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I had a 3PDT fail on one of the first pedals I built (an IC Big Muff that has just always been indispensable). I don't think I've actuated it 10,000 times over ~15 years, but maybe I shortened its life with ham-fisted soldering. I once fabbed a board using Mictester's relay switching scheme (on...

I like the plain old stock Boss Blues Driver on bass as an OD into a bass amp's drive channel, or a into suitable dirt pedal and then into a clean amp. Madbean's Blue Steel has options specifically for more bass, and Chuck's suggestions for the Cobalt could be focused toward bass.

I get the cheap Harbor Freight ones with the molded handles. I'll get some higher quality ones as soon as I develop non-abusive habits with them.

Inverted Cross makes the Ratsaw, which adds the HM-2 tone control. It's one of the choices on this page. I haven't built it.

Just to be clear, what's going on with the crossed legs of Q1?

I use the envelopes they came in, or put them in similar ones, and file them in a long narrow box. Adding an odd value to a decade just goes with the flow and it's all good. Same with ceramic and film capacitors.

Me either, but I know what the name of my next prog metal band is going to be!

I take no offense at that! IMHO the interesting part is the discussion that ensued. FWIW Joe also posted a listening test on his site. I trust his ear the way I trust James Hoffmann's palate, and they both tend to argue that some distinctions don't amount to a difference in the outcome. Back on...

Nothing to add on the STEM side, but Joe Gore (a musician with a formidable ear) reported out a test of capacitors several years back, on freestompboxes.org. It was an interesting discussion of interesting data. Here's the link--I think you need to be logged in...

It makes perfect sense to a lefty (y)

Be careful soldering in your bike shorts!

IMHO it's probably not cause for concern yet--last package I orderd from alexer1 took that long. With Russia's indiscriminate attacks on civilian infrastructure, it'll happen. Also, one UA seller (Nevidomuj, I think) sent stuff in bulk to a Minnesota address, where it shipped from. USPS has...

The TC-1 should have a built in google search feature :p

Near-faulty-to-fully-borked transistors will do that. Interesting Vfs though? Maybe try warming it up with body heat and see if it reads as transistor--it would at least clue as to which lead is what. In any case, it probably belongs in the overflowing bin of "these dead transistors will work...

I like to use this string tension calculator: https://rodrigocfd.github.io/string-tension-calc/ It uses the string data from D'Addario and probably extrapolates it to the other brands. My LGS uses EB for singles and I consider them close enough to D'Addario for it to not matter. I get the...

That's basically what I use (1.5 & 9mm) except for pots and switches, which need to be bigger.

Are you also changing height? It does width and height separately, in order to make oval/oblong pads.

Only one way to find out! If Ge Vf is around .3v, and a red LED is around 1.8V, it's still pretty asymmetrical with .6V against 1.8V. If you haven't seen this video from Arito Suzuki, it does a nice job of demonstrating it in soft clipping mode. I would expect the differences to be more...