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Transformer + valves. I got the lightning bit direct so US shipping too. I did run it without the transformer for a while but I was curious.

True to form it's the most of expensive DIY clone I've ever built, by a fairly long way.

The Nobellium - don't know how true it is to the original but sounds pretty good to my ears. Not used it in a while so let me fire it up tonight and give it a check.

I have a sushi box DIY clone of the noble if that's of any interest?

Does anyone have a reliable source for PNP germanium transistors? Got a couple of cheap job lots off ebay (40pcs) and they're all sub 40 hfe garbage. In the past I've gone for low gain silicon ones but they seem to be running out too. Got a TAFM clone to build but need a couple of 60-100 hfe PNPs. Been a long time since i've had to look but the usual sources seem to have dried up.

I got the new boards and the test build worked but it had a nasty hum. I was trouble shooting it but other things got in the way and I never finished. Something to look at over Xmas, I'll PM you the schematic/Gerbers though. I'm very bad at PCB design so there may well be a schoolboy error.

Yup, the conspiracy to commit electronics boards - there's the Noble clone, the bassman and the soldano GTO (high gain) - all excellent and easy builds (HV safety aside). I'm actually enjoying the noble a lot, it's a nice always on pre-recording interface and it takes pedals well.

Moving the "office" around so moving and cataloguing all my pedals - I actually thought I had more than this -

Aion are great - boards are good and documentation is always very good. Good to order from directly as well - they're US based but shipping isn't too bad and Musikding don't sell their bare PCBs anymore. Musikding also great - quick despatch and I've never had any customs/import issues post-brexit. Never had a kit from though TBF, I usually buy bare PCBs.

There's a couple of PCBs I want from deadendfx - anybody interested in splitting shipping? I think they've had issues in the past shipping to the UK so they'll only ship super fancy fast tracked and it's $48...I'll just pay it if need be cos one of them is a pretty years clone and I need that in my life, but if anyone wants anything, good chance to save on shipping... https://www.deadendfx.com/

Yeah footprints are a bit of a pain in Kicad - I tried creating one for TH/SMT together but I got impatient and eventually just bodged it, I just added an extra J201 symbol to the schematic in parallel and set that to an SMD footprint...

That's fair, I'm annoyed cos I was going to triple check the schematic after I'd laid the board out but I thought it would be fine... Gonna try and add SMT pads for the 5089s as well as to-92 versions are harder to get hold of now apparently...

Works apart from 2 additional stupid mistakes, I forgot a cap on one of the gain stages (cut a trace and add a cap across 2 pads) and the pins on the j201 symbol are apparently wrong, so the through hole and SMT pads are wrong. I had some through hole j113s that I twisted the legs on and seen to work just fine. I was in a rush to get them made and skipped some more thorough double checking... I'm gonna redesign the board but you're welcome to one of these, they're simple hacks (I'll cut the trace so you know it's the right one)

These arrived far, far too quickly for £3.29. gonna put one together tonight.

I'll have to test it out when I get the boards, I suspect it may bring the knobs too low and interfere with footswitch, it's an 80mm X 60mm PCB for a 1590BB, but yeah definitely an option.