VFE Distortion 3 build

[Bret608]

Well, Brian was not kidding, this is a fun circuit and I pretty much love it too! It's a lot of fun to mix and match the soft and hard clipping sounds. I've had the D+ and 250 on the brain for the last few months due to Rowland S. Howard and Mudhoney, but this works much better with my setup than other ones from this family that I've either owned or built. For the Ge diodes, I used some nice old mil-spec 1n270s I got at work. I'm feeling lucky I was able to solder them in with no damage or change in Vf...the VFE boards have really small solder pads! Also, it was a trickier build than I anticipated...I initially wired it wrong, with the two wires on the right of the switching board going to the wrong holes on the main PCB. You'll see which ones I mean. Luckily, the drilling went well. I got some help from the Metal Fabrication lab coordinator where I work (a 2-year college). We drilled it on a super-accurate industrial mill.