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Are you concerned that the green enclosure will lend the sound a vaguely TS sound? I would have used a transparent enclosure.

Now when we say cloud are we talking those white fluffy things in the sky or one of those data things?

Pretty sure I lost interest!

FWIW the Bee Sting is not strictly a Bjørn design. In the original Honey Bee, Silver Bee, Honey Beest those diodes are usually LEDs. Some folks LOVE 'em - I don't! So I swapped them for BAT41s. The Bee Sting was an experiment of mine because I wondered what it would sound like if I replaced the...

Yeah I've seen a heap of hatchlings at our local lake recently. Spring seems to have come early this year. And some of the gum trees around here hum, quite loudly. It's all the bees.

It's one of the best IMO. Right up there with the Golden Falk.

You might be! ;) It's just another dirt pedal. Since pedals were first made players have wanted the sound of some kind of distortion for various reasons. Rock'n'roll is rebellious, turn-it-up music and the sound of amps being pushed beyond clean has long been a staple. Listen to ZZ Top, where...

And another thing! I put a switch in my Brown Deluxe build for the NFB. The 6G3 normally has NFB but I found that if you switch it off when playing at home levels - using pedals for dirt - it sounds much bigger and sweeter without the NFB. But when you crank it you really want the NFB for...

Oh you definitely have to be careful where you use the word cunt in Australia. But hey, we're mad cunts so who cares? Hey Mr Stick - I made a 1x12 Champ with a Celestion G12H not too long ago. Put it in a home-made finger-jointed pine cab and the fella I built it for actually gigs with it! And...

I have never used a drill template - most of the time I'm using a different sized enclosure so I just measure where things are on the PCB and transfer that to the enclosure. Some white masking tape makes marking where holes go on the enclosure and a drill press with a home-made timber fence...

It's a great pedal! Impossible for me to build before Chuck's advice. To me it sounds like the ultimate Dumble sound, with a hint of Marshall. Mind you I have never played a Dumble of course!

Outstanding and very authentic looking relic job!

I think (and hope!) you'll be fine. :)

Tayda is in Thailand. So when you buy from there you are dealing with a different language, different culture, a completely different set of expectations. Your experience will be very different from dealing with a local business. I think it's worth persevering because what you get is usually an...

I was looking at the schematic for the Brownout OD (Subdecay Variac) because it sounds excellent. I noticed that it uses an entire JRC4558 dual opamp IC just for VREF. Why would it be necessary when in most OD circuits just a simple two resistor voltage divider and a filter cap is used? Is it...

I may be wrong but I believe the Doxie preamp was designed by Thorpy FX. Thorpy is ex-army and in the UK and they design stuff to be electronically bulletproof. I would imagine this is part of that philosophy. You could probably leave the diodes out as most pedal manufacturers do and never...

I just visited the Subdecay website. I notice that the guy behind Subdecay is named Brian Marshall. I wonder why he didn't call his company Marshall?

Haha! Yeah, compare it to the fuss about the Bad Monkey, Klon, OCD, TS, etc etc... I would take this one over any of those.

Ha! I was a professional photographer for 30 years and I can't be bothered setting anything up to photograph pedals! Spent too many hours in the studio shooting wine bottles then retouching the crap out of them. Wine bottles have so many flaws which all show up in the photo. iPhone for the win...

Thanks for writing such a detailed summery of your build! I agree that the Bee Sting is a kinda specialised OD - It's quite hifi sounding and no MIAB. Initially it was simply an experiment in seeing what would happen if I used a dual opamp to supply both gain stages rather than a single opamp...