The "32 TB2" pedal...

[laurie]

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[Luke Drifter]

Count me in for one of your tone benders, Laurie

[Pepe]

So ... is "32" the new brand name then?

[laurie]

Hah! It is a tag for the germanium pedals. It will expire when i run out of the transistors...

[Pepe]

Yeah, I know, but it almost looks like a brand name now.

[laurie]

Count me in for one of your tone benders, Laurie

Thanks! That makes four so far. All good.

[laurie]

Update. I'm good to go to make some of these as soon as the parts arrive.

They will use:
- Panasonic "ECQ" capacitors. These aren't vintage, but they are pretty much old-school.
- Carbon film resistors, not modern 1% tolerance metal film resistors.
- A "reverse logarithmic" potentiometer for the Attack control so that there is WAY more control at high-gain settings than the linear potentiometer in the original.

They will be 3PDT true-bypass like all my pedals. And will be battery power only (like the original, they are positive ground).

The transistors will be socketed and I'll provide who ever buys a pedal a (small) selection of various gain transistors so you can try different combinations.

[sclitheroe]

Update. I'm good to go to make some of these as soon as the parts arrive.

They will use:
- Panasonic "ECQ" capacitors. These aren't vintage, but they are pretty much old-school.
- Carbon film resistors, not modern 1% tolerance metal film resistors.
- A "reverse logarithmic" potentiometer for the Attack control so that there is WAY more control at high-gain settings than the linear potentiometer in the original.

They will be 3PDT true-bypass like all my pedals. And will be battery power only (like the original, they are positive ground).

The transistors will be socketed and I'll provide who ever buys a pedal a (small) selection of various gain transistors so you can try different combinations.

If they are battery powered only, will or could you include the mini power toggle like the VFZ has?

[laurie]

If they are battery powered only, will or could you include the mini power toggle like the VFZ has?

Definitely battery powered only. I kept close to the original so no power toggle planned. I could put one in, but it would be off to the side, like this.
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[laurie]

Thinking on it some more... I could move the knobs down and put it up the top activated left-to-right, like this... this would be the best way to do it.

Knobs would move down maybe 6mm.
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