we're all wrong.. 1790NS... I just remembered an email I got from Dano...
Right you are. The first few batches were built in 1590BBs. Loads of non-fun trying to shoehorn that. Current batch is 1790NS which leaves lots of room to stretch out.
Loop on a distortion pedal? Yeah, that's what I said. Until my friend James (who got me into the whole DIY thing a year and half ago) told me about his distortion loop--put a simple loop in a pedal and dedicate a cheap EQ like a Fish and Chips to the pedal. The EQ's buffered bypass and crappy construction becomes irrelevant since the true-bypass is handled on the main pedal. It gets fun when you stick more distortion pedals in the loop. This weekend I put three FKRs in series in the loop of another FKR. Silly, but fun. Of course I could get the same effect by stacking the pedals, but again, the loop allows me to dedicate EQ or some other distortion-friendly box to the FKR.
I'm also toying with the idea of interjecting a send receive loop into non-obvious places. Maybe it would be cool to have the loop hacked directly into the opamp's feedback loop? Or replace the two RC pairs to ground with a loop. The possibilities are interesting.
PCB-mounted 3PDT, clipping switches and LEDS where a big challenge in terms of the PCB design and drilling template. But they allow me to crank the things out much faster although I doubt I will ever actually fulfill the waiting list.
If anyone is interested, I'll post PCB layouts, the schematic, drill template and wiring diagram on my site--this is a somewhat challenging build but the results are very gratifying. My favorite distortion pedal ever.
Finally, 100 pages of Pictures! This thread is both an inspiration and a challenge to do better, stranger, and more questionable stuff.
