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You could get the best of both worlds and get a Blackstar pedal!

The issue is, and I'm sure I'm not the only tight bastard like this, since i started putting pedals together a few years back I've not been inclined to buy any mass produced commercial pedal.

I'm local to Blackstar and a friend of mine worked for them in the admin dept, she might still be there, i wonder of they do staff discount

The effects loop is the guitar signal post preamp, hence why certain effects like delays work better in the loop that before the amp.

I keep looking at getting the blackstar mini stack to complement my blues junior for more overdrive & distortion tones but then think I'll make a pedal that gets those tones out of my blues jr 

Glad to hear you've had some success   

I'm guessing you're using a 1kB for the fuzz pot, having all the fuzz in the last 10-20% is normal behavior. I use a 1kC now on fuzz face variants as it gives a much more usable control over the entire pot range.

It does still sound like the transistors aren't quite biased properly but as you say, tweak some of the values and try different transistors till you get it to sound how you like it.

I've just had that weird feeling, you know, the one you get when someone has put a v8 in a prius and when they fire it up your brain gets all confused *that doesn't sound like it should*

I want one 

These circuits were designed way back when transistors had much lower hfe values, this has to be taken into consideration when using new NPN silicon trannies.

For a test try changing R1 to 12k, R3 to 220r and R4 to 4k7

Great idea with the 6PDT, will have to give one of these ago altho i've got a few BTDR-2H to use up first!

Looks like the thermometer from Nixiekits.eu i've been flirting with one of their clock kits but have yet to take the plunge. Any issues putting it together?

Are you able to measure the hfe of the transistors?

When i started out i had this with almost all fuzz face variants i built and found this calculator to be a great help:
http://www.diystompboxes.com/analogalchemy/emh/emh.html

Edit: From that page click on Fuzz-Face on the left

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What are you planning for signal chain?

I always go with Guitar > Fuzz > Wah > Effects > Buffer

Fuzz ideally needs to be before everything else, don't think they like having buffers before them.

Edit: This is for fuzz face based fuzz pedals, others might play nicer having a wah or buffer before them.

Check http://www.bitsbox.co.uk/ they do resistor & capacitor kits with cheap international shipping by the looks of it.

What laser engraver are you looking at? We exchanged a few PMs last year about powder coating, i've since purchased one of the cheap chinese K40 lasers so if you need any pointers let me know!

Try changing R20 to 6k8, that might help if you're using the Kingslayer 1 board.

Very tidy although I'm not sure why i'd expect any less from you!

What is your opinion on the Opto-tron bypass? i'm keen to try one out instead of the usual 3PDT.

Well, a new Tayda record Shipped on the 2nd via Thailand Post, received today.

I'm having a mind blank, does c6 connect to pin 3 of the pot or pin 1?
Bass to increase as you turn the pot CW