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Wire the pedal witht eh buffered bypass mounted to a dpdt toggle switch or stomp switch. Then, add in ur true bypass master switchto the already built pedals input and output. You should be good!

Yes and Thank you madbean for letting me say this....

BYE BYE TUBE SCREAMER!!!

Sweet Looking build bro. Congrats!

very nice indeed. Clean too!

Went back to TL072's in both sockets and much happier! 

Definitely somethin a miss. Mine has no resemblance of any type of tube screamer circuit.

Thx Jimi!

Jimi helped me find a good way to cross the pond!

Lm313H is $5 (selling all day for $10 a piece on ebay)
CR220   is $8 (selling for $15 a piece on ebay)
CR100   is $8 (selling for $15 a piece on ebay)

Send a cashiers check or postal order for the diodes you like like plus $3 shipping n handling to:
Stephen Nelson
8315 E Gregory Blvd
Kansas City, MO 64133

my vote is metal can oc81  with q1 gain about 85 and q2 gain about 120

For thevery small cost of buying the parts needed for this build, it is wise to buy some serious trannies. I have built several of these.

My best results listed below in order from best to worst. Others i've tried are not worth mentioning... LOL

OC81D (medium dirty with best clean up on guitars volume)
OC71N Amperex holland(medium dirty with good clean tone)
AC122N (cleaner fuzz and very natural)

Put your money where your fuzz is!
You will be blessed for doing so!

I have had no good experience shipping items to the other side of the pond with any economical means.

Any one have a better idea? Maybe madbean will post in here and specify how he ships to Europe, etc and keeps the costs low? If I can find the way, I'm cool with doing it.

Just never had any luck shipping overseas. I seem to always end up out of pocket.

Banzai is a great resource for LED Housings. They have this style for 5mm as well if I recall correctly.

Anyone that has tried to contact me regarding these diodes, please pm me again? Also, please check your messages. I think I did it right, but we'll see! 

Sorry for the complications with replies. There have been two people inquiring on these diodes through madbean message forum and I did not reply correctly. My apologies again! I just sent replies again, but this time I sent them through the madbean forum messaging service.

On the original Centaur, the signal is still somewhat "Tainted" and some players like the bypassed sound too. So, incorporated that tone into the toggle OD Bypass. If you omit alll the options on this pedal and just look at the Gain, Tone, Level, OD Bypass of one channel, that is the Sunking in its entirety. The rest is modified switching capabilities. The TRS Loop option is a true bypassed effects loop following each sunking. These are dedicated to each.

LM313H Inquiries?

I'm not sure how else to do this right now as I am currently in the process of establishing a completely new means of e-commerce, so my paypal and such is not yet set up. The only way I would be able to sell them at the moment would be cash or cashiers checks.

I ended up not having a huge stock like I had thought, but I do have about 150 of them. They all measure exactly the same... all from the same batch and all NOS!

Judging by the mind boggling prices on the web and their utter rarity, I would be willing to sell some of them... 5 bux a piece plus shipping would be good for me. I would really only like to sell about 50 of them total. So, once those are gone, the rest stay with me.

I have two other great metal can diodes as well.
CR100 and CR220, about 50 of each.... NOS as well. Not sure what they go for ATM.

Since these LM313H are considered to be regulator diodes, I wonder how they would serve as the Q3's diode in tonebenders?!!! Hmmmm. I smell another project!

Ok... I tried to pay hommage to all you 1n34a lovers out there. I plugged in two matched pairs and jammed on them for the last 4-5 days, then put the lm313H's back in and the difference is like nite and day. Gotta stick with the lm313H on this one. Yes, they are pricey, but you'll be happy you bought them!