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I just built this, and I get the squeal and sometimes the motorboating. It's still attached to the breadboard, and one thing I noticed is that when it squeals and I touch the tonepot (which has no knob on it), the squeal is slightly but noticeably reduced. Maybe there's a grounding aspect to the squeal?

I used an ICL7660S and TL072's.

Many thanks Jules. When I searched for LT1054 at smallbear it returned "Your search for 'lt1054' did not match any products." Note to self that smallbear's search engine does not match the stems of queries!

One more question (sorry to keep bothering you). Where have you guys found LT1054 chips or, if they are too hard to find, what's a good substitute for this chip? I don't see them at Smallbear or Tayda.

Got you -- thanks! I naturally think kilobytes for kb and basically just didn't see it as "K space b" rather than "k!"

Thanks man, and good to hear it's a great pedal. The problem re the pots is the BOM does not indicate whether the pots are A, B, or C. http://madbeanpedals.com/projects/NaughtyFish/NaughtyFish2015.pdf

A=Log B=Linear C=reverse Log and yep, you need an On/ on/on and an on/on They don't necessarily have to be from SB but that's the idea. That's an awesome build.

I'm thinking about buying the Naughtyfish board, but have a couple of questions about parts. First, are the pots linear, log, or reverse-log? Second, I've got some on-on-on switches that are different in the center position than the smallbear switches. Can I use these by just switching wires around to the board, or must the switches work identically to smallbear's for the build to work?

Thanks in advance!