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I've put modded SD-1 circuits in 3 of my Strats and have no regrets: It's great to have the stompbox controls at your pinky for on-the-fly tweaking. You can do it without looking, and you don't need to be standing near your pedals. The hardware bypass switch is like having a second pickup selector at your fingertips.
If you're going to use other effect pedals, there's no problem with sticking a second OD after a wah, or whatever. You can kick in the onboard OD to get just a little (or a lot) more gain, and the "OD/wah sandwich" doesn't sound funky like having a single OD before the wah.
Another cool thing about this is that you can travel light, simply plug in and have "instant grit" for difficult amps like a Twin Reverb.
In my modded Strats, the top pot is a global master volume. The center pot is a ganged TBX pot that's a tone (treble cut) control when it's in bypass; at the other end, it's the SD-1's gain control. The lower pot is a push-pull redundant battery switch (so it doesn't need to be unplugged) and the SD-1's tone control. Tubescreamer-style circuits are great for this because they have a very low current drain and very basic controls.
Fun stuff.
-Jim
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