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Bump for this. Anybody have any recent news? I haven't seen anything come up on their website.

Wow, congrats. That looks fantastic. Great job getting it to that point! I'd like to be there some day.

I love how you did the eyes, really clever. Great job!

did you happen to look at the link that selfdestroyer posted? there is a response that says to put a 22k resistor between the output cap and the volume pot which would decrease the overall volume but most likely eliminate the squeal.

I haven't done that, thanks for the tip, though it seems to defeat the purpose of the schematic. The one from EQD doesn't have that, and it doesn't have the squeal that all of the versions I've tried have had. I just need to buy one and figure it out.

Also along these lines, I'm interested in possibly adding a gain control to this schematic. Has anyone played around with that idea?

I've done that, it works really well, actually. I've only done it by adding it to the front of the circuit. I would eventually like to give a shot to putting it on the IC, and changing the gain that way.

I am so torn on this circuit. I've built a board of my own, and built 2 different vero layouts. I CANNOT for the life of me get rid of the squeal when the volume is all the way up. It is all kinds of fun, but I'd like it a lot more if I could get rid of that dang noise.

I'd be happy to send you one of mine if you want to build on a board instead of vero.

Welcome back, Lee! Glad everything is going well for you guys!

Yeah, that is great! Must be quite a feeling for you!

I love Ayreon, amazing cd. Great build, too!

Wow, thanks for the heads up. I love those guys, they've done my last 3 sets of boards. Good stuff. I've got one I've been holding off on, too. Thanks for the heads up.

Bah, if that is the worst that happens, we're doing pretty well! Still awesome you're offering this, at the risk of just these sorts of issues.

NP. I really like the Weener Wah, it sounds really great. Joe has a great inductor, too. The Tone Tank.

The wah that madbean sells is really nice.   

Contact Joe Gagan, you can find him here or on facebook, and he can sell you just the hardware.

Yes, I've noticed that, too. I haven't gone through the work of trying that quite yet though. I'll be back home Monday, and I'll report which one I've got grounded.

Mainly I'm just curious with the EQD layout, how they managed to make it a useable pedal, but I've not played a real one.

aha not even joking it's meant to have a bigger knob (...) but that has yet to arrive from hong kong after a month and i've lost all hope.  i think this size is probably as big as it needs to be, i already had to dremel down the pot so it wasn't mysteriously floating above the enclosure.

about the noise, i haven't cranked it since boxing but it's not noticeably noisy under 11 o'clock.  i only have a gibson with humbuckers, it gets slightly muddy on neck pickup but on all settings sounds 'rockier' and less creamy than the big muff clone i did couple weeks ago.  there is a sticky plasticky undertone as well which gives it the doom vibes i think.

when i was testing, past about 3 o'clock it just squeals out and is unusable, though i did pick up some radio stations (?!)

a weird thing about it that i need to test is, i have a LM386 amp which can power a decent sized speaker on its own at 9V, but this doesn't seem to be able to.  i'd also love to a/b with a real version and might buy even one at some point to do so then trade.

See, that is the exact problem I have with mine, too. I can ground out that pin - again, I forget which one, if you'd like to know, I'll open the box and tell you - but the high pitch squealing goes away on higher volume and gain settings. It loses a slight bit of hairyness and loses some gain, but it is totally worth having an almost fully useable gain range.