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you should change your screen name to mister clean...your builds are outstanding!

depending on the gains and leakage. I'd build a "Face-Bender" A  MKII tone bender variant that you can switch the first transistor stage out of so you can get Fuzz Face-like tones as well as bender tones. I have a spare Fuzz Face enclosure that I've had sandblasted down to the bare aluminum, for building either one of those, or a "Trem Face" clone.

I would love to do a stereo, ping-pong delay...probably pt2399 based. I love using a w/d setup or w/d/w setup with multiple amps. the spread you can achieve leads to some truly massive tones. I have a schematic somewhere for a stereo version of the echo base I found a while ago. don't think it's ping-pongable but it might be a good starting point. making the ping-pong feature switchable would be cool too.

whats the one with those axial sprague cap's?

wow what a great sounding distortion!!! super fat and crunchy!

nice clean builds!

Hmmm, probably silicon. Germaniums usually have some leakage. A lot of the later germaniums that use an alloy process have very low leakage (Russian trannies) but you can still measure it.

I know that a lot of russian transistors have an internal shunt resistor witch makes them appear to have no leakage when measured

+1 the pigtronix keymaster could be a source of inspiration

yeah something like that but at least 3 switchable channels(I'm thinkin 2 delays and reverb)

what a cool tradition!

I'd love to do a good buffer/splitter/mixer. mainly for running delays and reverbs in parallel. something pedalboard sized like RJM music's mini line mixer but with 3-4 "send switches" for different channels.

I'm thinking it should have an input>buffer/split>have a dry through channel with a level control> and a switch for each effect channel> return for each and corresponding level pot.

maybe it could have mono in and switchable mono/stereo out. something for phase reversal.

when I had a rack setup, I used a 16 mono channel/ 8 stereo channel mixer with a few different delay units(tc electronic - gforce, d-two, strymon brigadere and elcap.) all running in stereo. I think delays sound so much more natural and spacious like that (if thats your thing). A panner control might be a cool addition too.

    I've missed using parallel verb and delay since gutting my rack. It would be great if that could be stuffed into a smallish footprint, a 1590bb is probably pushing it with all those jacks and switches. one of those larger trapezoidal boxes might be big enough without getting clumsy.

here's a great demo j. santiago did on how to get eric johnson's sound with 3 different gear setups. the first 2 sound really close the 3rd...not so much. It really helped me with getting that tone. it's his ah via musicom era tone,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtI5UWAQXLg

There was a whole lotta trouble with that FX company over at FSB.  I personally wouln't buy one because of LK's attitude towards DIY builders/the whole FSB fiasco.  A Tonebender is what you are looking for, BYOC ESV 2 knob Bender was one of my first builds and it does that sort of tone very well.

the esv bender was the 1st pedal I ever built. and it is a fantastic sounding project. tons of output, and has a edgier dirtier grind to it, compared to a mkIII variant.

Those look great.  I've been doing a couple of etched faceplates myself.  Very cool way to apply graphics!
Are you coating them with something?  I was thinking of using the clear epoxy resin stuff on mine.

I've been using a clearcoat meant for aluminum rims that my friend who works at a dealership gets. it stays a tiny bit flexible so it doesn't chip real easy. I'm gonna switch to powdercoating eventually but something always seems to come first when I have the $.

cory i thought the same thing about the thing in the bottom but I believe  its the battery snap

god I'm goin' blind

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