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That has to sound like 400 lbs of bacon.

The square pads for the pots indicate pin 1 on the pot. Looking at the back of the pot with the pins on the bottom they’re labeled 3 2 1 from left to right. How do I know this? From doing exactly what you did and cursing and swearing the whole time I spent unsoldering the pots :-) On the...

Damn that looks very cool. Nicely done!

Does the Acrobat get you in the same ball park? I haven’t built up mine yet so can’t comment.

And is there a smaller alternative to the transformer?

I’ve been following this since I use the Clapton boost and it sounds totally different in a guitar as opposed to being in a pedal. Which totally makes sense from a fuzz perspective. Does it make sense to do this as an add on board in the front end of applicable effects or do you need to...

That’s great! I love the double image on Fright and the sound clip definitely captures the extremes of the pedal. Great looking build.

I literally have hundreds of unboxed boards that are finished and working. I should really put them up for sale to see if anyone wants these. I went berserk during Covid and built everything I could get my hands on. Can you build too many overdrives and do-dads? Yes, yes you can. But I kept...

Geezuz man you continue to crush. Never lost with a Black Magik in the background either, but just devastating clean work. jhaneyzz did me a solid a while back with doing similar looking off-board wiring on my go to compressor but this looks crazy.

+1 on the above. The hot setup (no pun intended) is one of those big janky industrial looking irons but if you don't do this kind of stuff on a regular basis it's kinda overkill. Generally though if you can get the solder moving with a fresh batch it will pay off in spades to try to get rid...

Between here and Bean I just use the drill templates. Every now and then I have to use a reamer to "open up" a switch hole a bit but there's generally enough play in pots that I don't pet the sweaty things. UNLESS it's a rotary switch. I've been majorly hooped on a few of those, not realizing...

Living vicariously through you my man.

You, sir, are a complete madman and I applaud the lunacy. Your balls are at least 10x mine. I love the sound of this pedal but have never played one. Ty Tabor put one to great over-use on the later King's X albums.

What I've always liked about Marshall clean is that if you lean in a bit it gets a snotty attitude.

And I think swelchy's points are well taken. There's nothing earth shaking about this little build, but damn sam, this is still interesting territory in a same/same world.

Honestly I'd rather see you demo this thing because you're so good at this. I needed a brain drain project in this place at that time so I'm biased (or not, I plug into this thing and think it still sounds very cool). Want me to send it up north?

Killer demo and yeah, once you go down the rabbit hole of tube amp distortion vs front end distortion things get too weird. I wish there was a magic answer but where would the pedal industry be then... I'd dropped off the map with my 6505 and Blackstar explorations and using a compressor...

OG 1. I like that, very clever.

The kicker for me is the fat switch on the fuzz. I don't recall any silicon FF that could do the roar of Hendrix's live recordings. This does it in spades and also does the guitar volume down better than most Si fuzz's. Some cool tricks on the Vibe side and the overdrive does some cool drive...