About a year ago I decided join the forums and start playing with fx. I don't play, but have lots of player friends from my pro audio experience.
I'm about ready to send gerbers to Shenzhen for the attached LTspice schematic.
I'd like to thank folks here: Rob Strand, for having posts in the archives that confirmed my main ideas of lowpass during clipping and use of inverting topology; teemuk for his comprehensive discussion of the history of solid state techniques.
Diode "D310" is a PIN diode (BAT63). I don't expect them to be magic, but hopefully yet another different diode to try for folks in the future.
Pick your quad opamp of preference (I'm using an ST 274). Opamp 8 is used for a good, stiff V/2.
Named "Kitten lockup" after a game with indecipherable rules that my two little boys like to play.
(https://i.postimg.cc/zHbjtDBn/Bias-5-B-Main-Schematic.png) (https://postimg.cc/zHbjtDBn)