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Thankfully, Synth Addicts are a somewhat insane lot, and they banded together to figure out the bloody circuit in the integrated circuit, and designed a clone using SMD matched pair transistors. Fantastic! Clone "chips" are available for sale! But... 20$ with shipping..... Um.... over my head.

Yeah, I think I paid about $10+ shipping here in the US when I started the CS-2 clone, i.e. more than the chip itself... should have checked their price before starting the project.

Nevertheless, congrats, it looks great!

Nice! Looks like you even got the font correct (Bodoni??)

I've been trying for a couple of days to import the Excel BOM for Aion's Blueshift into Mouser's BOM tool with no luck; I am always getting "Sorry, we could not process your request at this time. Please try again in a few minutes." Is this a typical problem, or is there some trick to it I am unaware of?

That's pretty much what I was thinking about using; just have to find it in the labyrinth of Mouser.com.

Hi all, and happy New Year.

I am considering building an MXR/CAE MC-401 stripboard clone (http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.com/2014/03/mxr-mc-401.html) to use as an onboard buffer/booster in a solid body guitar. There is plenty of room in the control cavity, and I already have a battery case installed.

What I would like to do is use a pot that acts as an on/off switch for the buffer/booster, i.e., when it is "off", the circuit acts as a buffer, and when it is on, it switches to "booster" mode, increasing gain as the pot is turned. I do not really know if this is possible OR what kind of pot to use for such an operation, other than a push/pull pot, which I'd rather not use. Is this doable? Would a reverse taper no-load pot, if available, do this? Thanks.

Thanks for the replies, all; sounds like a pass for me.

Title says it all. Has anyone found them to last significantly longer or be more sturdy than the more common makes?

if you have a 10kA use that and wire it backwards. It will be better than any value of B taper. Otherwise, use the 5k. The 26k won't do anything for almost the entire travel.

No 10kA pot. 

Do you not think the parallel resistor will work well with the 25kB?

5k is actually probably more reasonable for the voice pot than the 10K.

Good to know; thanks.

Or use a 25k with a 15/18k in parallel?

I always forget about parallel resistors... thanks for the reminder.

As I have consistently since I built my first pedal in 1999, I made a mistake in my Mouser order for a Zendrive build: I neglected to order a 10kB pot for the voice control.  It does not matter how many times I go over the BOM and the shopping cart; a mistake nearly always occurs, and it is always MY fault.  

I DO have some 5kB pots AND some 25kB pots. Would one of these be appropriate to use in place of the 10kB pot?

It looks like the translucent copper finish that PedalPartsPlus.com sells.

http://www.pedalpartsplus.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=PPP&Product_Code=101&Category_Code=ENCCS

WOW.

Don't hear many pedal demos quoting The Tubeway Army, do you? 

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I would vote for a volume pedal over a Slow Gear.
For a violin effect, an Ebow and volume pedal with maybe some treble boost and mild distortion is probably as good as you will get.
Cello will require a bit more of a bass boost, but much the same otherwise.

Yeah, I am fine with the volume (swell) + ebow (sustain) part of the equation; I was just curious about something to stand in for the scraping "rosined bow on string" part (I probably could have phrased it better). As I said, BMPs are what I've used in the past... just curious if something else would be better. Perhaps I am reaching a bit. 

maybe an Attack Decay / Rustbucket?

Hmm... I played an Attack/Decay years ago and enjoyed it, but I found it a bit difficult to control/unpredictable. I am definitely looking more towards something that takes the place of the scraping sound of bow on string - fuzz, distortion, whatnot - which the Ebow does not really accomplish. Worth considering, though.   

Any thoughts? I've used BMPs in the past, but I'd be interested in hearing of any other pedals some of you may have used to similar ends.