Thanks for all of your help and PATIENCE, everyone!

[Davefx]

You know, I sometimes forget one of the main ingredients it takes for someone into DIY pedal making.... Patience!  Sometimes I jump the gun and think I can't figure out something, and run to you guys for the magic answer, when all I had to do was READ the fricking schematic and board layouts more thoroughly!  Thank you all for putting up with my dumb questions.  Thanks, Mark Hammer!

 Also, I am going to take this time to thank my buddy, Alfonso Hermida, who is local to me, and has been a very patient, informative and kind person, and also whacks me in the head, trying to teach me stuff:).

  I'm real glad for this forum, and greatful to all of you....   (fights back tears)  :lol:

Dave

[Mark Hammer]

My pleasure.

Let me repeat, there are NO dumb questions here.

How do I know this?  I was sitting on the couch Monday watching a football game with a large plastic bin of unfinished or uninstalled circuit boards looking to see what I needed to catch up on now that a wee bit of time has freed itself up (plugged in the soldering iron for the first time in a month the other night).  I spied a perfed Big Muff board that had been removed from a chassis due to misbehaviour I think.  Staring at it, it suddenly dawned on me that the caps in there that said "510" were NOT 510pf caps but 51pf caps (first digit 5, second digit 1, multiplier of 0)!  No wonder!!  :oops:

Took the whole damn thing apart last night and rebuilt it from scratch to fit into a 1590B.  Looking forward to wiring it up to the offboard components tonight and firing it up.

Twenty-fice years at this crap and I still can't even read a cap properly.  So don't anyone out there feel like they have a monopoly or even majority shareholding on dumbness.  We are ALL players in that particular game.

[aron]

How did it sound with less filtering? It might be a brighter sound - more buzzy maybe.