J201s can be used. You may have to increase some resistance. Tayda has a little over 5K.
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I've used that seller as well and had good results0.55US $ |10pcs 2SK246 K246 TO 92 TO92 2SK30A K30A 2SK117 2SK241 2SK439 2N5486 2N5460 2N5484 2N5485 2N5457 2N5088 2N5089 2N6517 2N6027|Integrated Circuits| - AliExpress
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For what it's worth, I bought 20 x 2N5089s from this seller, they test in spec and I've used them in a couple of pedals which are working as expected. I've bought a few other items from this seller, all working.
I just bought 20 x 2N5457s. If they turn out to be duds, OK, but I'm reasonably optimistic. Not all Chinese sellers are dodgy, in general I've found that as long as you have some critical reasoning skills, you can avoid most of the rip-offs.
0.55US $ |10pcs 2SK246 K246 TO 92 TO92 2SK30A K30A 2SK117 2SK241 2SK439 2N5486 2N5460 2N5484 2N5485 2N5457 2N5088 2N5089 2N6517 2N6027|Integrated Circuits| - AliExpress
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For what it's worth, I bought 20 x 2N5089s from this seller, they test in spec and I've used them in a couple of pedals which are working as expected. I've bought a few other items from this seller, all working.
I just bought 20 x 2N5457s. If they turn out to be duds, OK, but I'm reasonably optimistic. Not all Chinese sellers are dodgy, in general I've found that as long as you have some critical reasoning skills, you can avoid most of the rip-offs.
I should have insisted on PIFmas this year to blow out the cold storage pcbs ... there's shit in there I have no intention of doing and by the time I get around to it there won't be parts left to do it with
I have one last push on some of these products that have hard to find parts. Pretty soon the only projects that will be left are low gain overdrives. It's almost not worth it to build germanium fuzz when the transistors costs twice as much as the rest of the build. I'm glad I got into it when I did and knocked out so many great projects. I don't know how deadendfx does it when the bulk of their projects are based around unobtanium. The ultimate future is digital and that makes me more sad than smd.
Try this guy. His names Mike, good dude. I’ve been working with him as of late and already received numerous orders that were all professionally packed and shipped quickly. He’s got literally 1,000’s more components than what he has listed on eBay, so if you don’t see something you need just send him a message. He’s also got thousands of smd fets 5457’s, 4393 etc. Mikes super easy to work with and is more than happy to negotiate price. He literally said to me he’s got more products coming in then going out at this point and needs to reverse that asap. Seems like the perfect solution to our predicament.
Nothing better than a good audiobook and a couple pcbsThis is one of those pedal opinions that I agree with just a hair more than I disagree with it and flip flop every other day.
We all know the negative side any time we look for obsolete components, so let me share some of the things that make me excited to be making pedals now:
All of that said, bending resistor leads and dropping them into PCBs is practically meditation for me. I could gladly do it for hours. Stepping further and further away from the physical elements I enjoy like that is a bummer.
- PCB Fabrication and SMT assembly is constantly getting cheaper and faster. Feel like you don't have the time to breadboard a circuit? (That's a lie, but) Embrace hyper-globalism instead of despairing in it! Have a pcb of it show up in your mailbox in a week for a few bucks instead.
- DSP is constantly getting better and more accessible to hobbyists. You can run Faust (!!!!) programs on ESP-32s that cost a buck (although the $25 Teensy might be a better option). Garageband, software free with an OS, still has amp emulators that are better than modeling amps you can buy at a guitar center, and I say this as a Katana owner.
- I probably thought a TO-92 was crazy small the first time I soldered one. SOT-23s don't feel so tiny to me anymore (just in time for most manufacturers to have been moving to smaller packages for years)
- For all we covet them for, germanium transistors are the ones that killed tubes, not silicon transistors.
- I like being challenged in this hobby because it makes it keep feeling new. The obsolete parts that we use a lot in pedals are being replaced by something in the industries that dictate manufacturing, even if not a direct substitute, and learning how to cobble that shit together to keep making pedals sounds like exactly the kind of fun challenge I like.
- Less time to build pedals is more time to find new reasons to avoid practicing
I fully appreciate your insight, as we all have different reasons for why we love this hobby and everyone's journey is different. I like the old school. Always have, always will. It's a dying art form, I like that I can work on Amps and pedal like they did years ago. I think thru hole looks awesome. I don't need everything in a 125b. I also feel like you that there is something relaxing and fun about populating boards. I don't mind smd jfets or transistors and even some ICs. But a whole board? Not for me. I don't want a hot air station, I like the technique of soldering thru hole with an iron. I don't like digital because the future of digital is algorithms. I don't want to program 1s and 0s. I'm all about learning as well but I want to keep that analog aspect, like analog circuit with digital switching or tap tempo. But all digital?.I want loud, heavy tube amps pummeled with fuzz at house shattering levels cause at the heart of it to me, that's what rock n' roll and playing guitar is all about.This is one of those pedal opinions that I agree with just a hair more than I disagree with it and flip flop every other day.
We all know the negative side any time we look for obsolete components, so let me share some of the things that make me excited to be making pedals now:
All of that said, bending resistor leads and dropping them into PCBs is practically meditation for me. I could gladly do it for hours. Stepping further and further away from the physical elements I enjoy like that is a bummer.
- PCB Fabrication and SMT assembly is constantly getting cheaper and faster. Feel like you don't have the time to breadboard a circuit? (That's a lie, but) Embrace hyper-globalism instead of despairing in it! Have a pcb of it show up in your mailbox in a week for a few bucks instead.
- DSP is constantly getting better and more accessible to hobbyists. You can run Faust (!!!!) programs on ESP-32s that cost a buck (although the $25 Teensy might be a better option). Garageband, software free with an OS, still has amp emulators that are better than modeling amps you can buy at a guitar center, and I say this as a Katana owner.
- I probably thought a TO-92 was crazy small the first time I soldered one. SOT-23s don't feel so tiny to me anymore (just in time for most manufacturers to have been moving to smaller packages for years)
- For all we covet them for, germanium transistors are the ones that killed tubes, not silicon transistors.
- I like being challenged in this hobby because it makes it keep feeling new. The obsolete parts that we use a lot in pedals are being replaced by something in the industries that dictate manufacturing, even if not a direct substitute, and learning how to cobble that shit together to keep making pedals sounds like exactly the kind of fun challenge I like.
- Less time to build pedals is more time to find new reasons to avoid practicing
