i think i've solved the problem, will be building/testing tonight: there was room left on the board i used for this build so i slapped together an lpb1 circuit. now, the wire from the germanium switch that previously closed the germanium path is routed to lpb1 "in". A 100k trimpot was subs...

built this pedal last night. it sounds really great besides the fact that the germanium switch comes with a significant drop in volume. the tone produced by the diodes is spot on as well. gone over all my joints and everything is spiffy. it is build exactly to the specs (with a 1n270 in D1) in the a...