I did get a few of the V3208 from SMB recently but have not tried them yet. These are from the batch that was supposedly QA'd by Ed Rembold, or whatever. But, I think they are also 5v unlike the BL's which are 10v or so. Or, maybe that doesn't matter that much.
They should be 10V too.
Yes the issue was with the 3205, smallbear has stopped stocking them until coolaudio gets through their current batch of bad chips (I think Steve might have said November for the new lot which shouldn't have the issues fingers crossed) far as I know, the 08 are perfectly fine.
Quite possible as an end of line thing EHX & MXR just bought up huge quantities of stock and sourced more from brokers then to supplement, guessing a lot were made over the years, probably enough for them to keep the pedals in production for a few years, I mean EHX is still using MN3008 and they've been gone at least 15 years now. It's very possible down the line new chips will be produced or they'll just use coolaudio, I know MXR have 3204 produced for them (I suspect by Coolaudio as they are v3204).
Also, Scruffie, you mentioned about running the clock and LFO on the same voltages earlier in the thread. Agreed. That makes much more sense. Luckily it is an easy adjustment. That was an oversight on my part. On the MN3008 proto it does not have an impact in noise or performance but there is no reason not to do this esp. if we start getting into split rails for different voltages on the BL3208.
Yeah that was mainly for using BL3208, you don't want the LFO running at the 15V and the clock at 10V but it's fine for the 3008 too.
