Giant Hogweed Octave Distortion (with a fun story)

[drolo]

since the signal is too hot, you won't be needing to increase the gain so rather a smaller value that the current 100k
perhaps a 100k pot would be good so you can dial in less gain than stock if needed.

[WormBoy]

I m a noob at building stuff successfully,
but would something like this help before the octave i being hit, in order to make it see a passive alike signal and not an active signal?
http://www.muzique.com/lab/pickups.htm

Should work great at the input of the effect, to make the effect 'think' it is being hit with passive pickups. If the signal has too much gain, a volume pot before the pickup simulator should solve that nicely. Question is mainly if the issue is too much volume or the impedance of the active pickups.

[drolo]

This works mainly with circuits like a fuzz face that expect a guitar at the input. on the giant hogweed, there is a buffer at the input anyway so it might not have the expected effect. (unless inserted after the buffer)

[WormBoy]

This works mainly with circuits like a fuzz face that expect a guitar at the input. on the giant hogweed, there is a buffer at the input anyway so it might not have the expected effect. (unless inserted after the buffer)

Ah, missed that. Yeah, then the pickup simulator would be superfluous.

[Timko]

since the signal is too hot, you won't be needing to increase the gain so rather a smaller value that the current 100k
perhaps a 100k pot would be good so you can dial in less gain than stock if needed.

I think David has a great idea here.  I have one more board I'm going to build, and will be replacing the 100k R18 with a 100kA pot.