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It sounds like you are describing the normal  noise on the repeats that is present at long delay times, which is inherent with the PT2399. Is it there when you have the delay time at noon or lower?... or to put it another way, is it more pronounced with longer delay times?

The very faint hum type sound I described is really only present when there are no repeats happening so it sounds like we are likely talking about two different things.

The VFE designs usually push the boundaries of some components, sometimes to an extreme. The PT2399 associated noise is allowed in the design of the Blueprint in order to push the delay time to an extreme for that chip. I'm not sure if the Mobius Strip is designed for longer delay times, or if it has different filtering, so the nosie may not be present there for that reason

I have a VFE regular production Blueprint and I don't hear what you are talking about. With mix and level and depth all the way up, the only thing I hear is a very, very low to midrange sort of vacuum cleaner type oscillation sound. It's not noticable at all during repeats.

The 50's style necks are the chunky ones and the 60's style is referred to as "slim taper" which are the skinny ones. Gibson went with the 50's style on most standard models thru most of the 2000's.

My main one is a 2005 SG Standard with 50s style neck. It's chunky and it's great. SG's just have something about them that I can't find in any other guitar.

I've never had any tuning issues with mine. Any tuning instability on a Gibson is usually not so much the neck than it is the nut. It's those slanted nut slots when they get stuff in'em... Gotta keep those dirty nuts lubed!

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Since you want max volume at unity... just make the volume controls and foot switching, passive and separate from (in series, before or after) the active buffer section. You could even put a mini toggle to switch in and out the buffer separately

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It sounds like you want the guitar volume control at your feet and then a buffer pedal. Do you want the buffer always on or switchable? And, why two pots? The second one will likely always be all the way up at unity. One pot should do it unless you want three distinct volume levels.

You could put the volume pot first and switch it in and out before the buffer circuit.

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I use the Jimmy Page 50's style wiring on my SG. It is very versatile, I highly recommend it.

How about some splittable EMG's for that active flavor?

I know this subject has been done to death and top mount jacks with top mount power (TPTJ) has basically won. Also, since there are some great folks here, some who actually run a pedal business and deal with customers who make requests of one way vs the other, I think it is a good place to discuss a couple of points that I haven't seen mentioned much anywhere else.

There are two major types of side mount jack configurations, Boss/Ibanez style (TPSJ) with power on top and jacks on the side, MXR style (SPSJ) with power on the side and jacks on the side.

1) Aren't the TPSJ pedals the real space wasting culprit? SPSJ seems just as space efficient as TPTJ. It's just that SPSJ gives you more vertical rows, and TPTJ gives you more horizontal columns. Full disclosure, I like the SPSJ type pedals since they give me an extra row on my pedal train pro, and they are spaced just far enough apart so I don't get accidental clicks on a neighbor, which brings me to my next point...

2) Who are all the people with these super skinny feet/shoes that prefer TPTJ pedals crammed up right next to each other? Can you actually step on a switch without accidentally enagaging another next to it, especially now that soft switching is prevalent? The only way I can manage to do it is
barefoot and use my big toe or tilt my foot at an extreme angle. I have an BYOC OD2 and an EQD Palisades as my only TPTJ pedal examples and they both have multiple foot switches, so if I were to put another TPTJ pedal on either side, the switches would be extremely close. Ive been looking at a couple of the Chase Bliss pedals thinking that it would be close to unusable next to my OD2.

Just saying... I'm honestly curious how others justify TPTJ with these things in mind or if it's even ever an issue for most.

There is an excellent tutorial for how to handle these type situations. Please see the Fear performance in the documentary "The Decline of Western Civilization"

https://youtu.be/accEKtBebaU

If you haven't seen it. Watch it.

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Perhaps one of these values might help:

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