after two solid days of trouble-shooting, i fixed/finished my pedal. i built a modified copy of a maxon sd-9, it is switchable between diodes and leds as the distortion circuit. it's fucking amazing sounding. i am happy with myself.
my mind was just blown by seeing an old friend of mine on mtv in a mediocre metal band. what the fuck. Edit: i take it back they are pretty good but it's still mind blowing.
after two fucking weeks of fighting with linux and the shit ass rt61 drivers i finally got this laptop working and online. i have fallen in love with slackware.