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Midwayfair's Clipper Ship Overdrive just doesn't get the respect it deserves. I have made a few in the past and they always get cycled on my board. Great booster/low gain OD.

Cody

+1, I was just about to post the same.

There are plenty of high quality Asian vendors.  Tayda just isn't one of them.

Make no mistake, I still buy some things from them.  But I've run into many problems and there are some items I just won't buy from them again.  Every vendor has issues from time to time, but I've procured a lot of parts in my life (professionally and personally) and Tayda's rate of OOS parts (not just Alpha) is significantly higher than I've seen from anything outside of eBay.

Fair enough.  Hopefully I get a reply back from the email I sent Alpha to see if they'd confirm if they ship out unmarked seconds.  Any "brand name" that does this is no longer a "brand name" in my books...

If that's the case (which I'm pretty skeptical about), Alpha is shooting themselves in the foot by putting branded parts out into the market that don't meet their QA standards.

I just try to stay away from the stigma that buying an asian component from an asian company means that you get lower quality than buying that asian component from a north american company.

Idk I feel it's possible that they are so cheap because they are sold batches of pots not quite upto alphas quality control standards

This.  I've received many out of spec parts from Tayda that are name brands.  I suspect that offer to buy the QC rejects at a highly discounted price.

For the smaller shaft pots, I'd have no problem with them selling them if they only identified them as such; then I'd know to avoid them.

Either way, many of the issues encountered with poor quality components don't exist when parts are purchased from places like Mouser, Digikey or even smaller distributors such as Small Bear.  Tayda's niche is parts at dirt cheap prices but not necessarily high quality or even in spec parts.

Just a pet-peeve, we're talking about Alpha pots right?  Tayda sells us Alpha pots for a good price, just seems counter-intuitive to me to throw Tayda's name under the bus if Alpha has a QA issue.

Since the effects have to compliment the rest of the rig, and not the other way around, I'm going to go with the assumption that I've got my mexi SSH strat and Traynor YCV20 on the island.  The amp has 2 channels with reverb.

First pick that comes to mind is Skreddy Screwdriver.  Hands down the most versatile dirt pedal on my board right now.  It also plays really nicely with the volume knob on the guitar, so it's easy to set it fairly clean on 7 and then let 'er rip on 10.  Endless great sound combinations, so it's coming to the island.

Second pick is Tri-Vibe.  I fell in love with the sounds in the pedal a long time ago, so it's gotta come. 

Last but not least, a stupidly complex delay pedal that I could spend a lifetime mastering.  Might as well have something to keep me busy on the island.

Do what I did, build yourself an Engineer's thumb with all the knobs possible, get your buddy to give it a whirl for a week or so to find which knobs they twirl and which ones they set and forget.  Then build them a fewer knobbed version that they can feel is "custom tailored" to their needs.

So my two swarm boards arrived in the mail today (woohoo!).  I think rather than 1590Aing these suckers (1590A is now a verb, fyi), I'm going to build them up side by side in 1590BB. 

I'm looking at JuanSolo's sheet here:
http://juansolo.demon.co.uk/stompage/muffbuild.html

I'd like to stick with the classic models:
1971 Triangle
Triangle
Civil War Russian
Green Civil War Tall Font Russian
Green Russian
3rd Edition
Ram's Head
Violet Ram's Head

After spending an evening listening to countless videos, clips, thoroughly reading Kitrae's page, etc. I'm still on the fence on which two of the above to build.

My goal is simply to avoid having two versions side by side that are too similar.  Right now I'm leaning towards Green Russian and Triangle, but what are other people's thoughts?

Cheers,

John

Ha!  Awesome theme execution on this one.  Love it!

I'm hoping to get some final troubleshooting done on a 1590DD Triangle '66 + Green Russian muff box.  Boxed it up during the week but the Triangle side is lacking volume (which is not normal for a muff!).  It's a fun project originally designed for a dual output 8 string "guitar" (3 bass strings, 5 guitar strings, Charlie Hunter inspired).  The thought is that it can run with the "bass" output through the green side and the "guitar" portion through the triangle side, creating different yet related tones.  It can also be jumpered with a small patch to run them in series for double muffy goodness