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Josh at JHS just did a VLOG on octave fuzz. https://youtu.be/WtBIP5X1HgA


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Any updates everyone?


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Great job mate. Real clean, inside and out. 

Can anyone point me in the direction of an opto/relay switch seller/manufacturer?

1776 have a small PCB available to make one with a DPDT switch but It would be great to have a stand alone switch, like "The Gig Rig" OptoKick switches.

Cheers, Ben

(First contribution to this community, thanks everyone.)

I can't find any pics of what the inside of the switches look like, but I can almost guarantee the switches themselves are momentary soft-touch with optical circuitry attached. I dug up the patent application for their "Quartermaster" board ( https://patents.google.com/patent/US20050056142A1/en?oq=US10%2f937%2c997 ) and it seems to use optical elements as muting/routing, pretty much as expected.

If you want something more compact than 1776's there is a switch-bottom sized version over at THCustoms: http://diy.thcustom.com/shop/optotronik_kit/

If you're looking for pre-assembled switches, that I'm afraid I can't help with. I have no idea where to even start looking for those.

Thank you friend.

I will look into it.

My last couple batches have been the "Pro" 3PDT's from Mammoth. They were on sale for like 1.50 a piece so I bought a dozen. Lately I've been looking into opto/relay based set ups that use different switch types, and haven't settled on what to use for them really.

I've played with Tayda's soft touch spst stomp on my VFE builds and haven't had any trouble with it YET, but I can tell it does feel a little cheap. Thankfully given its design it will be easy to swap out if necessary (I use NASA style solder joins on them, straight wire soldered parallel to the pole piece, super easy to remove the wire that way)

Can anyone point me in the direction of an opto/relay switch seller/manufacturer?

1776 have a small PCB available to make one with a DPDT switch but It would be great to have a stand alone switch, like "The Gig Rig" OptoKick switches.

Cheers, Ben

(First contribution to this community, thanks everyone.)