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I've been thinking a lot about overdrive lately. After building the new pedal boards (viewtopic.php?f=13&t=10&start=210#p8903) I've had the ability to A/B many dirt pedals.

I've been tweaking my BSD and looking at the design of the 32_OD.

For me, there is an ultimate overdrive sound - typified by the 32_OD and the old BSD.

One of my new designs will be an updated overdrive that takes the best element of previous designs - an ultimate overdrive, for me at least.

The other pedal I'm thinking to design is a stereo phaser. I worked on pepe's phasers over Christmas and did a repair on a genuine vintage Mutron last year, plus I've never been truly happy with the old LGP design.

This new phaser will be a 6 stage precision matched device (like the old LGP), but will have much better LFO options and will be able to run in various configurations:

• True stereo - A and B inputs to A and B outputs, where the LFO for B can be independent or coupled to the A LFO either in phase of out of phase.

• Mono in to stereo out (same LFO options as above)

• Stacked A->B - mono input to A, through Phaser A then into Phaser B, output from phaser B (same LFO options as above)

More info to come, but these will be two I'm going to start designing soon.

These sound really interesting Laurie and I’m looking to coming along for the ride as you create them

This design allows for anything from 100% clean boost to 100% overdrive, with infinite blend possibility. Like a Klon, but you have control over the clean blend instead of it being "built in" (using a dual gang pot) in the Klon.
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I like them both!

Very cool!
I had a Mutron Bi-Phase for a short time 30 years ago. The parallel and series phasing options were really cool for getting some wild sounds.