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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 12 Feb 2024, at 09:02, Tony Allgood via Synth-diy <<a href="mailto:synth-diy@synth-diy.org" class="">synth-diy@synth-diy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">So my conclusion is, the pot in the Cry Baby can be replaced by a VCA without altering the performance very much.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Indeed. Dunlop replace the pot with a VCA in the rack version of the Crybaby.</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I went to look that up to see what they've done. There's a schematic for the first version linked in this thread:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?t=10327" class="">https://www.freestompboxes.org/viewtopic.php?t=10327</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>It uses an unusual Mitsubishi chip, the M5206, which I haven't seen anywhere else, and which I can't find a datasheet for. From the Dunlop schematic it looks like some sort of voltage-controlled pot, but that might be only how they have it displayed.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Tom</div></body></html>