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You can get a great booster/dirt tone simply by running through the preamp of an old reel-to-reel. Somebody should build an overdrive directly cloned off one of these circuits and then encase it into a 10x5x4 black resin brick. Call it the Flufengurgen and mention that Mike Growtherly used it to record the Fathom Miser sessions, and watch it go for $3,004.00 on Ebay.
For a description, mention that, "it sounds....good."

How woodsy is that?

What is a Crowther Hotcake???
Personally I prefer the Chick Fillet Hot Waffle. It has syrupy tone with a touch of rich peanut-buttery goodness, all based on germanium-silicon tube hybrid asymmetrical soft hard clipping terminology. Basically, a flax seed bergum spinger with loads of electro-pronunciation.
Just hook up a compressor and make sure your AC lines are pure oxygen-free copper.

I've built the King of Muffs version that pryde came up with:   http://www.madbeanpedals.com/forum/index.php?topic=12012.msg108432#msg108432, and I imagine that would work for bass guitars as well since the cap values are generally larger than other versions. It is seriously the best Big Muff I've ever tried...extremely versatile. Lots of low end. I also modded it a little further by adding the "contour" control from juansolo's Big Muff spreadsheet: http://stompage.juansolo.co.uk/Muffs.htm. This thing does everything from overdrive to fuzz now.

I think they wait until after somebody on this forum places an order before releasing a code. Just placed one about two days ago

i should probably tell you he uses a (cringes) solid state amp.

Funny, nobody ever cringes about using solid state effects pedals. Why is solid state acceptable for the part that has the biggest effect on your guitar tone, but completely unacceptable for the part that is just supposed to make your guitar louder?

Who else immediately went to to the projects page to check this out? I love delay pedals, and this one is definitly on the radar. Great job all around, mainly for having the mad skills to come up with projects like this, let alone make them look great too!

definitely ripe for modding to add EXP control over the Manual pot.

+1 all for that option!

I see you have constructed a new distortion pedal. Indeed you are powerful....

Some musicians do also seem to be impulsive types when it comes to purchases... and the grass is always greener and all that.

Hit the nail on the head! This would apply to pedal building as well. No matter how many fuzz, overdrive, delays you build, that new layout/design just seems to be "the one". So you get rid of what you have and build that, and then start the whole process again, only to later think about what you got rid of.

All the mod kits I've seen ignore the biggest problem with the BF-2 and HF-2:  the BBD itself. The BF-2 especially suffers from having a BBD chip with way too many stages, and naturally it sounds metallic and more like a chorus pedal with some clanging wind chimes. Those sounds can be useful, but you probably want more classic tape flange type sounds.
No amount of tweaking resistors, caps, or op amps will achieve that with the Boss flangers.
The best mod for a BF-2 or HF-2 is to change the BBD to an MN3209, which operates closer to the correct delay range for classic flange effects. No need for tweaking, overclocking, buffering, or spending hours coming up with a solution that Panasonic already engineered about 25 years ago. Realistically, even an MN3206 at only 128 stages would work as a good flanger BBD. According to Eventide, "As a practical matter, useful flanging occurs in the delay range of 50 microseconds to about 5 milliseconds, and devolves to a doubling effect after about 15 milliseconds." Look at the respective datasheets and it becomes clear why the MN3007, MN3207, and MN3204 don't make good flanger BBDs. Yet, that's what 90% of the flangers on the market used.

To me it would add to the value if the instrument is still usable. Many famous guitars that sell for a lot of money were finally sold because the artist couldn't use it anymore (worn out fretboard, broken, etc). You often have to wonder why they would get rid of it in the first place if they still liked it and it worked great. The real shame is to see perfectly good guitars on display, like at the EMP, that are stuck behind glass to never be played again. They're guitars, not picasso's.

I've seen a Future Shop in my area, but I always planned to go in the next day...

This one made me cry I was laughing so hard...

Andy Rehfeldt, he does some really good ones. Haven't checked his channel in a while.

He also goes the other way... This is my personal favourite:

Especially the last half of that video (lyrics) totally reminds me of this: