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As far as I know matching voltage is more important than the voltage itself, but I'm sure it would have some impact.

These look great! You can improve the strength of the octave by using diodes with matched forward voltages. These differ from part to part so use a DMM to find a pair that are similar and chuck them in.

That looks fantastic, nice work! I'm always a little envious of your enclosures, my reverse etching is trash and yours is superb.

It's based off the Mr Black Doomstick, I've built one of these and agree it sounds wicked. There's something really satisfying about a one knob fuzz!! This looks great, nice work dude!

Looks great!

No problem! I'm not familiar with that jack but as long as they have a stitched tip they'll work! Only the middle two need to be switched, the outer jacks can just be regular old mono jacks.

Try this out, just make sure you ground your jacks. Wired like this you go from your guitar to effect 1 in, then go out from effect 2 out into your amp. As long as nothing in plugged into effect 1 out and effect 2 in, these are jumpered. If you want to use them separately, change the order or...

You have to use jacks with a switched tip. I did this recently for a friend and it worked really well. I'll draw up a little diagram when I back back home and send it over.

Orientation and wiring looks good. Where did you get your 2n5457 from? These are discontinued so you may have a fake. As Barry mentioned, you've got a few cold joints. Go ahead and reflow any solder that looks dull and gray, or where they don't seem to be 'sticking' to the leads. Your solder...

Looks great! Is this one of the trans smallbear enclosures?

Can you post some photos of the board, component side and solder side? Could be a short, incorrect component, faulty part, incorrect wiring etc. There's a lot of options, let's try to narrow it down.

Very cool! Thanks!

That looks great! What mini pots did you use for the trimpots? I'd love to do that for a few builds.

Hot damn, that's a great looking pedal!

Thanks for the input everyone! I'm thinking I'll treat myself and go the auto stripper route.

I'll check them out, thanks!

I hate stripping wire and need a better solution. I'm currently using the crimping / stripping tool like the one below, but it's so bad I tend to use my wire clippers instead. I normally use 26AWG stranded wire and am looking for a tool that doesn't make me want to pull my eyes out. What's...

Fantastic, glad you managed to get it working! This is a great reminder of how important the schematic can be when troubleshooting.

Try using a DMM to see if the LED is still functional. It might have died for some reason. If it's dead, replace it. If it's working, check you're voltages on TL072 in IC5A (particularly pin 1) and Q1A, these are the components controlling voltage to that LED.

To be honest I just used the labels from the original. I've got a rainbow machine and it's incredibly similar.