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And here I thought it was a reference to the Peter Gabriel tune "On the Air" from his second solo album "Scratch".

My CV7264's also say Mullard on them. They're made by Amperex in Holland. All the ones I have are sealed with the original mfgr date codes in a little slip of paper and signature of I assume the inspector. Dates are are in the early 80s. It's actually pretty cool.

I can tell you that mine are most certainly Ge.

Yah, that's where I would start fiddling. Better if you can breadboard it first. (I can't hahah) but certainly socket it. And please do read through that whole thread that I linked. There's a wealth of information in that thread on this pedal! Good luck! Oh and post a build report when you're...

Hey @andregarcia57 , welcome to the zoo! When you say "gain" are you talking about the gain knob? That actually controls the FF. The basic topology is a FF driving a Zen drive. The Zen drive portion gain is fixed and is actually quite light. What you're hearing may actually be too much...

Just for the record, the "fix" came from Mr. @Scruffie himself.

It's not a doom machine but it does the percussive EVH type palm muting type of chugging well.

Whoooeeeeey, another interesting name for a pedal! But I suppose it's easy to guess what this pedal is all about! This is another BoneYard contribution and you can read about it here. I built the PPCB Jump Drive a while back and initially was underwhelmed with it. But I went back futzed with...

Man, with a name like "ThunderGunExpress" you'd expect this pedal to bring the thunder!..............and it does! :p This is @szukalski 's layout for the Apocalypse Audio Thundertone with some significant mods by @Chuck D. Bones. This was in the BoneYard and you can read about it in this...

As usual, @Guardians of the analog got me revisiting the Colosallus. I built it years ago and put it on the shelf. (No good reason, I always liked it). But with the low output fix that Chris shared with me I've been running mine in the effects loop and have fallen in love with it. Mainly because...

I'm glad to see you building and reporting:)

The Poison Apple "can" be somewhat laid back with low input. (E.g., single coils) But since I run a compressor at the beginning of my chain that's always on, it's less of an issue. When I used an autowah, I'm generally not going for the Jerry Garcia thing, I like it to be subtle and in the...

My Old Fashioned also has a higher noise floor than the Diamond Peak. But not distractingly so. Not as much as my SD-1, which is often distracting to me. Especially since I mainly use it to boost an already dirty amp, and my Friedman is plenty noisy on its own on the higher gain settings.....

I tried this conversion as well but borked something along the way. Mine sounded like total ass. I'm sure I did something wrong, I wouldn't expect "total ass" from either Marc Ahlfs or @Chuck D. Bones :ROFLMAO:

Well crap, now I need to re-house mine in a 1590b!!!

Oh yah, absolutely you "need" both...... :p

This is really a sleeper pedal. It's basically a stripped down Tubescreamer, but that describes 90% of the overdrives out there...:D. But it's voiced really well and I think it sounds awesome. Even if I don't play any SRV stuff on it hahah.

Ok, this is picking up the convo from @MattG 's build report of his Old Fashioned I mentioned in that thread and in my original post that I used 2N3904's. When I looked at them to do my mods, I realized that they were BC549's. So this is where things get weird. The PCB has pads for 2N5172's...

I don't. Keep in mind that in both circuits, adding the bass will add gain.

Um......you build pedals?.......(didn't I ask this same question 4 years ago when you built your last pedal? :ROFLMAO: )