mxr blue box oddness

[jmejia]

is exactly what i want. the one i've played with is totally strange and unpredictable, i'd love to build one...but i want to make sure it will be just as crazy. no idea when the one i've been playing was built, but i guess i'm looking for the schematic with the worst tracking?
the tonepad plans look great...but i want to be sure i won't be let down in having built a pedal that is "improved" somehow from the box i've played.
any suggestions towards those ends would be awesome.
-j

[vdm]

hey,
i built a blue box from the tonepad layout bout a month ago. i used all the extra mods for the bias and pulldown resistor and such (the parts in yellow/orange), and it's still pretty awful

i've never played a storebought one, but the tracking on the one i built is pretty bad until you start using the neck pickup and rolled off tone, and even then only when you're above the twelfth fret.

it's a pretty cool box - lots of mario sounds to be had - but i cant say i use it much.

good luck on the build

trent

[Adam Shame]

I used to have one.. and my review is up at HC.

"...if you are into making an ungodly menagerie of a racket to raise Cthulhu from his watery slumber, this is the pedal for you."

[jmejia]

any idea if those mods improve the tracking...thus reducing said 'mario' sounds? if so i'll leave em out!