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What did you compare with, and what made you like General Tso more, if I may ask? EDIT: I notice it is Opto type. I already built Zirconia that I like. Attempted Thumb Sucker, but my kit distorts too much, so now I am considering Pumpernickel and Meridian to try out.

But not much outside that interval?

I plan to get the Meridian kit from Das Musikding + i think 27k and C500k mod. It seems everyone says the bass build (PS-020?) is better for guitar than the actual guitar version. Any thoughts on what differs? Eould be nice if it didn't cut lows so much. I will probably breadboard it first so I...

Thanks! I did not paint it myself. I ordered this Tayda hammered copper 125B from Tayda.

Any of those ideas that you could share? Thanks.

Hi again, It's been sitting around for a bit while other projects were completed. Now I managed to re-flow every solder. Flux used to make it flow nicely. Felt that everything went well. Disappointingly the scrapy sound remains and worse than I had remembered. I already swapped places with the...

I had a smaller sized cap marked 16V, but in the end thought it is kind of fun to have an almost grotesquely oversized cap in there so I kept it. I think with the other components it could even run on 18V, but need to verify first, and perhaps there is little point of running a Fuzz on 18V... At...

We should have swapped LM13700's just to rule that out during the comparison, but weren't too clever about it... @Chuck D. Bones : "I have some other mods in mind, but they're not ready for prime-time just yet." Did you manage to try out any other of those mods you were thinking of?

My friend came over with his Engineer's Thumb and it did not have the scrapy noise. With RATIO max and THRESHOLD min there was some noise as expected, but it disappeared quite soon. We tested my Thumb Sucker with 47, 82 and 120pF in parallel with D1 and it seemed to get better occasionally but...

So 470uF/16V would cope in the circuit, @fig ? You'll never hear me decline a gutshot in this forum @forumimagedemarque 😉

It was not easy getting to the D1, but I kind of managed to have contact and strum a string, but with the occasional touching the wrong thing. Pop and gradual come back. I first thought that was effect of the cap, but got wiser. In the end I could not tell much difference. I tried 47pF, 82pF...

13g with all legs still on 😉 The 470uF is some serious cap. They even put like ads in the minuses... Will 470uF/16V be too sensitive? I see no charge pump...

Awesome! Looks great and glad it sings too.

Thanks, will try. I am not adding any flux myself, must be part of the solder then. Thought that was conservatively included. Will figure out something to clean with and make it a habit. Thanks for checking and I assume that the solders looked reasonably ok apart from solder. 47pF can be ceramic...

I did change the 1uF electrolytes, C5 and C6 to Film Caps. I has been a while since I tested, but spontaneous feeling was that the scrapy sound got less scrapy, but more present. I mean even with previously unaffected settings, it was now audible. It could well also be in my mind only, and the...

That looks to be great! Haven't done any drilling yet, but plan to stay close to original. Probably no waterslide this time.

That is how I understood @Chuck D. Bones , but I didn't try myself yet. All 8 legs will not fit a pad. The two that are key need to. Then the rest either have a pad close, then put it in and solder for extra support. Pins thar do not fit, cut them. I measured between every pair of pins and all...

I used some sheetmetal as "frame" and pots on stiff wire to make it more stable when testing

I am doing another project for a Diamond Compressor clone, and wanted to test out a change of capacitor in one place plus possible spdt. So then I decided to breadboard even if it is a kit with pcb and all. I think @Chuck D. Bones is a strong proponent for breadboarding anything before...