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Dear ForumFolk,
Please find attached internal pictures of Joyo's JF35 Pocket Metal.

The SMD pars are very small, perhaps 4 or 5 mm by 2mm.
I don't have the dexterity to modify this, I don't think.

The diodes are clearly silicon. There are three TI 4558 op amps in there. This combined with a metal housing gives the same amount of self-noise as a Metal Zone.
I find this pedal to be a pleasing tone - it's very cheap, and it sounds great for the price if you want to do some Ride the LIghting/Justice for All riffage.

General overview of pedal out of it's case.

Image of the Diodes

Shows the op amp and the silicon diodes.

There's more than enough room to add a switch to modify the diode type, but, you'd have to be able to solder onto those microscopic pads.

The pots will desolder easily enough, giving you access.

Boring old gutshot.

I've not had any notions as to which pedal this is cloning.

It's got 3 x 4558 op amps.
It appears to have one diode in the power section, and only 2 diodes as part of the main circuit.

There's are a reasonable amount of cops and resistors, which tell me that there is something going on shaping the frequency response between the op amp stages before hitting possibly a final clipping stage (the diodes).

Anyone else got one of these?