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I highly suggest socketing the Titania Transistors and rolling through whichever transistors you go with to find a good sounding combination. Specifically the interaction of the pedal and volume knob helped me to pick a set with a wide range of available sounds. Good luck!

Out of hundreds of ICs I've purchased from Tayda I think I've only had one batch of bad chips and they noticed it before I did. It could be luck of the draw and you got one bad one. Either way it's something to try since some chips can be noisier than others.

Are the transistors firmly seated? The sockets are handy but sometimes I find that the outer legs don't seem to lock in. I would attempt flipping the charge pump to see if it has any effect. Also this isn't touching on your stomp writing is it?

I never get tired of seeing a MattG build. Your treble bass mixup is a perfect advertisement for the MichaelW School of graphics though... 😆 Awesome build. I love the over the top choices to really make this one special.

In the case of a doubler isn't that true stereo? I understand that it is somewhat slicing hairs... Unless true stereo would be two dry signals and two wet signals... Which sounds fun too

I'm currently using the Boneyard Delegate. Recently tested against the General Tso (which I preferred on guitar) and it stayed on. The Delegate seems to add a bit of thickness in the lower mids which is fine for my use but some may not enjoy the color it adds. After the build report by...

Cool mod. Original (and challenging) layout. Great write-up. I love this sort of build report. Well done! I wasn't interested in this one but the no fuzz mod has me curious.

I would maybe use a preamp as the gain stage personally. Off the top of my head I would pick between a Mofeta, Figment, or maybe a FreakZEQ. For the spacey noise portion of the circuit... Not sure. I know the circuit is polarizing and big but I would be tempted to try something more like the...

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I love my magnetron. I know people are all about the Deep Blue/Seabed delay so I have one in the queue but I would be surprised if it could kick the magnetron off the board. If you set the modulation up and the repeats to one/low and time really low you can have a cool almost rotary effect.

That's a great idea to mark the off position for the knob indicator. Does the circuit have a minimum pull down resistor? I'd be tempted to build a fuzz that didn't and mark both the volume and gain knob that way. This looks really cool leaning into that retro vibe.

Good shout out. Hadn't seen that offering yet. I've wanted to try out that circuit for a while even though I know it will probably be too much gain for my taste.

Then you can directly put that acoustic guitar signal in the trash where it belongs c:

I had never even seen a Z3 till today. That looks awesome! Any noteworthy opinions on the pickups or guitars? US made yep. I appreciate it. Just about everything I wanted aesthetically in a guitar + some natural maple binding.

This just looks so satisfying. Impressed. As soon as you started orienting pots both ways was lost and it came out looking great inside and out. I will be back to study as I do more. This has some cool stuff and it sounds like it was a good challenge.

I'm definitely not a pickup snob but they do have their own thing that works well clean and driven. PUNCH and CUT. Very dense and clear single notes that don't get too cluttered or smudged when you hit a big chord. I am amazed at the build quality from the G&L locking tuners down to the dual...

The Comanche of course. Swamp Ash Maple and Rosewood. Trying to get these pups to shine again.

I gotta say I love my Jake Blade. It's a lot more musical in my hands than a full trem arm. Subtle shifting is what it does really well at the cost of limiting your dive bombs which is not an issue for me personally. Works really well for the dual fulcrum thing. My G&L just started a long...

I love it. This would maybe be a case where having your ground line go physically around the entire circuit could be useful. You're gonna need to ground like 30% of the components so having that ground thought out or at least easily accessible all over the circuit is gonna be critical. I...

Congrats to you and your friend! You definitely nailed the Fairfield aesthetic. I need to revisit this build. Mine adds something strange to the mids that I really don't like, but with how people talk about this drive pedal I wonder if I did something wrong. My only (constructive?) criticism...