Nah, all I meant drilling enclosures for switches before testing the mods out etc.LOL

I wouldn’t bother with any personally. I don’t know how the SSS bypass is but the SBM non TB is fine. Initially I TB’d my SBM’s but then I compared it to my latest SBM with stock bypass, they sounded Identical, this got me wondering so I traced the stock bypass and discovered unlike regular non TB like on vintage EHX BM’s that the SBM’s ground the circuit while in bypass mode, hence, creating a clearer non TB and zero leakage. So I re wired all my SBM’s back to stock bypass, so the LED’s would work again.

Other than the bypass, which I imagine could oscillate on the SSS if its bypass is like the EHX vintage SS’s I wouldnt mod it at all. If it doesn’t oscillate it probably has the same non TB set up as the SBM’s.

I like SS’s stock, they sound great IMO.

BUT,if you do want to mod it I know where you can get some Soviet military push button switches made in the same style as the big silver switch but much much smaller and with a reddy/maroon colored button that would fit the theme of the SSS and look really nice, better than a mini toggle. They are cool switches and I was gonna buy a heap of them but I really have no use for them TBH.

Just rouges taking advantage IMO. They shouldnt be this expensive.

Mike Matthews himself said the sovteks changed over the years, becoming cheaper and poorly made to keep production costs low as the cost to produce increased. When they issued the first sovteks they were made really well, then they started getting lighter,thinner and smaller and along with this ,poorer in quality.

The last black sovtek is the poorest and should never sell for over 100 bucks IMO.

Thats why you need a mono to stereo adapter plug.

On the sansamp original/classic if you push the headphone jack in half way it comes out stereo,this is an intended feature of it. It also sounds great but you have to remember this IS a pre amp pedal not just a distortion or fuzz.

I like twin reverbs with the bright off. BUT ,if I am playing an entirely clean song I will turn the bright on…I also play a Jaguar which has 1Meg pots and is particularly bright, way more so than a LP or stat or tele.

I also have the tone control disconected to make it even brighter so you could say I like brightness, then IO like to smother it with a big muff!LOL But I also have a few of my big muffs modded so they are brighter and more scooped at the same time, they retain all their low end but the highs come thru more, kinda like the BMPTW but brighter yet still scooped and muffled. its like I have one bright muff and one dark muff on in parallel actually.

Never play a dirt pedal into a fender amp with bright switches on,its horrific!

I connect headphones to any pedal that works with them when I wana play quiet. You cant hurt it anyways.

New muff = new shot:

Photobucket wants you to join yes, but you get your own account were you can store and rearrange you pics in as many albums as you want. You dont have to keep a heap of URL’s in your bookmarks or re-upload pics every time you wana post them.

A photobucket account in just like an online photo album, I love photobucket, its great! They dont spam either!