owlexifry
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4th pedal build.
used SMD MMBFJ201s with adapter boards.
no issues getting it to work.
appears to operate is it’s meant to.
p
spent a while dialing different bias settings on the trimmers.
no matter how it’s set, it sounds terrible, tinny, and thin. no balls, no richness.
just sounds like a cheap terrible distortion pedal :/
im wondering what i’ve done wrong, as a lot of people seem to dig this pedal design.
i even built a charge pump to run it at 33V in the hopes of improving headroom.
this didn’t change much, just made it a bit louder / brighter.
i dunno, maybe it’s my ears being used to very good sounding high gain tube amps (peavey 6534+, SLO, 2204/jcm800 hot rod), and perhaps no solid state preamp pedal is gonna sound any good to me...
or perhaps i just overheated the J201 JFETs and should try another lot?
maybe i should try 2N5457 JFETs instead?
used SMD MMBFJ201s with adapter boards.
no issues getting it to work.
appears to operate is it’s meant to.
p
spent a while dialing different bias settings on the trimmers.
no matter how it’s set, it sounds terrible, tinny, and thin. no balls, no richness.
just sounds like a cheap terrible distortion pedal :/
im wondering what i’ve done wrong, as a lot of people seem to dig this pedal design.
i even built a charge pump to run it at 33V in the hopes of improving headroom.
this didn’t change much, just made it a bit louder / brighter.
i dunno, maybe it’s my ears being used to very good sounding high gain tube amps (peavey 6534+, SLO, 2204/jcm800 hot rod), and perhaps no solid state preamp pedal is gonna sound any good to me...
or perhaps i just overheated the J201 JFETs and should try another lot?
maybe i should try 2N5457 JFETs instead?