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Oh sh*t, how come I haven't heard of this?
Damn it, Marquee Moon is one of my all-time favorite albums...

Hi Phil, that looks great, happy you got the pcb in the end! That tiny thing has traveled more than I did in my whole life
I never managed to post a sound sample of my build of this circuit, maybe you have the chance to do it.

Cheers,
Max.

Hopefully from Europe as well, I checked on Friday (4th) and Australia was still closed. Philthy is patiently waiting for a little PCB since a looong time, tonight I'll check again.

Great, thanks!
Max.

I'm planning to build a phase45 and I have a question about the zener between Vref (i.e. the source of the jfets) and ground: in one schematic it's marked as 1n5230, which has 4.7V per datasheet, while in another it's loosely marked as 5.1V.
I don't expect this to make a big difference, but you never know. At least I don't 
Since I can find a 4.7V zener, but a 5.1V is currently unavailable (and Musikding doesn't even list a 1n5230), what would you suggest?
Thanks,
Max.

Dammit, in another life, when I was reading tons of SF books, I discovered Ben Bova (I tinhk The Dueling Machine and then The Multiple Man) and then I read everything I could find by him, but I just realised that I missed a lot of stuff.
What amazed me was that at about page 100 I felt like: OK, it's finished but, hold on, there's 200 pages more! What the hell is going to happen more?

This is the answer I expected and at the same time I feared most 
Mmh, back to the drawing board, then.
Thanks!

Talking about amp tone stacks used in pedals, I've heard many times that it's a good practice to scale the values in order to change the impedance, like for example divide all pots by 10 and multiply all caps by ten. However, I've seen tone stacks used 1:1 in pedals, including the schematic I used for my Orange MkII project. I have to say, after watching some videos about the original amp, that the tone stack in the pedal doesn't seem as effective as in the amp.
Since I'm planning something new (for bass this time  ) what would you recommend? Scaling it down? I know it's not a lot of components we're talking about, so testing it wouldn't be so expensive, but I would like to hear your opinion about this first.

Cheers!

Great, thanks!
Max.

I may have found one used with a problem on the switching part of the circuit, if anyone has a schematic of said circuit it would be really appreciated and save me the effort of tracing everything, though it shouldn't be too difficult. At least there are no smd components 
Given that I can get it at a decent price, that is, I have the feeling a lot of people is lurking just for the SAD4096...

Max.

Until last month I only bought from Musikding, I'm in Germany and I always found what I needed at reasonable prices. Only had problems with a bunch of jfets out of specs. Last time however I needed something that was out-of-stock at Musikding so I ordered from Tayda and they were precise and fast. Next time I think I'll prepare a list and check price-wise and availability-wise what to buy at Tayda and what at Musikding. On some items they are kind of complementary: for example, Musikding has the mini 3pdt foot switches, and the smd jfets, Tayda has the 1n5230 Zener and the enclosures are cheaper. Shipping costs are also a factor.

The first is a Tonemender I had in a multieffect that has been torn apart long ago. I thought it would have been nice to have it back on my board so there it is. The second is a TriVibe (THcustoms PCB) where I made some mistake in the enclosure the first time. The graphic was fine, but the inside was a mess, so after a couple of years I decided to clean it up a bit. Of course it got a brand new graphic as well.
Funny enough, when the Tonemender was in the multieffect there was a loud POP when the toggle switch was flipped. Well, now it's gone 

Anyway, since you started the thread it is now required you provide audio examples of your singing

I was afraid you were going to ask for a gut shot 

Anyway, I actually took voice lessons 15 years ago, but I still suck at singing...

It has replaced the 1N4001 in the sense that it's an entirely different approach, not that it's in the same place. Plus you don't need R7, which is there to limit the current in case a reverse polarity is applied, because the 1N4001 would create a short to ground.

I think people have migrated to using a 1n5817 in series these days, rather than the 4001 option.

Yep, at least I did.