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I'm a sucker for old Ibanez stuff! Will have to watch for this to come back in stock. Love your build!

I'm not able to see how you have the diodes around the LT1054 in the picture, but I would check the orientation of those while you're at it.

Let me mirror others here, all the best to you and your family as you navigate this. When I first started frequenting this forum back in 2011 or so, your YT channel was very much the face of the community for me, if that makes any sense.

Wah and delay together is one of my favorite combinations, so I get where you were coming from here! Sounds awesome!

No worries, I fully understand that life happens! Trust me, I had more or less zero time for music and related hobbies last year. Finishing this build already makes me feel like this year is off on a better foot. 

Thanks, Brah!

First off, major thanks to Blackhatboojum for sharing this board with me! I got the itch to do a wah just after the Weener went out of stock a while back. I had been modding this old Crybaby I picked up but realized the jacks weren't going to last much longer. So this incorporates what I settled on for mods but also just replicates what I liked in the pedal, which was from 1993 as far as I could date it. Things I kept: Lower-gain Q1 (used BC547b) with 390r emitter resistor (I went with BC549c for Q2). Mods: 47k Q resistor, 1.8k mids resistor, and 56k input resistor. With the yellow Fasel, it's very vocal and mellow, but still with a bit of focus. Works well with my all-Fender guitar and amp setup and is a nice middle ground between the Vox and Thomas Organ sounds. Loves to be in front of fuzz as well!

TS into Rat is great! I used to do that setup into my roommate's silverface Super Reverb back in the '90s. Easy way to get musical, controllable feedback. Great build!

I hear you, my daughter is starting college in NJ this fall. The northeast is more sticker shock than back when we lived there before (NYC and DC for a short time). I think we'll be visiting plenty but not relocating!

I'm only seeing two transistors there, so I don't think there's a buffer to remove. For the TB mod, take a look at Stinkfoot's site. He tells how to do it on all the various Dunlop versions, so the oldest wired one would probably be translatable to this Thomas Organ one.

I never know that about the Q resistor. I upped it to 47k on the old Dunlop I have and it was an improvement, but I may try taking it out to see what happens.

Ah, thanks for the tip! I didn't know about the fader version. I was seriously about to order the spray. I recently got an Area 51 pot for an old wah I picked up on Reverb (soon to get a new PCB too, thanks to blackhatboojum), and I like that it's not sealed so you can use something like the Caig products on it without taking the whole pot apart.

Yes, the gains and leakage can show up differently with even small changes in voltage. I built an RG Keen tester on vero, then grabbed duhvoodooman's Ge calculation spreadsheet off the BYOC forum. That way I was able to enter the exact resistor values from my vero on the spreadsheet. That way I didn't need to hunt down the oddly specific resistor value the Keen tester was calling for. I built both PNP and NPN testers, so then created tabs for each of those within the spreadsheet. I just hook the vero up to a battery, but I measure the battery every time so I can enter the exact voltage in that cell. Not an issue if you're using a regulated power supply, of course!

Love how it looks and a purple LED was the right choice! I'm sure they sold out in about a second...

Oh man! Somehow I knew you'd pull this off before the end of the year. It does sound amazing. I need to build up that DM-3 first, but this is on the list too once I get ahold of a board. I really want to hear from someone who tries the Ibanez-style filters on their build so I don't tackle that decision point sight unseen (or sound unheard, I guess?).

I'll be down to join this if it comes together!