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Thanks! Adding that to my build notes. Mike

Like I said, I can't tell much difference beyond the fact that one seems a bit brighter than the other. I'm not overly familiar with Floyd so can't advise you what works best for that. @MichaelW has a demo of his Current Lover in this build thread, which is what convinced me to build it (he...

For my Sham-wah/McCoy build, I'll likely try a Halo inductor as suggested in the build report. I used a Mammoth ME-6 in my current Tearjerker - while I don't love the sound of the Tearjerker, I don't know that that is the inductor's fault, so on my last StompBoxParts order, I bought another...

I built the Tearjerker - frankly for me, being someone inexperienced with wahs, I found the tweakability a bit overwhelming and I could never get a sound I liked. So I’m building another - I just received a Sham Wah board from Robert and I’m going to build it according to the modified version...

I built both and they’re both really good. Neither has a volume drop in my experience. I find the current lover to have a more bright tone and the old chap to have a slightly thicker tone (at least on my builds) but that’s about the only difference. My personal preference is for the old chap...

Just saw this posted over on Facebook.

Well, shit. When I saw the initial 60 country list and Thailand wasn’t on it, I got my hopes up. Now, to be clear, I’m not bitching about the following given the earthquakes in Myanmar and Thailand; my problems pale in comparison to theirs. Just recounting that I placed one small order with...

Holy shit. I’m so sorry (not only for you, but for all of us). I don’t think it’s still clear yet (and won’t be until the big “Liberation Day” announcement today) whether Trump is going to limit tariffs only to specified countries or, as he indicated yesterday, apply them to any and all imports...

Like I’m sure most people in this forum, I rely on Tayda a lot. Sometimes it’s a relatively large order, sometimes it’s a “I don’t need it tomorrow” order where I pay $3.99 to have it sent through the mail. In my experience, Hugo has always been professional, friendly, and oriented to customer...

Purely FYI, I tried a few opamps- while I like the TL072 the most right now, I’m seeing various threads online where people say different opamps sound a bit different based on the amp setting you are playing through (clean versus driven, etc.). Since I’m already paying an exorbitant amount in...

Wow! Thanks for that. One reason I was so happy to see Hamish’s layout was because I had not seen anyone else do a layout for it and I couldn’t find anyone who had done a PCB (lots of the Timmy, but none of the Tim). I might just have to pick up that board and see how it compares to the one I...

OK, so I kept hearing people say in threads about various pedals that “it’s just a Timmy with some mods“ but I never had any idea what a Timmy was. Since it seemed like a ubiquitous circuit, I decided to investigate further. Once I found out it was a transparent drive and heard some demos, I...

So, one more update, and probably the last one since we’re really near the end here. I got it put together, and it proved quite handy for testing a six knob strip board build that had a fair amount of jumpers between the pots. Works like a charm. (Picture below- by the way, the reason that...

Sent! M

Thanks, Scott: 1. I just bake in the regular oven because I don’t have a toaster oven. I’ve heard people mention that they normally stay away from using the same oven that they cook in but I’ll be candid that I’m not clear on what the supposed risk is and, even if there is a risk, I bake one...

So, update: It’s not pretty, but this is what I built. Terminal blocks to hold up to six knobs (I’m working on a build right now that has six pots), with two rows of pin headers behind – one row for the main connections to the pots, the second row for “jumper” connections – i.e., when two lugs...

Buddy – thank you. I’ll DM you. I actually really like Barry’s regular 3PDT boards because they are so flexible as far as connections and routing - I bought quite a few a while back and was planning on buying more, so it’s a bit of a bummer if it’s one of the many things he is currently out of...

Thanks – yeah, I have the same goal of reusing the PCB pots, not just when bread boarding but also when doing strip board petals. If a build doesn’t work out, I wanna be able to reuse everything and I found that the heat from soldering and desoldering pot pins eventually does funny things to the...

Related question: what are some methods for easily connecting and disconnecting wires to switches when Brett boarding? Since the lig spacings are usually pretty tight, do you just use alligator clips and arrange them as carefully as possible to avoid a short?I thought about using female spade...

Thanks. I went ahead and ordered the terminal blocks (from Amazon, paying more than I would have if I had just thought about including them in the big Tayda order I placed two days ago). I personally don’t see how inserting the PCB mount pots into the pin headers would damage the pots – but I do...