I Made It More Expensive!

SO...I've discovered how to make things more expensive. I'm apparently a master at that.

 

At some point I just caved and tossed an ancient black glass OC75 into Q1, which is what they used in the original pedal.

 

Then I used a pair of vintage AC128 transistors in Q2 and Q3.

 

The pedal kind of seems to like these transistors.

 

Not perfect, but it seems much better. What a finicky circuit, though. Sounds really cool, but even now there are splatty spots on the gain control.

 

So here's where it's at right now:

 

Q1 - OC75 hFE 74

Q2 - AC128 hFE 88

Q3 - AC128 hFE 58

Done