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Thanks for your assistance. I appreciate it.

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Mark

Finishing off the case  has always been the most difficult part of the build for me so being able to buy a decal for the case I'm going to use saves me a lot of time and gives me the professional result that I'm looking for.

I look forward to buying boards and Decals. Thanks for bringing this out I really appreciate it.

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Mark

So you have tried the  1K Lin pot I assume, I found the C taper was pretty limited range wise. I will give the lin pot a try and see if that works for me.

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Mark

Hi

I built a Ge MK 2 Bender on a Mad Bean board. As you'd expect it's a great board to work with and better than other boards I've used in the past.

The thing that gets me is the circuit info called out for a reverse log 1K pot. The pedals sounds very nice, but the gain control only does stacks of fuzz and even more Fuzz.

I can't but help think the reverse taper pot is a typo and it should be a linear pot at very least.

What are your thoughts and experiences with the Tonebender MK 2?

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Mark

I have a Mark 2 Bender complete and a Mark 1 and Mark 3 in progress. I have used Small Bear Ge transistor sets for the Mark 2 and it worked great. I have a set of Small Bear Ge transistors for the Mark 3.

The problem I have is finding the right transistors for the Mark 1 board. I do have some AC-128 transistors, but I don't know the gain and minimum leakage required to get good results from the Mark 1 circuit.

What do you advise?

How did you do the art work on your pedal?

Thanks

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Mark

There is a Mad Bean doc with all the versions listed. It sounds like it bread board job, before construction.

I have built a Muff with 2N3904's which have a gain of 100 and it sounded good. Have you tried the Creamy Dreamer?

How did the various Muff pedals stack up?

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Mark

How did the various Muff pedals stack up?

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Mark

I bit the bullet and put the IRF510 FETs in. They sound better than the 2N7000's.

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Mark

Thanks for your reply and help. I'm wondering would it really be worth replacing the 2N7000 with IRF510 given that it will cost about $10 as I can't buy just two.

I find the 2N7000 to be a bit muffled and prefer the LED's for that reason.

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Mark

Is anyone looking at this forum at all?

Hi

During the COVID19 I have been going through old projects. I have been working on my Deadringer 2.

I originally built the Deadringer 2 using the IRF510 FETs (for clipping) but changed to the 2N7000 as the IRF510 wouldn't fit in my enclosure. I have now a larger enclosure and can accommodate the IRF510, is it worth replacing the 2N7000 with the IRF510?

Is there a noticeable sonic difference?

During the whole process I decided to run the effect of 18v instead of 9v (via the Road Rage pcb). I think the Deadringer sounds more articulate with 18v, though I could be mistaken as the battery I was using initially was only good for 7v.

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Mark

Thanks for your reply, I appreciate that.

I tried 100v box caps and the 270nF cap was huge. The other box caps worked out okay. I dare say I'll leave these caps till last. I want to use a road rage to provide 18VDC to the DR2.

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Mark

What caps are used for C5,C6,C7 & C8?

They are small positions for relatively large caps.

Thanks for your help.

http://www.madbeanpedals.com/projects/Deadringer2/Deadringer2.pdf

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Mark