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Does anyone know what the approximate knob and trimmer settings would be to get to a stock-ish Tube Screamer sound on the VFE Ice Scream?

In my recently built Archibald, I put in a brand new Psvane 12ax7 to see if there were any sonic differences compared to the one I had in there. After deciding that I don't think I heard much difference I turned it off and messed around with a new pedal build. When I came back to the Archibald, it was a very quiet futzy sound. Bypass was fine. I unplugged it for a few and tried it again and it was back to normal but after a few minutes I heard it go from normal to the very quiet futzy sound. Bypass was fine again. I took out the Psvane and put back in the tube I started with and played for a while, waiting to see if it happened again. It didn't. Can one assume the brand new Psvane was bad?

This is my first build report on this forum, for my first madbean pedal. I had been looking at this project for a couple of years, since not long after I first started building pedals. Last year I started getting more adventurous after building several boosts, fuzzes & ODs; I completed a chorus, an univibe with a bulb& LDRs, a delay that used a SMD Spin FV-1 IC. So after my brother in law bought a BK Butler Tube Driver I felt like it was time for the Archibald. I love it! Thanks for the help in my "Archbald Capacitor Question" thread that started as one question and ended up as several.

Hello! My first post.
I recently bought the Archibald PCB and I'm about to start building it. I see that the build document lists 1 470pf electrolytic cap as 25v and 2 that are 16v. These are C16, C24 & C25.  I don't see any indication in the document or on the PCB as to which one needs to be the 25v.