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Did you ground the shield on one side only (the jack sleeve)? Did you use shielded wire for all in/out wires on all jacks?

Shielded wire is simply wire with a metal braid around it. The braid has a lot of mass so captures the ticking and then sends it to ground (if you ground it :) Just like a guitar cable.

I had tone of issues with that cheapo station. Mine takes at least 5 minutes to come up to temp, it has no recovery so it gets cold super easily. Good only for a couple of pots in a guitar but for PCBs I wouldn't recommend it.

Blob of blue tack ( I can only find craft paste here, it's white and not too sticky) o the bench. For components that don't move like resistors and diodes I press one edge of the PCB onto it, the other edge sits on the bench. Just enough so it doesn't move around. I Put masking tape over...

Everybody's works but mine :|

The input cap is where I usually intervene. Drop the value for less wooliness. I just find it easier to tweak at the input. You can put a couple of caps on a toggle or use a blend knob. You can also increase/decrease the other two caps for more/less bass but I find that less effective. You can...

Do we know which songs Frank used his Muff on? I don't associate him with fuzz tones, somehow. I know surprisingly little about his gear considering how much of a fan I am. I mean I can almost sit through Thing Fish. Almost.

I found that most transistors work in this circuit. It's very forgiving. Just bias it to where it sounds good to you and maybe play around with the input and output caps and the volume pot to adjust how bassy it is.

Didn't disclose the whole signal chain, huh? What are you, a guitar youtuber :)

Be thankful we have build docs at all haha. I know nothing but usually you bias JFETs to half the voltage supplied so in this case 9V. Misbias to taste for fun tones.

For germanium shoot for Q1 HFE 80, Q2 hfe 120, leakage below 100uA. Bias Q1c to 0.7V, Q2c to 4.5V (those will be negative if you use PNP) and adjust by ear. I've had good results with AY33-AY34s but that is what I have available to me. Part number is not important. For silicon you can use both...

I can see how it's useful for wiring to a footswitch or pots that go into a guitar, stick them in and solder, but for anything attached to a PCB I can't imagine it.

Look at Mr. Opposable thumbs here

Do you mean a harmonic tremolo like a Brownface amp? I'm in!

It's not weird, the MKI, MKII and MKIII are all completely different circuits.

Didn't Mick Ronson use an MKI? You mention a diode so this is the MKIII. I haven't been able to do any mods to the bias, just the usual mods to get more output (remove the last resistor) and play around with that input cap and volume pot for more or less bass. I haven't built mine yet because I...

Looks like a really hard but fun exercise but I always question of reliability of free floating PTP pedals. Reeves pedals has roadworthy pedals that use sturdy supports and they're beautiful. I would gig those for sure but none of my own haha

So is anybody gonna misbias their Super 64 Overdrive so it sounds broken like the Taco Bolt and post the voltages? Then @Robert can update the build docs (lol)

Start with a breadboard. There are great tutorials here. For example for the Fuzzrite.

Honestly I can't find any kind of dirt that my Jazzmaster likes. It always sounds like there's extraneous treble sitting on top of the fuzz rather than being meshed together. I'm really not happy with it. i wish I could put Firebird pickups in it.