC from Smallbear and ended up with a matched set of D9B diodes (after testing matched D9B, D9E, D9K, BAT41 sets). The only issue I have is that when I set the distortion and octave controls both to max, the signal cuts out on heavy...

Panasonic MA856 and Toshiba 1S1588s. I'm going to attempt building another one in the smaller enclosure, and plan to build in toggle switches for the gain resistor setting and clean/OD/dist DIP settings as well this time. I might try using modern equivalent diodes in that one and do some A/B...

This was my first KoT build. Unreal sound. Socketed the money diodes and gain setting resistors. Currently using high gain on red side and trying to optimise the switch settings at the moment. Has anyone messed with OPAMPs on this circuit? The NOS Japan 4580s sound great but I have...

Haha! I did feel slightly guilty at first tearing the PCB mounts off and bending the legs like that.. oh whoops Update on the oscillation/squealing - it goes away with the trim pot turned all the way down. Pedal still sounds great, with no buzz/hum/noise, but I am definitely losing out on...

I've kind of done the relay method in another project which is a pedal-rack. All my favourite analog pedals tucked away in a 2RU rack-drawer unit mounted beneath my studio desk. They are switchable wirelessly through midi or software and you can use them as inserts in the DAW in any order or...

Hi! Thanks for the feedback. Was worried I may have made an error somewhere. I'll do some more testing tomorrow, including swapping OPAMPs and will report back.

Hi! I made a couple more miniaturised builds today. The Teddy Rupture fuzz is to go underneath my pedalboard (activated from a loop-switcher up top) and I couldn't bring myself to make the Thermionic Distortion with internal pots, so decided to meet in the middle with a compact 1590B build...

I'm still working on the cabling for under the board so it's a bit of a mess at the moment, but here is the space I am working with for these low-profile modules: The aim is to have a bunch of set-and-forget effects dialed in and able to be swapped in and out as needed. The larger boxes...