Two Dr. Boogey Gain Pots....1M and 10K!!!!!

[bdevlin]

After finishing this pedal and tuning it up I quickly realized what a gain beast it is.  My 1M gain pot basically was not fine tunable.  Just shy of CCW I had a good amount of gain but then a slight CW rotation it turned into an animal.  I decided to experiment with wiring a different pot on a 3PDT switch.  Eventually I went all the way down to 10K.  This provides a more realistic Hi-Gain/Low-Gain Channel switching.  Even with the pot at 10k there is still a ton of gain.  I may even eventually switch Q1 from a J201 to the MPF.

Main message......although the circuit emulation is geared at extreme hi gain, I give 2 thumbs up on adding a second gain pot.  Downside seems to be a pop when I switch between pots.  I'm sure there's a workaround but don't know what that would be.

[bdevlin]

Just a little update.  I solved the pop issue that I had when switching pots.  I initially just followed someones suggestion on a post to use a 3PDT.  You actually want a DPDT.  Just wire the ground connection straight to both of the pots.  So lugs 2 and 3 are on the switch.

As for the second pot itself, I actually ended up going with a 5k linear (I needed my 10k log for something else).  But, if you happen to choose to put an MPF102 in Q1 then 5k probably won't work for you.

[alfafalfa]

I give 2 thumbs up on adding a second gain pot.

This is what I did but I put one after the other. So I put a 10 K before the 1M pot and keep the 1M very low and  have the benefit of a usable 10 K pot.

But in my case the reason I did this was because I left out the tonestack and replaced it with a SWTS.