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I put an 18v on there before reading this. Will that work or do I need to go ahead and change it?

I just built the Dustbunny/Tonebender. Love it! I play bass and was wondering if anyone knows of a way to let a little more low end through? Not necessarily a ton more low end. I know if you want to bring in more highs you make the value on C1 smaller. Would the inverse be true? Would you make the value on C1 greater to have more low end?

Great News! I got the Vactrols from Small Bear yesterday and it is now working perfectly! Want to put this out there, if anyone else has a similar problem this worked for me.

I originally got it from synthrotek.com but they seem to no longer carry it. I know it is made by Xvive but I'm not sure if it operates the same way. I did find these from sythrotek. Would they work?

https://store.synthrotek.com/VTL5C3-Vactrol-Optocoupler_p_792.html

Otherwise, I know Small Bear is opening up for about 24 hours on Sunday. I can just order the part you originally suggested along with a bunch of other things I need from them.

Any thoughts from the IC readings in the pic above? Thanks for the help.

I updated the original post with the IC values.

I got the multimeter yesterday. The Volts measured pretty much right on. However, I had trouble getting the mV to read correctly. The numbers would just not stop changing. I think it was a trouble with the multimeter which I'm exchanging for a newer, better one. The lower the mV the harder it was to pin them down. So, I'm feeling doubtful there's an issue there and am thinking it is probably the Vactrols. Hopefully, I'll be able to get more solid answers soon. If anyone has any thoughts please let me know.

[I know people have had issues with Vactrols in the past. Does this sound familiar?]

Just finished building the Naughty Fish but I'm having an issue.

Gain knob works just fine. Clear signal is getting through both in bypass and when the pedal is engaged.  However, I'm getting a buzzy/fuzzy sound when I begin to turn up the Peak knob to engage the filter. I'm thinking it may be the Vactrols I installed. I know people have had issues with Vactrols in the past. Does this sound familiar?

I checked all my soldering and everything looks/feels solid and I'm not seeing any bridging. I originally had the volume know installed but took it out to simplify things and hopefully get rid of any complications. The bridge for that is in the back.

I'm checking the volts on the ICs later today when I get my multimeter delivered. If anyone has any tips let me know. I've never done it before.

Any input is helpful. Thanks.

Update: I went ahead and added the values. I underlined the ones which seem most problematic to me. Any input is helpful!