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What a beautiful build!

Is it a decal? Very clean and pro-looking!

Nice builds !

I really like the Mangler with the hammertone finish, gives a nice vintage feel to it. Great choice of knobs as well!

This is crazy! No SMD is quite impressive for such a complex build with 2 switches and 5 pots!

Nice painting skills over there! I am quite fan of the fuzz as well, but the mastodon is really cool looking too.
Good job!

In a more general way, I would recommend to pay attention when you order on tayda or aliexpress. From my experience, many parts are not what they are sell for, especially in the IC world (especially for vintage chips like mn3005...etc). I had the issue as well with transistors (especially germanium ones), they simply "rebrand" it to make them look like "the real deal" like oc42, nk275...etc. I guess it could be the same for diodes.

For germanium, my best sources are actually in Russia where you can find many good transistor that can perfectly fit for Fuzz Faces or other builds, and that are not overhyped...yet!

Actually, I think that relay bypass is cost effective in terms of durability. However, I think that it will be really difficult to make it as cheap as a 3pdt, simply because a SPST soft switch is almost as expensive as a 3PDT!

In my version of the relay bypass, I cannot get below 8 euros for the full kit if I do not want to sell it "for free"

But, really - what someone needs to do is design a tiny pre-fabricated surface mount board and produce them in large quantities to make it cheap.

I am currently working on it, I am not sure about how cheaper it would be though.

Ok, I quit!

Nice! I really like these knobs, very clean build as usual I am impressed !

Wow, now that is what I call a clean build! Perfect in every aspect!

Love the arcade buttons ! Does it work well with your foot ? I tried to use this kind of buttons on my Ditto Looper, and it was not that easy to activate (which is quite a problem with a looper)

Super clean build as always!
Love the telefunken logo

On the schematics you can see a 220k going from pin 6 of the middle PT2399 to the oscillator. If you take the 220k out there's no more lfo, no more modulation. As simple as that. It's labelled R27 on the Btdr2 I used, you can see it on the bottom left of the pcb on the gut shot.
I also took out R28 (1st 10k at the input) to cancel the lowpass filtering at the input of the brick (gut shot: 3rd pin is the input, it goes to C2 then to R28 and another cap to ground)

Really interesting!
How did you manage to open the brick? I thought that all the components were embedded in goop...

Does it come in an iPhone version? 

Sure but it costs twice as much, has two knobs less and it comes cast in epoxy because screw customization

Very nice build!

Best. Fuzz. Ever.

My favorite little monster! I will get a PCB soon, cant wait to build one as well

Wow, just wow!
Amazing as usual.