Lotus Pedals THD+N (Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise)

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Here's another Lotus pedal and this one excites me a lot more than the Snowjob.

Here's a drawing of the PCB:
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Note a few changes:
Both 2.2K are actually 22K
The upper 100K is a 1M.

The pads with X over it are grounded.
Upper transistor is 2N3904 and bottom is 2N3906
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Escobedo Harmonic Jerkulator? These guys are good!
Lotus pedals website wrote:The THD+N is a Lo-Fi Fuzz with with Harmonic Distortion measurement is excess of 80% which are sweepable between even order and odd order harmonic distortion.
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modman wrote: ↑ Let's hope it's not a hit, because soldering up the same pedal everyday, is a sad life. It's that same ole devilish double bind again...
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In fact..... I think this is a complete 1:1 rip of the Jerkulator!
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Except for the 100K instead of 1M
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