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speaking of the univox superfuzz, I found a neat trick with my clone last night.  If you throw an EQ pedal in front of it you can really adjust the amount of octave effect. 

I had my SF turned on last night and my son was diddling around on my board, like usual.  He turned on a graphic EQ pedal and turned all the sliders all the way down.  He then pushed just two sliders all the way up and it was really interesting, i think it was 400 and 1.6k...but I'll have to double check the board.  I had him stop messing around with it immediately!  It sort of had that cocked-wah into a fuzz sound, but different and the octave was just SINGING.  I was pulling plenty of octave out of it at the 2nd/3rd fret with the tone all the way up, not up around the 12th with the tone rolled down like usual. 

It was a Very Cool Tone indeed that I want to work on refining sometime when I don't have little hands constantly tweaking the knobbies!  It's probably not a sound I'd use constantly, but it was good enough that i started finding cool riffs to take advantage of it right away.  Hey, I'll take inspiration where ever I can find it!

I've got a Dunlop Crybaby 95Q on my board currently, and it's Luke's (my son) favorite along with my behringer small stone knock-off.  Those are the only two without big 3PDT switches, which are pretty tough for him to activate.  His favorite to mess around with when I'm not home is my mixer.  Each chanel's mute and solo switch has an LED.  I can tell when he's been in the basement because EVERY channel is both solo'd and muted....fer the pretty lights.

Congratulations!     I just found out my wife is do in late December with our 2nd.  Sleep lots now....because sleep will be a huge luxury very shortly!

I'm making the transition to builder from player.  Having kids has slowed my gigging to hault and even really reduced my outside the basement jamming.  I've made money playing, but never desired to make a career out of it.  I'm an EE by trade, but I'm more of a digital/software guy.  Music processing is what got me into engineering in the 1st place, but it's only now that I've really decided to look into making some devices instead of just knowing the theory.

When I got home from work last night my wife told me about my 2 year old son's new game.  He takes a bunch of blocks and lines them up on the floor, then gets his ukelele.  Then he'll start strumming away and singing while he stomps his "pedals" on and off.  He'll occasionally crouch down and fiddle with the pretend knobs, and then keep on jamming...usually to Uncle John's Band, or Neko Case's This Tornado Loves You.  I was almost as proud as the day he learned the word "capacitor".

Howbout the PHEC-U!
(Pony Harness, Electric Cooling Unit)

Trey Anastasio and Phil Keaggy.

Jacob

Make it Trey from before the millennium and that be a beast!

I'll go with Jimi Hendrix and Thurston Moore.  That spawn could probably write an entire instrumental album for electric guitar that never used a single note.  Long live the noise!

Just thought I'd share my new stomp box building organization tip with everyone on here:

http://www.harborfreight.com/24-divider-storage-container-94458.html

These boxes are only $4 and come with 24 small compartments in a 6 x 4 grid with removable dividers.

The 6 x 4 layout is actually pretty convenient for organizing standard values.  I did my caps in two boxes like this:
1st box - 1.0, 1.5, 2.2, 3.3, 4.7, 6.8 x 10pF, 100pF, 1nF, 10nF
2nd box - 1.0, 1.5, 2.2, 3.3, 4.7, 6.7 x .1uF, 1uF, 10uF, 100uF 
and I left the bins for values over 100uF empty so I can hold store some non-standard values there.

I did my resistors over 3 boxes like this:
1st box - 1.0, 1.2, 1.5, 1.8 x 10, 100, 1k, 10k, 100k, 1M
2nd box - 2.2, 2.7, 3.3, 3.9 x 10, 100, 1k, 10k, 100k, 1M
3rd box - 4.7, 5.6, 6.8, 8.2 x 10, 100, 1k, 10k, 100k, 1M

That's a lot of storage for $20.  For me they work a little better than the standard parts drawer because I can close them up and store them in a closet or up high on a shelf.  It didn't take my 2 year old son long to figure out that I kept lots of tiny little "toys" in my parts drawer.