This is built stock. Apparently Tayda still has not sorted their 1.8nF box cap mix up (they gave me 18nF), so there are 300pF caps soldered under the board, with 1.5nF's soldered to the top of the board. I trimmed the rotary so the knob looks right, but I'm not completely sold on those MXR knobs and may get something different.
This thing is ridiculously cool. Also
loud. One of my favorite settings is shown in the picture (hi, band pass, down). It does a swirling, almost phasery, sound with a chaotic decay. I've never heard any sound like that out of any other filter effect.
I don't know what I'm going to do with this thing, but it's one of those things that's so good at what it does that I almost want to build a board around it and join a band where I can use it.
Oh. And this with a Lowrider = utter insanity.
I know some people have had some issues with it. There are definitely ways to "break" it with certain control settings. A lot of them have to do with the Lo side with the range switch on "Down," which is a very strange "strangled" setting and makes almost no noise until the envelope decays. Lowering the gain or the guitar's volume, changing the peak, or adjusting the sweep will usually get it working properly, by triggering the envelope less hard. The reward is a pretty neat sound similar to a lazy sprocket with a filter sweep.
