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I have found this a helpful guide to troubleshooting pedals https://www.diystompboxes.com/pedals/debug.html

Finished the electrical build of the Axion fix Timmy yesterday. Have spent a few hours with it and it’s a good transparent overdrive but don’t like it as much as my old Paul C. Original. It’s a more aggressive boost, not as smooth and clean as I remember. Will keep on tweeking Axion vs original…

So, have made progress but looking for advice on how to get some decent looking nomenclature on the the enclosure. Painted a dark blue so looking for white letters. Have googled it but couldn't find anything that sounded within my abilities. Prolly shoulda left it bare metal and sharpied in...

MXR Timmy uses LF353 op amp. It is a higher output/gain op amp. Typically that results in some trade offs which might explain the minor differences. Also, early units had some mods on the fly done which is always an iffy way to go. Gut shot shows resistor added in a unique fashion: it also...

Walnut heavy? gonna neck dive?

Hear tell there is already an excellent Timmy overdrive in your Fractal…by some accounts one of the best.

No, there is not as far as I can tell.

Tried several. Ended up keeping LM1458 in my Timmy that went missing. Liked it the best because smoother boost that held up transparent overdrive up in the higher gain levels. Put 4559 in my tag board build, second favorite, high boost levels and a little brighter. In the end the difference is...

Caline is SMT: no practical option for trying out other op amps; basically unrepairable; not as durable. Probably doesn’t matter but swapping op amps on a Timmy is interesting as they each have different characteristics particularly in variances in low noise; fidelity and processing speed. Paul...

clones, if built properly are indistinguishable from the originals. paul cochrane worked with the DIY community and was completely transparent with his brilliant, yet simple, design (kinda like leo fender's tweed champ and deluxe.) No mysterious diodes like Klon or punishing law suits like mesa...

Overdrive pedal extraordinaire.

Been missing Timmy. Found a tag board build, had ~components except diodes and op amp. Bought the missing parts and built a very rough version. Works fairly well so decided to go ahead a build the real deal V1 clone. Ordered board from Axion fx, components from Mouser. Should have the parts by...

If you set it up for wiring a p-rail pickup with coils in parallel it sounds really good.

The P-Rail has A5 mag and is the best P90 sound I have found.

Ditto on the EBMM Silhouette…