hahahah go celebrate…. sooooo doing backflips ATM. i think he’ll digg it. he’s a bass player, so it should work out great for him with that hint of octave added.
realize that what worked in this for ME in this case MAY never work at all in the civilized world, but whatever i had f’d up, apparently, this was the workaround.
i kept suspecting i should try a pnp in there in the first case, and was like, naaaah, thousands have built this circuit, it makes no sense.
it’s a weird planet! 😉